1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,200 On this episode of Expedition X, 2 00:00:04,700 --> 00:00:07,900 Phil and Jess venture deep into the Appalachian Mountains. 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:08,800 Look at this place. 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,040 For over a century, there have been reports 5 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:14,100 of something grotesque prowling these woods. 6 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:17,440 I actually saw a bloody flesh hanging out of his mouth. 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:20,820 New eyewitnesses indicate the stories could be true. 8 00:00:20,820 --> 00:00:21,660 You scared? 9 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:22,480 You scared? 10 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:23,280 You scared? 11 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,120 Terrified. 12 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:24,980 Yes. 13 00:00:24,980 --> 00:00:26,480 At the edge of the waterfall. 14 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,560 Do you see any caves? 15 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:30,520 And the danger is real. 16 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,560 Are you OK? 17 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:35,120 Tell somebody where you're at. 18 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:37,500 So they'll know where to come hunt the bodies. 19 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:39,700 Could mysterious creatures be the cause 20 00:00:39,700 --> 00:00:41,440 of countless disappearances? 21 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,040 Breaking news out of the Great Smoky Mountains. 22 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:45,840 Another hiker has gone missing. 23 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:47,900 Someone will go into the mountains alone 24 00:00:47,900 --> 00:00:50,740 and you will never hear from them ever again. 25 00:00:50,740 --> 00:00:52,380 Some say they're monsters. 26 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:54,540 Some say they're magic for sure. 27 00:00:54,540 --> 00:00:57,880 Others say it's something far more horrifying. 28 00:00:57,940 --> 00:01:00,100 Get fast and deep right in the middle. 29 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:01,100 Oh, f***. 30 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:04,640 Take over there. 31 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,040 Take over there. 32 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,580 Terror in Appalachia. 33 00:01:09,580 --> 00:01:12,080 My name is Josh Gates. 34 00:01:12,080 --> 00:01:15,060 In my travels, I've experienced strange things 35 00:01:15,060 --> 00:01:18,700 that defy logic and made me question everything. 36 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:20,460 Oh my god. 37 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:23,060 Now, I've put together a team to investigate 38 00:01:23,060 --> 00:01:25,960 the stranger side of the unknown. 39 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:27,640 Let's go. 40 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:30,040 Phil Torres is a scientist who hunts 41 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,100 for rational explanations. 42 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:35,440 This is the calling for actually found crystals. 43 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:37,740 Jessica Chobot's paranormal research 44 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:39,780 has made her a true believer. 45 00:01:39,780 --> 00:01:41,380 I have a mind. I have a mind. 46 00:01:41,380 --> 00:01:42,380 Let's go. 47 00:01:42,380 --> 00:01:44,620 Together, we're searching for answers. 48 00:01:44,620 --> 00:01:46,020 What is that? 49 00:01:46,020 --> 00:01:49,760 To the world's most extraordinary mysteries. 50 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:52,460 This is Expedition X. 51 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:55,460 All right. 52 00:01:55,460 --> 00:01:58,600 What if I were to tell you that there is a bipedal, 53 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,760 hairy creature terrorizing folks 54 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:02,640 in the mountains of Appalachia? 55 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:03,640 Bigfoot. 56 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,440 It's a great guess, but no. 57 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:07,200 All right. Well, if we're talking Appalachia... 58 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,940 Yeah, so, Smoky Mountains, 59 00:02:08,940 --> 00:02:11,480 border of Tennessee, North Carolina area. 60 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:12,940 And it's not Bigfoot. 61 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:14,440 So, oh, okay. 62 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:15,940 I think I know what we're talking about. 63 00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:17,480 She's got it. It is scary. 64 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:18,680 Okay, what are we talking about? 65 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,480 So, it is scary, and that's because 66 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:23,180 this terrifying mystery 67 00:02:23,180 --> 00:02:24,880 might be much more than a legend. 68 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:26,540 It might be very real. 69 00:02:30,540 --> 00:02:31,980 The Appalachian Mountain Range 70 00:02:31,980 --> 00:02:34,680 runs along the eastern United States. 71 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,880 Toward its southern end is the sub-range 72 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:39,220 known as the Great Smoky Mountains. 73 00:02:39,220 --> 00:02:41,560 Beneath the mist is a wild place. 74 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:43,920 Over 500,000 acres. 75 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:46,000 Much of it largely unexplored. 76 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,260 And all of it uninhabited. 77 00:02:48,260 --> 00:02:50,260 Or at least, it's supposed to be. 78 00:02:51,020 --> 00:02:53,420 1838, the native Cherokee tribes 79 00:02:53,420 --> 00:02:56,020 who live here are forcibly displaced. 80 00:02:56,020 --> 00:02:57,400 And over the next century, 81 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,860 the government kicks out any remaining landowners. 82 00:03:00,860 --> 00:03:03,600 Empty of residents, it becomes the perfect hideout 83 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,560 for criminals fleeing the law. 84 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:07,540 Permits shunning society. 85 00:03:07,540 --> 00:03:10,580 Moonshiners operating illegal stills. 86 00:03:10,580 --> 00:03:14,140 And maybe something even more dangerous. 87 00:03:14,140 --> 00:03:17,280 1896, Forest and Stream Magazine 88 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,740 publishes a frighteningly descriptive story 89 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:22,460 about four hunters who had a violent encounter 90 00:03:22,460 --> 00:03:25,760 in the mountains with a disheveled, naked creature. 91 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,900 According to the article, 92 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:28,700 the four men tried to capture him 93 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,300 but were physically no match for his brute strength. 94 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:33,240 He overpowered them and escaped. 95 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:34,940 Since then, hundreds of witnesses 96 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:37,240 have come forward with reports. 97 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:40,040 The descriptions are eerily similar, human-like, 98 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,240 but with malformed facial features. 99 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,780 Long matted hair, no clothes, covered in filth, 100 00:03:45,780 --> 00:03:47,320 a putrid smell. 101 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Some believe the sightings can be attributed 102 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:52,820 to recluses who reverted to a primitive state. 103 00:03:52,820 --> 00:03:56,000 Others believe the creatures are another breed entirely 104 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,340 with a hunger for raw flesh. 105 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:01,860 Whatever they are, they've become known as feral people. 106 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:03,180 And there are those who believe 107 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:04,740 that they could be responsible 108 00:04:04,740 --> 00:04:07,660 for hikers going missing in these woods. 109 00:04:07,660 --> 00:04:11,820 Now, a recent dramatic uptick in sightings of feral people 110 00:04:11,820 --> 00:04:14,720 makes this the critical time to investigate. 111 00:04:19,540 --> 00:04:21,980 So, all right, Phil, what do you think? 112 00:04:21,980 --> 00:04:24,900 As crazy as it sounds, there is precedent for some of this. 113 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:26,580 For example, there's a family in Siberia 114 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:29,620 that lived off the grid for 40 years, I think. 115 00:04:29,620 --> 00:04:32,380 And just a few years ago, they found a father and son 116 00:04:32,380 --> 00:04:34,100 that had been living in the wilds of Vietnam 117 00:04:34,100 --> 00:04:36,420 since the early 1970s. 118 00:04:36,420 --> 00:04:37,660 But what you're talking about here, 119 00:04:37,660 --> 00:04:39,620 people have been seeing it since the 1800s. 120 00:04:39,620 --> 00:04:42,300 That means multiple generations of people 121 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:44,580 living out in the wild in the Eastern US. 122 00:04:44,580 --> 00:04:47,220 Yeah, but what about those uncontacted tribes 123 00:04:47,520 --> 00:04:49,840 that live out in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest? 124 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:51,080 I mean, that's generational. 125 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:52,560 Sure, but what we're talking about here 126 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,240 is something that seems to be living completely wild, 127 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:56,080 like an animal. 128 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:57,960 And how do we account for these missing hikers? 129 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,040 Great Smoky Mountains is one of the most visited 130 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,040 wilderness areas in the US. 131 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,040 There's a lot of trails they can get lost on, 132 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:06,880 fall off the ledge, people disappear out there. 133 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:07,720 It happens. 134 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:10,080 Okay, but what are these eyewitnesses seeing then? 135 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:13,320 Most likely explanation is a case of misidentification, 136 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:14,160 like a bear. 137 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:15,400 There's a lot of them out there. 138 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:16,600 Normally I would agree with you, 139 00:05:16,620 --> 00:05:19,540 but the eyewitnesses in this case seems so clear 140 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:22,700 that what they're seeing is not something like a bear. 141 00:05:22,700 --> 00:05:23,900 So here's the mission. 142 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:26,100 First off, get to the Great Smoky Mountains 143 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:28,620 and start by talking to these eyewitnesses. 144 00:05:28,620 --> 00:05:31,020 I think you've gotta find out what these people really saw. 145 00:05:31,020 --> 00:05:33,220 And then you're gonna have to get deep 146 00:05:33,220 --> 00:05:34,420 in the wilderness on this one. 147 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:36,780 Whatever this is, it's obviously figured out 148 00:05:36,780 --> 00:05:37,660 a way to stay hidden. 149 00:05:37,660 --> 00:05:38,860 So if you're gonna collect evidence, 150 00:05:38,860 --> 00:05:41,100 you're gonna have to get really off the grid here. 151 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:43,460 Phil, if this is a case of misidentification 152 00:05:43,460 --> 00:05:45,460 and it might be, prove it. 153 00:05:45,460 --> 00:05:47,160 What are people really seeing? 154 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:49,040 There is a real mystery here. 155 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:52,400 Folks have gone missing and we've got real eyewitnesses. 156 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,400 So figure out what's going on. 157 00:05:54,400 --> 00:05:55,240 Will do. 158 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:56,360 We're on it. 159 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,840 Phil and Jess hop a flight from New York City 160 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:00,680 to Nashville, Tennessee. 161 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,200 From the country music capital, 162 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,040 it's another four hours in the car 163 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,920 heading east toward the mountains. 164 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:11,640 These woods just keep on going. 165 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,120 This is my first time in the Great Smoky Mountains. 166 00:06:14,180 --> 00:06:15,480 And look at that. 167 00:06:15,480 --> 00:06:18,020 You can like see the kind of haze. 168 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:19,260 That makes it look smoky. 169 00:06:19,260 --> 00:06:20,100 Yeah. 170 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,780 There are over 187,000 acres 171 00:06:23,780 --> 00:06:26,300 of thick old growth forest here. 172 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:31,060 It's home to black bears, wild hogs, even bobcats. 173 00:06:31,060 --> 00:06:33,780 And even though they supposedly no longer live in the region, 174 00:06:33,780 --> 00:06:37,340 there are also occasional reported sightings of cougars, 175 00:06:37,340 --> 00:06:39,680 which begs the question, could there be other 176 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:42,200 rarely seen creatures in this forest? 177 00:06:44,340 --> 00:06:46,980 I feel like I could survive out here. 178 00:06:46,980 --> 00:06:48,660 There's enough food you could forage. 179 00:06:48,660 --> 00:06:50,120 I saw a dead raccoon back there. 180 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:51,380 It looked delicious. 181 00:06:51,380 --> 00:06:52,880 What is wrong with you? 182 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:56,240 As part of our investigation, 183 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,220 we make a stop in Newport, Tennessee, 184 00:06:58,220 --> 00:06:59,620 where we're meeting an old buddy of mine 185 00:06:59,620 --> 00:07:02,300 who knows the nearby woods like the back of his hand. 186 00:07:06,300 --> 00:07:07,540 What is that, like a secret knock? 187 00:07:07,540 --> 00:07:08,700 Yes, a secret knock. 188 00:07:09,700 --> 00:07:10,540 Hi. 189 00:07:10,540 --> 00:07:11,700 Hey guys. Welcome. 190 00:07:11,700 --> 00:07:12,900 Thank you. Thank you. 191 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:14,960 I shake man's hand and I still hug him in the hill. 192 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:15,800 I'll do it. 193 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:17,160 I'm good. How are you doing? 194 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:18,840 Nice to see you too. 195 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,040 Digger mains and Mark Ramsey are moonshining legends. 196 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:24,040 Both grew up in the hills and learned their craft 197 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,480 from Appalachia's old school masters. 198 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:27,320 Hi. 199 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:29,320 If anyone knows the secrets of the Smoky Mountains, 200 00:07:29,320 --> 00:07:30,320 it's these two. 201 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:35,200 So we've read some reports from people in the area 202 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,920 that say they're convinced they have seen 203 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,000 like a feral looking man out there, 204 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,560 walking around naked, raggedy hair. 205 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,580 We've been in the woods a lot in our life making moonshine 206 00:07:46,580 --> 00:07:50,100 and we've heard stories our whole life about creatures 207 00:07:50,100 --> 00:07:54,060 and just things that were not explained. 208 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:54,900 Oh yeah. 209 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:55,740 Really? 210 00:07:55,740 --> 00:07:57,980 We've heard tales of people wandering these mountains 211 00:07:57,980 --> 00:08:00,700 for years and there's been some ugly sunbitches 212 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:02,020 grew up in these mountains up here. 213 00:08:02,020 --> 00:08:04,340 They'd fit the bill. 214 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:05,180 Really? 215 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:06,740 I mean, I'm not including us in that, but. 216 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:07,580 Yeah. 217 00:08:09,740 --> 00:08:11,980 I feel like we always associate moonshine 218 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:14,880 with kind of like doing it in secret out in the woods. 219 00:08:14,880 --> 00:08:17,240 You know, these old boys, when they found the prime spot, 220 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:19,760 they protected it to no end, no matter what they had to do. 221 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:20,600 Exactly. 222 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,280 Whether they were booby trapping or, you know, 223 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,400 making up a little backstory that, you know, 224 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:26,720 somebody's gonna get hurt if they went in. 225 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,800 There's no doubt there's a lot of mysterious things out there. 226 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:32,360 It's just how you want to rationalize them in your own head. 227 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:34,560 So we just got here. 228 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:36,920 We're trying to figure out where we should start 229 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:39,240 to look for something that mysterious. 230 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:40,080 Where do you think we should go? 231 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:41,080 North Carolina. 232 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:42,300 That's where I would go. 233 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:46,500 There's a lot of thousands and thousands of acres up there. 234 00:08:46,500 --> 00:08:49,140 Tell somebody where you're at in case you don't show up 235 00:08:49,140 --> 00:08:50,260 for the next day or two. 236 00:08:50,260 --> 00:08:52,580 So they'll know where to come hunt the bodies. 237 00:08:52,580 --> 00:08:55,140 I mean, I feel like we might need some liquid courage 238 00:08:55,140 --> 00:08:55,980 for a son. 239 00:08:55,980 --> 00:08:57,300 I think we could use some liquid courage 240 00:08:57,300 --> 00:08:58,420 before we get out into the woods. 241 00:08:58,420 --> 00:08:59,500 Just throw them there. 242 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:00,660 Dude, we come to the right place. 243 00:09:00,660 --> 00:09:03,220 I think we might be able to help you. 244 00:09:03,220 --> 00:09:04,420 Straight out of the barrel? 245 00:09:04,420 --> 00:09:05,220 Thank you. 246 00:09:05,220 --> 00:09:06,020 Yep. 247 00:09:06,020 --> 00:09:06,820 Come on. 248 00:09:06,820 --> 00:09:08,020 Tighten them up, Dagger. 249 00:09:08,020 --> 00:09:10,100 No visit with the moonshiners would be complete 250 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:12,880 without a small taste of their finest shine. 251 00:09:15,440 --> 00:09:16,280 Shh. 252 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,120 Oh. 253 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,600 That's not bad. 254 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:19,600 I gotta try this. 255 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:25,800 I like that. 256 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:26,640 That's good. 257 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,600 I will say, I feel a little more courageous right now. 258 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,440 I feel, I feel. 259 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:31,280 I'm ready to get out of the woods. 260 00:09:31,280 --> 00:09:33,120 Oh, you'll be able to whoop a damn bobcat 261 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:34,120 after about two more drinks. 262 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:34,960 I feel really warm. 263 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:37,160 We leave the moonshiners with a couple jars of hooch 264 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:38,480 and some good advice. 265 00:09:39,420 --> 00:09:43,260 Setting our GPS for the North Carolina border. 266 00:09:43,260 --> 00:09:47,180 Boy, I'll tell you, if you go into these woods 100 feet, 267 00:09:47,180 --> 00:09:48,420 close your eyes, spin around. 268 00:09:48,420 --> 00:09:50,060 You can get lost so easily out here. 269 00:09:50,060 --> 00:09:52,180 Like, it looks easy on the road right now, 270 00:09:52,180 --> 00:09:54,300 but it is dense out there. 271 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:55,700 What is a little surprising to me 272 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:58,140 is the fact that the park service doesn't really 273 00:09:58,140 --> 00:10:01,740 publicly announce how many people have disappeared or actually. 274 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:02,140 Yeah. 275 00:10:02,140 --> 00:10:03,300 Why is that? 276 00:10:03,300 --> 00:10:03,980 I don't know. 277 00:10:03,980 --> 00:10:07,060 Is it because they don't want to scare people away? 278 00:10:07,060 --> 00:10:08,420 Maybe. 279 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:10,040 Oh, there. 280 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:10,960 Sorry. 281 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,000 Maybe I don't really have a lot of options of this road, Phil. 282 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,440 This road is insane. 283 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:24,600 Hey, how are you? 284 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:25,720 Hi, guys. 285 00:10:25,720 --> 00:10:28,040 I've connected Phil and Jess with Eric Taylor, 286 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,080 a local researcher who has been analyzing 287 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:33,520 eyewitness reports of feral people for 15 years, 288 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,000 and Pam Watson, an eyewitness who says she'd never even 289 00:10:37,060 --> 00:10:40,580 heard of feral humans until she came face to face with one. 290 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:43,500 If she's to be believed, it may be one of the closest 291 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:45,900 encounters anyone has ever had. 292 00:10:45,900 --> 00:10:47,940 So what are these feral people? 293 00:10:47,940 --> 00:10:49,100 Where do they come from? 294 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:54,420 Since the 1840s, there's been reports of feral wild people 295 00:10:54,420 --> 00:10:55,660 in the woods. 296 00:10:55,660 --> 00:10:58,820 And people here believe a large number of missing people 297 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:02,540 in the Great Smoky Mountains is due to feral people. 298 00:11:02,540 --> 00:11:05,460 But what evidence is there that it's feral people? 299 00:11:05,460 --> 00:11:06,700 I mean, look around these woods, it 300 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:09,240 seems like it'd be easy to just disappear. 301 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:11,920 You fall off a cliff, you fall onto a stream. 302 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:13,080 How do we know it's feral people? 303 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:14,880 Eyewitness testimonies. 304 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:17,240 So Pam, have you actually seen one? 305 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:17,920 I have. 306 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:19,840 We had gone on a family vacation, myself, 307 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:22,200 my brother and my parents. 308 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,480 My brother and I had gone up into the woods. 309 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,040 And we had veered off this path a little bit. 310 00:11:28,040 --> 00:11:31,640 And when we did, we saw something. 311 00:11:31,660 --> 00:11:41,660 It was a man squatted down, eating something like a deer. 312 00:11:41,660 --> 00:11:46,220 And I actually saw a bloody flesh hanging out of his mouth, 313 00:11:46,220 --> 00:11:52,620 blood all over his chest, untamed beard, nasty looking. 314 00:11:52,620 --> 00:11:55,100 I was terrified. 315 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:58,620 He had a really big forehead that was kind of lumpy and stuff. 316 00:11:58,620 --> 00:12:00,900 One side of his nose was a little bit bigger. 317 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,680 I mean, he was just, he was deformed. 318 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:06,720 And he looked at us with a demonic look. 319 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:07,600 Was he wearing clothes? 320 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:08,480 No. 321 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:12,000 Eyewitness accounts describe a very putrid smell 322 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:12,920 like garbage. 323 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,320 And that's kind of a precursor, usually, to a sighting. 324 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:19,440 And they will click back and forth. 325 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:21,120 And that is their form of communication. 326 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,680 So did you hear any clicking or anything 327 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:24,560 when you stumbled upon this one? 328 00:12:24,560 --> 00:12:25,240 We did. 329 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,400 Have you been back to that area since then? 330 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:28,680 No, I have not. 331 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,080 These stories are that someone will go into the mountains 332 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,540 alone, perhaps, and veer off from the trail. 333 00:12:33,540 --> 00:12:35,580 They may fall into one of their traps 334 00:12:35,580 --> 00:12:37,020 that they've made. 335 00:12:37,020 --> 00:12:40,620 People, actually, say, do not go into certain areas 336 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:41,860 in the Great Smoky Mountains. 337 00:12:41,860 --> 00:12:44,220 So I think we've got to ask, where 338 00:12:44,220 --> 00:12:47,540 are those areas that we shouldn't, but probably should go? 339 00:12:47,540 --> 00:12:50,860 Yeah, that we shouldn't go, but we're absolutely headed towards. 340 00:12:50,860 --> 00:12:52,780 Yeah. 341 00:12:52,780 --> 00:12:55,540 Pam shows us on a map where she had her encounter. 342 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:57,500 And Eric points out an area nearby 343 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,120 where there have been dozens of other reported sightings. 344 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,720 Running right through this cluster 345 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,160 is something that every big animal needs, a major water 346 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:06,920 source. 347 00:13:06,920 --> 00:13:08,800 There's no doubt this remote location 348 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,200 could sustain all sorts of wildlife. 349 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:12,240 Well, thank you, guys. 350 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,200 Thank you so much. 351 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:13,880 You're welcome. 352 00:13:13,880 --> 00:13:14,720 Great information. 353 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,160 I think we've got a really good start. 354 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,680 Pam's encounter is unique because of how close she 355 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:20,560 claims she got to the creature. 356 00:13:20,560 --> 00:13:23,240 So we've asked her to work with a forensic sketch artist 357 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:27,240 to try to get an accurate picture of what she saw. 358 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:29,340 We won't have the results until morning. 359 00:13:29,340 --> 00:13:32,820 In the meantime, we follow Eric's map deep into the woods. 360 00:13:32,820 --> 00:13:34,900 If feral people are living out here, 361 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:38,140 Pam believes we're more likely to find them at dusk or dark, 362 00:13:38,140 --> 00:13:40,020 away from day hikers and tourists. 363 00:13:42,580 --> 00:13:45,060 I don't think anyone's driven this road in quite a while. 364 00:13:45,060 --> 00:13:47,060 Yeah, no, I would agree. 365 00:13:47,060 --> 00:13:47,820 Oh, jeez. 366 00:13:47,820 --> 00:13:48,300 Hang on. 367 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:51,300 Oh. 368 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:52,300 You good? 369 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:53,860 I'm good. 370 00:13:53,860 --> 00:13:55,980 The roads here are barely passable. 371 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,600 The recent heavy rains have made them downright treacherous. 372 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:00,100 Oh. 373 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:00,600 OK. 374 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,480 Let's take a look. 375 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,360 I see road on the other side. 376 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:08,860 Yeah. 377 00:14:08,860 --> 00:14:11,080 You think the jeep can make it? 378 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,320 I don't know, man. 379 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:14,200 I mean, look, you can see it gets pretty deep there 380 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:14,760 in the middle. 381 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:16,680 And if we can, the engine went. 382 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:17,280 We're stuck. 383 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:17,680 We're done. 384 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:24,880 Pretty deep there in the middle. 385 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:27,100 And if we get the engine wet, we're stuck. 386 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:28,220 We're done. 387 00:14:28,220 --> 00:14:28,980 OK. 388 00:14:28,980 --> 00:14:33,260 Well, cameras, everybody, looks like we're going swimming. 389 00:14:33,260 --> 00:14:34,220 Let's grab our waders. 390 00:14:34,220 --> 00:14:36,300 Grab your waders, guys. 391 00:14:36,300 --> 00:14:37,740 We got a cross. 392 00:14:37,740 --> 00:14:40,220 Getting ourselves across the river is one thing, 393 00:14:40,220 --> 00:14:42,420 but our crew will have to make this crossing 394 00:14:42,420 --> 00:14:44,060 while carrying heavy gear. 395 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:46,860 All right, let's go. 396 00:14:46,860 --> 00:14:50,020 All right, cameras, I think Jess and I are going to cross first. 397 00:14:50,020 --> 00:14:52,100 See how deep it is. 398 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:53,340 Make sure you're given your gear. 399 00:14:55,780 --> 00:14:59,780 The little rockies, so be careful while you're stepping. 400 00:14:59,780 --> 00:15:01,780 Oh, f----. 401 00:15:01,780 --> 00:15:02,780 Whoa. 402 00:15:02,780 --> 00:15:05,780 It also gets a little fast right here. 403 00:15:05,780 --> 00:15:07,620 The temperature of this water is 404 00:15:07,620 --> 00:15:09,180 hovering just above freezing. 405 00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:11,980 If anyone falls in, yeah, we really 406 00:15:11,980 --> 00:15:13,660 don't want anyone to fall in. 407 00:15:13,660 --> 00:15:17,620 Get fast and deep right in the middle. 408 00:15:17,620 --> 00:15:18,620 Easy, Jess. 409 00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:20,520 Easy, Jess. 410 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:26,520 Oh, f----. 411 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:27,520 I'm good. 412 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:28,520 Good. 413 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:29,520 Good. 414 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:34,520 I don't think the Jeep would have made it. 415 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,520 OK, be very careful with the current right here in the middle. 416 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,520 All right, guys. 417 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:47,520 Looking like it's going uphill from here. 418 00:15:48,420 --> 00:15:50,420 So I think we can take the waiters off. 419 00:15:50,420 --> 00:15:51,420 Yeah. 420 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:54,020 We trek about a half a mile following the stream 421 00:15:54,020 --> 00:15:56,500 until we reach our destination, an area where 422 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:58,780 there have been several recent eyewitness sightings 423 00:15:58,780 --> 00:16:01,180 and near where Pam reported seeing a feral man. 424 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:05,620 We'll focus our investigation close to the water. 425 00:16:05,620 --> 00:16:08,820 Heavy rains have turned this small stream into a river. 426 00:16:08,820 --> 00:16:11,940 We need to stay on alert because based on our map, 427 00:16:11,940 --> 00:16:15,460 it's the closest water source for any big animal out here, 428 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:17,480 including bears. 429 00:16:17,480 --> 00:16:18,480 Look at this. 430 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:22,480 That is water. 431 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:25,480 It does not seem like it's been used recently. 432 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:31,480 Why is there a bathtub in the middle of the woods? 433 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:32,480 That's disgusting. 434 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:34,480 That is really gross. 435 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,480 This does not look like it's been used for bathing. 436 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:38,480 Oh, no. 437 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:39,480 And look at the age of this. 438 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:40,480 Yeah. 439 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:43,480 I guess this is like a moonshine spot. 440 00:16:43,500 --> 00:16:45,500 And that's why this is all like supported in plan. 441 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:48,500 It might be right in the middle of the woods. 442 00:16:48,500 --> 00:16:49,500 The most random place. 443 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:52,500 That's why they call it bathtub gym. 444 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:53,500 You might be on something. 445 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,500 So I'm thinking we could use this as kind of our base 446 00:17:02,500 --> 00:17:05,500 because we got stream on this side. 447 00:17:05,500 --> 00:17:07,500 We got a really steep ridge up there. 448 00:17:07,500 --> 00:17:09,500 This just gives us a really good corridor, 449 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,500 a really good opportunity to set up camera traps. 450 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,520 So if anything crosses this way through it, 451 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:16,520 we should get on camera. 452 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:17,520 Yeah. 453 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,520 OK, let's do that. 454 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:20,520 All right, we get the traps out. 455 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,520 We split up and strategically place a series 456 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:27,520 of 10 motion-activated trail cameras. 457 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,520 Jess sets up five cameras along the edge of the river 458 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:31,520 running through this valley 459 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,520 while I place five along the ridge line above. 460 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,520 If anything stops by for a sip of water, 461 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,520 these high-tech cameras will snap a photo 462 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:42,540 and immediately uplink the images to my phone. 463 00:17:43,540 --> 00:17:45,540 OK, Phil, I'm all set up. 464 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:48,540 All right, Jess, we'll be back at the moonshine tell-up 465 00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:50,540 in maybe an hour? 466 00:17:50,540 --> 00:17:51,540 That's good. 467 00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:01,540 I'm looking for any signs that animals pass through here, 468 00:18:01,540 --> 00:18:04,540 like paw prints or scat. 469 00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:08,540 Check this out. 470 00:18:09,540 --> 00:18:11,540 Look at those scratch marks. 471 00:18:11,540 --> 00:18:12,540 Come on. 472 00:18:12,540 --> 00:18:14,540 That is an animal. 473 00:18:14,540 --> 00:18:16,540 And this is Frischer. 474 00:18:16,540 --> 00:18:18,540 Got some damage there. 475 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:20,540 This looks old. 476 00:18:21,540 --> 00:18:25,540 But definitely, that looks like man-made damage. 477 00:18:25,540 --> 00:18:28,540 Oh, it's just not yet out of the tree. 478 00:18:28,540 --> 00:18:30,540 It doesn't really look like a hatchet. 479 00:18:30,540 --> 00:18:32,540 It looks like a rudimentary tool, like a stone 480 00:18:32,540 --> 00:18:34,540 or something that made that mark. 481 00:18:34,540 --> 00:18:36,540 Something that didn't have a very sharp edge. 482 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:42,540 This to me says human. 483 00:18:42,540 --> 00:18:44,540 It says human. 484 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,540 This. 485 00:18:46,540 --> 00:18:48,540 That sounds a lot like a bear. 486 00:18:48,540 --> 00:18:50,540 Scratches all along this. 487 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:54,540 It's like they're competing for this spot. 488 00:18:54,540 --> 00:18:56,540 Marking the territory. 489 00:18:56,540 --> 00:18:59,540 Bears rub against or scratch trees to mark their territory. 490 00:18:59,540 --> 00:19:01,540 A bear might have claimed this riverbank 491 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:03,540 and it's possible a human did the same. 492 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,560 There's something around here for sure. 493 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,560 The sound of the stream makes it hard to hear anything else. 494 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:20,560 Oh! 495 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:21,560 Oh! 496 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,560 F***! 497 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,560 Right over there. Right over there. 498 00:19:25,560 --> 00:19:27,560 Right over there. 499 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,560 Right over there. 500 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:31,560 Right over there. 501 00:19:31,580 --> 00:19:33,580 Right over there. Right over there. 502 00:19:33,580 --> 00:19:35,580 Right over there. 503 00:19:35,580 --> 00:19:37,580 F***! 504 00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:48,580 So, I just saw something moving in the woods. 505 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:50,580 Say again? 506 00:19:50,580 --> 00:19:52,580 I just saw something moving in the woods. 507 00:19:52,580 --> 00:19:54,580 How big are we talking? 508 00:19:54,580 --> 00:19:56,580 I honestly can't tell because it's just so thick down here. 509 00:19:56,580 --> 00:19:58,580 I mean, it looks big. 510 00:19:58,580 --> 00:20:00,580 I don't know. 511 00:20:01,580 --> 00:20:03,580 I don't know. 512 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:09,580 So, what were you seeing down here? 513 00:20:09,580 --> 00:20:11,580 I saw something in the distance. 514 00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:13,580 Come on, let's go. 515 00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:15,580 Distraction. 516 00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:17,580 Oh, we just got to hit. 517 00:20:17,580 --> 00:20:19,580 What? 518 00:20:19,580 --> 00:20:21,580 You dropped it. 519 00:20:21,580 --> 00:20:23,580 No, you did not. 520 00:20:23,580 --> 00:20:25,580 Look at that. 521 00:20:25,580 --> 00:20:27,580 Something's blocking the camera. 522 00:20:27,580 --> 00:20:29,580 That's something big. 523 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:31,600 What is that? 524 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:33,600 That looks like something's here. 525 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:35,600 This alert is from Camera 8. 526 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:37,600 One of the ones I set up on the ridge line above. 527 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:39,600 That's the top camera. We got to go. 528 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:41,600 We got to go. 529 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,600 Up here. Up here. 530 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:45,600 Shhh. 531 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:47,600 Shhh. 532 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:49,600 Shhh. 533 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,600 Shhh. 534 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:53,600 Shhh. 535 00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,600 Shhh. 536 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:57,600 Shhh. 537 00:20:57,620 --> 00:20:59,620 Shhh. 538 00:20:59,620 --> 00:21:01,620 Shhh. 539 00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:03,620 Oh, yeah. 540 00:21:03,620 --> 00:21:05,620 Are you okay? 541 00:21:05,620 --> 00:21:07,620 Are you okay? 542 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:09,620 I swear to God, we just walked this trail. 543 00:21:09,620 --> 00:21:11,620 That was not there. 544 00:21:11,620 --> 00:21:13,620 And that was not there. 545 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:15,620 This is the tree. 546 00:21:15,620 --> 00:21:17,620 The camera's up there. 547 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:19,620 Are you all right? 548 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:21,620 Yeah. I'm good. 549 00:21:21,620 --> 00:21:23,620 What the hell was that? 550 00:21:23,620 --> 00:21:25,620 What the hell was that? 551 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,640 Oh, look at it. 552 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,640 It's been moved. It's been moved. 553 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,640 There's no branches that just fell? 554 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,640 Something definitely moved that camera. 555 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,640 Look at this access right here. 556 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,640 Wow. Look how fresh this is. 557 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,640 Look at this game show. 558 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,640 You got the deer, right? 559 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,640 Yeah. 560 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,640 Let's just have this here and see if we can get a big signature. 561 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:54,640 Okay. 562 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:57,640 Do you see anything? 563 00:21:57,640 --> 00:21:59,640 Absolutely. 564 00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,640 We spend the next half hour scanning the tree line 565 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:03,640 for anything warm-blooded. 566 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:06,640 But whatever triggered our camera seems to be gone now. 567 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:11,640 So I'm not getting anything out there. 568 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,640 We searched the area for any trace evidence, 569 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,640 like fur or tracks in the mud 570 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,640 from whatever disturbed the camera, 571 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:21,640 but come up empty. 572 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:24,640 Well, I mean, hey, we know that they're active out here, 573 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:26,660 whatever it is, right? 574 00:22:26,660 --> 00:22:28,660 We're picking up stuff on the camera traps. 575 00:22:28,660 --> 00:22:30,660 So why don't we leave them running? 576 00:22:30,660 --> 00:22:32,660 Our multi-trap camera system was successful tonight 577 00:22:32,660 --> 00:22:34,660 and captured an intriguing clue from something 578 00:22:34,660 --> 00:22:36,660 that was out here with us. 579 00:22:36,660 --> 00:22:38,660 Feral human or wild animal? 580 00:22:38,660 --> 00:22:40,660 We'll have the image analyzed to see if we can figure out 581 00:22:40,660 --> 00:22:42,660 its identity. 582 00:22:42,660 --> 00:22:44,660 Oh, no. 583 00:22:44,660 --> 00:22:46,660 What? 584 00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:48,660 I just saw something. Yeah? 585 00:22:48,660 --> 00:22:50,660 We have to cross that stream again. 586 00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:52,660 Great. 587 00:22:54,660 --> 00:22:56,660 The next morning, 588 00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:58,660 we get some incredible new information 589 00:22:58,660 --> 00:23:00,660 that we need to show Josh. 590 00:23:00,660 --> 00:23:02,660 Hey, guys, how's it going out there? 591 00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:04,660 Good. Good. 592 00:23:04,660 --> 00:23:06,660 So we had a pretty amazing night. 593 00:23:06,660 --> 00:23:08,660 I definitely heard something moving around in the woods, 594 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:10,660 and then we got a really interesting hit. 595 00:23:10,660 --> 00:23:12,660 One of the trail cams actually picked up 596 00:23:12,660 --> 00:23:15,660 what looks like a hand reaching for it. 597 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:17,660 Wait, what do you mean a hand? 598 00:23:17,660 --> 00:23:19,660 Do you mean, like, a human hand? 599 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:21,660 Yeah, it looks like this part of the hand, 600 00:23:21,660 --> 00:23:23,660 you can actually see what looks like a little bit of a thumbnail, 601 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:25,680 and it's reaching for the camera. 602 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,680 And then when we went and checked out the cam, 603 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,680 it was all knocked off the tree. 604 00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,680 So what are you saying? 605 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,680 You think there was somebody out there in the woods? 606 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,680 I mean, somebody or something. 607 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,680 I'm not so sure, Josh. 608 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,680 Maybe the camera slipped and triggered this blurry shot. 609 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,680 Jess sees a hand. 610 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,680 I see, well, not much of anything. 611 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,680 Okay. 612 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,680 All right, and what about witnesses? 613 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:51,680 Well, we talked to one yesterday. 614 00:23:51,700 --> 00:23:53,700 And honestly, her story was terrifying. 615 00:23:53,700 --> 00:23:57,700 Whatever she saw, she's traumatized by it to this day. 616 00:23:57,700 --> 00:24:01,700 And we actually connected her with a forensic sketch artist 617 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:04,700 so that we could have a better idea of what we should be looking for out here. 618 00:24:04,700 --> 00:24:06,700 And actually, we just got the results over. 619 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:08,700 We're going to email them to you now. 620 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:10,700 Okay, hold on a second. Let me open this up. 621 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:12,700 Whoa! 622 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:14,700 Look at this guy. 623 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:19,700 This is kind of incredible because this is clearly humanoid, right? 624 00:24:19,700 --> 00:24:20,700 I mean, this is not a sketch of a bear, right? 625 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:22,700 Oh, no. 626 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:24,700 And what is supposed to be in his mouth? 627 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:27,700 So her story was that she stumbled upon him while he was eating, 628 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:30,700 so that is deer guts and deer blood all over his mouth. 629 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:34,700 So this is also remarkable because it puts a literal face on this investigation. 630 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,700 You know, what is this that this woman saw? 631 00:24:37,700 --> 00:24:39,700 I mean, who is this? 632 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:41,700 That's what we need to find out. 633 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:43,700 So, okay, next stage of the investigation, 634 00:24:43,700 --> 00:24:46,700 I've actually found another more recent eyewitness. 635 00:24:46,700 --> 00:24:48,700 It's actually a couple. 636 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:50,700 Hopefully, they can corroborate each other's stories. 637 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:54,700 So I've arranged for you to go out and meet them today at the spot where it happened. 638 00:24:54,700 --> 00:24:57,700 Josh sends us off to Mingo Falls, 639 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:00,700 which is just a few miles from where Pam said she had her encounter. 640 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:13,700 All right, so these folks are going to meet us up at the top, yeah? 641 00:25:13,700 --> 00:25:16,700 Yep. We got some stairs ahead of us, Jess. 642 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:17,700 Yeah. 643 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,700 The witnesses Josh found are James Manning and Malika Spruill. 644 00:25:21,700 --> 00:25:25,700 They had a terrifying encounter they can't explain. 645 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:26,700 We were here for his birthday. 646 00:25:26,700 --> 00:25:27,700 Okay. 647 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:30,700 And we did, everybody kept talking about how beautiful Mingo Falls is, 648 00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:32,700 so we said, okay, we'll come to Mingo Falls. 649 00:25:32,700 --> 00:25:35,700 So I got to ask, what the heck did you see up here? 650 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:36,700 You tell me. 651 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:40,700 I know it was a man, but what kind? 652 00:25:40,700 --> 00:25:41,700 Don't know. 653 00:25:41,700 --> 00:25:43,700 He stood about 6364. 654 00:25:43,700 --> 00:25:46,700 He looked like a mangle-deformed man. 655 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:49,700 He had knots in his forehead, and his head was thin, 656 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:52,700 but his string had a full beard, and he was naked. 657 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:54,700 His body was covered in hair, and he was wet. 658 00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:56,700 Odd strange smell. 659 00:25:56,700 --> 00:25:57,700 Smell like garbage. 660 00:25:57,700 --> 00:25:59,700 It was horrible, horrible smell. 661 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:03,700 His eyes were really, really scary, because it was like a cloudy white. 662 00:26:03,700 --> 00:26:04,700 You couldn't even see his pupil. 663 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:05,700 It was a cloudy white. 664 00:26:05,700 --> 00:26:07,700 Almost like how cataracts were going to be. 665 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:08,700 Exactly like cataracts, exactly. 666 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:09,700 You scared? 667 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:10,700 You scared? 668 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:11,700 You scared? 669 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:12,700 Terrified. 670 00:26:12,700 --> 00:26:13,700 Yes. 671 00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:14,700 It was a beautiful move. 672 00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:18,700 Well, so was this the area that you saw him at? 673 00:26:18,700 --> 00:26:20,700 It was up there, in the waterfall. 674 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:21,700 Actually, at the falls? 675 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:22,700 At the falls. 676 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:23,700 Do you mind showing us where you saw it? 677 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:24,700 Yes, we can show you. 678 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:25,700 No problem. 679 00:26:25,700 --> 00:26:26,700 All right, well, we'll follow you. 680 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:27,700 Either way. 681 00:26:27,700 --> 00:26:28,700 Do we have to? 682 00:26:28,700 --> 00:26:29,700 Yes, we do. 683 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:30,700 Come on. 684 00:26:30,700 --> 00:26:31,700 We'll stick together. 685 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:33,700 Wow, look at those waterfalls. 686 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:34,700 Whoa! 687 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:38,700 Okay, so you guys were actually standing here? 688 00:26:38,700 --> 00:26:39,700 Yes. 689 00:26:39,700 --> 00:26:42,700 Okay, and so then where did you see him specifically? 690 00:26:42,700 --> 00:26:43,700 Right there. 691 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:47,700 You see where there's like a little round area right there? 692 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:48,700 Yeah. 693 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:49,700 Right there. 694 00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:50,700 He was right there in the corner. 695 00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:51,700 He didn't move. 696 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:52,700 He just started. 697 00:26:52,700 --> 00:26:57,700 And then when I looked down to get myself together, it was gone. 698 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:58,700 Yeah. 699 00:26:58,700 --> 00:26:59,700 Where did he disappear to? 700 00:26:59,700 --> 00:27:03,700 I mean, this is, it's dense, but it's also very steep. 701 00:27:03,700 --> 00:27:07,700 It's, to me, wonder, is there a cave up there, an outcropping that he could have hidden behind? 702 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:08,700 Yeah. 703 00:27:08,700 --> 00:27:10,700 I'm just not seeing from down here. 704 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:11,700 You want me to go up there? 705 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:12,700 I want you to go up there. 706 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:16,700 And I'll see you here, and you can check out if there's any hiding spots. 707 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:17,700 Right us. 708 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:18,700 Okay. 709 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:20,700 I'll let you guys know. 710 00:27:20,700 --> 00:27:21,700 Let us know. 711 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:22,700 Let us know. 712 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:23,700 Right us. 713 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:24,700 Okay. 714 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:26,700 After the date, I won't be coming back. 715 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,700 She had to make me come this time. 716 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:31,700 I have one more favor to ask. 717 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:37,700 So, one thing we've been doing with our witnesses is connecting them with a forensic sketch artist. 718 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:38,700 Okay. 719 00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:43,700 So that we could basically try to get a better picture of what you actually saw out here. 720 00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:45,700 Would you be comfortable doing that? 721 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:46,700 Yes. 722 00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:47,700 We have no problems. 723 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:51,700 The spot where they say they saw the Feral Man is roughly halfway up the falls. 724 00:27:51,700 --> 00:27:56,700 Could there be a cave or crevice up there where someone could quickly hide from view? 725 00:27:56,700 --> 00:28:01,700 At 120 feet, Mingo Falls is one of the tallest waterfalls in the Southern Appalachians. 726 00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:06,700 So, Phil has a steep hike ahead of him. 727 00:28:07,700 --> 00:28:14,700 And whatever was up here, it's gotta be in shape. 728 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:16,700 Ooh, this is high. 729 00:28:16,700 --> 00:28:18,700 Oh my God. 730 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:27,700 All right, Jess. 731 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:29,700 At the end of the waterfall. 732 00:28:29,700 --> 00:28:30,700 Got me. 733 00:28:30,700 --> 00:28:31,700 Oh, I see your hand. 734 00:28:31,700 --> 00:28:32,700 I see your hand. 735 00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:35,700 Wave your hand one more time. 736 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:40,700 It's difficult to see much detail from this far away, though not impossible. 737 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:45,700 Do you see any caves or anything that a person could hide in or hide behind? 738 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:47,700 It was kind of hard to tell. 739 00:28:47,700 --> 00:28:50,700 Definitely a lot of rocky formations up here. 740 00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:54,700 So I would not be surprised if there were a cave a little bit further up. 741 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:57,700 Honestly, I think we gotta follow this trail up here tonight. 742 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:04,700 So I think you should go all the way down those stairs and grab our gear from the jeep. 743 00:29:04,700 --> 00:29:06,700 Fine. 744 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:17,700 So looking around up here, not seeing any caves, but I am seeing a lot of rock formations and obviously running water with the waterfall. 745 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,700 And when you combine those two, that's when you get erosion. 746 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:27,700 And with erosion, you get underground caverns, the perfect place for whatever the heck they saw up here to hide. 747 00:29:28,700 --> 00:29:31,700 Starting behind Mingo Falls, we set out on foot. 748 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:32,700 Wow. 749 00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:34,700 Look at this place. 750 00:29:37,700 --> 00:29:40,700 The temperature during the winter here falls well below freezing. 751 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:46,700 For a feral human to survive in these woods, they're going to need shelter, likely in the form of a cave. 752 00:29:46,700 --> 00:29:48,700 So that's what I'm hoping to find. 753 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:53,700 It's getting dark, but we've hiked too far to give up now. 754 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:55,700 So we're going to keep looking. 755 00:29:55,700 --> 00:29:58,700 Hopefully whatever's out here doesn't find us first. 756 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:00,700 Alright, try to stay in contact as best you can. 757 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:01,700 I'll do it. Good luck. 758 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:02,700 Thank you, you too. 759 00:30:03,700 --> 00:30:06,700 Jess and I split up to cover more ground. 760 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:19,700 Alright, my boy, my heart boy. Let's go. 761 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:24,700 IR cameras use infrared light to illuminate images in the dark. 762 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,700 The light is on. 763 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:31,700 This way. 764 00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:49,700 Did you hear that? 765 00:30:50,700 --> 00:30:51,700 Did you hear that snap? 766 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:55,700 Oh, f***. 767 00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:57,700 Is that you? 768 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:00,700 I keep hearing sounds over there to my left. 769 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:04,700 It's going to clear up. 770 00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:06,700 I'm going to call the police. 771 00:31:06,700 --> 00:31:07,700 Where are you going? 772 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:10,700 I'm going to call the police. 773 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:12,700 I'm going to call the police. 774 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:14,700 We're going to call the police. 775 00:31:15,700 --> 00:31:17,700 You're going to call the police, right? 776 00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:19,700 I'm going to call the police. 777 00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:21,700 Okay. 778 00:31:21,700 --> 00:31:23,700 Let's get the clear out. 779 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:29,700 I think I kind of see something. 780 00:31:29,700 --> 00:31:32,700 There's something over there. 781 00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:33,700 There. 782 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:34,700 There. 783 00:31:34,700 --> 00:31:35,700 That one. 784 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:36,700 Right there. 785 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:37,700 Yes. 786 00:31:37,700 --> 00:31:38,700 God, do you smell that? 787 00:31:38,700 --> 00:31:39,700 There. 788 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:40,700 Oh, it just moved. 789 00:31:40,700 --> 00:31:41,700 It's just moved. 790 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:58,700 Getting through the woods is slow going in the dark, but finally I find what appears to be a cave entrance. 791 00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:00,700 The problem is, it's down there. 792 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:01,700 Oh, f***. 793 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:05,700 God, that's a drop off. 794 00:32:05,700 --> 00:32:07,700 That's a broken ankle. 795 00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:09,700 Or broken leg. 796 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:10,700 Worse. 797 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,700 That looks like it leads to something big. 798 00:32:13,700 --> 00:32:18,700 I think we got to get down here so we should get out the ropes because this is, this looks good. 799 00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:24,700 A large cave like this would give any big mammal good protection from both the elements and other predators. 800 00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:31,700 It's possible that the cave system extends under this ridge, perhaps connecting it to the cliffs around Mingo Falls. 801 00:32:31,700 --> 00:32:33,700 All right, let's find a flat area set up. 802 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:34,700 So good. 803 00:32:34,700 --> 00:32:35,700 Let's go. 804 00:32:40,700 --> 00:32:45,700 I mean, if it was an animal, I feel like we would see some ice shine. 805 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:50,700 F***, there is something over there. 806 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:52,700 Uh, yes. 807 00:32:52,700 --> 00:33:00,700 I just found this insane drop off cave system that we're going to climb down into to get a better look at what's in here. 808 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:04,700 Okay, well, just be very, very, very, very, very careful. 809 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,700 All right, in a few of this we go. 810 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:26,700 Let's run now about 40 feet from the top and check out how deep this thing is. 811 00:33:26,700 --> 00:33:28,700 I can't even see the bottom. 812 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:32,700 So not the most fun descent I've ever done. 813 00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,700 Got to say, but I got to figure out what's down there. 814 00:33:40,700 --> 00:33:41,700 Whoa. 815 00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:44,700 Hey, I see the ground. 816 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:46,700 I see the ground down here. 817 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:53,700 Oh, I think I'm about 30 feet from the bottom here. 818 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:01,700 Whoa. 819 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:05,700 Touchdown. 820 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:07,700 Touchdown. 821 00:34:11,700 --> 00:34:13,700 Wow, this place is insane. 822 00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:16,700 I really don't want a bear to be in here. 823 00:34:16,700 --> 00:34:19,700 Okay, that's got to be under 20 feet. 824 00:34:20,700 --> 00:34:25,700 The cavern splits into two smaller chambers, plus something I didn't expect, 825 00:34:25,700 --> 00:34:28,700 another opening that leads to a forest on the other side. 826 00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:29,700 Wow. 827 00:34:30,700 --> 00:34:31,700 Look at that. 828 00:34:33,700 --> 00:34:34,700 Completely open over here. 829 00:34:36,700 --> 00:34:37,700 That's insane. 830 00:34:37,700 --> 00:34:39,700 There's got to be an easier way to get in here. 831 00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:40,700 Nice. 832 00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:42,700 There's definitely an easier way to get out of here. 833 00:34:42,700 --> 00:34:44,700 Let's go check up on Jess. 834 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:46,700 You guys see a copy? 835 00:34:47,700 --> 00:34:48,700 Yeah, I copy. 836 00:34:48,700 --> 00:34:50,700 How's it looking down there? 837 00:34:51,700 --> 00:34:53,700 It's looking pretty crazy, I got to say. 838 00:34:53,700 --> 00:34:59,700 Big parts of this cave are pretty uneven, but it opens up to a huge area of forest. 839 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:04,700 I'm wondering if you might be able to find this back end. 840 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:06,700 Okay, start shining your light around. 841 00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:10,700 We'll try and go near one of the edges of the rocks to see what we can see, 842 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:13,700 because right now where we are, there's nothing, we can't see anything. 843 00:35:14,700 --> 00:35:16,700 Yeah, let's just do this. 844 00:35:17,700 --> 00:35:18,700 Oh, oh, yep. 845 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:20,700 Oh, I see you. 846 00:35:20,700 --> 00:35:21,700 Yeah, I'm waving. 847 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:22,700 Okay. 848 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:37,700 Oh my God, that's crazy big. 849 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:39,700 Whoa. 850 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:41,700 Bill, come here. 851 00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:44,700 So this looks suspicious. 852 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,700 This is crazy. 853 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:49,700 That looks like a campfire. 854 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:53,700 You rappelled down this whole thing? 855 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:54,700 Oh yeah. 856 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:55,700 Oh my gosh. 857 00:35:55,700 --> 00:35:56,700 What is it saying? 858 00:35:58,700 --> 00:35:59,700 Look at this cave though. 859 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,700 Oh, see, right here it smells, man. 860 00:36:03,700 --> 00:36:04,700 What? 861 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:05,700 You don't smell that? 862 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:09,700 You don't smell that stink? 863 00:36:10,700 --> 00:36:11,700 Hold up. 864 00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:14,700 Huge. 865 00:36:14,700 --> 00:36:15,700 Yeah. 866 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:16,700 Smells like a zoo. 867 00:36:16,700 --> 00:36:18,700 Oh my God, the bones. 868 00:36:18,700 --> 00:36:19,700 Oh! 869 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,700 We're all familiar with famous feral people in literature. 870 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:31,700 Characters like Tarzan and Mowgli from the Jungle Book, 871 00:36:31,700 --> 00:36:33,700 but are either of them based on true stories. 872 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:37,700 While Mowgli may be partly based on a young boy from the 1800s, 873 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:41,700 who was allegedly discovered in India living among wolves. 874 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:45,700 He walked on all fours, he growled, he ate only raw meat, 875 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:48,700 before being rescued to an orphanage for care. 876 00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,700 And as for Tarzan, some claim the character was inspired 877 00:36:51,700 --> 00:36:55,700 by an English nobleman named Lord William Charles Milden. 878 00:36:56,700 --> 00:36:59,700 In 1868, at the age of 11, 879 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:02,700 he purportedly survived a shipwreck off the coast of Africa, 880 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:05,700 where he lived among apes for years. 881 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:08,700 The trouble is, there's almost no documentation to back up the legend. 882 00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:12,700 And most believe the tale is simply bananas. 883 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:18,700 You got bones? 884 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:20,700 Oh. 885 00:37:23,700 --> 00:37:24,700 Look at that. 886 00:37:24,700 --> 00:37:25,700 I've got my evidence kid. 887 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:27,700 Why don't you take some photos? 888 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:28,700 I'll get my camera. 889 00:37:28,700 --> 00:37:29,700 Okay. 890 00:37:31,700 --> 00:37:32,700 Ready? 891 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:40,700 It is really bizarre. 892 00:37:40,700 --> 00:37:42,700 Did I have to leave you to it? 893 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:44,700 Like this part looks ripped off? 894 00:37:44,700 --> 00:37:46,700 But this part looks like it was like... 895 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:47,700 It's gonna snap. 896 00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:49,700 These look like they're from a big animal, 897 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:51,700 like a deer or a hog. 898 00:37:51,700 --> 00:37:52,700 Yeah. 899 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:54,700 The bones we found in the cave are clearly animal, 900 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:58,700 but who or what butchered that animal is yet to be determined. 901 00:37:58,700 --> 00:37:59,700 You know what else I got? 902 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:00,700 What? 903 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:01,700 Luminol. 904 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,700 I thought that was an order to tell how dirty your hotel room is. 905 00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:08,700 That too, or how much blood is around in the cave. 906 00:38:08,700 --> 00:38:09,700 Oh. 907 00:38:09,700 --> 00:38:12,700 Luminol reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, 908 00:38:12,700 --> 00:38:16,700 making any smear or spatter of blood glow for about 30 seconds. 909 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:18,700 If I can find blood with the luminol, 910 00:38:18,700 --> 00:38:20,700 I'll collect a sample for DNA testing 911 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,700 to see what might have been in here eating the carcasses. 912 00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:25,700 All right, so let's off, ready? 913 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:27,700 Three, two, one. 914 00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:33,700 Oh, I can see it. 915 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:34,700 Oh, it just did. 916 00:38:34,700 --> 00:38:35,700 Look at that. 917 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:36,700 It's glowing right there. 918 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:38,700 Oh, there it is glowing. 919 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:40,700 So we got blood. 920 00:38:40,700 --> 00:38:43,700 That is lots of blood. 921 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:44,700 Yeah. 922 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:46,700 I just don't want that to be human blood. 923 00:38:50,700 --> 00:38:51,700 Oh! 924 00:38:52,700 --> 00:38:54,700 Ah, it's in my eyes. 925 00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:55,700 What just happened? 926 00:38:55,700 --> 00:38:57,700 I saw something fall from here. 927 00:38:57,700 --> 00:38:58,700 What? 928 00:38:58,700 --> 00:38:59,700 What's from that hole? 929 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:00,700 Yeah, something, something. 930 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:02,700 I got a little dusted over here too. 931 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:03,700 That hurt. 932 00:39:03,700 --> 00:39:04,700 Let's go, let's go. 933 00:39:04,700 --> 00:39:05,700 Something up there? 934 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:07,700 There's something moving around up there? 935 00:39:07,700 --> 00:39:09,700 Let's go, let's go. 936 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:10,700 All right. 937 00:39:10,700 --> 00:39:12,700 We rush outside to see if we can spot 938 00:39:12,700 --> 00:39:14,700 whatever might have been on top of the cave. 939 00:39:14,700 --> 00:39:16,700 While Phil checks for clues on the ground, 940 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:18,700 I break out the flare and scan the tree line. 941 00:39:21,700 --> 00:39:24,700 I don't see anything up here. 942 00:39:24,700 --> 00:39:26,700 We leave a trail cam running, 943 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:28,700 just in case whatever was on top of the cave 944 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,700 above us returns. 945 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:38,700 The findings my team gathered during this investigation 946 00:39:38,700 --> 00:39:41,700 shed new light on the mystery of the so-called 947 00:39:41,700 --> 00:39:43,700 feral people of Appalachia. 948 00:39:43,700 --> 00:39:45,700 Though our trail cams took mostly photos 949 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:47,700 of recognizable species, 950 00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:50,700 we can't identify what made this image. 951 00:39:50,700 --> 00:39:53,700 Something definitely moved that camera. 952 00:39:53,700 --> 00:39:57,700 Jess and the crew also heard mysterious clicking noises. 953 00:39:57,700 --> 00:39:59,700 Did you hear that? 954 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:02,700 Which we isolated from our footage and thoroughly analyzed. 955 00:40:04,700 --> 00:40:07,700 Phil compared notes with several colleagues, 956 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:10,700 but they were unable to conclusively identify the sounds 957 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:13,700 as coming from any known animal or insect. 958 00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:14,700 Oh, god, we got bones. 959 00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,700 Tests indicated the bones and some of the blood samples 960 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:19,700 they collected in the cave were from hogs, 961 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:21,700 which roamed wild in these mountains. 962 00:40:21,700 --> 00:40:23,700 But there were also some blood spatters 963 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,700 that were 100% human. 964 00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:29,700 Who that human was and what they were doing in that cave, 965 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:31,700 that remains a mystery. 966 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:34,700 But the most interesting evidence are the two drawings 967 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:37,700 made by a professional forensic sketch artist. 968 00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:40,700 Put the images side by side and the resemblance is undeniable. 969 00:40:40,700 --> 00:40:42,700 So where does that leave us? 970 00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:45,700 Phil began the investigation thinking sightings of feral humans 971 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:48,700 were cases of wildlife misidentification. 972 00:40:48,700 --> 00:40:51,700 But when it comes to why so many hikers go missing, 973 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,700 Jess was open to a more imaginative explanation. 974 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:56,700 After weighing the evidence though, 975 00:40:56,700 --> 00:40:58,700 we are in a rare occasion, united. 976 00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,700 There very well may be some foul smelling, 977 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:04,700 raggedy looking creatures living deep in the great 978 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,700 smoky mountains, but none that are genetically different 979 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:08,700 than you and me. 980 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:11,700 Simply those who made the choice to leave society behind. 981 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:14,700 And from time to time an eyewitness gets a glimpse 982 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:16,700 and a whiff. 983 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:19,700 Ever look in the mirror after a weekend camping trip? 984 00:41:19,700 --> 00:41:21,700 Try being out there for several years. 985 00:41:21,700 --> 00:41:24,700 You might just look and smell like a monster too.