1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Tonight, the most elusive beast in North America. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Bigfoot might be the most widely spotted cryptid in history. 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 This is not something that's limited to just one region, 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:15,000 or even just one continent. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,000 This is something that is reported all over the world. 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Despite thousands of sightings, 7 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:25,000 this mysterious animal remains unidentified. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 Top of the list is the most well-known animal 9 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:31,000 Top scientists are at a loss. 10 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,000 They can't find any match to any known species. 11 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Now, we explore the top theories surrounding this cryptic creature. 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:47,000 How did these two cowboys pull off the greatest thing in creature feature history? 13 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:51,000 It is possible that some of these could be wild humans. 14 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 There was a creature that was thought to have gone extinct. 15 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 That did match this description. 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Does Bigfoot exist? 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,000 And if so, what is it? 18 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:04,000 And where is it? 19 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 September 1958, Humboldt County, California. 20 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,000 Lumber worker Jerry Crue is operating a bulldozer 21 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,000 when he spots something strange in the woods. 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,000 Maybe 20 feet away from where he's working, 23 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,000 he sees these large human-like footprints pressed deep into the mud, 24 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:41,000 and he mentions it to his supervisor, a man named Wilbur Shorty Wallace. 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Upon closer examination, the prints are 16 inches across, 26 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,000 much too big to be human. 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 It's unlike anything he's ever seen before. 28 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Could it be an animal print? 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Sure, but if it is, it's strangely human, but much larger. 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:05,000 Initially, Jerry suspects a co-worker is playing a prank on him. 31 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Let's be real, you're working in a remote area with a bunch of guys. 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 It's a brotherhood. 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:12,000 We play pranks on each other. It's just what we do. 34 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Shorty Wallace's brother, Ray Wallace, is a complete prankster. 35 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:21,000 So when Jerry sees these prints, he's assuming that the guys are pulling his leg. 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,000 But soon, other strange accounts surface. 37 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:33,000 At a job site the year before, a 450-pound fuel drum went missing. 38 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:41,000 It was found nearby in a gully, but it had these giant human-like footprints nearby. 39 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:47,000 This is not something that an average-sized human being could move on their own at all. 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:55,000 People also see a 700-pound tire is magically moved over to a ditch, 41 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,000 and what is around it? Tracks. 42 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:04,000 Given the size of the footprints, the loggers come up with a nickname for the creature. 43 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Bigfoot. 44 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000 There are lots of logging operations in the area, 45 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,000 and workers on other sites catch wind of this Bigfoot. 46 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,000 For many of them, this strikes a chord. 47 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:23,000 A number of them who have been working out in these woods have reported the sensation of feeling like they've been watched. 48 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:29,000 That there is some sort of intelligence that is observing them as they work. 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 It's not long before these accounts attract local media attention. 50 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:42,000 The story of Bigfoot makes its way to the Humboldt Times newspaper in the form of a letter that lands on the desk of writer Andrew Gonzoli. 51 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 Like Jerry Crue, Gonzoli assumes at first that the letter is from some crackpot. 52 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:54,000 But on September 21st, 1958, he has a column to finish, so he mentions it towards the end. 53 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Just as a bit of a joke, like, hey, guess what? 54 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Humboldt County has its very own abominable snowmen. They call it Bigfoot. 55 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Once people see this story, it catches on like wildfire. 56 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:11,000 People are intrigued by this. 57 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:13,000 It ties in with their own experiences. 58 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:18,000 They've heard rumors that fall right into line with what's being reported. 59 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:22,000 It only makes sense at this point that Gonzoli is going to follow up. 60 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:29,000 So he sets out to follow up with Crue to talk to the other lumberjacks to find out what's going on here. 61 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:37,000 What Gonzoli ultimately found out when he did some more research is that the idea of Bigfoot itself of a large creature with large footprints was not new, 62 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 and in fact was part of the folklore of Native American tribes for some time. 63 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 There are reports of unusual footprints and sightings here dating back throughout the 1800s. 64 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 In 1850, a prospector was mining on the side of Mount Shasta, 65 00:04:51,000 --> 00:05:03,000 and he had what could be said as one of the first interactions with Bigfoot when a large hairy hominid came out of the woods and smashed his sluice 66 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,000 and then went back in the woods. As if to say, get the hell off my mountain. 67 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:12,000 Because of all of the stories coming in, all of the engagement from readership, The Humboldt Times, 68 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:17,000 ends up publishing an entire series of stories about this creature called Bigfoot. 69 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:22,000 This causes a huge stir, and this story goes national. 70 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Within weeks, the name Bigfoot is known across America. 71 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:37,000 With all this attention, there is a mad rush to investigate, and so the LA Times, New York Times, they all show up because they want a piece of Bigfoot. 72 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 The whole country is buzzing about this. 73 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:46,000 We see an immediate divide between believers and nonbelievers and skeptics and diehards. 74 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Everyone has an opinion. 75 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:55,000 A popular TV show offers a thousand-dollar prize to anyone who will come forward and admit to perpetrating this hoax. 76 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 And no one steps up to claim the money. 77 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 In fact, new evidence emerges. 78 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:08,000 So on October 17th, 1958, a gentleman named George Smith is driving through Humboldt County, 79 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:15,000 and he has to slam on his brakes as this large, hairy beast crosses the road in front of him. 80 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,000 He described it as being at least eight feet in height. 81 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:25,000 It stood upright and walked, and it appeared shaggy like it was wearing a bearskin coat. 82 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Could this be the same beast that's been leaving behind all these footprints? 83 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:34,000 Or is Smith just making the story up to get his 15 minutes of fame? 84 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Despite the fact that we don't end up with any proof either way, Bigfoot becomes ingrained in our nation's collective psyche. 85 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:49,000 People are actually making trips, making pilgrimages, what folklorists would call legend trips, 86 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 to Humboldt County to look for Bigfoot themselves. 87 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:57,000 For years, unsubstantiated reports of sightings continue pretty regularly. 88 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,000 More oversized Bigfoot tracks are found, some trails stretching on for several miles. 89 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 This is not something that's limited to just one region or even just one continent. 90 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:14,000 This is something that is reported in first-hand and second-hand accounts all over the world. 91 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:21,000 But as time goes on, the mystery begins to take on a slightly different tone. 92 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Tales of Bigfoot encounters grow more outlandish and increasingly suspicious. 93 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:32,000 People started to claim everything from Bigfoot kidnapped them, 94 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,000 to they've seen Bigfoot reading a newspaper on a flying saucer, they saw Bigfoot at 7-Eleven. 95 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,000 The vast majority of these later Bigfoot stories are clearly made up. 96 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Bigfoot almost becomes a joke. 97 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,000 People do not take this seriously. This is not treated as a scientific finding. 98 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,000 It's something that's largely considered to be untrue. 99 00:07:54,000 --> 00:08:00,000 It's a shame, really, because there are people who really saw something and they really want answers. 100 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,000 There are proven scientific methods that could possibly find those answers. 101 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Once everybody thinks Bigfoot is made up, though, they stop taking the search seriously. 102 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,000 Still, it's worth pointing out, as silly as things get, 103 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,000 that original Humboldt Times story from 1958 is never officially debunked. 104 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,000 That is, until 2002. 105 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:27,000 In November of 2002, Jerry Cruz co-worker Ray Wallace passed away. 106 00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Soon after his death, Wallace's children come forward to reveal their father orchestrated the whole thing back in the 1950s 107 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:37,000 and kept quiet about it all these years. 108 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:45,000 On his deathbed, Wallace has told his children the whole story. 109 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:50,000 Ray Wallace comes up with the idea and he enlists the help of his brother Shorty, obviously, 110 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:55,000 and then they also get their nephew, Mac McKinley, in on it as well. 111 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:01,000 He and his brother and his nephew would strap essentially wooden flip-flops onto their feet 112 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,000 and walk around creating these large footprints. 113 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Wallace's kids even have a pair of the shoes their dad used to make the famous footprints. 114 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:14,000 Wallace was a prankster, and according to his children, his original goal was simply to scare his friend Jerry. 115 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:19,000 But when the story blows up, rather than enjoying his gotcha moment, 116 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:23,000 he decides to double down and keep the ruse going for decades. 117 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:28,000 Wallace's efforts aren't limited to fake footprints. 118 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,000 On his property, Ray Wallace keeps a number of bison, 119 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:36,000 and he uses their fur and their droppings to custom craft hair and stool samples 120 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,000 that he leaves in the woods for bigfoot hunters to find. 121 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:44,000 Based on Wallace's hoax confirmation, for a lot of people, that's it. 122 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:48,000 It should be case closed. We figured it out. This guy made something up. 123 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,000 But what about the other sightings? 124 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:59,000 It is impossible for Ray and Shorty and Mac to be responsible for all bigfoot sightings, 125 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,000 experiences, interactions in the entire world. 126 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:07,000 And Wallace never dressed up as an 8-foot tall creature and walked around at night. 127 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:13,000 What does that say for people who actually spotted an animal and not just footprints or hair? 128 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:17,000 And what about the many sightings that take place before Wallace is ever born? 129 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:20,000 Has there been a century-long series of hoaxers? 130 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Or are people really seeing something out there? 131 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,000 While Wallace clearly played an important role in the gestation of the bigfoot myth, 132 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,000 he is certainly not the cause of it or the entire explanation for it. 133 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:36,000 There have been over 5,000 documented sightings. 134 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,000 There's no way one guy could be responsible for all of that. 135 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:45,000 I believe Ray Wallace accidentally shined a light onto a legend of a very real creature. 136 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:50,000 The irony is that Ray Wallace's fake footprints may ultimately lead us to the truth. 137 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,000 In the summer of 1967, Roger Patterson, who's become fascinated with the legend of bigfoot, 138 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:22,000 is filming a sort of pseudo-documentary on the subject when he bumps into his old friend Bob Gimlin at a gas station. 139 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:29,000 He tells Gimlin about his film and that he's heading to check out some unidentified footprints found in the northern California area. 140 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,000 And Gimlin agrees to go with him. 141 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:36,000 So Patterson and Gimlin are about halfway through their journey. 142 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:42,000 When they're approaching a river and something spooks Patterson's horse. 143 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:49,000 He ends up falling off the horse, but when he sees what it was that his horse saw, 144 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,000 he pulls out his camera and begins filming. 145 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:57,000 The filmed encounter lasts 59 and a half seconds. 146 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:00,000 To Patterson and Gimlin, it feels like an hour. 147 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 Something emerges from the brush. 148 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:07,000 An enormous animal Patterson and Gimlin have never seen before. 149 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:09,000 They think it might be bigfoot. 150 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Once they surprise the creature, it starts walking quickly away from them. 151 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,000 And they manage to follow it for quite some time before they lost sight of it in the woods. 152 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Patterson and Gimlin then hurry back to their campsite to grab some plaster. 153 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:27,000 They know they're going to need as much proof as possible, so they take casts of the prints left behind by the beast. 154 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 That night, the 16 millimeter film is developed. 155 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:38,000 What the film shows us is a massive bipedal creature. 156 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 It's maybe six and a half, seven feet tall. 157 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:48,000 It's covered head to toe in this sort of silvery brown fur that reflects the sunlight 158 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:53,000 and it's walking with this loping sort of gate through the landscape. 159 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Compared to previous descriptions, it's slightly smaller with whiter hips and a rounder silhouette. 160 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:02,000 It also appears to have mammary glands. 161 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:06,000 Gimlin and Patterson theorize that they're looking at a female bigfoot. 162 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 They nicknamed her Patty after Roger Patterson. 163 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:15,000 Though the pair are convinced by what they saw, many dismiss the film as a hoax. 164 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 The Patterson and Gimlin footage has been scrutinized since it came out. 165 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 Everyone's had a chance to look at it, try to break it down, try to explain why it would be fake or not. 166 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:30,000 And to this day, you know, you have people on both sides real or fake, but nobody can disprove it. Nobody. 167 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 1967 is the same year that the movie Planet of the Apes is released. 168 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:39,000 This is the height of big budget Hollywood special effects back then. 169 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:45,000 If anything, the Patterson and Gimlin footage looks more realistic than the ape suits we see in that movie. 170 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,000 You're talking about, you know, two guys in the backwoods of Humble, they didn't have deep pockets to build something like this. 171 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:57,000 So how did these two cowboys pull off the greatest thing in creature feature history? 172 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 And the thing is, is they didn't. 173 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 There are no visible seams, no zippers, no buttons. 174 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000 It's not baggy. You can actually see the creature's musculature moving under its skin. 175 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Even special effects experts can't explain that. 176 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 But if this film of Bigfoot is real, 177 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:17,000 what type of creature might it be? 178 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:22,000 There have been several attempts to classify the animal seen in Patterson and Gimlin's film. 179 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:27,000 It's analyzed by Stanford scientists Jessica Rose and James Gamble in 1994, 180 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,000 and they're experts in physiology and a movement. 181 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:35,000 They analyze the creature's gait and can't find any match to known species. 182 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:40,000 They concluded that this is not a gait or a movement 183 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:44,000 that could be replicated by a person in a costume. 184 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:51,000 The relationship of bones to musculature to skin and hair is a unique thing for different animals, 185 00:14:51,000 --> 00:15:01,000 and it really wouldn't be possible for a human being to fake this type of difference in gait and movement. 186 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:09,000 In 1999, a pair of professors from the University of Florida's Anthropology Department also analyzed the film 187 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:16,000 and in 2009 the film was broken down frame by frame by an anthropologist from the New York Museum of Natural History. 188 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,000 As for what type of animal this is, they have no idea. 189 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 These top scientists are at a loss. 190 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:29,000 It's possible that Patterson and Gimlin have discovered an entirely new species. 191 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:40,000 There are many examples of creatures that at first seemed mythical or the descriptions seemed hard to believe, 192 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:49,000 such as the Komodo dragon, a giant lizard that would eat sheep whole, the narwhal, a whale with a horn on its head like a unicorn. 193 00:15:49,000 --> 00:16:00,000 The pelican, an incredibly common bird in contemporary life, was at one time thought to be a mythological creature back in the Middle Ages. 194 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,000 How about this? The giant squid. 195 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:07,000 For millennia, since at least the days of Aristotle in the 4th century BC, 196 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:13,000 sailors would swear up and down that they saw these massive 20-foot long plus squid while at its sea. 197 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:21,000 There are thousands of depictions and stories of people who claim to have seen the giant squid 198 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,000 and yet still it was considered a mythological creature. 199 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:30,000 It's another in a long line of fanciful tales of make-believe sea monsters like the Kraken. 200 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:34,000 Squids just don't get that big. There's no evidence. 201 00:16:34,000 --> 00:16:38,000 Until one day there is. 202 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Throughout the 19th century, small pieces and remains of giant squid would periodically wash up on the world's beaches. 203 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:50,000 These would convince some scientists of the giant squid's existence, but others kept on denying it. 204 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:54,000 They'd say that until we find a living one, it's simply not proven. 205 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:01,000 There wasn't until a fishing troller caught one in 2004 that we realized that squids of this size actually exist. 206 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:06,000 They catch a nearly 30-foot long giant squid that's later named Archie. 207 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:11,000 It's been preserved by London's Natural History Museum and can still be viewed today. 208 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,000 Proved positive of a giant squid. 209 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:19,000 So hopefully one day Bigfoot can join the giant squid as a proven animal. 210 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:20,000 But it could be tough. 211 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:26,000 A lot of people like to believe that all life has been discovered when it's quite the opposite. 212 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,000 Over 80% of life on this planet is undiscovered. 213 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:34,000 So if absolutely a Bigfoot species could be out there. 214 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:45,000 Ever since large mysterious footprints were first reported in Oregon in the 1950s, there has been no shortage of Bigfoot sightings. 215 00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Institutions like the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization have been cataloging accounts since the 1990s. 216 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Even today, they're reporting sightings at a rate of four or more per month across the U.S. and Canada. 217 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:03,000 But in 2007, one in particular makes headlines. 218 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:11,000 In the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania, there is a new piece of information that comes out that's very intriguing. 219 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:16,000 We get what could be the most compelling set of Bigfoot images we've seen in 40 years. 220 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:24,000 One evening at about 10.02 p.m., a motion-activated trail camera captured several bear cubs foraging for food. 221 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:29,000 After that, you have another picture that really, like, catch your attention. 222 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Something else comes into frame and is actually standing, I like to call it downward-facing dog position. 223 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:40,000 And the way that it is smelling the ground is exactly how primates do it. 224 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:47,000 And this comes to be known as the Jacob's Bigfoot after the camera's owner who set it up in the woods to help him track deer. 225 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:54,000 It seems that this situation provides a pretty stark contrast between what are clearly bears and what is clearly not. 226 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:01,000 It's fairly obvious when you compare the first photo of the Jacob's Bigfoot with the one of the bear cubs taken in the same spot. 227 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,000 They're in the same pose, but their anatomy is completely different. 228 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:11,000 The following week, the State of Pennsylvania's Game Commission offers an explanation. 229 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:17,000 Sorry for all the Bigfooters out there, believers, but the Game Commission come out to check out the area. 230 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,000 And their response is that it is simply a bear with mange. 231 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:30,000 Scientists love to cite Occam's razor, the concept that the simplest solution to a problem is often the best and most likely. 232 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:37,000 If you're in Texas and you hear hoof beats, you should probably think horses are not zebras because horses are the more common animal. 233 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Well, bears are super common. 234 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Let's consider Ursus Americanus, the American black bear. 235 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:54,000 What we know about this bear lines up really well with the reported characteristics of Bigfoot. 236 00:19:54,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Its size, its shape, its coloring, it seems like a very likely explanation for the Bigfoot legend. 237 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:13,000 When they stand on their hind legs, black bears can reach up to six or seven feet in height, which is similar in height to many reported Bigfoot sightings. 238 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Seen from far away, from the right angle at the right moment, when it's standing up, when it's moving bipedally, it would be easy to mistake a black bear for Bigfoot. 239 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,000 The vast range of black bears could also support this. 240 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:41,000 Black bears live in the Pacific Northwest, the Northern Midwest, and the Rocky Mountain Region, Alaska, and the Northeast from Maine all the way down to Georgia. 241 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,000 All of these places have had Bigfoot sightings. 242 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:59,000 If we add in other species of bears besides Ursus Americanus, we have the potential for Bigfoot or bear sightings all over the United States. 243 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:07,000 In 2014, Oxford University genetics professor Brian Sykes further tests this theory. 244 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:16,000 What Dr. Sykes did, which was unique, was instead of simply looking at sightings reports or photos or tapes of Bigfoot vocalizations, 245 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:27,000 Sykes actually, as a genetics professor, wanted to look at DNA samples, and he requested Bigfoot investigators from all across the world to send him their best examples of Bigfoot DNA. 246 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Sykes collects 30 samples of purported Bigfoot hair, sent in from a wide variety of sources, from hardcore cryptozoologists to amateur Bigfoot hunters to roadside oddity museums. 247 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:42,000 And what he finds is really telling. 248 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Almost all of them come from known animals. 249 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,000 They come from bears, they come from horses, some of them even come from humans. 250 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,000 But there's one sample that isn't accounted for. 251 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 Remember the theory that Bigfoot is an unknown species? 252 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Well, incredibly, Sykes's DNA analysis of one sample actually does reveal the existence of a previously unknown species. 253 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 But it's not an unknown ape, it's an unknown bear. 254 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:25,000 What we see is a hybrid between a brown bear and a distant cousin of the polar bear that was thought to have gone extinct a long time ago. 255 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:33,000 While Sykes believes this bear species may have given rise to the Bigfoot legend, some other scientists aren't convinced. 256 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:37,000 Remember, Sykes's sample pool is just 30 specimens. 257 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:41,000 Are all the Bigfoot's out there just ordinary, renaissance creatures? 258 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,000 We've still got a long way to go to figure that out. 259 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:55,000 Despite many long years of searching for proof it exists, the legendary creature known as Bigfoot remains more myth than fact. 260 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:03,000 Then, a chance encounter in 1974 convinces one man that he's finally solved the mystery. 261 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:13,000 It is undeniable that the real heart of Bigfoot sightings have been in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. 262 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:20,000 So that's California, Oregon, Washington. That's where the highest percentage of sightings have been reported. 263 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:29,000 But there have been alleged sightings of a creature like Bigfoot in other places, most notably Southern Florida. 264 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:38,000 In 1974, Dave Shealy is 10 years old and him and his brother are walking across the Everglades and they have an encounter. 265 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:46,000 Dave is too short to see over the grass so his brother picks him up, lifts him over his head and there he sees it 100 yards away. 266 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:55,000 And what he ends up seeing is a creature that he describes as large, hulking, walking on two legs and hairy. 267 00:23:55,000 --> 00:24:01,000 Exactly how we see Bigfoot being described in other regions. 268 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,000 This is something that he's heard stories about his entire life. 269 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,000 He knows that what he's seeing in front of him is the Florida Skunk Eight. 270 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 We already know that Bigfoot has been given multiple names in multiple places. 271 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:26,000 Sasquatch is probably its second most famous moniker. Some call it a Yeti. 272 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:30,000 In regions prone to winter weather, it's been called the Abominable Snowman. 273 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:36,000 But fewer people have heard of the Skunk Eight, which is particular to this one unique swampy area. 274 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:40,000 The Skunk Eight is described in a way very similar to your common Bigfoot sighting. 275 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:45,000 It's supposed to be about 7-8 feet tall, although it's more common for the Skunk Eight to be slightly smaller. 276 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:51,000 Perhaps it might be a subspecies of Bigfoot. The coloring of the hair is different. 277 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:55,000 Some of the behavioral characteristics are different. 278 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:59,000 But there is one key difference that gives the creature its name. 279 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:05,000 The Skunk Eight has a distinct unpleasant odor. It's been compared to a wide array of foul smells. 280 00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:11,000 Wet dog, hot garbage, boiled cabbage, rotten eggs, hence the name Skunk Eight. 281 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the muggy wet conditions. 282 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:20,000 Or maybe nobody anywhere else has gotten close enough to Bigfoot to actually smell it. 283 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 Maybe they all smell this way. 284 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Stories of a human-like beast with an unmistakable stench have long been part of local lore. 285 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:41,000 The native peoples of Florida, the Seminole, the Mikosuke people have stories of a creature described very similar to what is now called the Skunk Eight. 286 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:47,000 These legends of the Skunk Eight go back to the times of Spanish colonization. We're talking the 16th century. 287 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:56,000 Then, throughout the early 20th century, we get isolated reports from hunters and hikers about strange, hairy, two-legged creatures spotted in the Everglades. 288 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,000 Surprisingly, not much research is done at that time. 289 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:08,000 And this story really takes off in the 1970s in Florida, and we start to see many more encounters. 290 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:16,000 More intriguing, these alleged sightings increasingly come from larger groups sharing the same story. 291 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:26,000 In fact, in 1997, an entire tour bus of 40 people all see the strange creature simultaneously on the side of the road in broad daylight. 292 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:33,000 Before long, we start hearing reports of encounters in the highly populated Broward County. 293 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,000 Things like skunk apes breaking into people's homes or even stalking pedestrians on the street. 294 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:45,000 Accounts become so frequent, the state government takes action. 295 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:52,000 In 1977, the Florida legislature introduces a bill to try and protect the Skunk Eight and the public. 296 00:26:52,000 --> 00:27:05,000 The bill includes specific language, making it illegal to take, possess, harm, or molest any sort of humanoid or anthropoid creature. 297 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:11,000 The bill doesn't pass, but it does add a certain legitimacy to the idea that skunk apes are real. 298 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:16,000 One man who doesn't need convincing, Dave Shealy. 299 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:22,000 In 1994, Shealy opens the Skunk Eight Research Headquarters in a choppy Florida. 300 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,000 The Skunk Eight Research Headquarters might at first appear like a tourist attraction. 301 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:33,000 It has a gift shop, but in fact, Shealy claims that those sales help subsidize serious research into the creature. 302 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Primarily, it's a hub for legitimate paranormal investigators to share information and gather resources, 303 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:44,000 and it's helped spawn some major breakthroughs, including by Shealy himself. 304 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:54,000 After a lengthy stakeout in 2000, Shealy manages to capture video of what he claims is a skunk ape in the wild. 305 00:27:54,000 --> 00:28:01,000 We can see the creature moving through tall grass, walking in what seems to be maybe ankle deep water, 306 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,000 until it notices that it's being filmed and suddenly takes off. 307 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 The thing with David's video is you take the still frame shot of it, 308 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:15,000 people think, yeah, you're looking at maybe a teenager, a Bigfoot, or what we call in Florida a skunk ape. 309 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:24,000 But then you watch the actual live video, and for some of us, it kind of looks like you could have thrown someone in a suit and just had them run through the grass. 310 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:32,000 In 2014, a Smithsonian magazine journalist named Joseph Strongberg decides to get to the bottom of this. 311 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:41,000 Shealy told the journalist that he believes skunk apes are drawn to the particular area that they were investigating because of the calls of other primates. 312 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 He had been following two skunk ape tracks, 313 00:28:45,000 --> 00:29:01,000 and they led him straight to this barbed wire fence in the middle of nowhere that he described as being some sort of secretive or mysterious primate breeding ground right there in the middle of Florida. 314 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Strongberg was skeptical about this story, but in fact confirmed that such a company did exist. 315 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:17,000 There is in fact a company called Primate Products Incorporated located in Immokalee, Florida, where primates are bred. 316 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:26,000 This leads Strongberg to speculate that perhaps some of these animals got loose. 317 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:38,000 When Hurricane Andrew hit Florida in 1992, there was extensive damage to primate products, and they believe over 6,000 primates may have escaped into the wild. 318 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:50,000 In addition, Strongberg turns up other reports of people acquiring exotic pets and then releasing them into the wild once they are too strong or too powerful to be cute anymore. 319 00:29:50,000 --> 00:30:03,000 So chimpanzees as pets are a common animal that gets released in this way and adds to that population of very unexpected primates living in Florida. 320 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,000 A report from the Sarasota Sheriff's Department may offer further proof. 321 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:24,000 In 2000, a person who had claimed that there was disturbances around their property by an unknown critter eventually get a picture of it, and they wrote a letter as to what happened, and they send it to law enforcement. 322 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:28,000 Two experts examined the photo and make a surprising discovery. 323 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:40,000 They determine that based on the creature's appearance, the scale of its features, the distance between different parts of its body, that it is in fact an orangutan. 324 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:46,000 Not a creature that we would expect to see in a Florida backyard, but not a skunk ape. 325 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:54,000 Strongberg concluded that people who report the skunk ape are sincere, but may not be seeing what Shealy claims they are. 326 00:30:54,000 --> 00:31:01,000 Certainly, some people who see Bigfoot are in fact misidentifying a monkey that someone has released. 327 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:17,000 Since the 1950s, most Bigfoot eye witnesses describe the creature as a hybrid between an ape and a human. 328 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:26,000 There's a debate in the Bigfoot community about what Bigfoot actually is. Some believe that Bigfoot is more of a straight animal. 329 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:30,000 I think the ideal answer would be that there's probably an unknown primate there. 330 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:37,000 But scientists are very skeptical about the possibility that the United States could support an undiscovered species of ape. 331 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:41,000 But it is possible that some of these could be wild humans. 332 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:51,000 There have been reports throughout history of wild men. 333 00:31:51,000 --> 00:32:03,000 Human beings, but who are living in a feral state. Not in cities, not in any sort of civilized way living like an animal. 334 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:09,000 So in South Central Texas in the 1830s, we have the story of the wild man of Navidad. 335 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:14,000 People were seeing what they were describing as something that was Bigfoot-like. 336 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 Covered in fur, made to toe, acting like an animal, but with human qualities, and that sparked everyone's interest. 337 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:27,000 The descriptions line up perfectly with later sightings of Bigfoot. 338 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:33,000 In some ways, this is almost the first Bigfoot legend, but just going by a different name. 339 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:42,000 The wild man of Navidad was stealing piglets and chickens, was leaving footprints all over the area, was breaking into homes, but only stealing food, never valuables. 340 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:48,000 For over a decade, the wild man of the Navidad remains at large. 341 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:54,000 At one point, people looking for the wild man even found a shelter in the woods and conducted a stakeout. 342 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,000 But if that was where the creature lived, it never returned. 343 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,000 It was something nobody could get near, and it had people interested and also worried. 344 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:10,000 So in 1850, they ended up getting a posse together to try and round up this wild man. 345 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:16,000 And upon investigating, they found out that it wasn't a creature, it was in fact a person. 346 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:25,000 This particular wild man was an African slave brought over that escaped immediately and ran into the woods, 347 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:31,000 and was able, on his wit and abilities alone, to survive for like 15 years before being captured. 348 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:37,000 Could such wild humans account for more supposed Bigfoot encounters? 349 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000 One story about a purported feral human came out of Arkansas in 1892, 350 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:48,000 when there were stories of what appeared to be a boy running with a pack of wolves. 351 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:57,000 I mean, this is Mowgli from the Jungle Book, taken in by wolves and then raised and survived long enough in the wild as a wolf cub 352 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:02,000 before finally being captured by humans and brought back to be rehabilitated. 353 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000 Stories of feral humans have a lot of similarities to stories of Bigfoot. 354 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:12,000 The creatures are usually reported as hairy, living in the woods, leaving footprints, stealing items. 355 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:20,000 The main difference is that in these cases, the culprit, the wild person, is discovered. 356 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:27,000 Is it possible that modern Bigfoot sightings could also be of humans rather than of animals? 357 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:33,000 In the 1970s and 1980s, there's a dramatic rise in homelessness in the Pacific Northwest, 358 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:35,000 especially among veterans. 359 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:41,000 And around this time, there's also a noticeable uptick of possible Bigfoot sightings around Washington State. 360 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,000 And a theory begins to emerge. 361 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:51,000 We have returning veterans from the Vietnam War, many of whom were struggling with PTSD and other societal issues, 362 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:59,000 choosing to isolate themselves or being forced into homelessness, living on the edges of society, 363 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:03,000 and perhaps appearing as these wild men. 364 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:10,000 To me, the story that epitomizes humans mistaken for Bigfoot happens in western North Carolina in 2017. 365 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:16,000 A self-identified shaman is conducting some rituals in the woods while wearing his ceremonial garb, 366 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,000 which is made of fur covering his entire body from head to toe, including his face. 367 00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:30,000 As a result of this, the Greenville Police Department started getting report after report of people saying that they saw 368 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,000 a creature covered head to toe in fur moving about in the woods. 369 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,000 The police had to take this seriously. 370 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:45,000 One concern that law enforcement has had across the country is if people are out hunting for Bigfoot, 371 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:50,000 it's impossible they will mistake a human for a Bigfoot and take a shot. 372 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:55,000 This brings us back to that idea of Occam's razor. 373 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:59,000 What is the simplest explanation for all of these sightings? 374 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:06,000 We do have an incredibly common bipedal hominid walking around all over the place. 375 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,000 And that's us, people. 376 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:19,000 Bigfoot has been compared with many modern animals over the years, most notably various species of primates. 377 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:23,000 It looks very much like an orangutan or something of that nature. 378 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:29,000 Some of the things these people are seeing in the woods are legitimately a silverback gorilla or chimpanzee. 379 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:36,000 And on top of that, you have wealthy people that buy these pets and they just kind of laxidase-ically keep them and they escape. 380 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 But many experts believe this doesn't fully explain Bigfoot. 381 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Escape monkeys typically don't grow as large as Bigfoot is purported to be. 382 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:54,000 There is no modern-day species that really matches with the description of Bigfoot, 383 00:36:54,000 --> 00:37:00,000 but scientists are quick to point out that in the not-so-distant past, 384 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:06,000 there was a creature thought to be extinct that did match this description. 385 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:17,000 Remains have been discovered of a creature that most resembles Bigfoot, and that is the species called Gigantopithecus. 386 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Gigantopithecus is a primate from the Pleistocene era. 387 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:27,000 It was believed to have gone extinct about 300,000 years ago. 388 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:36,000 An ancestor of modern-day orangutans, Gigantopithecus is thought to be the largest primate to ever live on Earth. 389 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:48,000 Gigantopithecus was enormous. Its teeth were of such proportion that we estimate its body mass to be on the order of 800 to 1200 pounds. 390 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:55,000 We're talking about a 10-foot animal, and when people describe seeing Bigfoot, the sheer mass and size of it 391 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:02,000 leads some people to believe that Gigantopithecus, or a relic version of it, is Bigfoot. 392 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:08,000 Maybe it's evolved to be a little bit smaller, a little bit more nimble, or we're just not seeing the Bigboys, 393 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,000 and all we're seeing are the females. 394 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:16,000 In the early 1980s, American anthropologist Grover Kranz becomes one of the biggest proponents 395 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:20,000 of the theory that Gigantopithecus could perhaps be a candidate for Bigfoot. 396 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:24,000 Considering this theory, two problems stand out immediately. 397 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:31,000 One is that Gigantopithecus was thought to be almost entirely exclusive to Asia, 398 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000 and the second problem, of course, is that it's extinct. 399 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:40,000 As far as where Gigantopithecus lives, Kranz believes that a land bridge formed across the Bering Strait 400 00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,000 that allowed Gigantopithecus to cross over to the North American continent 401 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:49,000 during the Ice Age in search of better food and warmer climates. 402 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:53,000 As for their extinction, he believes it never happened. 403 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,000 Scientists believe that given the vastness of the ocean and the wilderness 404 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:03,000 that there are numerous other seemingly extinct species that we may find in fact still exist. 405 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,000 Let's take the Pygmy Tarsier and the Casimir Musk deer. 406 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:13,000 These are two animals that were supposedly extinct that we have found are not. 407 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:22,000 What's amazing is that there was a giant fish, a sila canth, that existed 60 million years ago 408 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:29,000 and was thought to be long extinct until we caught one in 1938 off the coast of South Africa. 409 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,000 And there's not just one of them. 410 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:36,000 A whole community of them was found to still exist. 411 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:44,000 So clearly, our best understandings of just how extinct an extinct creature might be can be wrong. 412 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:49,000 Gigantopithecus may not be the only extinct primate that could fit the bill. 413 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:57,000 Bigfoot researcher John Napier actually believed that Bigfoot might be a different form of seemingly extinct ape 414 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,000 called Parenthropus. 415 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:07,000 They're large, really big heads, big frames, and really fit the look of when people describe their experiences with Bigfoot, 416 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:08,000 what Bigfoot looks like. 417 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:14,000 See, with Gigantopithecus, it was so massive we really can't be sure that it even walked on two legs. 418 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,000 But Parenthropus did strut its stuff. 419 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:25,000 This theory, the idea that a species assumed to be extinct is not in fact extinct, 420 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:31,000 is now the favorite explanation of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. 421 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:42,000 It is possible, perhaps, that at some point one or more of these species came over the land bridge to North America 422 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:48,000 where their descendants have remained undetected but occasionally sighted. 423 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:52,000 Bigfoot might be the most widely spotted cryptid in history. 424 00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:55,000 Hopefully someday we'll finally get close enough to identify it. 425 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:00,000 And when we do, the scientific community may be in for quite a shock. 426 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:11,000 Currently there are more than 20 Bigfoot research associations in the U.S. alone and dozens more worldwide. 427 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:16,000 Perhaps one day we'll finally be able to identify this elusive creature. 428 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:22,000 Until then, many Bigfoot hunters are only too willing to search. 429 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:28,000 I'm Lawrence Fishburne. 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