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I'm on my way to Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, which is one of the world's most

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active areas for Bigfoot sightings.

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According to the ancient astronaut theory, extraterrestrials came to Earth in a remote

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past and modified our DNA to make us what we are today.

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There are depictions throughout the ancient world of strange hybrid beings like some of

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the gods in ancient Egypt and the chimera in Greece.

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And there are also numerous stories of giants and hairy, wild men.

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So could alien visitors have done other genetic experiments, ones that resulted in a race

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of beasts that have survived virtually undetected for thousands of years?

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Or could there be another and even more incredible connection?

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I'm on a mission to find out if Bigfoot really exists.

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And if it isn't just a giant hairy beast, but living proof that extraterrestrials not

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only were here, but maybe they are still living in our midst.

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My name is Georgio Tsukalo.

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I explore the world that exists between reality and speculation, the known and the unknown.

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What we've been taught by mainstream scholars is not the whole picture.

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But I'm convinced that every day we are one step closer to the truth.

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In 1958, a bulldozer operator in Bluff Creek, California discovered 16-inch human-like footprints

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near his equipment.

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When he told his story to a local newspaper, he said that the footprints must have been

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made by an animal with a really big foot.

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And the legend of Bigfoot was born.

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But tales of mysterious hairy beasts can be found in cultures throughout the world, dating

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back to ancient times.

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In the Himalayas, they have stories of the Yeti or the abominable snowman.

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In Australia, they talk of a giant ape man known as Yawi.

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In Mongolia, they have the Yarin.

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And although the stories come from different parts of the world, the accounts are surprisingly

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similar.

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They describe a tall, massive creature walking on two legs and looking very much like some

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sort of a giant ape.

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But nowhere are the stories more prolific than in America's Pacific Northwest, where

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thousands of people claim to have seen or encountered the mysterious Bigfoot.

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We're about to see the people of the Olympic project.

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They are Bigfoot researchers, and apparently they have all sorts of scientific equipment,

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and they have dedicated their lives to investigating the mystery of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, the big

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hairy monster.

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This is in the middle of nowhere, and it is God's country.

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It is absolutely gorgeous.

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By the way, I have no idea what to expect.

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All right.

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This has to be the place.

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Gentlemen.

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Hey.

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Hey.

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How you doing?

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Look, I found him.

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He's right there.

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You can stop your search.

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I mean, what are you guys doing?

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Game over.

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Right here.

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Yeah, right?

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How long have we been doing this, and what are you doing?

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I mean, this is, I left a pot some pans.

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The Olympic project's about six years old, and it's pretty much started out as a comprehensive

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camera trap program, or we would camera trap predatory travel routes.

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We're basically taking this core area right here.

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We're documenting every single thing that happens in hopes of getting pictures of Sasquatch.

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The team of two dozen researchers includes experts in everything from wildlife habitats

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to high-tech audio and video recording.

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To date, the group has spent thousands of hours monitoring the Olympic forest, looking

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for evidence of Bigfoot.

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Meeting the team is longtime Bigfoot researcher Derek Randalls.

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He has invited both myself and Dr. Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at

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Idaho State University, to join the team on an overnight expedition on the Olympic peninsula.

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I explore the ancient mysteries of the world, and so the whole idea of Bigfoot to me is

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interesting because all throughout history there are bizarre stories of these half-man,

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half-beast creatures that are found not just in this part of the world, but all around

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the globe.

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Given my background, I'm always a little more reticent.

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I'm a little more critical initially, so I'm down here, and then as I investigate things

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and ask for the questions and look for correlations and corroborations, then that level of acceptance

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may increase.

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What can you tell me about the area, and are there any local legends that talk about this

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amazing creature here?

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The Olympic mountain range has been for many years a serious hotspot in Bigfoot activity.

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Curiously, the Olympic mountain range is also a hotspot for UFO activity.

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Over the years, there have been hundreds of reported sightings of strange objects appearing

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and then quickly disappearing in the sky.

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In June 2011, two people even claimed they witnessed a cigar-shaped object hovering

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in the sky for nearly 15 minutes.

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There have also been reports of people who saw strange lights following a Bigfoot encounter,

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and there are even some reports of Bigfoot being seen coming out of a disc-shaped craft.

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I started actually investigating the Olympic mountain range in 1985 when I had my own encounter,

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and it forever changed my life.

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You had your own encounter, so you've seen Bigfoot.

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Back in the early 80s, I would get together with a couple of hiking partners of mine,

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and we would go up on the trail system.

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There's a very elaborate trail system throughout the Olympic National Park.

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So at that time, we started to take our backpacks off and pull our tents out and ready to get

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situated for the evening.

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And we heard a very loud crash, and here comes a rock in its parking, and it comes down and lands

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about 10 feet to the left of us.

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And we didn't even say anything, we didn't even move, we just stood there.

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And then another one, when it landed about 10 feet to the left of us, and then we panicked.

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And we just started gathering our stuff up off the ground, and then another rock hit.

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Didn't even take the time to put our backpacks on.

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We just grabbed them up and started running down the ridge.

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And I just happened to look back before I turned around.

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And there it was.

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We kind of stepped out of the timber line, and there was no mistaking of what it was.

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My world just came to a screeching halt right there.

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And the next day, pretty much, I went into Bigfoot Research and I've been doing it ever since.

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Derek's account seemed very genuine, but then I have to ask myself, with all these Bigfoot encounters,

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why do we still not have concrete evidence of the creature's existence?

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Perhaps the Olympic project will be able to find that evidence during our expedition.

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So what are we looking at here? It's very colorful.

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What we're looking at is a spectrogram of an audio file.

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What I like to do is set up a recorder in an area that has promise, and record all night long.

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And then review the audio file to see if I can find anything of interest.

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Okay.

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What I've got here is an isolated signature within a loop of five different vocalizations that are suspicious.

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Those lines are those the vocalizations?

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They are.

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Okay.

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So now this is just a loop of this specific vocal.

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It's like a guy yodeling.

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It's very interesting.

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Yes. We can't say specifically that it's a Saswatch, but that's what interests people that are analyzing the audio.

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What do you say to someone that might suggest, well, what we just heard is nothing else but a wolf howling?

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It's possible, but since we're looking at it in a spectrogram, we can compare it to a wolf howling.

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David Ellis has collected dozens of animal sounds recorded in the Olympic forest.

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And each new sound collected is compared to documented animal sounds by using spectrogram analysis.

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With it, he can eliminate sounds that match with known animals.

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For example, a wolf howl.

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According to Ellis, the sound we are listening to now does not match up with anything else on record.

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That was very interesting.

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The team arms themselves for the hunt with an arsenal of super sophisticated equipment.

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They're so close to the sound.

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They're so close to the sound.

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They're so close to the sound.

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The team arms themselves for the hunt with an arsenal of super sophisticated equipment.

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Their so-called secret weapon is the FLIR camera, which stands for Forward-Looking Infrared.

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Often used by law enforcement and the military, FLIR is the top of the line in thermal heat-sensing technology.

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They also bring along an audio dish for amplifying sounds coming out of the forest

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and motion detector still cameras all in an effort to find concrete evidence of the legendary creature known as Bigfoot.

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All of this is great, but as you all know, the real research takes place out in the field.

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So I would love to take all these gadgets and all out here out in the open and let's see what happens.

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Let's do it.

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Alright.

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Why do you think Bigfoot is so illusive?

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They're very smart.

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They are far and away our superior out here in the woods.

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What is the most compelling reason that Bigfoot might be real?

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Wow, these are amazing.

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I'm in Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, about to set out into the forest with the Olympic project.

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I'm here to find out if Bigfoot actually exists and if so, could there be an extraterrestrial connection?

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So Derek, where are we headed right now?

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We're actually going up on this bench up here on the side of Mueller.

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The team often conducts their Bigfoot expeditions at Mount Mueller, where numerous sightings have been reported.

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So we're doing this on foot, not with a helicopter.

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On our foot.

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Alright, let's do it.

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Is this beautiful through here?

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The scenery is absolutely beyond anything I've ever seen.

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This area, there are apparently over 200 reports of sightings by different people.

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And whenever I hear stuff like that, I'm interested because, you know, you can't suggest that all these 200 reports are from crazy people.

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So what if something really is going on here?

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And so I'm very excited to be out here and maybe we'll get some clues to explore this mystery.

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We'll see what we can do to get to the next three even further.

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Ready for a break?

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Just take a break here.

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On every expedition he goes on, Dr. Meldrum carries footprint-cast samples with him for comparison.

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In the event they find a fresh one.

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And many have recently been discovered in this particular forest.

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So Dr. Meldrum, you know, you have to tell me, to you what is the most compelling reasons that you think that bigfoot might be real?

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Well, from my point of view, it's the footprint evidence.

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I mean, clearly that's my area of expertise and so it has the greatest significance to me.

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Let me show you a couple of examples here.

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Oh wow, you brought a cast.

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I did.

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A couple of pair of them, in fact.

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You'll hold that one for a second.

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Oh wow, these are amazing.

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Now, these are some good examples of some very classic Sasquatch tracks.

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This is probably a large male.

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It measures between 16, 17 inches in length.

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It's quite broad.

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Nearly 7 inches across the forefoot here.

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And in contrast, the female, this is one of which measures between about 14 and 15 inches,

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maybe 5 inches across the forefoot here.

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And so, I mean, clearly these are not just simply someone with a big foot walking around barefoot.

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Check this out.

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Wow.

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Dr. Meldrum has over 200 examples of footprint casts that indicate that the anatomy of the creature could be similar to that of a large bipedal ape.

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With a foot measuring some 16 inches in length, it would stand somewhere between 8 and 10 feet tall and would weigh in excess of a thousand pounds.

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But rather than an arched foot, as in the case of humans, the creature's footprints indicate that its weight is distributed much more evenly,

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giving it flat but still very flexible feet.

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So Dr. Meldrum, you're of the conviction that these prints are real.

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I am.

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I am.

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Some unknown creature has been leaving these footprints.

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After hiking for several hours, the team sets up camp.

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Everyone works together to get organized quickly before the light fades.

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Then we head out into the woods with thermal cameras and audio equipment to search for bigfoot.

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So this is what we're going to be using.

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How long do you leave a camera out like this?

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Batteries usually last for three to six months depending on how many pictures they're taking.

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And it only picks up when there's movement.

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Movement, for sure.

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Okay, okay.

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So now we've set up the infrared camera.

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Looks good.

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Let's go back.

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In addition to the motion control cameras, David Ellis places audio recording equipment near game trails to capture any unusual vocalization.

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This is a parabolic dish and it is designed to amplify sound from a specific direction.

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And usually I'll have somebody off in the distance and we'll do sound checks.

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So I get an idea of how close something is to the dish.

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So would you be so kind as to do a sound check for me?

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Are you saying you want me to be bigfoot?

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Is that what you're saying?

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Fine.

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I'll do it.

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Okay.

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So just into the distance right here.

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All right.

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That's probably far enough.

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All right.

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Now give me a whisper.

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Can you hear me?

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Perfect.

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So you could hear me whisper.

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I can't.

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75 feet away.

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I mean, it clears a bell, right?

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Yes.

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So I'm good.

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All right.

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In the end, all of this is about the unknown.

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Derek Randall is one of the founders of the Olympic project.

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I wanted to spend some time with him and tap into his expertise about what he thinks this

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creature is and is not.

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So in your opinion, why do you think bigfoot is so illusive?

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I think that there's very few.

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They're very few.

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They're very smart.

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They are expert woodsmen.

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To just go out and find a sasquatch, you're going to win the lottery first.

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They are far and away, our superior out here in the woods.

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I find it interesting that every member of the Olympic project talks about bigfoot as

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being this very large, but also intelligent creature.

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When I hear this, I'm reminded of the story of the Watchers from the Book of Enoch.

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This apocryphal text, which was edited out of the traditional Christian Bible, tells

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of a group of angels called the Watchers who descended to Earth from heaven shortly

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after the time of creation.

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According to the Book of Enoch, the Watchers mated with early humans and bred a race of

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giants called the Nephilim.

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Might other worldly visitors have come here and engaged in some sort of genetic manipulation?

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And could one of these genetic experiments still be living among us right here on Earth?

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I want to talk to you about sound.

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I mean, I've also been told that people clap in order to make their presence known, and

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then there is a return clap or something like this.

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What's that all about?

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You're probably referring to wood knocks.

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Okay.

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We do wood knocks to try to solicit a response.

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I've actually got a knock if you want to...

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Is that that thing right here?

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Yeah.

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All right.

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I can show you what I'm talking about.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So normally we just try to find a tree like this that's not too thick, because then the

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sound will carry better.

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So this is kind of perfect right here, but I'll show you what I'm talking about.

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And then generally after you do that, you just listen to see if there's going to be a return

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knock.

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And believe it or not, it does happen.

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You want to try it?

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Of course.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Maybe something will happen.

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Silence.

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Silence.

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This is great.

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Can I keep this while we watch for the woods?

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Keep it.

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I need protection.

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So I hear a twigs break.

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I started to look up just this dark figure that was really tall and big.

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In one motion, it was shot through this opening.

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I said, if I don't leave now, I'm going to die.

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The modern day phenomenon of Bigfoot isn't something that has just sprung up recently,

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but there are in fact legends from ancient times from all around the world.

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For example, in the remains of the ancient city of Nineveh in what is present day Iraq.

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Sumerian tablets dating as far back as 1800 BC tell the story of King Gilgamesh and his

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companion named Enkidu.

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Enkidu is described as a large, hairy wild man living outside human society.

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But the most fascinating part of the story is that Enkidu was supposedly created by powerful

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beings called the Anunnaki, which when translated means those who from the heavens came.

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So could the story of the Anunnaki and Enkidu be connected to the similar stories about

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the watchers in the Book of Enoch?

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And if Bigfoot really exists, could it be the product of extraterrestrial engineering?

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Let's go find Bigfoot.

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Let's do it.

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As the light fades, James and I sit off with the mobile-flir camera to look for any signs of Bigfoot.

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So James, is this what you do? You drive around all night with the machine on and you scope 360 degrees?

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Absolutely. We'll go find a place that's got great visual and we'll set up and sit there and watch for a while

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or we'll just keep following the roads and see what we see. Pretty impressive technology.

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I mean this looks pretty cool. I mean it's a thermal camera and we will see things that are emitting heat.

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And so, you know, we can point the camera all the way to the sky, potentially see some UFOs. Who knows?

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Suddenly something appears on the monitor.

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Look, look, look at this over here.

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I mean this thing is, it's glowing. Some kind of body part.

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In the fading light, all we can see are trees, but the thermal camera has hit on something which appears to be a warm-blooded animal.

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I'm gonna actually see if we can make it move.

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Now he's moving.

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See his head? Can you see it?

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Oh wow.

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His head's down right now.

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Whoa.

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What's up, deer?

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I've been a hunter for years and I cannot pick that deer out of the brush right there.

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This technology is quite amazing.

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In 1980, investigative journalist Linda Moulton-Howe discovered a connection between Bigfoot and the unexplained phenomenon of animal mutilations.

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Linda had received a letter from a man in Snohomish, Washington, just 90 miles from where we are now.

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He reported seeing a silver disc in the sky that shot a beam of light down to the earth.

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In the beam of light, he saw what he described as a tall, shaggy creature which walked off into the woods as the craft disappeared.

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Over the next few days, there were reports in the area of livestock found dead with missing organs and body parts,

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but all looked as if they had been removed with surgical precision.

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If a connection can be made between Bigfoot and these strange animal mutilations,

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I think it's safe to suggest that we may very well be dealing with something of an extraterrestrial origin.

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Dr. Meldren, there's one personal question that I would like to ask you and that is, have you ever had an encounter?

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Well, I've had a variety of experiences ranging from vocalizations, bumps in the night, finding footprints on a number of occasions.

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I've even seen a fleeting silhouette that could very well have been a Sasquatch,

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but I'm still waiting for that vivid, conclusive, definitive encounter in broad daylight.

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You know, all of this stuff today, it really got me thinking in correlation to the ancient stories that I'm familiar with.

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Of these hairy beasts in ancient times that are described all around the world in different cultures.

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So what if what we have here is something rather similar?

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The investigations have to continue, but I'm tired and so tomorrow is another day and I'm going to turn off the lights and go to sleep.

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The next day, Dr. Meldren and the Olympic project team informed me that they had decided to continue their expedition for two more days,

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but unfortunately I needed to move on.

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That way, right?

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Yes, straight back.

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I could see something was standing up against a longer tree and about 20 yards in front of me.

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So if I don't leave now, I'm going to die.

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Before I leave the Pacific Northwest, I'd like to meet up with Richard Jermot, a former police officer.

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He claims to have seen Bigfoot not once, but twice.

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So I'm really stoked to hear his take on the whole Bigfoot phenomenon.

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I've been told that you've actually had an encounter with Bigfoot twice.

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I mean, that's like hitting the lottery.

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So tell me more about this.

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Well, I did have an encounter back in 2000.

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I was a police officer in LaPouche, Washington at that time.

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And LaPouche is an Indian reservation on the coast.

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Many Native American cultures share traditional ancient legends

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which refer to large, hair-covered man beasts

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whom they believe inhabit the deep woods of the Pacific Northwest.

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Even today, the Quinault Indians of the Olympic Peninsula report sightings of a huge ape-like hominid they call Tsiadko.

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In fact, the existence of these tall shaggy creatures, also known as Sasquatch,

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is simply taken for granted by many Native American tribes.

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I was driving down the road and it was about seven or eight in the evening, but it was still plenty light.

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And I was coming around this corner and the beach was off to my left.

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And just this dark figure that was really tall and big

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stepped out of the brush on one side onto the roadway

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and it commenced to take about four steps before it cleared the road

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and it went into the brush and just kept going.

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So from what you saw during that first encounter, how big was that creature?

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The chest to the back looked massive.

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I mean, I don't know how deep it was, but it was thick.

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And I was only about a mile and a half away from my office that I worked in at that point.

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So I drove right there and at that time there was a deputy from the county sheriff's office

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that was there and two of my co-workers and I told him what happened right away.

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And they ridiculed me and laughed at me like people normally would.

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Richard's experience affected him so strongly that despite the ridicule he received from his colleagues

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in the police department, he went on to co-found the Olympic project with Derek Randalls.

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In 2010, Richard set up a number of motion control cameras

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in an area believed to be a Bigfoot lair.

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I had a really bad feeling even when I got there.

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Everything was really quiet and it was kind of drizzly. It was just an eerie day.

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So I hear a twigs break, but there's nothing over there.

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Not more than a few seconds after that I hear like an exhale.

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And I started to look up and I could see something was standing about 20 yards in front of me.

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And then in one motion it was shot through this opening.

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I said if I don't leave now, I'm going to die. So I turned and I ran the other way.

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It was really close and it was huge and I'm a little chickened out of it just right now talking about it.

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You were shaking just recounting the story.

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It was a traumatic event.

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Although legends concerning large hairy creatures have been told and retold for centuries,

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what turned Bigfoot into a household name was the notorious Patterson Gimbalan film.

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Even though some have judged the footage as a hoax, there are many who believe

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that it offers convincing evidence that Bigfoot really does exist.

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So what do you think that creature actually is?

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In the beginning when I got into it, I kind of looked at it as it must be a relic common to some type,

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you know, North American ape and that certainly is a possibility.

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But when you look at the Native American history, that's much more supernatural even to some aspects

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of a shapeshifter, interdimensional type being.

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A shapeshifter, an interdimensional being?

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Now when I hear things like that, my mind goes to stories of shapeshifting beings that appear in many ancient cultures,

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including the Greek tale of Zeus who transformed King Lykeon into a wolf.

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Many Native American myths include legends of creatures known as skinwalkers,

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humans who can change their shape at will and often take the form of large hairy beasts.

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I'm not saying that I necessarily believe along those lines.

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But those stories exist.

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They do exist and there must be a reason for it.

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That's a verbal history of those people.

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And all tribes tend to have the same type of stories about these beings.

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Well Rich, thank you very much for allowing me to come out here and to hear your stories.

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The second encounter, the way you describe that, that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

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After hearing Rich Jermot's incredible first-hand account,

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I've decided to reach out to my good friend, Dr. Jonathan Young,

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an expert in mythology and the founding curator of the Joseph Campbell archives.

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So thanks very much for seeing me on such short notice.

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But I recently met this former detective, Rich Jermot,

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and he thinks that Bigfoot, or whatever it is he saw, was some sort of a shapeshifter or a skinwalker.

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And so I know that that is right up your alley.

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Whatever's happening, it's significant.

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So we have Yeti in the Himalaya areas.

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We have giants in Africa.

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We have all the reports in the Pacific Northwest which have been the Bigfoot sightings.

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The fact that they keep happening suggests that there's something to it.

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I want to show you some things.

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Come with me.

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All right.

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So Tori, in your opinion, do you think it is at all feasible or possible

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that a sub-species, for example, Bigfoot could exist under the radar?

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I was thinking, George, Joe, about this wild man image, how it shows up in some really popular forms.

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A very familiar form from Western culture is Merlin.

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Merlin, he's a shamanistic magician.

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He lives in a cave.

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So you've got the cave diver tradition there.

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There's the troglodytes all the way back to the Greek historians.

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Now, this is a truly fascinating connection to me because many historians believe

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that the wizard Merlin is actually based on a legendary Welsh figure named Merlin Wilt,

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who is described as a hairy madman who wandered in the company of beasts.

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Now, in the ancient Greek myths, the troglodytes are these large, hairy, beastly-looking creatures

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that lived underground and could be extremely terrifying.

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But they were also depicted as being very wise, and according to the ancient legends,

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the troglodytes descended from the sky and were hiding out in caves and tunnels

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because they wanted to keep their presence a secret.

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There have been stories about magical animals and humans turning into animals,

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turning into humans from, well, pretty much as long as we've had recorded history.

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So take the werewolf.

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Those characters transcend our moral code.

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They do what they want. They are like beasts in that regard, and then they become people again.

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Is the Bigfoot a shapeshifter? Is it something else?

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Part of the time, is that why we don't see it all the time?

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Man, the idea that Bigfoot could be some sort of a shapeshifter like a werewolf

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is incredible because if true, it could explain why Bigfoot has been so elusive.

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It is able to hide among us in human form.

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I've always been fascinated by the idea of the hybrids, these half-man, half-animal creatures

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that permeate all of history.

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In your opinion, what are we looking at there?

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Yeah, it's just very, very interesting the way they show up.

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There are so many variations. We've got an image here of a half-horse, half-man.

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This is very close to the image of Pam.

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And it is very powerful crossing between the known and the unknown.

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All around the world, we can find carvings or statues of what are called hybrid beings.

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In India, we have the naga, which is a half-man, half-snake.

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In Greece, there is the medusa who has snakes for hair.

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In Egypt, there is an entire god Pantheon of half-man, half-animal deities.

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Like Anubis, a creature that has the head of a jackal and the body of a human being.

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Various hybrid images that show up from time to time all through history,

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and a recent present-day manifestation is Bigfoot.

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Yeti, do they have the kind of impact that these hybrid gods had?

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Are they showing us the way to something metaphysical, something transcendent?

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That's what gets me excited about these sightings.

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Life is strange, and there's a lot to know that we do not know.

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And it's important to study the margins, to study the things that we don't understand yet.

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Bigfoot and I will cross paths.

463
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,360
Jonathan, this was great. Thank you very much for your time. I've learned a lot.

464
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:55,360
Now we know that scientists are always discovering new organisms all the time.

465
00:34:55,360 --> 00:35:00,360
So it isn't so hard for me to believe or speculate that there really could be a creature,

466
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:07,360
even one as large as Bigfoot, that has so far evaded detection or even capture.

467
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:12,360
But the big difference between believing something and knowing it

468
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,360
is the difference between faith and science.

469
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:20,360
And because scientists are the hardest people to convince,

470
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,360
I've made a trip to the Museum of Man in San Diego

471
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:28,360
to ask biological anthropologist Dr. Tori Randall

472
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:34,360
if she thinks that a creature like Bigfoot could actually be real.

473
00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:39,360
One of the main attractions here is a model of Lucy,

474
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:44,360
a hominid whose skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974.

475
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:49,360
It is considered by scientists to be what many have claimed Bigfoot could be,

476
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,360
a missing link between apes and humans.

477
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,360
All right. There she is.

478
00:35:57,360 --> 00:36:00,360
This is Lucy. She's an Australopithecus apharenzis,

479
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,360
an early hominin that lived about two to four million years ago.

480
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,360
She stood about three and a half feet tall,

481
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,360
and she has some ape-like and some more human-like traits.

482
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:15,360
She's bipedal, which is one of the things that we attribute to humans.

483
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:16,360
Right.

484
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:23,360
Although Lucy is far too small to suggest that she may have a direct connection to Bigfoot,

485
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,360
there were in fact a number of very large primates

486
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:32,360
that walked the Earth as far back as a hundred thousand years ago.

487
00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:36,360
One of these, known as Jagantopithecus,

488
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,360
stood an incredible ten to twelve feet tall.

489
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,360
And if Bigfoot really exists,

490
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:50,360
could it be a direct descendant of this giant prehistoric creature?

491
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,360
Who are these two friends right here?

492
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,360
So, we have a couple of reconstructions of different hominids here.

493
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,360
This one is an Australopithecusine,

494
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,360
which is an earlier form of hominin,

495
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,360
probably about two to four million years ago.

496
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,360
This one is a Homo habilis,

497
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,360
which is the first member of the Homo genus,

498
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:19,360
which is what we are, Homo sapiens.

499
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:23,360
So, a little bit more modern if you're comparing these two.

500
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,360
So, Tori, in your opinion, do you think it is at all possible

501
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:33,360
that a subspecies, for example, Bigfoot,

502
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,360
could exist under the radar,

503
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,360
and it hasn't yet been discovered, is such a thing possible?

504
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,360
Having a subspecies that's existing in isolation somewhere,

505
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:45,360
that definitely is possible.

506
00:37:52,360 --> 00:37:56,360
This has been an incredible opportunity to explore something

507
00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:59,360
that I've been interested in for a long time,

508
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:03,360
the development of animals and humans on our planet.

509
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,360
Did we descend from apes over millions of years,

510
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:11,360
or was there some extraterrestrial intervention?

511
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,360
It raises many questions involving science and the unknown.

512
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,360
But what I find myself blown away by

513
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,360
is that a biological anthropologist like Dr. Tori Randall

514
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,360
believes it's possible that a large, hairy creature

515
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,360
like Bigfoot could, in fact, exist.

516
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:37,360
If one were to subscribe to the idea that a species like Bigfoot exists,

517
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:42,360
what would have to have occurred for such a thing to even happen?

518
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,360
An organism can be isolated, there can be interbreeding

519
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,360
where two different populations can come together,

520
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,360
and a brand new trait will show up,

521
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,360
or there can be a mutation,

522
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:55,360
where there's a brand new, random trait

523
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,360
that no one's ever seen in that organism before.

524
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:03,360
Dr. Randall's notion that Bigfoot may possibly exist,

525
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:06,360
but also may have been able to escape capture

526
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:10,360
due to centuries of evolution, is really interesting to me.

527
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,360
Perhaps centuries ago, they were hunted by early man,

528
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:20,360
but by now, only the smartest and most elusive ones have survived.

529
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:26,360
So what are the primary gene differences between apes and humans?

530
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,360
Our DNA, in general, is very similar.

531
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:34,360
We share 99.8% of our DNA with a chimpanzee,

532
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:39,360
but there are particular genes that distinguish humans from other apes.

533
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:42,360
For instance, the DUF1220 gene.

534
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:48,360
Scientists have discovered that a protein called DUF1220

535
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:53,360
may in fact be the so-called missing link in human brain evolution.

536
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:58,360
Six million years ago, as humans began to diverge from the ape family,

537
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:03,360
there was also a noticeable increase in DUF1220.

538
00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:11,360
If we're talking about brain size, modern humans have the cranial capacity

539
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:15,360
about 1200 to 1300 cubic centimeters.

540
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,360
In this gorilla, it's about 400 to 450,

541
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:21,360
and the same thing in this Australopithecine

542
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,360
is about 400 to 450.

543
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:26,360
So this is one of our earliest ancestors,

544
00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:31,360
and they had a brain size about the size of a modern day ape.

545
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:37,360
This is really interesting because not even scientists can sufficiently explain

546
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:45,360
why early humans suddenly featured an increase in genetic coding such as DUF1220,

547
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,360
which is part of the so-called secret sauce that makes us who we are today.

548
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:55,360
Now, was it simply evolution, a random mutation,

549
00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:00,360
or was it extraterrestrial intervention?

550
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:08,360
Some people have proposed that Bigfoot might be the missing link between humans and apes.

551
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,360
What do you think about that?

552
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,360
People find a brand new species that's alive all the time,

553
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,360
that something in the rainforest that no one's ever seen before and someone comes across it.

554
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,360
So I certainly would be open to the possibility that a fossil is going to be found

555
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,360
that we've never seen before.

556
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,360
And to hear you say this is very exciting to me that, you know,

557
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:32,360
to me science is always to be open-minded and not to be closed off

558
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:36,360
to the possibility of asking a question, what if?

559
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,360
And so to thank you for your time,

560
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,360
I wanted to give you this right here as a token of my appreciation,

561
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:50,360
which is an ancient pre-Columbian funerary object that has been found in multiple tombs.

562
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,360
And keep me up to date.

563
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:57,360
If anything new happens in the development of finding the various missing links,

564
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,360
I would like to hear from you.

565
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,360
I love, I love.

566
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:01,360
Thank you so much, Tori.

567
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:03,360
Until next time, bye-bye.

568
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:11,360
After connecting all the dots, I'm more and more convinced that if Bigfoot exists,

569
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:17,360
it isn't likely the product of extraterrestrial gene manipulation,

570
00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:20,360
because we are.

571
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:29,360
In fact, what if Bigfoot is what humans would be if aliens had not intervened on this planet,

572
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:35,360
possibly the last survivors of mankind's genetic ancestors,

573
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:43,360
before we receive the so-called secret sauce that made us the creatures we are today,

574
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,360
before we should out-fur for hair or learn to speak,

575
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:53,360
and before some of us began traveling the world in search of aliens.