1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 You 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:45,720 Then it stood up and I didn't know what to think and then it disappeared behind the bushes 3 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,820 It was always six foot tall and had a way of thinking 4 00:00:48,820 --> 00:00:55,880 And yes, they've been out there forever and the best thing for everybody did just to leave it alone 5 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:05,760 Was walking on two legs my daddy's seen it he tracked it my uncles have seen it 6 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,040 I'm gonna tell you something scared the hell out of me 7 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:20,560 Their creatures science refuses to recognize 8 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,800 But new technology makes us question what is real 9 00:01:27,320 --> 00:01:29,320 If our eyes see it 10 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,040 If our cameras capture it 11 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:36,640 Does it exist? 12 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:39,640 Into a realm where fact 13 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:43,960 Science 14 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:57,880 Do you believe loss tapes swamp creature 15 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000 In 16 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,600 Late 2006 dr. Diane Chasney a professor from Tulane University 17 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:24,680 Ventured into the remote reaches of Louisiana's honey Island swan to survey the ecological damage in the wake of Hurricane Katrina 18 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:26,720 What are you doing? 19 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:34,480 Just checking my camera trap she was accompanied by her nephew Ethan who though unfamiliar with the swamp was willing to act as her 20 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,440 Research assistant and document their findings. What are you gonna be trapping? 21 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,280 Hopefully a gator if I'm lucky 22 00:02:41,760 --> 00:02:46,000 Dr. Chasney's primary focus was centered on the diminishing local alligator 23 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:49,920 Population that have been forced into surrounding areas in search of food 24 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:55,520 It has sensors that detect motion. So whatever comes through here. It'll set it off and hopefully 25 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,440 We're gonna get a good image 26 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:04,280 But what they eventually encountered was more startling and dangerous than anything her research had prepared them for 27 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,160 Should do it these are their tapes 28 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:11,880 Okay, well give me that 29 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:19,280 If you could go down there and play gator for me, what do you mean? I need to test its sensitivity and for that I'm gonna need you 30 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,040 I 31 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:27,600 Do down you're serious very serious 32 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:33,080 God I did not sign up for this very menacing 33 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,000 How do I look ready for my close up very terrifying 34 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:48,160 Ethan did it work? Oh my god 35 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:51,600 Oh my god, just stay calm 36 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:56,160 It's coming back back 37 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:03,080 Well now's your last chance to go get it. This is not the time for jokes that backpack has the GPS 38 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:06,160 It has the compass. It has the maps 39 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,800 How are we gonna find a way out of here now? Well, we're just gonna have to do it old-school great. I knew I should have gone to Boy Scouts 40 00:04:19,280 --> 00:04:21,280 Oh 41 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:52,240 What I saw 42 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,240 Scared the life out of me. I was 43 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:56,680 face-to-face with I 44 00:04:56,760 --> 00:04:58,760 Didn't know if it was man or beast 45 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:04,200 I'm gonna tell you something scared the hell out of me when it looks human, but you're not quite sure it's human 46 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:09,160 You don't know whether to shoot or run back to the house. It's not a hit 47 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:12,040 It's a them and they 48 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,040 Ethan slow down 49 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:21,880 We're gonna miss things sorry 50 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,920 Look snake skins 51 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,200 Kind of snake 52 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:36,800 Looks like a diamond backwater. Is it poisonous? No, they are very aggressive 53 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:41,680 But people often mistake them for rattlesnakes. Oh, they're not poisonous though 54 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:47,520 You think we should be moving on yeah, yeah, go ahead. I'm just gonna make a couple notes 55 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,240 Hey 56 00:05:53,880 --> 00:06:00,160 You okay? Yeah, I thought I heard something 57 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,360 It's Friday 58 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:09,720 It's midday 59 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:11,720 We're in the middle of the Louisiana swamp 60 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,800 And we are hopelessly lost 61 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,520 Oh 62 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Not lost 63 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,200 Really? How do you know? 64 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:30,840 Let's just keep going in this direction. We're good 65 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,200 Oh, no, what oh no, what is it? 66 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:39,840 These are footprints 67 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:42,920 That's impossible. No, no, these are our footprints from before 68 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:48,920 Look, it's it's a water diamond thing that you saw before 69 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,600 It's a snake. Oh 70 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,000 If a man 71 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,560 Goes out into the swamp and doesn't want to be found. Hey, you can't even find him and he's not living there 72 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,920 You take something that's been out till this time 73 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:10,520 People say there's no panthers out there 74 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:16,840 Well, I seen one myself and he was so big he could have put his paws on my shoulder and lit me on top of the head 75 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:25,240 Yeah, they got stuff out there and if I didn't want to be found they're not gonna find me 76 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,640 It's good for walking in circles for like two hours 77 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:36,120 We just need to find the river and the river is gonna lead us out of here. It's gonna be fine. Let's get up. Let's get going 78 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:40,160 It's fine 79 00:07:55,960 --> 00:07:59,080 It's a camp. Oh, thank God 80 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:04,240 Hello, hello anybody home. I don't think anybody's here 81 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,280 Hey, dog. It's a boat 82 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:13,560 We could use this we could get out of here we could take this up the river. We're not taking someone's boat that's stealing 83 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,560 They've got to be no one's gonna be back 84 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,560 Tell if someone was here this morning 85 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:23,480 We just 86 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,960 Y'all picked the wrong place to get lost in we didn't touch anything 87 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,320 You call kicking my pot that ain't touching. We're very very 88 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:40,540 Very sorry sir. We meant no disrespect. We're just gonna go now 89 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:45,320 We're just gonna follow the river you ain't getting out that way 90 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,560 Could you tell me the way out I could 91 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:01,760 Lost in the remote swamp without a map or GPS for guidance dr. Chasney 92 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:08,200 Negotiated with local fisherman bud ray. He would be their guide for the day sharing his knowledge and expertise 93 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:10,840 Before boating them out of the area 94 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,200 We're not following this guy named bud ray 95 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:25,040 We don't make it out of your life somebody happens to find these tapes you know what happened to us 96 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,600 You coming she'll we leave you behind? 97 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:35,000 Tell me about the alligators 98 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:38,800 Have you noticed a decrease in the local population? 99 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:41,800 They still act there 100 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,080 Not as much as they used to be but they still have 101 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,560 Swamp pull of things you ain't gonna see no way else 102 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,480 You respect it 103 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 It'll respect you 104 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:58,160 Still 105 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:01,280 There's certain things you don't do after 30 years 106 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:05,640 You don't go one and off by yourself 107 00:10:07,560 --> 00:10:09,560 And don't go out at night 108 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:14,560 Let's go 109 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:16,560 Oh 110 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:32,560 Let's go 111 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:38,440 Come in let me show you something 112 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,400 Up in here, huh used to be a nest of alligator eggs 113 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:46,560 They all gone 114 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:52,560 It's like you said too much salt and water from the hurricane just a shame 115 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,200 Come on, let's go 116 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:19,160 Hmm something's been through here 117 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:47,560 Oh 118 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,880 Doctor want you to bring your camera down there and shoot something 119 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,400 What the hell is that 120 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:17,760 I've never seen anything like it 121 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,680 Look at the depression of the heel and there's no prints to either side 122 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,200 It's as if it was walking upright 123 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,840 That's impossible what out here walks upright 124 00:12:33,920 --> 00:12:35,920 Let's get back to the camp 125 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:38,960 Just need a few more seconds 126 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:42,120 Get the damn pictures and let's get back to the camp 127 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:48,560 This would be a classic example of what's called the three toe the ones that live in swamps 128 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:54,080 Seem to produce this kind of track and it obviously carries a bipedal creature 129 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,880 Don't you think it's time to start heading back nope 130 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,000 What do you mean I told you it's dog 131 00:13:04,560 --> 00:13:06,560 You can't be going away after dark 132 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:10,700 What do you suggest we do stay here? 133 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:18,560 What that's very kind of you, but that's not necessary we should unless y'all rather stay with them gators 134 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,160 Gator could smell a pretty woman for why I can 135 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:30,720 You're all ready for something 136 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:33,560 I 137 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:43,920 Sure with bud ray unwilling to go into the swamp after dark Dr. Chasney and Ethan had no option 138 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,280 But to spend the night at camp 139 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,400 These footprints 140 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:59,360 Never seen anything like it in my field manuals and you never will 141 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,160 No offense, but pretty much everything has been put under the microscope at this point 142 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:10,440 You know I 143 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:13,200 Remember a long time ago 144 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,640 All the old hunters used to talk about a creature out here called 145 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,840 tainty Keetree 146 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:23,080 Live deep in the bio 147 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,120 Mostly kept to himself 148 00:14:26,360 --> 00:14:27,840 But at night 149 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,840 You come out and hunt wild bo 150 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,400 Supposed to be part man part alligator 151 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:39,960 There's no scientific basis for that. It's just the local version of the bogeyman tail. I 152 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:42,960 Don't know 153 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,120 There's no is out here ain't 154 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:02,720 I 155 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:26,120 Always feel like there's something out here in these swamps just watching me 156 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:29,680 But I leave it alone 157 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,880 It leaves me 158 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,360 Well at the very least it's a good story 159 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,640 Well y'all believe what you want to believe 160 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:43,920 I'm going to bed 161 00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:46,960 Coming 162 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:52,360 Y'all sleep over here. I see y'all in the morning 163 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:05,640 You think you're doing what you think you're doing 164 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:17,440 Take this if anything coming here shoot it 165 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,440 Oh 166 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,440 Oh 167 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,400 What was that up there? Oh no creature 168 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,560 Is it gone? 169 00:17:17,440 --> 00:17:23,080 Okay, I said yes, I was out before I 170 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:27,440 Was walking and I stepped I stepped on an estimate 171 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,400 Is it gone 172 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,440 Oh 173 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,080 God 174 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:10,920 Dr. Chasney brought the shell remains that the creature left behind back to the university lab to be analyzed 175 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:14,080 The results matched no known species 176 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,240 To this day she continues a research in the Honey Island swamp 177 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:22,800 Determined to find more evidence to prove the existence of this strange creature 178 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:30,920 Ethan surprisingly returned to the swamp to produce a featured documentary based on his experiences 179 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:37,840 Bud Ray survived his injuries and continues his work as a fisherman in the Honey Island swamp 180 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:42,480 But to this day he will not venture into the bayou after dark 181 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,600 Like so many others who make this land their home 182 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:50,920 They're at once cautious and respectful of what the scientific world continues to deny 183 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:53,480 Do they live among us? 184 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,480 You