1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000
If I believe yet thousands swear to their existence, it would look kind of like an ape.

2
00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000
It was about, I'd say, a good ten-peat-all.

3
00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:18,000
There are echoes of the past, yet their tracks have been detected by modern science.

4
00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:25,000
People realize that with the amount of evidence there is, that there's a chance that this mystery may be solved in time.

5
00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:31,000
There are legends brought to life. There are Sasquatch.

6
00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:38,000
Beyond what is known was an unexplored world of shadows and phantoms.

7
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000
A land that knows no limits of time or space.

8
00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:58,000
From the dawn of discovery to the nightfall of catastrophe.

9
00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:12,000
A journey to a universe of the unexplained. The unforeseen and the unbelievable.

10
00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:21,000
A place where myth and legend are all superstition and science.

11
00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000
A place to be on reality, but no question will go unanswered.

12
00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000
A travel to a world of secrets and mysteries.

13
00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:47,000
A journey to a world of mystery.

14
00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,000
It's time for our journey to begin.

15
00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000
You walk through our forests, yet you remain a mystery.

16
00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,000
What are you?

17
00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000
What you hide.

18
00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:27,000
In the land we call wilderness, there lives a creature that has become one with legend.

19
00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000
At the moment it's about to have an unpleasant encounter with the self-styled masters of the wilderness.

20
00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,000
Man.

21
00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,000
Man.

22
00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000
Man.

23
00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,000
Man.

24
00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,000
Man.

25
00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,000
Man.

26
00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000
Man.

27
00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:01,000
Man.

28
00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,000
Man.

29
00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,000
Man.

30
00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,000
Man.

31
00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,000
Man.

32
00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000
Man.

33
00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:18,000
You have just seen a typical sighting of a magnificent animal with a ridiculous name.

34
00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000
Bigfoot.

35
00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:24,000
I think it deserves a name more in keeping with this character.

36
00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,000
Sasquatch.

37
00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000
Since the early 1800s the creature has been reported all across North America.

38
00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000
But it has also been seen all across the world.

39
00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:48,000
Similar animals have been seen in the Himalayas where they're called Yeti or the abominable snowman.

40
00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:54,000
It's a theory that they came to North America by the same land bridge traversed by the Indians.

41
00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000
This land is called the Pacific Northwest.

42
00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000
A man or a entire town could easily be absorbed into this expansive wilderness.

43
00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:16,000
This single forest covers a huge area and even today maps are incomplete.

44
00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:24,000
Here time not only stands still, it doesn't exist.

45
00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:28,000
And here is where Sasquatch makes its home.

46
00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:36,000
Well, I'd loaded two loads of logs out that morning and I looked out towards the timber and I saw this loom.

47
00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:41,000
And I stood in the wash can from around behind a big tree.

48
00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:50,000
There was a black deal looking at me and it had peaked and pointed head.

49
00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,000
As I recall, I brightened my headlights to get a better view of it.

50
00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000
And I started slowing down and started at the brakes.

51
00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:02,000
And none of a sudden it started to move and I thought, my lord, the tree is going to come across the road.

52
00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:09,000
And as this moved away, there was fine maples there that were pretty high and I could see these broad shoulders

53
00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,000
and just kind of a nub was suggested in the head.

54
00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:22,000
You stand upright and form part and just stand down beside of him and you look between a man and a beast.

55
00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:31,000
I swung my arm in a big arc and I said, I yelled out, hi Sasquatch, come on down.

56
00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:36,000
It looked kind of like an ape. I mean an ape in sort of humanoid in structure.

57
00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:43,000
It was about, I'd say, a good 10p tall. That's the reason why I thought it was a tree.

58
00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:47,000
Bigfoot is gigantopithecus and it's still here.

59
00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000
Sightings like those are almost too numerous to catalog.

60
00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:55,000
But they all agree on certain physical characteristics.

61
00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:11,000
Standing between 5 and 8 feet tall, Sasquatch weighs between 5 and 800 pounds.

62
00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:20,000
Covered in brown, red or black fur, it is apparently a vegetarian although occasionally the creature varies its diet by eating small woodland animals.

63
00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,000
By all reports, it is shy, trickle and avoids contact with humans at all costs.

64
00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000
And it has other unusual characteristics.

65
00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:36,000
Several people who have been close to Bigfoot have reported this tremendous odor.

66
00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000
I might mention something else and that is sounds.

67
00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:52,000
The only sounds that we have been able to pick up out of all these reports that seem to be real are the very powerful whistling noises.

68
00:06:52,000 --> 00:07:02,000
And I talked with an anthropologist once and it was determined that one of the most penetrating sounds in dense forest is a whistle.

69
00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:05,000
It's a sound which will carry furthest.

70
00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:13,000
And so although this is a very large creature and it might seem a little ridiculous to think of it whistling, it could be a form of communication.

71
00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:23,000
This is the mark of Sasquatch, taken from a set of tracks that covered a 5 mile stretch of dense forest.

72
00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:30,000
The depth of each print indicates that whatever made it weighed 800 pounds.

73
00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:34,000
800 pounds.

74
00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,000
And there's other more dramatic evidence.

75
00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:46,000
On a hot afternoon in October, Roger Patterson and a friend were riding through some woods in Northern California.

76
00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000
Suddenly their horses shied.

77
00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:52,000
They looked ahead and saw something squatting by the creek.

78
00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:01,000
As the creature ambled away, Patterson took this film, the film that has been analyzed, debated and contested ever since.

79
00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:17,000
What did Roger Patterson see that afternoon?

80
00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:26,000
If this film is not a hoax, then it's a very important scientific discovery and we need to examine it in more detail.

81
00:08:27,000 --> 00:08:39,000
What was it that Roger Patterson photographed that afternoon?

82
00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:51,000
Is this Sasquatch or a cleverly executed hoax?

83
00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,000
Let us look closer.

84
00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,000
The key to this film's credibility is the way the animal walks.

85
00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,000
A man could not duplicate this peculiar gate.

86
00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,000
The human body isn't built that way.

87
00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,000
And that leaves just one explanation.

88
00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,000
This is Sasquatch.

89
00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:19,000
If somebody was inside of an ape suit, trying to imitate that, these shoulders are hopelessly too wide.

90
00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:28,000
There is no way you can put a man inside of a monkey suit and get the Patterson film unless you broke his arms in the middle of the upper arm and put a new hinge there.

91
00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,000
Rivercrantz is a contradiction in terms.

92
00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,000
He's a man of size, yet he believes in Sasquatch.

93
00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:36,000
And that's not a popular viewpoint.

94
00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:45,000
I don't really blame the scientific community since they have so many silly things to dispose of for being dubious of the Sasquatch.

95
00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:51,000
I think, however, rather than denying the Sasquatch, they ought to simply say they don't know.

96
00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,000
There is obviously a scientific debate and also a human dimension to this search.

97
00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:03,000
A personal element that has become a way of life to a man called Peter Byrne.

98
00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:16,000
My interest in Bigfoot grew out of original interest and work on the Yeti or a vulnerable snowman of the Himalaya.

99
00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:24,000
I think the main reason why people are interested in the Bigfoot mystery is because it's one of the last great mysteries of this diminishing world of ours.

100
00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:30,000
We have the Loch Ness monsters, we have flying saucers, if you like, a few things like that, and we have Bigfoot.

101
00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:38,000
And I think also people realize that the amount of evidence there is, that there's a chance that this mystery may be solved in time.

102
00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:48,000
But when you think of it, when you think of the possibility of a prehistoric man living in the forest of the Pacific Northwest, there's a tremendous amount of attraction in that.

103
00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000
It arouses enormous curiosity in people. They want to know who or what the thing is. And I think that's where the interest lies.

104
00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:02,000
Byrne has never seen Sasquatch, but he's gathered evidence and he believes it exists.

105
00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:10,000
I think they do. I think that the evidence does support the existence of a few.

106
00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:18,000
I've had a certain advantage. I've had the time to be able to do ten years of research, which is more than a lot of people.

107
00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,000
And I've seen a lot of evidence. I've seen historical evidence. I've seen footprints.

108
00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:30,000
And then I've been able to look into the eyes of sane, sensible, rational people who say they've seen one.

109
00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:39,000
And so as far as I'm concerned, I think that a few of them do exist in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.

110
00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:50,000
So what is Sasquatch? One of the difficulties in coming to a conclusion is that there are so many similar stories of strange animals in the woods.

111
00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:58,000
One of the most unusual of these tales comes from New Jersey.

112
00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:07,000
This is the Pine Barrens, an aptly named wilderness spanning hundreds of miles across southern New Jersey in the United States.

113
00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:15,000
For 200 years reports of a strange animal have been circulating and nobody's been able to identify what it could be.

114
00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:28,000
The Jersey Devil has been around since 1735 and it's a legend which is as strong today as it ever has been.

115
00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:35,000
And of course being a devil redeemer tends to take on many different sizes, shapes and descriptions.

116
00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:42,000
And all together it's probably done more than big foot, lot nests, monster all put together.

117
00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:51,000
In 1909, many eyewitnesses saw a creature that was huge, mysterious, useless. Sasquatch.

118
00:12:51,000 --> 00:13:00,000
During this period in January thousands of people saw the Jersey Devil or his footprints, haci's form to chase him, rewards were offered.

119
00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,000
Many people will lock themselves up in fear and stayed in their home.

120
00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:14,000
His sightings have persisted for centuries and there is no physical evidence exists. The legend refuses to die.

121
00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:28,000
A lot of credible witnesses have seen it. They've seen this strange thing, sometimes the people will even say, I don't know exactly what it was but it's something that's definitely out of the ordinary.

122
00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:39,000
Sightings and second hand reports of Sasquatch can only take us so far. You must look at the world through his eyes.

123
00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:53,000
Let your imagination roam through this wilderness. You have known the forest as your only home. Its rhythms are your rhythms, your life.

124
00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:02,000
You are alone, knowing few of your kind. Or you are Sasquatch, you are legend.

125
00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:22,000
You and your kind have lived here forever. But there are strangers in your forest and they bring danger.

126
00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:40,000
You've tried to hide but you can only hide so long. Time is running out. The forest grows smaller every day. You're weary.

127
00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:10,000
The state of undeclared war exists in some parts of the Pacific Northwest. Organized posses patrol the backwards looking for a big foot to blast down.

128
00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:26,000
This vigilante mentality has led to a law in the book since Khmenia County in the state of Washington. Anyone convicted of killing a Sasquatch will be fined $10,000 and put in jail.

129
00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:44,000
The only way we can establish the existence of the Sasquatch positively is to produce a body, all or a significant part of one. This isn't just my idea. I've been told this by all of the skeptics including the top authorities of the Smithsonian.

130
00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:51,000
And until physical evidence is produced, the scientists are not about to say that it's real. They're not about to accept it. Try and classify it.

131
00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:58,000
This leaves us then with the only obvious alternative is for somebody to shoot one and bring in the body.

132
00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:07,000
I've talked to people, two men, who say that they've seen one at close range and they had a rifle and they put the rifle on it.

133
00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:16,000
And one of them did intend to shoot. When he looked through the telescopic sight, he saw what he said was a human face and it deterred him and then the thing walked away.

134
00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:21,000
I don't think that shooting one would be justified in any way.

135
00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:26,000
Science at least has a motive, but no motive can justify this.

136
00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:35,000
If I was able to, I would shoot one because I think it's very important to establish that these exist.

137
00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,000
If it's there, we should know what it is. But if it's there, I think we'll eventually destroy it.

138
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:49,000
Well, I think it's absolutely ridiculous because they just will shoot me to prove there's a humanoid around here.

139
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:57,000
Until someone literally brings one in, there is no absolute proof that these animals exist.

140
00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:06,000
Well, I certainly think that it would be more there once in a while. It could be track-alized. I see no necessity in killing it.

141
00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:13,000
It's natural to be afraid of things you don't know about and the more you learn about Bigfoot, the more you realize it.

142
00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,000
He's just kind of curious. He wants something to eat of course.

143
00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:22,000
It's like the Titanic. They found it and some say leave it and some say you'll get it.

144
00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:34,000
I think there ought to be some ways to have a right to capture him if he had to shoot him and cripple him or something to get him or whatever it takes to capture him because I'm positive he's out there.

145
00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:52,000
Music

146
00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000
This tragedy has not occurred yet.

147
00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:03,000
Music

148
00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:07,000
Sasquatch still lives among us. But for how long?

149
00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:15,000
Man has a lamentable record for sharing compassion for that which he fears. And he fears Sasquatch.

150
00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,000
Music

151
00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:25,000
In our records and in our research, we never saw any sign of aggression of any kind, any sign of danger.

152
00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:39,000
And I think that if the number of incidents that we were able to record are all true, here we had a large primate that was in the vicinity of camps that had children and young people.

153
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:45,000
And if these things were vicious, if they were antagonistic, I think by now there'd be some record.

154
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:57,000
To the best of my knowledge, the Sasquatch is not dangerous to humans. There have been a number of accounts of them taking some threatening activity towards humans.

155
00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:03,000
But most of these threatening stories usually have something wrong with them in some other aspect of the story.

156
00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:08,000
You know, if they're here, they've always been here and they've always been here in good numbers.

157
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:17,000
And of course, every year we hear a certain number of people being killed by bears. We never hear of anyone being killed by Sasquatch.

158
00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:29,000
What will happen now? Life or death? The choice is entirely ours. And the forest stands still waiting in silence for our decision.

159
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:51,000
There's an ability by this creature that the Indians recognized. They turned Sasquatch into legend, into a god of sorts.

160
00:19:52,000 --> 00:20:00,000
We too should celebrate the existence of a living wonder like Sasquatch. Not drive it deeper into isolation.

161
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000
And the meaning of legend.

162
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:41,000
The producer's purpose is not to validate any side of an issue, but through the use of actualities and formatted recreation relate a possible answer, but not the owning answer to this interior.