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The following program deals with a controversial subject.

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The theories expressed are not the only possible interpretation.

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The viewer is invited to make a judgment based on all available information.

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Tonight on Sightings, it's the search for the world's most elusive creatures.

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And all of a sudden the top of it swiveled like, you know, a head.

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Are these monsters myth and legend or horrifying real-life creations?

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I've never seen anything like it. I was very, very scared.

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And could these terrifying mutations threaten us all?

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Well, there's a good indication that there may be some strange animal that we haven't discovered yet.

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At that point, we started to appear.

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They had large, dark eyes, small, like hands.

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I began sensing, knowing, and feeling.

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I do believe in life after death. I mean, I've been there.

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We have not scratched the surface of what the mind can do.

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It's a connection with the unknown.

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Welcome to Sightings. I'm Tim White.

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Tonight, monsters.

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They inhabit the nightmares of childhood and the folklore of every culture.

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And now there are scientists who believe that monsters aren't just myth. They're real.

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There are bizarre creatures among us that can't be explained.

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Some of them have been captured alive.

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And many of them live in our own backyard.

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Since earliest recorded history, there have been monsters to strike a chord of fear in all of us.

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In the Bible, monsters represented pure evil.

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They took many different forms, but all had the same goal, to do the bidding of an unrelenting Satan.

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By the 1800s, the sensibilities of Victorian society gave monsters a human face.

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But their evil deeds were decidedly inhuman.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein became fictional folklore, but the strangest account wasn't to be found in the pages of a Gothic novel.

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But with our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt.

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In the late 1800s, the woods of this country, the wilderness areas, were wild and dangerous.

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President Roosevelt found out just how dangerous these wilderness areas could be.

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Teddy Roosevelt loved to hunt. He loved to chase creatures through the wilderness, track, shoot.

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One night he found out this wasn't as much fun as he thought.

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When his hunting party frightened a Sasquatch into the camp of two trappers.

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One of the trappers was killed, neck broken, body mutilated, half eaten by what seems to be, for all intents and purposes, a Sasquatch.

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18 and a half inch footprints were found the next morning.

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And Roosevelt was discredited, he became obsessed with finding this creature.

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This is a theory developed by world-renowned Bigfoot investigator Terry Albright.

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Based on Roosevelt's own writings about his hunting experiences all over the world.

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Although Teddy Roosevelt never actually came face to face with a Bigfoot,

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Albright claims he was obsessed with stories of reported sightings and carried the fascination to his grave.

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Now if Sasquatch is out there and potentially dangerous if aggravated,

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how many other creatures or things that go bump in the night are out there that we don't know about?

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This is Hollywood's version of monsters.

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Creatures designed to scare us, even horrify us with their bloodthirsty qualities.

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But Hollywood monsters are just as likely to make us laugh at our own fears when they're obviously men in silly rubber suits.

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Hollywood pokes a lot of fun at monsters, but the fact of the matter is we have unexplained deaths.

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The Pentagon must know.

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Therefore why aren't we being told the truth about this creature?

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Despite resistance, Terry Albright continues to search for proof of Bigfoot and other alleged monsters.

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One unlikely hotspot is Bishopville, South Carolina.

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Residents here have encountered a bizarre humanoid creature that's rumored to haunt the nearby swamps.

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On July 5th, 1988, the Sheriff's Department responded to a call from a man who said he had been attacked by a scaly, 7-foot-tall monster.

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Locals have dubbed him Lizard Man.

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20-year-old Chris Davis was changing a tire on his car when he heard strange sounds.

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After I finished changing the tire, I was putting the stuff in the trunk.

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I heard a noise, so I looked back. I saw something big running towards me.

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So I shut the trunk and ran to the car. I heard a loud crash on the hood.

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Something or someone had clawed the hood of Chris's car and ripped off the molding.

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Footprints that didn't match those of any known animal were found near the attack site by Sheriff Liston Truesdale.

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This truck was found in the woods not long after the Lizard Man story broke out.

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No one knows what creature could have made this claw-like print 14.5 inches long and 7 inches wide.

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There are alligators in the area, but no one believes the prints or the attack was the work of alligators

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or any other animal known in the pages of traditional biology.

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And yet each year, there are bizarre discoveries that drastically change our perceptions about life on Earth.

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It scared me because of the traits it had.

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Everyone believes that there is something here.

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Let's say we were back that away and now we're back that away.

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Sound far out? Well, pandas were once mysterious monsters in China until western zoologists tracked and catalogued them.

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Marine biologists estimate that there are over one million species of sea life yet to be discovered.

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In 1989, Woods Hole Oceanographic captured these incredible bioluminescent creatures and no one knows what they are.

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Could these be real living monsters that somehow survived from prehistoric times?

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Experts believe the ozone layer is shrinking, creating climate changes.

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DNA may be mutating and with unprecedented heat and drought,

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who knows what bizarre new life forms may be created by these atmospheric changes.

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Its appearance was just a large, large humanoid creature walking like a human being.

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Are sightings investigators search for the legendary Bigfoot?

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There is no possibility that could be a man in a fursuit.

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A monster, eight feet tall, half man, half beast, perhaps the elusive missing link between humans and apes.

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Since the first recorded sighting in 200 BC, creatures matching this description have been reported worldwide.

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But witnesses have caught only fleeting glimpses of the monster we now call Bigfoot.

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Is he or she real?

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From their office in San Dimas, California, Terry Albright and his partner Peter Gattila are obsessed with tracking down the legendary Bigfoot.

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For over a year, the team has been concentrating on a rash of reliable sightings in Sonora, California.

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Signs of the creature's impact on local business are everywhere.

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In fact, the residents have adopted Bigfoot as an unofficial mascot.

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Travels up and down the west coast and it's in Alaska in the summertime and then comes back down here for winter.

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The biggest thing is size and its movement. More human-like than anything, than any animal.

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It had to be Bigfoot. There was no other answer.

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Here, Albright and Gattila ask eyewitness Faye Milner to return to the sight of her first Bigfoot encounter.

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We got out of the car and dogs started raising hail and just barking and sniffing and carrying on.

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So I just looked around and I thought, well, you know, maybe there's something here.

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I looked up here and saw three Bigfoot standing there.

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During an examination of the forest, the researchers found evidence they believe confirms Bigfoot was there and recently.

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These branches way up here and up here. Now, some of these branches have been rubbed raw of bark.

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Places where things have been broken off, as you can see, through here.

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Not only that, below it, there is a path. Here is a branch which has been knocked off and walked over many times.

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Broken branches here, pushed down branches there. Something has obviously come through here regularly.

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The evidence is similar to that found throughout the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia.

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And eyewitness descriptions are strikingly similar.

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We could see them go behind that tree and through that opening and then they were gone.

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What I saw was a about a six and a half, seven foot creature, Bigfoot.

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That's the scariest I've probably been in my life to be that close to something and not see it and feel it.

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And the way it was breathing, I figured that thing was big, big.

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Its appearance was just a large, large humanoid creature walking like a human being.

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In the Himalayas, it's called Yeti. These tracks were found at the base of Mount Everest.

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The Chinese call it Fei-Fei, a ten foot tall creature whom they say has a taste for human flesh.

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Native Americans call it Oma. In Canada, it's Sasquatch. And in the western United States, we call it Bigfoot.

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October 20th, 1967. Bigfoot research pioneers Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin discover the trail of what they believe is an enormous Bigfoot.

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They gather what evidence they can and deep in this pine forest begin to feel an uneasy presence.

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They face a dilemma. How will they react if a Bigfoot actually appears?

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We came around a bend in the creek where there was a downfall tree.

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At that point, as we came around the bend and the creek there, this creature was standing beside the creek.

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Startled by the looming presence of the creature, the horses reared.

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Roger Patterson was thrown to the ground, but steadied his camera long enough to capture this legendary creature on film.

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He counted it very close, I think 20, 25 feet away.

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And Roger Patterson turned on his movie camera, ran after it as far as he could, and finally he stopped and it walked away.

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Further perspective on the footage comes from Grover Krantz, a physical anthropologist at Washington State University.

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Here is a cast that was made in 1967 at the site where Roger Patterson got a movie of one.

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This is what I would consider to be probably an adult female.

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The creature has extremely wide shoulders, well over three feet wide, and I've done some measurements,

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and no human being at six and a half feet tall would have shoulders and chest widths to equal that.

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So there's no way they could fit their arms in the costume.

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I've gone through the whole film and reconstructed everything, the exact body movements and everything you can.

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And I'm satisfied that there is no possibility that could be a man in a fursuit. There's just no way around it.

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If the film is not a hoax, then this is the moving image of a giant unknown species, probably female, as she passes alone by a river.

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Her slow retreat suggests no fear of man and no desire to make contact with us.

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Films, videotapes and plaster casts of giant footprints do little to satisfy skeptics

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who believe that Bigfoot is nothing more than hoax and folklore.

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Scientists demand more conclusive proof, and some believe that proof may be found in the fossilized jawbone of a species called Gigantopithecus.

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In the late 1950s, an anomalous lower jawbone was discovered in China.

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Dr. Krantz believes this may be scientific proof that Bigfoot exists.

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I've taken this jaw and tried to reconstruct what I think the entire skull would look like.

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This is what I've ended up with, that this is what the Gigantopithecus skull would have looked like.

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So I would certainly say the best guess as to what Bigfoot is, is its Gigantopithecus still with us.

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With mounting physical evidence from all over the world, Krantz believes it's only a matter of time

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before responsible researchers make the scientific discovery of the century, the capture of a living unharmed Bigfoot.

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We knew right off the bat that there had to be some kind of a monster in the lake.

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...has science found proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists.

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There's a good indication that there may be some strange animal that we haven't discovered yet.

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If we are to believe the thousands of sailors and fishermen who've seen them,

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enormous sea serpents have populated our oceans and lakes since earliest recorded history.

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The most popular spot for sightings is of course Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands.

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For 1400 years, residents have searched for proof of a monster they know is there.

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The celebrated Loch Ness. 24 miles long, it's waters so deep, dark and murky,

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that legend has it this body of water is cursed.

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Locals will tell you the lake never gives up its depth.

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Since 565 AD, hundreds have witnessed a creature no one can explain.

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There came out of a Loch with this huge shape, massive shape, brown-green colour, huge.

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And it then jumped back into the Loch.

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And then the Loch was flat calm.

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And what I saw then was weeds about 18 inches high going to each side of the Loch.

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And then it just disappeared.

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Believe it or not, we saw this great neck emerge from the water.

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About 5 feet we estimate above the water at an angle.

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Head and neck seem to be one.

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Then it moved down with a sideways kind of motion, disappeared.

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And we hadn't drunk a drop of whiskey that morning.

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These witnesses are seeing something strange and alive in the water.

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But what?

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Some believe that there are prehistoric creatures in Loch Ness that have survived extinction.

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What else could explain this bizarre figure, captured in the most famous of all Loch Ness monster photographs?

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Taken by a reputable London surgeon in 1933, this was the start of a worldwide search for proof of the monster.

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The big question in all this, of course, is are these animals real?

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Why don't we catch them? Why do we see them so rarely?

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In order to answer these questions, scientists have used many different techniques to photograph or even capture the Loch Ness monster.

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In 1975, the Academy of Applied Sciences made headlines around the world with these remarkable pictures.

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They clearly show a flipper and the body of a creature never photographed before.

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Could this be what locals affectionately refer to as Nessie?

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With this new evidence, the search for a living monster intensified.

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Operation Deep Scan was mounted.

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Boats equipped with sophisticated radar and sonar worked together to scan every inch of the lake.

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Then one underwater scanner picked up a startling anomaly.

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Yes, that's it. What depth did you find target over?

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It started at about 480 feet down and rose up to 320 feet before we lost the target over.

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When we work with sonar, we get strong sonar contacts in Loch Ness.

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Obviously we have to resolve that because the two may be linked.

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So what is in Loch Ness?

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The answer may also explain what is in Lake Okanagan, 9,000 miles away in British Columbia,

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where residents describe an equally mysterious lake monster.

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We had slowed down somewhat and moved over for it because it was coming straight for us.

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As it got across from us, we could see that this object, it was about 30 feet in length

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and it was stirring up a tremendous amount of water.

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Could the creature that reportedly inhabits this lake be related to the Loch Ness monster?

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The sightings follow a similar pattern, going back a hundred years when Indians named this monster Ogopogo.

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All of a sudden Ogopogo came to the top of the water and my husband looked at me and said,

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oh my god, it's Ogopogo.

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We figured it was around 40 feet long and there's no fish in this lake 40 feet long, so it wasn't a fish.

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We knew right off the bat that it had to be some kind of a monster in the lake.

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Unlike Nessy, an Ogopogo sighting has rarely been captured on film,

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but in 1987 an American film crew shooting a news documentary on Ogopogo made news themselves

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when they shot this rare videotape, an unidentified creature rising to the surface of the lake.

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Nothing around it, nothing in front of it, nothing behind it.

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What did the news crew film?

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Was it an extraordinarily large fish or a prehistoric cousin of the Loch Ness monster?

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Our witnesses see the same type of creature 9,000 miles apart

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and could there be more yet to be discovered in other bodies of water around the world?

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There's a good indication that there may be some strange animal that we haven't discovered yet.

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Chance will eventually perhaps favor us with discovering everything that lives in the ocean.

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If lake monsters actually exist, where do they come from?

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One intriguing theory suggests that during the last Ice Age,

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certain prehistoric animals were trapped in what would later become freshwater lakes.

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The possibility that these monsters are actually living dinosaurs

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propelled scientists to continue serious research.

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Coming up, the world's most bizarre and frightening creations may be forced into our own backyards.

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It wasn't a natural thing. It was some kind of, I think it was an unnatural creature.

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A bolt of lightning. 100 million volts of electricity.

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Experiments have shown that this may have been the jolt that created life out of seawater.

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If that's true, imagine the beasts that could be created in the toxic waste of the 20th century.

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I've never seen anything like it. I was very, very scared.

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Perhaps the most amazing discovery of all was this creature, captured by Japanese fishermen in 1985.

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This bizarre carcass was caught off the coast of New Zealand,

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but the fishermen did not realize the importance of what they found.

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These rare photos were taken before the body was thrown back.

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Satellite photographs show that thousands of square miles of Pacific Ocean may be heating up.

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Near Mozambique, a fish thought to be extinct for two million years is captured alive.

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Could all these events be a hint of other monsters yet to be discovered?

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When I first thought it, the neck was way out of the water.

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So I went to turn my boat to avoid this, and then all of a sudden the top of it swiveled.

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Like, you know, a head, that's when the excitement started.

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Gary Limetta was on a pleasure cruise when he encountered a sea monster.

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This exclusive footage captures an eight-foot neck rising from the surface.

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From what Gary Limetta has described, it looked to him like a very large turtle without a shell.

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The big question is, what can this animal be?

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After all, we have a catalog of a great number of animals that we have caught in the ocean.

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Are there any others?

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We may soon find out.

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Dwindling animal habitats and destruction of the world's wild places mean animals, perhaps monsters,

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will soon have nowhere to go but into our own backyards.

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It scared me because of the traits it had.

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You know, it wasn't a natural thing.

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It was some kind of, I think it was an unnatural creature.

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Humanoid monsters and bizarre creatures of the deep have terrified people for thousands of years.

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But perhaps we shouldn't fear these so-called monsters.

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Remember, every day on this planet more than 20 species of plant and animal become extinct, vanish from the face of the earth.

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Perhaps serious study of those creatures we call monsters,

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can reverse the process.

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For sightings, I'm Tim White. Good night.

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