1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,240 Bigfoot, there is evidence that points to the existence of an enormous creature, half 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:07,640 man half ape. 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,180 It could be the elusive missing link. 4 00:00:11,180 --> 00:00:16,260 Anthropologists are studying footprints, hand prints, and now a new film exclusive to sightings 5 00:00:16,260 --> 00:00:21,940 that appears to some to be authentic. 6 00:00:21,940 --> 00:00:26,600 Serious researchers won't give up their quest for proof that Bigfoot is a living, breathing 7 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,980 creature stalking the words of North American. 8 00:00:29,980 --> 00:00:34,460 Sightings has brought you startling footage before, and now a surge in reports brings 9 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:37,700 new information about this elusive monster. 10 00:00:37,700 --> 00:00:43,140 There are new eyewitness accounts, plaster footprints, photographs, and this exclusive 11 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:45,980 video tape. 12 00:00:45,980 --> 00:00:51,180 This is the most compelling evidence to date that there is a Sasquatch. 13 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:55,180 Researchers have now discovered what they believe is a pattern of Bigfoot activity, 14 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:58,900 concentrated in eastern Washington state near the Idaho border. 15 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:04,500 With over 50 sightings in the past year, local police here take Bigfoot reports seriously. 16 00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:10,260 One officer, Michael Bisbee, took us to the site of his own encounter. 17 00:01:10,260 --> 00:01:17,340 Early evening, about 6.37 o'clock, I's on patrol in an area known as McCormick Ridge, 18 00:01:17,340 --> 00:01:22,420 and this big black object was walking away from me, walking into the timber. 19 00:01:22,420 --> 00:01:26,420 I really didn't know what it was. 20 00:01:26,420 --> 00:01:28,060 I didn't really get a good look at him. 21 00:01:28,060 --> 00:01:34,180 He was running so fast, there was no human could run that fast. 22 00:01:34,180 --> 00:01:40,020 My boss got nervous, you know, after we started working again, he was worried about it trying 23 00:01:40,020 --> 00:01:44,140 to sneak around and trying to come, you know, do something to us, you know, sneak attack 24 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:47,620 is what he said. 25 00:01:47,620 --> 00:01:52,300 Based on the high concentration of sightings here, our investigative team mounted an expedition 26 00:01:52,300 --> 00:01:55,700 into the area, headed by researcher Cliff Crook. 27 00:01:55,700 --> 00:01:59,260 Head of the expedition, Cliff and his partner, Dean Smith, believed that only a small, unobtrusive 28 00:01:59,260 --> 00:02:03,260 team would have any chance of capturing a Bigfoot on film. 29 00:02:03,260 --> 00:02:08,680 It was just this kind of expedition led by Roger Patterson in 1967 that resulted in a 30 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:10,640 startling piece of evidence. 31 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:15,940 This 16mm film was believed to be the only authenticated Bigfoot footage to date. 32 00:02:15,940 --> 00:02:18,580 Patterson's partner, Bob Gimlin, was there. 33 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:23,820 When we came upon the creature, it was standing still by the creek, it immediately turned 34 00:02:23,820 --> 00:02:25,900 around and started to walk away. 35 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:31,660 There is no way that this could ever be falsified or any man could be in a suit because of the 36 00:02:31,660 --> 00:02:35,860 movement of the muscle underneath the hair. 37 00:02:35,860 --> 00:02:40,820 The Patterson film is the second best evidence after some footprints. 38 00:02:40,820 --> 00:02:45,620 Professor Grover Kranz heads the anthropology department at Washington State University. 39 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:51,700 His scholarly research concludes that Bigfoot is real. 40 00:02:51,700 --> 00:02:54,180 This is one of the most interesting ones. 41 00:02:54,180 --> 00:02:56,140 It's a 14.5 inch track. 42 00:02:56,140 --> 00:03:01,420 It shows what we call dermal ridges, the little fingerprint type ridges. 43 00:03:01,420 --> 00:03:05,580 These have been studied by police fingerprint experts and no one's found any flaw in any 44 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:07,940 of them. 45 00:03:07,940 --> 00:03:12,420 This one is the imprint of some knuckles with the right hand. 46 00:03:12,420 --> 00:03:16,900 You can see it's substantially larger than my hand and this is the thumb over here. 47 00:03:16,900 --> 00:03:21,300 The individual apparently stumbled, hit the hand on the ground and left the imprint and 48 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:27,220 the cast was made of those four digits curled around and the fifth digit, the thumb coming 49 00:03:27,220 --> 00:03:28,460 out to the side. 50 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:33,540 Right here is the thumbnail, the edge of the thumbnail. 51 00:03:33,540 --> 00:03:37,860 Professor Kranz divides his research time between lab study and expeditions into the 52 00:03:37,860 --> 00:03:38,860 field. 53 00:03:38,860 --> 00:03:42,700 He is constantly searching for new evidence to support his theories. 54 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:47,420 His findings indicate that Bigfoot is nocturnal, a creature of the night. 55 00:03:47,420 --> 00:03:51,420 It brought a specially equipped star-like filter into the research area. 56 00:03:51,420 --> 00:03:55,860 We hope that this night vision feature would increase our chances of finding an actual 57 00:03:55,860 --> 00:03:56,860 Bigfoot. 58 00:03:56,860 --> 00:04:04,220 Unfortunately, bad weather forced us to end the investigation before any sightings occurred. 59 00:04:04,220 --> 00:04:09,140 Soon after our team left the area, an anonymous videotape arrived with a Washington State 60 00:04:09,140 --> 00:04:10,740 postmark. 61 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:16,300 There are those who believe this is actual footage of a small, possibly female, Bigfoot. 62 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:19,900 The creature appears in two sections of this VHS tape. 63 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:23,380 The tape is played in its entirety. 64 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:28,860 Here the supposed Bigfoot moves behind some trees and then unexpectedly turns toward 65 00:04:28,860 --> 00:04:30,580 the camera. 66 00:04:30,580 --> 00:04:35,780 Washington based photo analyst Mike Stosser studied this videotape for sightings. 67 00:04:35,780 --> 00:04:40,260 The most compelling evidence in the tape is as simple as a head turn. 68 00:04:40,260 --> 00:04:46,260 In hoaxes you see an animal that maybe someone in a suit move with their head and their neck. 69 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:52,300 And real Bigfoot specimens would move as a gorilla with their entire torso and their 70 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:54,580 head would move similarly. 71 00:04:54,580 --> 00:05:00,020 The typical ape posture as the shoulders carried very high and the mouth and the jaw is lower 72 00:05:00,020 --> 00:05:01,020 than the shoulder. 73 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:05,860 So if an ape wants to turn its head, its jaw runs into its shoulder. 74 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:09,900 The creature that Patterson watched turned its head and then the shoulder went with 75 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:13,820 it in what you just as what you would expect with an ape. 76 00:05:13,820 --> 00:05:17,380 In the Patterson footage you can see that the animal is walking straight forward but 77 00:05:17,380 --> 00:05:22,860 then when he turns to see the cameraman his entire body, his torso and all, moves up and 78 00:05:22,860 --> 00:05:24,860 to the right. 79 00:05:24,860 --> 00:05:30,660 Here in the most recent Washington footage you've got the animal crouched into clearing 80 00:05:30,660 --> 00:05:35,420 here and then as it starts to look towards the camera person, its entire torso comes 81 00:05:35,420 --> 00:05:37,060 up and to the left. 82 00:05:37,060 --> 00:05:40,220 It's full body, not just the neck but up and to the left. 83 00:05:40,220 --> 00:05:42,220 Very similar to the Patterson footage. 84 00:05:43,220 --> 00:05:47,900 Is this evidence of the legendary missing link? 85 00:05:47,900 --> 00:05:51,460 Experts aren't divided but they all continue to gather evidence. 86 00:05:51,460 --> 00:05:55,980 Although there is no proof positive that Bigfoot exists, to many the circumstantial evidence 87 00:05:55,980 --> 00:06:01,700 is overwhelming and researchers remain dedicated to finding that one piece of hard evidence 88 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,100 that will finally lay the controversy to rest. 89 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:11,020 Joining us now is Richard Greenwell, Secretary for the International Society of Cryptozoology. 90 00:06:11,020 --> 00:06:16,460 Richard has conducted numerous expeditions in search of Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. 91 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:17,620 Richard thanks for joining us. 92 00:06:17,620 --> 00:06:21,100 You've had a chance to look now at the new Bigfoot footage. 93 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:22,100 What do you make of it? 94 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:23,500 Is it the real thing or a hoax? 95 00:06:23,500 --> 00:06:26,780 I'd say probably a hoax. 96 00:06:26,780 --> 00:06:33,420 For one thing the supposed creature looks very much like a costume to me. 97 00:06:33,420 --> 00:06:35,700 Its gait and movement is wrong. 98 00:06:35,700 --> 00:06:40,060 The gait is very human like and the movement is very slow. 99 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:45,060 What else would you need to see to be sure that one exists? 100 00:06:45,060 --> 00:06:50,820 Well the only evidence that's going to convince the zoologists and the anthropologists is 101 00:06:50,820 --> 00:06:56,860 physical remains, bones or a part of an animal or a complete animal dead or alive. 102 00:06:56,860 --> 00:06:58,100 That's the bottom line. 103 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:05,180 Is there any sort of photographic evidence or videotape evidence that you would find persuasive? 104 00:07:05,180 --> 00:07:12,420 If there was film footage that was in conjunction with extremely good eye witness testimony 105 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:17,180 from reliable people then that would be a very strong case. 106 00:07:17,180 --> 00:07:23,420 Otherwise when it's a videotape that comes in you don't know who took it or is questionable 107 00:07:23,420 --> 00:07:25,180 has very little value. 108 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:29,660 If you were betting, Richard, what would you say the odds are that there is a Bigfoot? 109 00:07:29,660 --> 00:07:31,980 Well I may get into trouble for this. 110 00:07:31,980 --> 00:07:38,740 I'd say in my opinion based on all the evidence I've looked at in the 3000 reports I would 111 00:07:38,740 --> 00:07:46,020 say that the odds are just over 50% that there is a living Sasquatch or Bigfoot. 112 00:07:46,020 --> 00:07:48,100 Richard Greenwell thank you very much for being with us.