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- Bigfoot, it's name the
common vernacular Bigfoot,

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comes from the large tracks that it left.

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Early miners and explorers would find

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these large tracks in the dirt,

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and whoa, Bigfoot, you
know, very original.

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Kind of like the guy from Texas
who's name is Tex, you know?

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It's very funny how that happens.

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(epic booming music)
(tribal chanting)

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(mysterious music)

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- A lot of people in the
field of cryptozoology,

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and cryptozoology means the
study of unknown animals,

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you know, just like an unknown ape

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that hasn't been found yet,

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or some class of fish
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That's in definitive terms,

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that's what cryptozoology is,

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but over the years, a lot
of other weirder creatures

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have been reported that

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people have seen Bigfoot type creatures

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vanish in a flash of light,

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or they'd been seen at the same location,

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and time as UFOs, and Bigfoot together.

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You know, a lot of people in cryptozoology

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have no time for those stories.

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They're just unknown animals.

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(thunderous booming)

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- I've been interested in Bigfoot,

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and related subjects
since I was a little kid.

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In fact, when I went to college,
I majored in psychology,

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and anthropology specifically second

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pursued a Bigfoot angle.

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- My mom, when she went to
school, she studied anthropology.

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So she is a big anthropology buff,

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and being in the woods
eight, or nine, 10 years old,

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talking to my mom, all
the other kinds of stuff.

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Oh yeah, she was very always
a proponent of Bigfoot.

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My mom's a big believer in Bigfoot,

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so it's one of the few things
I can talk about my mom with,

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you know, it's like,
you know, hey, Bigfoot.

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So growing up I was always
out in the woods camping

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while a lot of friends were out surfing,

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and gonna the beach,

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my family, we were
always out in the woods.

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- I love it all.

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I'm always in search of Bigfoot.

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So being born, and raised
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one of the biggest hotspots

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in the whole world is now Adam's area.

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Gosh, I listen to so many podcasts

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geeking out on that kind of stuff,

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because, so I love to climb mountains.

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I love to be out in nature,

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and do adventure sports,
whatever you want to call it.

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So I spend a lot of time in the woods,

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and there are times where
I'm by myself as well,

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and you feel when you go in
different places in the woods,

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you feel different energies
as you're going through.

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Sometimes the hair will stand
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other times you'll feel
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and yet you can't see anything around you,

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and you're like, you can't
help, but wonder like,

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what is going on?

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There's clearly something going on here,

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but I can't see it.

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- The first book I even
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was like a comic book on UFO stories,

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and monsters, and that sort of thing,

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and that piqued my interest,

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and then one day "In Search of"

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came on TV with Leonard Nimoy,

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and they had a Yeti episode,

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and that's pretty much
what started my obsession.

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- And a number of years back.

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I had an encounter with my brother in law

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at my father-in-law's
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and we were on that fire road,

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and we were hunting,
we were coyote hunting.

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Now I'm not really a big predator hunter,

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but he wanted to go.

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So I went with him, and
we set up this, we kind of

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hide it under this big giant Oak tree,

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and we had these rocks, and
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and there's this big clearing,

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and he set out this coyote call,

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which is this horrible speaker.

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You press buttons, and it
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and Diane calf's call,

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and it was echoing all through the Canyon,

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and he had these little look
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that bounced around to
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I'd kind of been into Bigfoot before that,

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like interested you watch
the shows on TV, and stuff,

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but we're up there, and
we're all camouflaged out,

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and we got our rifles, and
we're all hiding in the bushes,

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and I just remember thinking
to myself, predator call, wow,

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I wonder if we call in something
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We're sitting there, it's
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kind of getting really hard to see.

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I kind of hear something behind me

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coming through the leaf litter,

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and it's almost like a
squirrel, or like a step,

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then a step, but it's
pretty far behind me,

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and it's faint, and whoosh, a rock,

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big old rock flies right over my shoulder,

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crunches in the dirt, bounce up.

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I start looking around.

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What was that?

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My brother-in-law kind of jumps back,

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and we're looking at each other,

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and we're like, what was that?

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Was that a coyote?

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He's like, I don't know what,
we should get outta here.

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So we very quickly just
basically got up, and left,

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and on the way out he grabbed his call,

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and we were on the fire road
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and we could hear footsteps behind us.

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We'd hear two, or three
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and we could kinda hear
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and we turn around with our flashlights.

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Hello, anybody there?

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Couldn't see anything.

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We take a few steps and
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was trailing us out,

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and every once in a while
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or something behind us,

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and then you'd hear maybe something else.

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Come to find out,

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there are a lot of Bigfoot
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That particular encounter was
very physical, was very here.

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I did feel a pretty good
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Like I said, because I didn't
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Something's thrown a
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and we got flashlights,
and stuff we can't see.

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We know something's out there.

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Something threw a rock, there's footsteps.

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It's really fascinating
when you get in there,

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and then you start to think,

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well maybe there is more
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- To me, you know, I was always
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and the fact that we can have an animal

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that's very similar to man

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that was still around in the world,

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that undiscovered just, I've
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I was a kid, I always wanted
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and to me that was like the
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just as a child, and it
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it was like romantic fantasy
in a lot of ways, but it was,

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it seems so real.

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At age 12 we moved to
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and I remember going to a bookstore,

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and it had a book on the Lochness monster,

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and I remember asking the
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do you have any other books
on these types of subjects?

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And she had a general book,
and different mysteries,

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and it was Bigfoot, Yeti,
you know Lochness, UFOs,

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and that was sort of my
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because all I knew about it
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- And for me Bigfoot was always,

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I don't even remember when the
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I mean seven, or eight years old.

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You could probably go
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you know what Bigfoot is?

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Like, yeah, he's a big hairy man.

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So I remember seeing Harry and
Anderson's when I was a kid,

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because they came out in the 80s.

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Some of the old "In Search
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There's always some kind of,
and there still is in this day,

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but there was always some
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or special where they have
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and my mom, she's not an anthropologist

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that she does that for living,

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but that's what she got
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It's a good filter to put on

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when you're looking at
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because when you look at like
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and even Cliff Brachman does,

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where they look at the
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the type of locomotion, the
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the structure of the body based on a foot,

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the positioning of bones being different

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than a human when you upscale,

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because you're take a human,

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and you upscale them to 800 pounds,

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we're not very proportioned for that,

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but if you move some leg bones,

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and make some things thicker,
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you could very easily get a
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and have it be very, very fast.

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So when you look at the
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it gets into that,

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and explains a lot of the
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and what people report.

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- Well, so originally the original model

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when I came out of school was that

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we had the split between us and the apes

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7 million years ago, right, theoretically.

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We didn't know anything prior to that.

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We knew very little about
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evolutionary history past that,

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because there aren't a lot of fossil.

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You know, the biggest ape
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extinct about 300,000 years
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and little bit of a jaw bone.

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So we knew very little.

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On the human side we went
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down to Homo habilis, to Homo erectus,

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and eventually gave way to
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that were known to live side by side.

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In the last 10 years that's
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- A few years ago, remember
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when they discovered the human hobbit,

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which is Homo floresiensis, I believe,

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which was in Southeast Asia.

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It was a race of humans
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very close to anatomically modern humans

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lived at the same time
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but they were just small.

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We're not talking dwarfism.

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We're not talking a genetic mutation.

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We're just talking through evolution,

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or whatever means necessary creation,

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whatever you want to believe,

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they're a small race of people,

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and it was last year they
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the Denisovans, or whatever it was,

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I believe in Europe where
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They weren't humans, they
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and they were built quite robust,

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and you look at Homo heidelbergensis,

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there were built, you know,
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It's amazing what they can tell from bone,

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from ligament attachment,

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and muscle attachment to
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and some of the recreations
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these were big tough
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very muscular rundown animals,
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You know, and you look
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and they're discovering
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There's a theory that modern Bigfoot

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is a descendant of Gigantopithecus

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or Gigantopithecus blacki.

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They've really only
found some jaw fragments,

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and some teeth from it, but
they've kind of extrapolated,

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and there's some debate
in the zoological world

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if they were upright,

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or if there were more like
a big walking gorilla,

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or if there were more like a Sasquatch,

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but from what they can extrapolate
that might be very close

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to what a Bigfoot would really look like.

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You know, seven, eight,
nine, 10 feet tall,

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thousand pound, giant
Orangutang looking ape,

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which some people describe.

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- We discovered for some apes prior

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to our theoretical split
with the, you know,

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with the chimps about 8
to 9 million years ago

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that might have been geared
towards becoming bipedal,

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and since then we've discovered a plethora

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of human species hominids in Africa,

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in Europe that lived side by
side of with Homo sapiens,

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Neanderthals, Denisovans, we
had Homo floresiensis in Asia.

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That was alive 40,000 years ago.

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In Africa there's Homo naledi,

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which was alive 200,000 years ago,

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and they had really small
brains like Australopithecus.

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They're very, very primitive,
but completely bipedal.

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So the model where you know,

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certain primitive traits were wiped off

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through evolution doesn't exist anymore.

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Now we know it's possible to
have something like Bigfoot.

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Whether any of those became Bigfoot,

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or are cousins of Bigfoot,
we don't know, right.

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Genetics, they'll tell
that story down the line,

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but the possibilities now

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are a lot more open than they were,

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at least when I was in school.

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- I always, but like I
was saying with UFO stuff,

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always had an interest in the paranormal,

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and when you look at Bigfoot,

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you're like, you want
something to be there,

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and you start looking at the
evidence, and you're like,

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there is something there,

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and then you start experiencing
it, and you're like,

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I don't believe I know
there's something there.

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- I actually 100% believe Bigfoot exist.

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I think we have enough evidence
out there to suggest that

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that species is real, 100%.

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(thunderous booming)

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So the way I work personally is I,

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I have maybe around 20
to 40 areas worldwide,

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20 good ones in United
States that I have my eye on.

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And that's based on not
just sightings report,

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but historical sightings
reports I did back, you know,

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hundreds of years,

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but also location, does it
make sense biologically?

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Is there a water source nearby?

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Is there enough places to stay hidden?

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Is the population low enough

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that it's gonna stay undiscovered,

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and then you should if you
can, head out to those spots,

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but most of them are pretty remote,

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and it's, they're hard
to get to, and you know,

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you got to be able to have
the money, and the time.

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(thunderous booming)

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- Some Bigfoot researchers
don't like the term Bigfoot.

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I kind of get it.

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Bigfoot Chronicles doesn't sound as great

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as Sasquatch Chronicles.

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Some researchers, and some
people have written whole blogs,

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and whole books, and
a whole section saying

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that they don't really
like the name Bigfoot.

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- Well, my specialty is a lot
from a global perspective,

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because I believe that it's a
species that exists worldwide,

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at least where it's possible.

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- He's got to understand,

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everybody thinks a Bigfoot

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is in the Pacific Northwest in California.

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The South, especially
all through East Texas,

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they have a huge, huge
population of people

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that have experienced Sasquatches.

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East Texas is very famous, the land LBL,

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the Florida skunk ape.

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You know, if you ever heard people,

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you ever heard the expression
the boogeyman will get ya,

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or the boogers?

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Well, down in the South,

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their term for Bigfoots are wood boogers.

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Watch out for the boogers.

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The boogers will get you, the woodboogers.

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You hear something
snapping out in the woods.

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You hear something
tromping around out there,

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something peaking in your tent.

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It's a Wood booger,

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what it is is a Southern
variety of Sasquatch,

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and as we encroach more,
and more into the woods,

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and get out there more,

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and I think as their
population actually grows,

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we're getting more, and more encounters.

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Some are friendly, some are
benign, some are not so nice,

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and because they're a creature
that has wants and needs,

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and their own feelings,
and their own mindset,

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and they're gonna do what they want to do.

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You know, why did the bear cross the road?

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Because it wanted to.

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- So originally apes, or hominids,

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hominids, everything
came from Africa, right?

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So it moved through Europe.

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So ground zero for something like Bigfoot

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for their common ancestor,

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for Bigfoot would be Eurasia for me,

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because we have all these fossils

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from anywhere from 300,000 years ago,

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to a million years ago,

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of a plethora of species
that theoretically

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could have evolved into
Bigfoot from Eurasia,

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and if you look at a map,

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and you look at where all
the fossils had been found,

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and then you look at another map,

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where you get sightings
of Bigfoot type creatures,

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they're pretty much on top of one another.

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So, for example,

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in the Caucasus Mountains
you have the amnesty,

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so then you travel
further East into Siberia

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where it's called the Tutu now,

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which is another Bigfoot type,

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which is incidentally is right in front of

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where we once had the
Beringian Land Bridge,

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which a lot of the peoples

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that first populated North America

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came through to Beringia Landbridge.

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Probably not all of them,

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but if you have another bipedal specie,

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it would have came
through that Landbridge.

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So theoretically the
Tutu now, for example,

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could be very closely related to Bigfoot,

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and of course we followed a
mountain range into Tibet,

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and Nepal, and Bhutan of the Yeti,

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across the way to Pamir mountains,

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and to China, they call
it the urine, and to me,

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I really believe it's the same species

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that obviously there's gonna
be some regional differences,

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evolutionary differences through time,

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or some very minor differences.

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You know, like if you look at
all humans across the world,

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we have some differences, right?

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Genetic differences, this
could be the same case.

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So I believe there's only a pathway

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out of Africa through Eurasia,

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through the mountain
ranges in central Asia,

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and up into North America,

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and probably down the
coast into South America.

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Here's the thing too,

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when you start going over to Europe,

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and Russia, and Siberia,

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it's supposed to be
taken lot more seriously,

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by European anthropologists,

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so they've done a little more studies,

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and they found the same
evidence that we have.

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You know, the footprints,

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it has some hair samples,
you know, the same,

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and it matches perfectly

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to what we have here in North America.

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So I think again,

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it's the matching quality
from different time periods,

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from different people,
unrelated countries,

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different languages, and all that.

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You know, I found to me
is the most compelling.

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- But yeah, when you look at
all across the United States,

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and you look at what
people are experiencing

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in like Maine, and the Northeast,

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and compare that to the South,

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compare that to the West coast

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then compare to at the
Pacific Northwest Canada.

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There's a lot of similarities,

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but there are differences
from what they're describing.

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There are differences in temperament

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of the animals, you know,

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in the Pacific Northwest,
and Canada, people, you know,

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eight, nine, 10 foot tall Sasquatch.

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In the South people, yeah,

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they're about seven, and a half foot tall,

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eight foot tall at the most.

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One of the things in biology
research is Bergman's rule.

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The farther North you go,

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the bigger animals tend to be.

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Bears, and mountain
lions tend to be bigger

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when you go North.

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Not always, there are some
animals that that gets smaller,

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but even a coyote in the
desert could weigh 10 pounds.

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It's gonna be 40 pounds up in
the North, or in higher areas.

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They got to be a bigger, robust species.

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(thunderous booming)

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- Every native American
tribe in North America

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has a story about the
giant harry, smelling,

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giants in the woods, you know?

442
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A lot of them pretty violent,

443
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and then I found that there
was a painting from Mongolia

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from the 1800s about that
looks exactly like a Bigfoot,

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including the big breast

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associated with the Patterson
film, and also it was,

447
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it showed a picture of somebody
getting the arms torn off.

448
00:17:08,820 --> 00:17:10,330
It was talking about
two separate cultures.

449
00:17:10,330 --> 00:17:12,400
Obviously they didn't have
a whole lot in common,

450
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but are depicting the exact same mythology

451
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if you want to call it
mythology, you know?

452
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And what in North America there's what,

453
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maybe 500 names for Bigfoot?

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Every tribe has their stories,
you know, early sellers,

455
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I know I have their stories.

456
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Even the Viking supposedly, you know,

457
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encounter the big hairy smelling
guys up in Northern Canada,

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or wherever else they,
you know, they landed.

459
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- I think it's kind of
in our modern day hubris

460
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to think that we know
everything, and we're great now,

461
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and people 200 years ago
were stupid, or something.

462
00:17:41,980 --> 00:17:44,528
It's like, no, no, they really weren't.

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People 200 years ago

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didn't consider themselves old fashioned.

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They themselves modern.

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They considered themselves educated,

467
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and in fact not being as plugged in,

468
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they were probably way more
aware of their surroundings,

469
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and what were going on
than we are today by far

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with all our digital
distractions in our modern life.

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So I think it's very important

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to look at historical encounters.

473
00:18:05,940 --> 00:18:07,820
One gentleman is Tom Seawood.

474
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He's actually part of
the Kwakwaka'wakw tribe

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in the Pacific Northwest,

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and he does tours, and
adventures all around Vancouver,

477
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and Vancouver Island, and he's
had a number of encounters,

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00:18:18,180 --> 00:18:19,924
and being a full fledged tribe member,

479
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he actually talks about their
tribal beliefs of Bigfoot.

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For them, they have the Zoona qua,

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which is the wild woman of the woods.

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It's this big hairy woman
with a Wicker basket,

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and it's kind of their
version of a boogeyman.

484
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Don't go out at night,

485
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listen to your parents, don't
go out, and smoke cigarettes.

486
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Don't go out, and steal food.

487
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Don't go out past 10, the
Zoona qa will get you,

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and it's way, way back in their tradition.

489
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It was this big hairy woman who
would scoop bad children up,

490
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put her in the basket on her back,

491
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take them out, and eat them.

492
00:18:51,986 --> 00:18:54,760
That was part of their tradition,
kind of their boogeyman,

493
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and for as much as it was
kind of their, you know,

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to keep kids at night, don't scare them,

495
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there was also a real tradition,

496
00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,530
and the Kwakwaka'wakw tribe,

497
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each family has, you know,
some people have a Thunderbird,

498
00:19:04,260 --> 00:19:05,240
some people have a Cougar,

499
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:06,784
some people have a bear.

500
00:19:06,784 --> 00:19:11,360
Some people have a Beaver
part of their creation story,

501
00:19:11,360 --> 00:19:13,140
and there are actual families that have,

502
00:19:13,140 --> 00:19:15,880
a Sasquatch is there as their animal,

503
00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:18,060
and to them they have
them on their totem poles.

504
00:19:18,060 --> 00:19:20,420
It's just there are no spirit animals,

505
00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:22,960
and there are no look
flesh, and blood animals.

506
00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,160
For a lot of them, it's one in the same.

507
00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:29,060
So a Sasquatch, a Thunderbird,
a bear, a beaver, a squirrel,

508
00:19:29,060 --> 00:19:30,850
they're all the same to them,

509
00:19:30,850 --> 00:19:32,660
and they all recognize
them as being there.

510
00:19:32,660 --> 00:19:35,825
That they also recognize
that the Zoona qua,

511
00:19:35,825 --> 00:19:38,480
the male Zoona qua, and
the female Zoona qua,

512
00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:39,370
the wild woman of the woods,

513
00:19:39,370 --> 00:19:41,230
or referred to as the
wild man of the tribe.

514
00:19:41,230 --> 00:19:44,270
They refer to them as
people quite interestingly,

515
00:19:44,270 --> 00:19:47,420
and if you go 1500 miles to the South,

516
00:19:47,420 --> 00:19:49,830
they have the famous
hairy man cave paintings

517
00:19:49,830 --> 00:19:52,460
with state back 700, or 800,
or a thousand years ago.

518
00:19:52,460 --> 00:19:55,880
This cave where they
have deer, they have elk,

519
00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,140
they have bears, and then
they have these big hulking,

520
00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:02,040
very creepy looking large,

521
00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,370
which cave paintings of what
appear to be a Sasquatch,

522
00:20:05,370 --> 00:20:07,000
and it definitely looks like a Bigfoot,

523
00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:08,060
and you see a big dad one,

524
00:20:08,060 --> 00:20:09,890
you see a mom one, and you see a baby one,

525
00:20:09,890 --> 00:20:13,200
and he said, well what's the
story behind the hairy man?

526
00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,290
And it's strikingly a lot like

527
00:20:15,290 --> 00:20:16,590
the Kwakwaka'wakw tried to say,

528
00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:18,399
hey, don't go out at night.

529
00:20:18,399 --> 00:20:19,658
The hairy man will get you.

530
00:20:19,658 --> 00:20:21,180
We hunt during the day,
they hunt at night.

531
00:20:21,180 --> 00:20:23,860
Women shouldn't travel alone
to go get water, or anything,

532
00:20:23,860 --> 00:20:24,870
because they'll abduct people.

533
00:20:24,870 --> 00:20:26,060
It's the hairy man.

534
00:20:26,060 --> 00:20:27,639
Don't go out at night.

535
00:20:27,639 --> 00:20:28,720
The hairy man will get you,

536
00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:30,550
and if you look all across virtually

537
00:20:30,550 --> 00:20:31,780
every tribe in the United States,

538
00:20:31,780 --> 00:20:33,620
from desert tribes to mountain tribes,

539
00:20:33,620 --> 00:20:34,610
to the Plains tribes,

540
00:20:34,610 --> 00:20:37,740
they all have a tradition of Bigfoot,

541
00:20:37,740 --> 00:20:39,470
whether it's the Genosqua,

542
00:20:39,470 --> 00:20:42,530
the stone giants in from the East coast

543
00:20:42,530 --> 00:20:45,000
to different versions of the word Wendigo,

544
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,620
which everybody thinks of Wendigo

545
00:20:46,620 --> 00:20:48,680
as the native American cannibal spirit.

546
00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,882
But there was actually some
translations of Wendigo

547
00:20:50,882 --> 00:20:54,120
that show more of a Sasquatch
creature that ate people,

548
00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:56,340
and for a lot of their ape-like features,

549
00:20:56,340 --> 00:20:59,200
I think there is a lot of
human in these creatures,

550
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,320
and I think that's what does
make them so fascinating

551
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:02,330
is when you go to the zoo,

552
00:21:02,330 --> 00:21:04,490
and you look at a
gorilla, or a chimpanzee,

553
00:21:04,490 --> 00:21:07,297
you still see an animal,
a very intelligent animal,

554
00:21:07,297 --> 00:21:08,670
but when you think of a Sasquatch,

555
00:21:08,670 --> 00:21:10,510
and then you get in the encounters,

556
00:21:10,510 --> 00:21:13,003
or you experience one of
these things close up,

557
00:21:14,430 --> 00:21:16,240
it's a predator like a human.

558
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,840
It's the master of its
environment, and what makes humans

559
00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,480
the dominant species on the
planet is we're intelligent.

560
00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,660
We're not necessarily the
biggest, and strongest.

561
00:21:24,660 --> 00:21:26,930
So think of something
that's probably just about

562
00:21:26,930 --> 00:21:28,562
on par with you in intelligence,

563
00:21:28,562 --> 00:21:30,870
but is built like the incredible Hulk,

564
00:21:30,870 --> 00:21:33,550
and that's a very, like you
can do whatever it wants to do,

565
00:21:33,550 --> 00:21:34,944
and you're at their mercy.

566
00:21:34,944 --> 00:21:38,253
(thunderous booming)
- When I go out in the field,

567
00:21:38,253 --> 00:21:39,470
the first thing I look for obviously

568
00:21:39,470 --> 00:21:41,810
is an area that not just as had siting,

569
00:21:41,810 --> 00:21:43,200
because I think that's overrated,

570
00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,770
but an area that makes sense biologically,

571
00:21:45,770 --> 00:21:48,988
in terms of having resources,
and shelter, food, water.

572
00:21:48,988 --> 00:21:52,210
Also it has a long history of sightings,

573
00:21:52,210 --> 00:21:53,960
not just modern sightings, right?

574
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:56,740
So when you go out in the
woods, you look for science,

575
00:21:56,740 --> 00:21:58,650
for example, broken tree branches,

576
00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:00,910
and granted I gets,
it's a little overrated.

577
00:22:00,910 --> 00:22:02,510
Everybody, you know, unfortunately

578
00:22:02,510 --> 00:22:04,300
that's been featured on finding Bigfoot,

579
00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:05,133
and now everybody thinks

580
00:22:05,133 --> 00:22:08,100
that every broken branch
in the woods is Bigfoot.

581
00:22:08,100 --> 00:22:09,926
You know, the truth is
you go after the snow,

582
00:22:09,926 --> 00:22:11,206
the snow will break branches

583
00:22:11,206 --> 00:22:12,800
when it melts, and so forth,

584
00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:15,686
but if you can find branches
that are twisted for example,

585
00:22:15,686 --> 00:22:18,470
and really big tree
trunks, they've been moved,

586
00:22:18,470 --> 00:22:20,840
or it's a little more
intriguing, you know?

587
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:22,250
- One of the very,

588
00:22:22,250 --> 00:22:24,220
if I'm going into an area
I've never been before,

589
00:22:24,220 --> 00:22:26,130
or an area I haven't been in a long time,

590
00:22:26,130 --> 00:22:27,650
I go online, and I just start,

591
00:22:27,650 --> 00:22:29,085
the very first thing I do
is background research,

592
00:22:29,085 --> 00:22:31,840
but also if you take a
look, you just Google Earth,

593
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,110
you realize there's
hundreds of miles of trees,

594
00:22:34,110 --> 00:22:36,800
and woods that not only
is there no people around,

595
00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:38,010
people have probably never been

596
00:22:38,010 --> 00:22:41,210
other than flown over,
very rugged terrain,

597
00:22:41,210 --> 00:22:43,843
and there's lots of hiding
places even you know,

598
00:22:43,843 --> 00:22:46,690
quarter mile off of a road, you know?

599
00:22:46,690 --> 00:22:48,790
And you're in some
really deep steep country

600
00:22:48,790 --> 00:22:50,910
that no one's gonna, no one's back there.

601
00:22:50,910 --> 00:22:52,530
Lots of places to hide.

602
00:22:52,530 --> 00:22:54,690
So I start by looking at
historical encounters,

603
00:22:54,690 --> 00:22:56,030
where have people seen before,

604
00:22:56,030 --> 00:22:57,481
what trail heads, and what areas.

605
00:22:57,481 --> 00:22:59,742
Then I look at maps,

606
00:22:59,742 --> 00:23:02,610
start saying what are
some areas where is water?

607
00:23:02,610 --> 00:23:04,990
I was, I'll have to
look in August, October,

608
00:23:04,990 --> 00:23:06,862
especially in Southern California,

609
00:23:06,862 --> 00:23:07,695
the driest time of the year,

610
00:23:07,695 --> 00:23:09,850
because if I can find water on a trail,

611
00:23:09,850 --> 00:23:12,120
or an area, an old dried up pond,

612
00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,185
a creek that's dried
up, but still has pools.

613
00:23:14,185 --> 00:23:17,560
If I can find water in
October in California,

614
00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:19,422
you know there's gonna be animals around,

615
00:23:19,422 --> 00:23:21,241
because that's the hottest,
driest time of the year,

616
00:23:21,241 --> 00:23:22,640
because it's had all summer to dry out.

617
00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:24,710
There hasn't been any snow, or any rain.

618
00:23:24,710 --> 00:23:26,323
So I look for water sources.

619
00:23:26,323 --> 00:23:29,360
How close are they to main roads,

620
00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:32,261
food sources, hunting
areas, protected areas,

621
00:23:32,261 --> 00:23:34,730
and from there if I actually go out there

622
00:23:34,730 --> 00:23:35,650
when you're actually in the woods,

623
00:23:35,650 --> 00:23:37,960
there are way better
trackers, and people than me,

624
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:39,530
but I'm looking at tracks.

625
00:23:39,530 --> 00:23:40,890
I'm looking for tree breaks,

626
00:23:40,890 --> 00:23:43,090
and snaps of something
going through the woods.

627
00:23:43,090 --> 00:23:44,997
I'm always looking up at the high ground.

628
00:23:44,997 --> 00:23:46,750
The high ground is important.

629
00:23:46,750 --> 00:23:49,140
If you see what looks like a
bunch of trees falling over,

630
00:23:49,140 --> 00:23:51,470
well maybe they're not
falling over on accident,

631
00:23:51,470 --> 00:23:52,840
maybe that's a blind.

632
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:54,030
You got to think like a hunter.

633
00:23:54,030 --> 00:23:56,681
You'd want to obscure your
area to watch a trail.

634
00:23:56,681 --> 00:23:59,540
The trail that you're on
might be a human foot path,

635
00:23:59,540 --> 00:24:00,770
but are there game trails?

636
00:24:00,770 --> 00:24:02,340
You see other little trails going up,

637
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:03,640
and off all over the place?

638
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,260
Well this is for animals to go.

639
00:24:05,260 --> 00:24:07,650
Animals like using trails,
because like humans,

640
00:24:07,650 --> 00:24:10,770
trails are easier than just
walking through the bushes,

641
00:24:10,770 --> 00:24:11,603
so you look through these,

642
00:24:11,603 --> 00:24:13,110
you look for blinds, you look for areas,

643
00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:16,560
you look for the classic tree
structures, and X formations,

644
00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:18,260
and other things that
people find out there.

645
00:24:18,260 --> 00:24:21,480
One of the other phenomenons
that's very common is

646
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,680
I've been out in the middle
of the woods very far in deep,

647
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:25,370
and you find a fire ring,

648
00:24:25,370 --> 00:24:26,896
it'll have a circle of rocks,

649
00:24:26,896 --> 00:24:30,442
and it'll have wood in it,
not burned, no charcoal,

650
00:24:30,442 --> 00:24:34,050
or you'll find like an old
cooler, or like a coat,

651
00:24:34,050 --> 00:24:35,010
and you'll find a firing.

652
00:24:35,010 --> 00:24:37,045
Like someone was camping out here,

653
00:24:37,045 --> 00:24:40,005
but no one's used the fire.

654
00:24:40,005 --> 00:24:42,710
You can tell no one drove,
or camped over here,

655
00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:46,770
and no humans gonna lug this
out there, and weird stuff,

656
00:24:46,770 --> 00:24:49,370
and it's almost like a creature,

657
00:24:49,370 --> 00:24:52,180
or something is emulating
what humans are doing,

658
00:24:52,180 --> 00:24:54,860
or it almost seems like a trap sometimes

659
00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:56,020
where you're like, wow,

660
00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:57,530
this is a very weird firepit.

661
00:24:57,530 --> 00:24:59,590
There's no, there's no
fire in the fire pit,

662
00:24:59,590 --> 00:25:01,700
but it has logs in it,
and it's in a circle.

663
00:25:01,700 --> 00:25:04,297
There's some human items,
and debris out here,

664
00:25:04,297 --> 00:25:05,530
and then you look up a hill,

665
00:25:05,530 --> 00:25:07,440
and there's some things that
may be look like a blind,

666
00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,460
or some big hiding trees, or
some rocks, and you're like,

667
00:25:10,460 --> 00:25:13,530
this might be an ambush
spot, or it could be campers,

668
00:25:13,530 --> 00:25:15,560
or it could be somebody on the run.

669
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,230
Any creature with a lot of intelligence

670
00:25:18,230 --> 00:25:19,870
all the great ape species do it.

671
00:25:19,870 --> 00:25:21,897
Humans do it, you get bored.

672
00:25:21,897 --> 00:25:23,680
I think these things do get creative,

673
00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,010
and I think going onto another subject,

674
00:25:26,010 --> 00:25:28,010
I think we are a lot
of their entertainment.

675
00:25:28,010 --> 00:25:29,130
Why they do look in windows,

676
00:25:29,130 --> 00:25:30,540
why they to come around campsites,

677
00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:32,078
why they do throw rocks and acorns,

678
00:25:32,078 --> 00:25:34,040
and shake our tents in
the middle of the night,

679
00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,130
and do that kind of stuff.

680
00:25:36,130 --> 00:25:37,620
I think they'd like to see our reactions.

681
00:25:37,620 --> 00:25:38,570
I think they get bored.

682
00:25:38,570 --> 00:25:40,370
They don't have the internet,
they don't have cable,

683
00:25:40,370 --> 00:25:42,310
they don't have that kind of stuff.

684
00:25:42,310 --> 00:25:45,780
So I think it's very common
for them to pester us.

685
00:25:45,780 --> 00:25:47,620
Sometimes they want to get us to go away.

686
00:25:47,620 --> 00:25:49,930
Sometimes we're interrupting
a hunt, I think.

687
00:25:49,930 --> 00:25:51,655
Sometimes we're getting
close to their young,

688
00:25:51,655 --> 00:25:53,657
or where other ones are sleeping,

689
00:25:53,657 --> 00:25:56,550
or sometimes they just
want to screw with us,

690
00:25:56,550 --> 00:25:57,850
and other times I think you're curious,

691
00:25:57,850 --> 00:25:59,420
and they just want to watch.

692
00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:01,620
You see on the TV shows
where they're tree knocking,

693
00:26:01,620 --> 00:26:03,678
and they're hooping, and hollering,

694
00:26:03,678 --> 00:26:05,310
and they're doing all this stuff.

695
00:26:05,310 --> 00:26:06,836
If you want to do it
that way, that's fine.

696
00:26:06,836 --> 00:26:08,710
I think that's a great way to drive

697
00:26:08,710 --> 00:26:10,536
every creature into woods away from you.

698
00:26:10,536 --> 00:26:15,450
I just say, watch your footing,
be quiet, move stealthy,

699
00:26:15,450 --> 00:26:19,560
listen, watch, be aware
of your surroundings.

700
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,490
Take a deep breath,
smells, sights, sounds.

701
00:26:23,490 --> 00:26:26,890
Watch your footprints,
watch animal footprints.

702
00:26:26,890 --> 00:26:28,040
Are you seeing bear track?

703
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:29,253
Are you seeing coyote prints?

704
00:26:29,253 --> 00:26:32,490
What kind of poop are you
seeing out there, coyote poop?

705
00:26:32,490 --> 00:26:33,323
What are they eating?

706
00:26:33,323 --> 00:26:34,917
Are there a lot of berries in there?

707
00:26:34,917 --> 00:26:36,340
I know that sounds funny,
but it gives you an idea.

708
00:26:36,340 --> 00:26:37,760
Hey, there's, we're finding all this scat,

709
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,797
and it's got a lot of berries in it.

710
00:26:39,797 --> 00:26:40,794
Well, it's October.

711
00:26:40,794 --> 00:26:42,280
Okay, well berry season just came through.

712
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,250
We're finding a lot of fur.

713
00:26:43,250 --> 00:26:44,930
Well, it must be hunting season.

714
00:26:44,930 --> 00:26:47,340
You know, am I hearing a lot of squirrels?

715
00:26:47,340 --> 00:26:48,660
Am I hearing a lot of birds?

716
00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:50,850
Am I hearing insects, and
crickets, and rabbits,

717
00:26:50,850 --> 00:26:53,570
and lizards running on
rocks, or is it dead?

718
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:56,230
Eerily quiet, and I've experienced that

719
00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:58,280
in the woods where nothing,

720
00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,920
not a bird, not a squirrel, not a lizard.

721
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,060
The mosquito seemed to have gone away,

722
00:27:04,060 --> 00:27:06,720
and it is the weirdest feeling.

723
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,438
Something is big out there.

724
00:27:08,438 --> 00:27:12,180
The king has come home,
everybody be quiet.

725
00:27:12,180 --> 00:27:14,338
So these are things that
you have to look out for

726
00:27:14,338 --> 00:27:15,501
where you're in the woods,

727
00:27:15,501 --> 00:27:16,873
and the rest you just kinda gotta learn.

728
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,610
- But the next step is a
lot more interesting to me.

729
00:27:19,610 --> 00:27:21,660
If something's called a ground nest.

730
00:27:21,660 --> 00:27:23,400
Now people have reported,
I've never found one,

731
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,880
but people reported seeing
kind of like a ground nest,

732
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,860
like gorillas make,
gorillas sleep in nests.

733
00:27:28,860 --> 00:27:31,138
So if you can find these odd features,

734
00:27:31,138 --> 00:27:33,240
you know in the landscape, like in nests,

735
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:35,400
that seems to be out
of place a little bit,

736
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:36,570
it's a good sign.

737
00:27:36,570 --> 00:27:38,920
Next to you look for step
two, which is tracks.

738
00:27:39,770 --> 00:27:41,290
You know, and obviously you have to know

739
00:27:41,290 --> 00:27:42,270
the difference between bear tracks,

740
00:27:42,270 --> 00:27:44,757
and Bigfoot tracks,
which isn't always easy.

741
00:27:44,757 --> 00:27:47,194
You know, I'm sure I've
been fooled, you know?

742
00:27:47,194 --> 00:27:50,714
I'd like to not think I don't
get fooled, but we all do.

743
00:27:50,714 --> 00:27:52,997
You know, sometimes it
can be pretty similar,

744
00:27:52,997 --> 00:27:54,680
and then you know,

745
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,710
obviously then you start
listening for sounds

746
00:27:56,710 --> 00:27:58,330
weird sounds like some kind of howling,

747
00:27:58,330 --> 00:28:00,990
or so ultimately all that's crap,

748
00:28:00,990 --> 00:28:02,220
because it's useless, right?

749
00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:04,340
It's just, you just tell a story,

750
00:28:04,340 --> 00:28:06,220
and a lot of people are
satisfied with that.

751
00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:07,120
It annoys me.

752
00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,500
I think we need a lot
better evidence than that.

753
00:28:09,500 --> 00:28:11,700
Otherwise it's, you know, it's pointless.

754
00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:14,492
Ultimately you won't hear
samples, blood sample.

755
00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:15,510
That's the only thing

756
00:28:15,510 --> 00:28:17,650
that's really gonna lead to the next step.

757
00:28:17,650 --> 00:28:20,850
(thunderous booming)

758
00:28:20,850 --> 00:28:23,790
- The chances of, you know,
you kill a million animals,

759
00:28:23,790 --> 00:28:25,168
and a bunch of different locations,

760
00:28:25,168 --> 00:28:30,070
less than 00000.1% it's
gonna become a fossil.

761
00:28:30,070 --> 00:28:31,180
It is incredibly hard.

762
00:28:31,180 --> 00:28:34,050
It's got to be the right
amount of air getting to it,

763
00:28:34,050 --> 00:28:35,190
and not getting to it.

764
00:28:35,190 --> 00:28:38,070
The right amount of ground
compression preservation,

765
00:28:38,070 --> 00:28:41,990
for bone to turn into stone,
which is fossilization.

766
00:28:41,990 --> 00:28:43,700
It's almost like forming a diamond.

767
00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:45,860
It has to be a very specific
set of circumstances

768
00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:47,013
to form a fossil,

769
00:28:47,013 --> 00:28:49,940
and there are, you know, how
many billions of tons of earth

770
00:28:49,940 --> 00:28:51,650
are out there that are undead,

771
00:28:51,650 --> 00:28:53,063
or unturned over that we
don't know about that,

772
00:28:53,063 --> 00:28:55,769
because it could still have fossils?

773
00:28:55,769 --> 00:28:57,560
So our fossil record
is, it's so incomplete.

774
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,870
We don't even know how incomplete it is,

775
00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:02,150
and from what they're
doing from genetic studies,

776
00:29:02,150 --> 00:29:03,563
from humans that came out a few years ago

777
00:29:03,563 --> 00:29:06,650
where they're finding that
anatomically modern humans,

778
00:29:06,650 --> 00:29:09,840
people today have Neanderthal DNA in them,

779
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,180
it used to be that we thought

780
00:29:11,180 --> 00:29:13,772
there was this race of
pre people, this race.

781
00:29:13,772 --> 00:29:16,440
There was, you know, Homo
erectus, Homo habilis,

782
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,930
Homo heidelbergensis, Homo
floresiensis, Neanderthals,

783
00:29:19,930 --> 00:29:22,900
Crow magnums, Homo sapiens,
Homo sapien, you know,

784
00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:24,980
we were all these different races.

785
00:29:24,980 --> 00:29:27,870
Well, what they're finding
is they interbred a lot,

786
00:29:27,870 --> 00:29:28,703
and crossed over,

787
00:29:28,703 --> 00:29:30,390
and you think of tribes
of people taking over,

788
00:29:30,390 --> 00:29:31,516
and other tribes of people.

789
00:29:31,516 --> 00:29:33,930
The world was very sparsely populated,

790
00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:36,810
so you had to procreate how you saw fit,

791
00:29:36,810 --> 00:29:37,928
how to raise with your kid.

792
00:29:37,928 --> 00:29:39,730
If you are a modern human,

793
00:29:39,730 --> 00:29:41,470
and there was a Neanderthal woman around,

794
00:29:41,470 --> 00:29:42,540
and she was good at hunting,

795
00:29:42,540 --> 00:29:44,120
you're gonna take her as your wife.

796
00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:47,690
It was, you know, it was
the option, and vice versa.

797
00:29:47,690 --> 00:29:48,523
So there was a lot.

798
00:29:48,523 --> 00:29:49,680
They're starting to discover that,

799
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,276
which is very fascinating.

800
00:29:51,276 --> 00:29:53,410
It was a lot more interbreeding,
and crossing over,

801
00:29:53,410 --> 00:29:54,930
and it's painting a very different picture

802
00:29:54,930 --> 00:29:57,233
than even what you would
think about 10 years ago.

803
00:29:57,233 --> 00:30:00,316
(thunderous booming)

804
00:30:02,652 --> 00:30:03,800
- It's the biggest complaint I get is that

805
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,220
why isn't Bigfoot captured on video,

806
00:30:06,220 --> 00:30:07,974
or in pictures all the time?

807
00:30:07,974 --> 00:30:10,700
And part of me has no answer,

808
00:30:10,700 --> 00:30:13,250
because I agree we should really
be getting better evidence,

809
00:30:13,250 --> 00:30:17,120
and maybe the evidence is out
there, but it's not public.

810
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,553
Now I've seen some private couple pictures

811
00:30:18,553 --> 00:30:19,960
that are actually pretty good.

812
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,143
Not maybe Patterson Gilliland
good, but pretty close,

813
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:25,570
and there's some footage even on YouTube

814
00:30:25,570 --> 00:30:26,780
that I think is pretty intriguing,

815
00:30:26,780 --> 00:30:29,210
if you know, if you know
what you're looking for,

816
00:30:29,210 --> 00:30:33,300
but there's, I mean 80% of
those you see on YouTube

817
00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:38,300
are hoaxes, you know, and even
Bigfoot experts get fooled.

818
00:30:38,430 --> 00:30:39,700
You know, I'm sure I've
been fooled by a couple,

819
00:30:39,700 --> 00:30:42,137
but some people should know better.

820
00:30:42,137 --> 00:30:44,120
I think a lot of people
go to the wrong place.

821
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:45,370
They kind of go out in the field

822
00:30:45,370 --> 00:30:46,410
after there's been a sighting,

823
00:30:46,410 --> 00:30:48,494
and you're where Bigfoot was
you not where he's gonna be,

824
00:30:48,494 --> 00:30:49,697
or where he is, you know?

825
00:30:49,697 --> 00:30:53,370
And you're talking about an
intelligent biological species.

826
00:30:53,370 --> 00:30:54,990
I think you have to go a
lot deeper in the woods

827
00:30:54,990 --> 00:30:57,370
if you're really gonna
get some quality footage,

828
00:30:57,370 --> 00:30:59,322
and look, and I'd been out
there, I had been in the woods,

829
00:30:59,322 --> 00:31:00,778
man, it's hard to get around.

830
00:31:00,778 --> 00:31:03,720
There's, you're moving like you know,

831
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,202
a mile per like a couple
hours sometimes you know?

832
00:31:06,202 --> 00:31:07,830
The species that's adapted

833
00:31:07,830 --> 00:31:09,020
specifically for that environment,

834
00:31:09,020 --> 00:31:10,910
if he wants to stay out of sight,

835
00:31:10,910 --> 00:31:12,230
especially we're talking for color

836
00:31:12,230 --> 00:31:15,170
that can camouflage with
the trees very easily.

837
00:31:15,170 --> 00:31:16,003
It's hard, man.

838
00:31:16,003 --> 00:31:18,340
It's hard to get a lot of
pictures in the footage out there,

839
00:31:18,340 --> 00:31:19,173
but I agree.

840
00:31:19,173 --> 00:31:20,680
That's the main skeptic point

841
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,720
that we should have a better answer for,

842
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,700
and I don't have one.

843
00:31:24,700 --> 00:31:28,200
- Well, 150 years ago, nobody
knew what a gorilla was.

844
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,340
If you guys are familiar
with what an okapi is,

845
00:31:30,340 --> 00:31:31,900
it's a cousin of the giraffe.

846
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:34,860
They thought it was a
legend until the 1930s.

847
00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:37,860
They're discovering new
species in small areas.

848
00:31:37,860 --> 00:31:39,630
Mostly, you know, insects, and birds,

849
00:31:39,630 --> 00:31:41,810
and things all the time,

850
00:31:41,810 --> 00:31:44,530
but when you have a species
that's intelligent enough

851
00:31:44,530 --> 00:31:48,361
to actively try to prevent
itself from being discovered.

852
00:31:48,361 --> 00:31:50,360
You go to different parts of the country,

853
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,950
you go to Oregon, Washington state,

854
00:31:51,950 --> 00:31:54,600
go back in the hills there,
you go to these small towns,

855
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:55,780
you talked to them about Bigfoot,

856
00:31:55,780 --> 00:31:57,170
they don't even blink an eye.

857
00:31:57,170 --> 00:31:59,560
It's like, yeah, you
have bears around here?

858
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:00,393
Yeah, we have bears.

859
00:32:00,393 --> 00:32:01,350
Do you have Bigfoot?

860
00:32:01,350 --> 00:32:03,140
Yeah, we have Bigfoots.

861
00:32:03,140 --> 00:32:05,977
What, you know, it's like not a big deal.

862
00:32:05,977 --> 00:32:07,440
To these rural people,

863
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:08,710
to these people that live out there,

864
00:32:08,710 --> 00:32:10,563
we're are the idiots for not believing.

865
00:32:10,563 --> 00:32:13,230
(thunderous booming)

866
00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:15,000
- It was out in North bend,

867
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,201
Washington up in the
Backwoods, Mount Garfield.

868
00:32:18,201 --> 00:32:21,843
There was a night, and I
was sitting by the fire,

869
00:32:21,843 --> 00:32:26,843
and it was a full moon classic
story, and this crazy noise,

870
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,730
like, I still to this day can't repeat it.

871
00:32:33,730 --> 00:32:38,230
I try to be like, oh, you
know, it's not like a howl,

872
00:32:38,230 --> 00:32:41,534
but it was whatever it was,
I'd never heard it before.

873
00:32:41,534 --> 00:32:43,730
I went online,

874
00:32:43,730 --> 00:32:46,070
and tried to Google all these
different animal sounds,

875
00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:47,550
and what animals are capable of.

876
00:32:47,550 --> 00:32:49,790
Couldn't find anything
even remotely close,

877
00:32:49,790 --> 00:32:52,080
but that night when I
was sitting by the fire,

878
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,850
and that sound was coming through,

879
00:32:53,850 --> 00:32:56,100
it sounded like something
was walking through,

880
00:32:56,100 --> 00:33:00,030
and it was very alarmed
that we were there,

881
00:33:00,030 --> 00:33:03,680
and it was letting us
know like, hey, I'm here.

882
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,880
I'm coming through.

883
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,110
And the hair stood up
on the back of my neck.

884
00:33:08,110 --> 00:33:11,123
So I knew that it was to alarm me,

885
00:33:11,123 --> 00:33:14,850
and, because it felt alarmed.

886
00:33:14,850 --> 00:33:19,170
The noise went on for maybe five minutes,

887
00:33:19,170 --> 00:33:21,480
however long it took for it to pass by,

888
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,600
and then it took like a solid 30 minutes

889
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:24,433
sitting by the fire,

890
00:33:24,433 --> 00:33:26,520
just frozen being like, all right,

891
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,453
what am I gonna do if
something goes down here?

892
00:33:30,380 --> 00:33:32,635
- To be honest, the most
interesting case that I know of

893
00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:34,150
is not even North America.

894
00:33:34,150 --> 00:33:36,370
It's in Kenya, and this is something

895
00:33:36,370 --> 00:33:37,550
very few people have ever heard about,

896
00:33:37,550 --> 00:33:39,540
because it's always
been written in French,

897
00:33:39,540 --> 00:33:41,460
and not, it never translated English.

898
00:33:41,460 --> 00:33:43,830
There's an anthropologist in the 1980s

899
00:33:43,830 --> 00:33:48,160
that was doing her work in Kenya.

900
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,110
Her name was Eberhard Rhumageya.

901
00:33:50,110 --> 00:33:51,430
So she was very famous at the time.

902
00:33:51,430 --> 00:33:53,040
I mean, her books were using universities,

903
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,720
and the whole deal.

904
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,630
They started hearing about
these Bigfoot type creatures

905
00:33:57,630 --> 00:33:59,930
for lack of better word
in the forest in Kenya,

906
00:33:59,930 --> 00:34:01,980
which no one had ever heard about before,

907
00:34:02,842 --> 00:34:04,363
except they were a little more gracile,

908
00:34:04,363 --> 00:34:06,120
and more human looking,
but still very primitive,

909
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:07,300
covered in hair.

910
00:34:07,300 --> 00:34:09,040
So she got interested
as an anthropologist,

911
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,444
even though it sounded kind of crazy.

912
00:34:11,444 --> 00:34:13,227
So she started following up on it,

913
00:34:13,227 --> 00:34:15,980
and she found tails
that they had artifacts.

914
00:34:15,980 --> 00:34:18,350
They were using bows, and arrows,

915
00:34:18,350 --> 00:34:19,780
which is not something
that you see typically

916
00:34:19,780 --> 00:34:20,950
with Bigfoots in North America,

917
00:34:20,950 --> 00:34:23,185
or Yetis in Nepal for example,

918
00:34:23,185 --> 00:34:26,862
but then, then she found a pair of arrow

919
00:34:26,862 --> 00:34:29,990
that was left in the ground
by what she called X.

920
00:34:29,990 --> 00:34:31,050
She didn't come up with a better name,

921
00:34:31,050 --> 00:34:33,040
she called her specie X,

922
00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:34,940
and if you look at the
arrow, it's a very primitive,

923
00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:36,590
it's like stone age technology.

924
00:34:36,590 --> 00:34:38,870
It doesn't match any of the other arrows

925
00:34:38,870 --> 00:34:41,886
in any of the tribes in Africa,

926
00:34:41,886 --> 00:34:44,430
and to me I always found fascinating

927
00:34:44,430 --> 00:34:46,530
that you have something Bigfoot like

928
00:34:46,530 --> 00:34:49,510
an Africa where we originated,
and apes originated,

929
00:34:49,510 --> 00:34:52,020
but it had the same qualities of Bigfoot

930
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:54,260
in terms of doesn't have a language.

931
00:34:54,260 --> 00:34:55,093
It's covered in hair.

932
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,740
It's primitive, but seems
to have more of a culture.

933
00:34:57,740 --> 00:35:00,050
That's what started my idea

934
00:35:00,050 --> 00:35:02,010
that we can kind of trace back Bigfoot

935
00:35:02,010 --> 00:35:04,520
from North America through Asia
all the way back to Africa,

936
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:05,520
and there was a link.

937
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,230
What's most compelling to me is the links.

938
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:08,949
You start making links that make sense,

939
00:35:08,949 --> 00:35:10,460
and you start thinking in terms

940
00:35:10,460 --> 00:35:11,910
of a real biological species.

941
00:35:16,060 --> 00:35:18,070
- I think if you want
two really good pieces,

942
00:35:18,070 --> 00:35:22,670
the best evidence that actual
scientist, actual biologists,

943
00:35:22,670 --> 00:35:26,140
actual people have broken down,

944
00:35:26,140 --> 00:35:30,050
and can prove through frame
rates, through size comparisons,

945
00:35:30,050 --> 00:35:33,230
loco motions, combined
with eyewitness reports.

946
00:35:33,230 --> 00:35:34,750
One is the Patterson Gimlin film,

947
00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:37,730
the one that was filmed
in Bluff Creek in 1967.

948
00:35:37,730 --> 00:35:39,340
That has been dissected in a million ways.

949
00:35:39,340 --> 00:35:42,100
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, there's
a lot of independence,

950
00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:44,100
that have done their breakdowns of it,

951
00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:47,050
and from the proportions,
it can't be a man in a suit,

952
00:35:47,050 --> 00:35:49,950
because the legs are too
long, the arms are too long,

953
00:35:49,950 --> 00:35:52,780
and if you did an arm extension
to make an arm longer,

954
00:35:52,780 --> 00:35:54,710
the elbow would stay in the same place.

955
00:35:54,710 --> 00:35:56,800
Things that don't add up with that film,

956
00:35:56,800 --> 00:35:58,860
not to mention the historical of that area

957
00:35:58,860 --> 00:36:00,867
of there being a lot
of Bigfoot encounters.

958
00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:03,430
The way the thing moves, the muscle tone.

959
00:36:03,430 --> 00:36:07,070
- I think it's because the
Patterson Gilliland film

960
00:36:07,070 --> 00:36:09,829
is so clear, especially in
that it's been cleaned up.

961
00:36:09,829 --> 00:36:12,689
I saw second generation copy,

962
00:36:12,689 --> 00:36:16,500
and it's an, you know, I'm
not gonna go 100% in with it,

963
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:17,730
but it's pretty impressive.

964
00:36:17,730 --> 00:36:18,960
You can literally see the muscles,

965
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:20,460
you know, contracting, and moving.

966
00:36:20,460 --> 00:36:23,480
So no one has been able to debunk it.

967
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,540
I mean, there's been seven guys
that claim to be in a suit,

968
00:36:25,540 --> 00:36:28,060
but none of them have proven
that they were in a suit,

969
00:36:28,060 --> 00:36:29,200
and that's like literally seven people.

970
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,248
So they couldn't all
have been in the suit.

971
00:36:31,248 --> 00:36:33,853
It's an impressive, you
know, piece of footage.

972
00:36:33,853 --> 00:36:35,080
I've never met Patterson.

973
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,230
I've met Gimlin a couple
of times, you know,

974
00:36:37,230 --> 00:36:40,180
and he's a really affable guy, you know,

975
00:36:40,180 --> 00:36:43,920
and it's hard to see him lying about it.

976
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,500
I think that if it was a hoax,

977
00:36:45,500 --> 00:36:46,990
he wasn't in on it.

978
00:36:46,990 --> 00:36:48,824
Now Patterson's a little
more complicated character,

979
00:36:48,824 --> 00:36:51,305
and you know, the one thing that

980
00:36:51,305 --> 00:36:53,640
maybe could point towards a hoax

981
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:54,920
is the fact that he had a drawing

982
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:56,360
prior to having the footage that looks

983
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,880
a whole lot like what
the footage looks like,

984
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,340
but then again,

985
00:37:00,340 --> 00:37:01,560
he knew what Bigfoot was
supposed to look like.

986
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,850
He's been collecting
evidence for years, you know?

987
00:37:03,850 --> 00:37:05,240
No one's ever disproven the film.

988
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:06,410
No one's proven 100%.

989
00:37:06,410 --> 00:37:07,720
No one's disproven the film,

990
00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:10,130
and that's pretty impressive considering

991
00:37:10,130 --> 00:37:12,850
we get a lot of crappy
fake footage all the time.

992
00:37:12,850 --> 00:37:14,360
- So the Patterson Gimlin film,

993
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:17,570
if you want to know what a
West coast Bigfoot looks like,

994
00:37:17,570 --> 00:37:19,080
a female, as a matter of fact.

995
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:20,290
The other one that I've met,

996
00:37:20,290 --> 00:37:22,210
and talked to several times,
he's a great researcher,

997
00:37:22,210 --> 00:37:23,943
is Ron Morehead and his Sierra sounds.

998
00:37:23,943 --> 00:37:26,391
In the 70s in a hunting camp,

999
00:37:26,391 --> 00:37:29,640
deep in the Sierras he recorded,

1000
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:31,190
and he had interactions with four,

1001
00:37:31,190 --> 00:37:32,270
or five of his hunting buddies.

1002
00:37:32,270 --> 00:37:35,060
Now it's like you got to
take horses, and pack in two,

1003
00:37:35,060 --> 00:37:36,690
or three days to go to this hunting camp

1004
00:37:36,690 --> 00:37:38,310
in the middle of nowhere,

1005
00:37:38,310 --> 00:37:40,178
which his camp was surrounded
by these creatures,

1006
00:37:40,178 --> 00:37:42,066
these hairy bipedal creatures.

1007
00:37:42,066 --> 00:37:44,050
Not only were they hooping, and hollering,

1008
00:37:44,050 --> 00:37:45,847
and making a lot of strange noises,

1009
00:37:45,847 --> 00:37:48,710
but they were actually
talking to each other,

1010
00:37:48,710 --> 00:37:50,247
and you could hear this garbled language.

1011
00:37:50,247 --> 00:37:52,510
Some people call it samurai chatter,

1012
00:37:52,510 --> 00:37:53,480
because it's very...

1013
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,520
It's this very weird,

1014
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,440
it almost sounds like a foreign language.

1015
00:37:58,440 --> 00:37:59,910
So when you had all this recorded,

1016
00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:02,040
and he brought it to linguistical experts,

1017
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:03,840
language experts, military grade stuff,

1018
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:07,490
people that work for the
Pentagon trying to break codes,

1019
00:38:07,490 --> 00:38:09,427
and translate things, and they broke down,

1020
00:38:09,427 --> 00:38:12,730
and they said, well, there's
a number of phenomenon

1021
00:38:12,730 --> 00:38:14,420
that's going on here in the Sierra Sounds.

1022
00:38:14,420 --> 00:38:16,467
One they can tell the same creature

1023
00:38:16,467 --> 00:38:18,870
is reaching octaves higher,

1024
00:38:18,870 --> 00:38:21,049
and lower than humans can do.

1025
00:38:21,049 --> 00:38:24,867
Almost to the set of having
a second set of vocal chords,

1026
00:38:24,867 --> 00:38:25,840
and a lot of people

1027
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,886
with the classic Sasquatch
calls that you hear,

1028
00:38:27,886 --> 00:38:29,840
it starts off really low,

1029
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:34,160
and then goes into a high pitch
dream way beyond any human,

1030
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,300
or animal can do,

1031
00:38:35,300 --> 00:38:37,440
but the other thing they
encountered with the Sierra Sounds

1032
00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,730
is not only where their frequency,

1033
00:38:39,730 --> 00:38:41,690
and optical phenomenon
that couldn't be human,

1034
00:38:41,690 --> 00:38:43,150
or any known animal,

1035
00:38:43,150 --> 00:38:45,540
but they also found markers of language,

1036
00:38:45,540 --> 00:38:48,550
the same phrases, and words if you will,

1037
00:38:48,550 --> 00:38:50,408
being repeated over, and over again,

1038
00:38:50,408 --> 00:38:53,430
having two, or three, or
more creatures talking back

1039
00:38:53,430 --> 00:38:58,210
and forth, saying what would
their equation of a sentence,

1040
00:38:58,210 --> 00:39:01,550
or phrases being responded
by more sentences and phrases

1041
00:39:01,550 --> 00:39:02,520
different than this one.

1042
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,100
Different than that, and it had
all the markers of language.

1043
00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:06,600
Now we don't know what they're saying,

1044
00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:10,050
but it had all the markers
of language as human language

1045
00:39:10,050 --> 00:39:10,980
as we know it.

1046
00:39:10,980 --> 00:39:13,085
Also, if you look at
the Paul Freeman video,

1047
00:39:13,085 --> 00:39:14,906
that's a pretty good one.

1048
00:39:14,906 --> 00:39:16,920
Just kind of use your judgment.

1049
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,880
For me, if it feels
fake, it's probably fake.

1050
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:24,400
If it looks real, don't
say it's 100% real,

1051
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:25,530
but observe what you know.

1052
00:39:25,530 --> 00:39:26,363
Look at the motion.

1053
00:39:26,363 --> 00:39:27,910
Does it look like a creature?

1054
00:39:27,910 --> 00:39:28,923
How is the hair sticking to it?

1055
00:39:28,923 --> 00:39:31,700
Does it look baggy like
a oversized fur suit?

1056
00:39:31,700 --> 00:39:32,640
Is there muscle tone?

1057
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:33,910
What can you see?

1058
00:39:33,910 --> 00:39:34,980
How are their proportions?

1059
00:39:34,980 --> 00:39:37,000
Are they non-human proportions?

1060
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,400
The documentary that we
were talking about earlier

1061
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,140
about the guy who came out
with these very clear images,

1062
00:39:42,140 --> 00:39:44,202
of Bigfoot on Netflix,

1063
00:39:44,202 --> 00:39:46,410
the biggest problem that
a lot of people had,

1064
00:39:46,410 --> 00:39:47,760
and I got a lot of grief over this,

1065
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,180
because I disagreed with him,

1066
00:39:49,180 --> 00:39:53,260
is that his Sasquatch that he
filmed had human proportions.

1067
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:56,600
The eyes, and nose, and mouth
were all in range of humans.

1068
00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,710
Where if you look at the
Patterson Gimlin film,

1069
00:39:58,710 --> 00:40:00,890
and some of the other
images that they've caught

1070
00:40:00,890 --> 00:40:04,120
of Sasquatches, and the
proportions of the upper lip, nose,

1071
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,131
everything way different than a human.

1072
00:40:06,131 --> 00:40:09,747
It's somewhere coincidentally
if you took a chimpanzee,

1073
00:40:09,747 --> 00:40:12,329
or a gorilla, and you took a human,

1074
00:40:12,329 --> 00:40:14,700
the proportions of what
people have caught on film

1075
00:40:14,700 --> 00:40:17,150
for Sasquatch is somewhere in the middle.

1076
00:40:17,150 --> 00:40:20,140
So when you see something
that's generally human sized,

1077
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:21,447
and has human proportions,

1078
00:40:21,447 --> 00:40:25,370
not completely dismissing
that it's a fake, or a hoax,

1079
00:40:25,370 --> 00:40:27,530
but more than likely it's probably

1080
00:40:27,530 --> 00:40:29,230
a guy in a suit, or a reenactment.

1081
00:40:29,230 --> 00:40:30,620
- Yeah, there's that footage

1082
00:40:30,620 --> 00:40:32,560
that's become real popular recently

1083
00:40:32,560 --> 00:40:34,430
of up-close of a face of a Bigfoot.

1084
00:40:34,430 --> 00:40:35,490
There's two Bigfoots.

1085
00:40:35,490 --> 00:40:36,510
It's been making the rounds.

1086
00:40:36,510 --> 00:40:38,449
A lot of people have backed it.

1087
00:40:38,449 --> 00:40:39,340
It's been in a lot of
documentaries, and films.

1088
00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:40,800
I personally think it's complete crap.

1089
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,100
I think it's a hoax.

1090
00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:45,170
It doesn't correspond
to any of what we know

1091
00:40:45,170 --> 00:40:46,880
of what Bigfoot was supposed to look like,

1092
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:49,100
nor does it look specifically like

1093
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:52,230
what you would expect
either an ape to look like,

1094
00:40:52,230 --> 00:40:54,467
or a modern hominid of that size.

1095
00:40:54,467 --> 00:40:56,517
Some of the features are lot of too thin.

1096
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,470
It just doesn't match
anything that we know of

1097
00:41:00,470 --> 00:41:02,118
in terms of description,

1098
00:41:02,118 --> 00:41:04,340
historical description of what we know

1099
00:41:04,340 --> 00:41:05,920
from the fossil record.

1100
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,230
All you see is the head, first of all,

1101
00:41:07,230 --> 00:41:09,940
and that's if you're able to
capture the head that well,

1102
00:41:09,940 --> 00:41:10,797
you should be able to wait to see

1103
00:41:10,797 --> 00:41:12,190
the animal should be able to walk away,

1104
00:41:12,190 --> 00:41:13,810
or get up, and do
something else, you know?

1105
00:41:13,810 --> 00:41:15,180
So that's the first sign,

1106
00:41:15,180 --> 00:41:17,520
and the other side I look
for also a lot of hoax,

1107
00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:18,710
is when a camera's already focused

1108
00:41:18,710 --> 00:41:21,680
on a particular spot, and like a trail,

1109
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,524
and I'll send something
walks right through it,

1110
00:41:23,524 --> 00:41:25,550
and then you know, in perfect focus,

1111
00:41:25,550 --> 00:41:26,383
and then it disappears.

1112
00:41:26,383 --> 00:41:27,380
That's usually a sign

1113
00:41:28,303 --> 00:41:29,740
that you're dealing with,
you know, fake footage.

1114
00:41:29,740 --> 00:41:32,610
Here's where we get into
some complicated areas.

1115
00:41:32,610 --> 00:41:34,570
The gentleman that took those pictures,

1116
00:41:34,570 --> 00:41:35,924
or fabricated those pictures

1117
00:41:35,924 --> 00:41:38,160
has other footage that's
actually pretty intriguing

1118
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,185
from earlier in Canada.

1119
00:41:40,185 --> 00:41:42,425
I found that footage
actually pretty decent.

1120
00:41:42,425 --> 00:41:44,484
He's got some of like
Bigfoots walking up a hill,

1121
00:41:44,484 --> 00:41:47,010
and so forth, and that's the
problem that we get into.

1122
00:41:47,010 --> 00:41:49,240
You know, a lot of guys will go out there,

1123
00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:51,740
and they'll start off
being honest researchers,

1124
00:41:51,740 --> 00:41:53,044
and they'll get a little bit of footage,

1125
00:41:53,044 --> 00:41:54,500
and I'll get a little bit, you know,

1126
00:41:54,500 --> 00:41:55,480
a couple checks here, and there,

1127
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:56,313
and all of a sudden

1128
00:41:56,313 --> 00:41:57,740
you need to prove more,
and more, and more,

1129
00:41:57,740 --> 00:42:01,320
and that's where a lot of
the hoaxing comes about.

1130
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:02,900
- The other thing you can do is if this,

1131
00:42:02,900 --> 00:42:04,560
I've had people send me lots of pictures,

1132
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,730
and see this looks like a pretty
convincing Sasquatch photo.

1133
00:42:06,730 --> 00:42:07,563
What do you think?

1134
00:42:07,563 --> 00:42:09,650
I go on Amazon, and Google monkey suit,

1135
00:42:09,650 --> 00:42:11,204
or Bigfoot costume, or gorilla costume,

1136
00:42:11,204 --> 00:42:13,980
and I can see the exact same mask,

1137
00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:17,130
or look at the hands, and I'm
like, well someone's hoaxing,

1138
00:42:17,130 --> 00:42:20,640
or someone was not hoaxing,
but making a commercial,

1139
00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,500
or playing a prank, or something,

1140
00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:25,040
and then it got taken out of context too.

1141
00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:27,463
You know, because I really don't think

1142
00:42:27,463 --> 00:42:28,350
there's that many hoaxers.

1143
00:42:28,350 --> 00:42:29,380
I just think, like I said,

1144
00:42:29,380 --> 00:42:32,750
old college films, people
doing something else,

1145
00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:36,524
a bear at a wrong angle, and
then people misinterpreting it,

1146
00:42:36,524 --> 00:42:38,810
but as far as deliberate hoaxers

1147
00:42:38,810 --> 00:42:41,110
I don't think there's
necessarily that many.

1148
00:42:41,110 --> 00:42:42,920
So I think you just kinda
gotta use their judgment.

1149
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:44,680
There's so much out there

1150
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:46,601
when it comes to photos of Bigfoot.

1151
00:42:46,601 --> 00:42:49,550
(thunderous booming)

1152
00:42:49,550 --> 00:42:51,983
- Yeah the question of why
people would want to make hoaxes,

1153
00:42:51,983 --> 00:42:54,490
I've never been able to
wrap my head around it,

1154
00:42:54,490 --> 00:42:56,050
you know, specifically I think part of it,

1155
00:42:56,050 --> 00:42:58,230
people just like to be
on TV for two minutes.

1156
00:42:58,230 --> 00:42:59,930
Some people just get off,
you know, fooling people,

1157
00:42:59,930 --> 00:43:02,260
or maybe they think you
can make some money off it.

1158
00:43:02,260 --> 00:43:04,722
I mean, let me tell you,
there's not a whole lot of money

1159
00:43:04,722 --> 00:43:05,700
in the Bigfoot field, you know?

1160
00:43:05,700 --> 00:43:07,981
I mean, you can't make money
off the hoax ultimately,

1161
00:43:07,981 --> 00:43:09,260
because you can't prove it.

1162
00:43:09,260 --> 00:43:11,830
- Well, there are a number
of Bigfoot researchers

1163
00:43:11,830 --> 00:43:13,520
who carry firearms in the woods.

1164
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,920
I'm one of them, and I have no intention

1165
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:17,420
of shooting a Sasquatch in cold blood.

1166
00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:19,820
I have no intention of
taking one for science,

1167
00:43:19,820 --> 00:43:22,440
or any of those other kinds of
stuff. It's purely defensive.

1168
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:23,830
If I'm attacked by a bear,

1169
00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:26,130
or a mountain lion, or believe it, or not,

1170
00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:28,440
humans can be very bad people.

1171
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:29,730
I think we all know that.

1172
00:43:29,730 --> 00:43:31,360
So if I come across something in the woods

1173
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,140
that's perhaps dangerous,

1174
00:43:33,140 --> 00:43:36,130
and I shouldn't be there, whether
it be human, or otherwise,

1175
00:43:36,130 --> 00:43:37,303
or a Sasquatch,

1176
00:43:37,303 --> 00:43:39,650
there are a lot of people in the South,

1177
00:43:39,650 --> 00:43:42,120
there's a lot of grow, and things,

1178
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:43,290
and there's a lot of people in his world

1179
00:43:43,290 --> 00:43:45,020
that just want to be left alone,

1180
00:43:45,020 --> 00:43:47,130
Bigfoot, bear, human, or otherwise,

1181
00:43:47,130 --> 00:43:49,021
and you don't want to
mess with these people.

1182
00:43:49,021 --> 00:43:51,930
So putting on a Bigfoot costume,

1183
00:43:51,930 --> 00:43:53,720
and running through
some old man's backyard,

1184
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:56,720
or through some fields is a bad idea.

1185
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:58,330
There's been a number of stories of people

1186
00:43:58,330 --> 00:44:00,730
who have been shot at, or shot,

1187
00:44:00,730 --> 00:44:04,020
or hit by cars who have
been in Bigfoot costumes.

1188
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:06,160
You can find them. There was
one in Montana a few years ago

1189
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,642
where a guy dressed up
in a Sasquatch outfit,

1190
00:44:08,642 --> 00:44:11,090
and ran across the road,
and he got hit by a car,

1191
00:44:11,090 --> 00:44:14,020
and then got hit going the
other way by another car

1192
00:44:14,020 --> 00:44:15,980
by a teenager on her cell phone.

1193
00:44:15,980 --> 00:44:17,399
It's not a smart thing.

1194
00:44:17,399 --> 00:44:20,482
(thunderous booming)

1195
00:44:21,959 --> 00:44:23,800
- So there's one called a cripple photo,

1196
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,640
which I believe was in Washington,

1197
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:26,860
and the gentleman that

1198
00:44:26,860 --> 00:44:29,920
I was talking about is Dr.
Melbourne from I think Idaho,

1199
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,340
and furthermore is also dermal
ridges that had been found

1200
00:44:33,340 --> 00:44:34,550
on some of his prints.

1201
00:44:34,550 --> 00:44:35,780
So I found that pretty compelling,

1202
00:44:35,780 --> 00:44:37,550
because it's pretty hard
to make dermal ridges

1203
00:44:37,550 --> 00:44:38,960
if you're gonna fake it.

1204
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:40,430
Also, you know the
flexibility in the foot,

1205
00:44:40,430 --> 00:44:43,240
that's hard to reproduce,
you know, if you can do hoax,

1206
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:44,918
and a lot of those are pretty flexible,

1207
00:44:44,918 --> 00:44:46,700
and which is an interesting point,

1208
00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:48,017
because flexibility in the foot

1209
00:44:48,017 --> 00:44:50,016
is actually a primitive adaptation.

1210
00:44:50,016 --> 00:44:52,930
As you can see when a chimp
wraps his foot around the tree

1211
00:44:52,930 --> 00:44:55,078
for example, and in fact a
small percentage of humans today

1212
00:44:55,078 --> 00:44:57,553
have a flexible mid foot,

1213
00:44:57,553 --> 00:45:01,360
as a vestigial trait
from our prior hominids.

1214
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,580
So you know, when you see
something in the field,

1215
00:45:03,580 --> 00:45:05,480
like a footprint that makes sense

1216
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,540
in terms of what we know about anatomy,

1217
00:45:08,540 --> 00:45:11,560
our evolutionary history, or
ape, you know, physiology,

1218
00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,458
you take those a little more seriously.

1219
00:45:13,458 --> 00:45:16,541
(thunderous booming)

1220
00:45:18,260 --> 00:45:19,640
- There's been plenty of hair samples

1221
00:45:19,640 --> 00:45:21,800
that have been collected
that get sent to labs.

1222
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:22,633
Now here's the thing.

1223
00:45:22,633 --> 00:45:24,670
When you send, say you find a hair sample,

1224
00:45:24,670 --> 00:45:27,758
and you send it into a lab
somewhere, you find a research,

1225
00:45:27,758 --> 00:45:30,440
you find a college,
you send it into a lab,

1226
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,003
they compare that hair to
everything that's known,

1227
00:45:33,950 --> 00:45:35,580
and they compare it to your region.

1228
00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:38,390
There's no use for them
comparing a hair sample

1229
00:45:38,390 --> 00:45:41,320
that you found in Big Bear,
California to a bangle tiger,

1230
00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:42,210
because as far as we know

1231
00:45:42,210 --> 00:45:45,038
there are no bangle tigers in Big Bear.

1232
00:45:45,038 --> 00:45:47,110
It could be a drug dealer with one,

1233
00:45:47,110 --> 00:45:48,556
but anyway, so they're not
gonna look for bangle tiger.

1234
00:45:48,556 --> 00:45:50,074
What is in Big Bear?

1235
00:45:50,074 --> 00:45:55,074
Well bears, mountain lions,
deer, raccoons, squirrels,

1236
00:45:55,278 --> 00:45:58,841
other forest creatures, and
when they analyze that hair,

1237
00:45:58,841 --> 00:46:00,740
and they realize it comes
up with none of that,

1238
00:46:00,740 --> 00:46:03,300
then they also look at is it synthetic,

1239
00:46:03,300 --> 00:46:04,410
is it probably propylene?

1240
00:46:04,410 --> 00:46:06,950
It is a cheap wig, costume type hair.

1241
00:46:06,950 --> 00:46:08,041
Is it a human hair?

1242
00:46:08,041 --> 00:46:10,667
And then from there, if
you pay enough money,

1243
00:46:10,667 --> 00:46:13,480
and you wait enough time, and
you've sent it to enough labs,

1244
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,390
you can determine is
it a bangle tiger hair?

1245
00:46:16,390 --> 00:46:17,600
Is it a grizzly bear hair,

1246
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,150
and there's not supposed to
be any grizzly bears here,

1247
00:46:19,150 --> 00:46:21,730
where there's some in the
region of the United States,

1248
00:46:21,730 --> 00:46:23,756
but not necessarily here in Big Bear?

1249
00:46:23,756 --> 00:46:25,910
Interestingly enough,
there was grizzly bears

1250
00:46:25,910 --> 00:46:27,190
once upon a time in Big Bear,

1251
00:46:27,190 --> 00:46:28,850
that's a big bear got its name,

1252
00:46:28,850 --> 00:46:30,640
because they have really big bears.

1253
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:31,830
You can look at hair samples,

1254
00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:33,430
and you can look at DNA samples,

1255
00:46:33,430 --> 00:46:36,080
where they find hair
samples, or they find blood.

1256
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:38,560
They find things and they
find this hair sample,

1257
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:39,470
or they find DNA,

1258
00:46:39,470 --> 00:46:41,860
and the DNA samples
that come up, they say,

1259
00:46:41,860 --> 00:46:44,728
well they're half human,
and half something else,

1260
00:46:44,728 --> 00:46:46,250
so we don't know what it is.

1261
00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:47,348
So it's not Bigfoot.

1262
00:46:47,348 --> 00:46:49,270
Well, if they had a Bigfoot sample,

1263
00:46:49,270 --> 00:46:50,390
they would know it was Bigfoot,

1264
00:46:50,390 --> 00:46:51,223
but they don't have this,

1265
00:46:51,223 --> 00:46:53,930
and once again it's a comparative thing.

1266
00:46:53,930 --> 00:46:56,520
You can't definitively
say something's something,

1267
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:57,831
if you've never seen it before.

1268
00:46:57,831 --> 00:47:00,520
If you look at, like I
said, photo evidence,

1269
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,490
and video evidence, and audio evidence.

1270
00:47:03,490 --> 00:47:05,450
Those are, if you want
good physical stuff,

1271
00:47:05,450 --> 00:47:06,540
you have to look deep.

1272
00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:08,087
You got to go through,

1273
00:47:08,087 --> 00:47:10,550
or they have to cut the
chaff from the wheat

1274
00:47:10,550 --> 00:47:11,560
is kind of the expression

1275
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,970
you got to cut through a
lot of BS to get to it,

1276
00:47:13,970 --> 00:47:15,440
but there's some good
stuff on the internet.

1277
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,171
There's some really good researchers.

1278
00:47:17,171 --> 00:47:20,254
(thunderous booming)

1279
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:24,610
- Yeah, I'm not sure what
really keeps me in the field

1280
00:47:24,610 --> 00:47:27,820
aside from just that
spirit of exploration.

1281
00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:30,560
I just love being out there,
which is, yeah, to me,

1282
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,840
whether you're looking for Bigfoot,

1283
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:36,730
or any other cryptozoological
animal, or aliens,

1284
00:47:36,730 --> 00:47:38,400
or you're out there, and trying to find,

1285
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:39,670
you know, proof of ghosts,

1286
00:47:39,670 --> 00:47:41,250
it's like Las Vegas, right?

1287
00:47:41,250 --> 00:47:42,906
You know, you can hit
it big at any moment,

1288
00:47:42,906 --> 00:47:44,960
and that, that addictive personality,

1289
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:46,150
I think it really feeds you,

1290
00:47:46,150 --> 00:47:47,450
because you're like, I can
come around the corner,

1291
00:47:47,450 --> 00:47:49,870
and boom, and you'll
lose more than your win,

1292
00:47:49,870 --> 00:47:51,700
but I think just that little chance that,

1293
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:54,230
you know, you can come up with something,

1294
00:47:54,230 --> 00:47:55,670
and also I think it's important, you know,

1295
00:47:55,670 --> 00:47:58,426
I think if you look in
an environment today,

1296
00:47:58,426 --> 00:47:59,844
obviously we have,

1297
00:47:59,844 --> 00:48:00,980
there's a lot of
ecological problems, right?

1298
00:48:00,980 --> 00:48:04,100
There's fires from Siberia to the Congo,

1299
00:48:04,100 --> 00:48:06,723
to the Amazon, to now in Australia,

1300
00:48:08,587 --> 00:48:10,890
we're talking about a lot
of species going extinct.

1301
00:48:10,890 --> 00:48:12,713
And I think we forget sometimes,

1302
00:48:12,713 --> 00:48:15,190
like if we're dealing with even Bigfoot,

1303
00:48:15,190 --> 00:48:16,560
or any other, you know, nasty,

1304
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:17,690
whatever you want to talk about,

1305
00:48:17,690 --> 00:48:19,870
we're talking about real bonafide species

1306
00:48:19,870 --> 00:48:23,460
that it's our responsibility
to stop from going extinct.

1307
00:48:23,460 --> 00:48:25,570
We need to start the state of the world.

1308
00:48:25,570 --> 00:48:27,387
We need to really start thinking

1309
00:48:27,387 --> 00:48:28,220
in terms of like saving the environment,

1310
00:48:28,220 --> 00:48:29,930
and saving some of these
species are, you know,

1311
00:48:29,930 --> 00:48:31,430
you see species going extinct every day,

1312
00:48:31,430 --> 00:48:33,570
and that literally keeps me up at night.

1313
00:48:33,570 --> 00:48:35,293
The idea that we can have this species

1314
00:48:35,293 --> 00:48:39,126
that can tell us so much
about how to survive.

1315
00:48:39,126 --> 00:48:42,209
(thunderous booming)

1316
00:48:43,050 --> 00:48:45,820
- Well that's a whole
nother subject right there.

1317
00:48:45,820 --> 00:48:49,680
The only time I ever find
dead animals in the woods

1318
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,200
are generally from humans.

1319
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,420
Most animals don't want
to be pecked to death,

1320
00:48:53,420 --> 00:48:56,370
or bitten to death, or torn
apart when they're dying.

1321
00:48:56,370 --> 00:48:58,120
So they go seclude themselves somewhere,

1322
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:02,080
and die in peace away from
other animals, away from humans.

1323
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:03,580
If I clumped you over
the head in the woods,

1324
00:49:03,580 --> 00:49:04,590
and you were wandering around,

1325
00:49:04,590 --> 00:49:06,920
you'd want to go find a shady,
safe spot away from what

1326
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:09,020
clunked you want on the head, and recover,

1327
00:49:09,020 --> 00:49:11,410
and then in the woods
there is no medicine.

1328
00:49:11,410 --> 00:49:13,833
You're gonna get better,
or you're gonna die,

1329
00:49:13,833 --> 00:49:15,380
and you have to remember

1330
00:49:15,380 --> 00:49:17,673
North America has very acidic soil,

1331
00:49:17,673 --> 00:49:19,697
so any bones that are left behind,

1332
00:49:19,697 --> 00:49:22,360
and the primary minerals, and
bones, calcium, magnesium,

1333
00:49:22,360 --> 00:49:24,870
that other stuff gets
eaten away very quickly,

1334
00:49:24,870 --> 00:49:26,411
especially in pine forest,

1335
00:49:26,411 --> 00:49:28,350
because pine needles are very acidic,

1336
00:49:28,350 --> 00:49:29,694
and all that breaks down into woods,

1337
00:49:29,694 --> 00:49:34,694
so things rot away very,
very quickly as far as bones,

1338
00:49:35,150 --> 00:49:39,509
and if you ever have encountered
a dead body of an animal,

1339
00:49:39,509 --> 00:49:43,550
or shot squirrels, or whatever,

1340
00:49:43,550 --> 00:49:45,500
and you've maybe gutted them out,

1341
00:49:45,500 --> 00:49:47,070
or a gut pile, or something,

1342
00:49:47,070 --> 00:49:48,510
or you've come across an animal kill,

1343
00:49:48,510 --> 00:49:50,910
even just go on national
geographic, or YouTube,

1344
00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:54,750
and go, or watch a Yellowstone
National Park documentary

1345
00:49:54,750 --> 00:49:56,680
where a winter kill happens,

1346
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,688
where an animal drops dead
in the winter from the cold,

1347
00:49:58,688 --> 00:50:01,900
or a bear gets it, or the wolves get it,

1348
00:50:01,900 --> 00:50:05,210
within three days, it's
a half picked skeleton.

1349
00:50:05,210 --> 00:50:07,090
Within a week it's a skeleton.

1350
00:50:07,090 --> 00:50:09,360
Within two weeks, those
bones are scattered.

1351
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:13,110
Within a month you might find a rib bone.

1352
00:50:13,110 --> 00:50:14,200
Most of the bones are broken,

1353
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:15,480
and crunched by other animals.

1354
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:16,820
You might find a skull over here.

1355
00:50:16,820 --> 00:50:19,030
You come back a year from that point

1356
00:50:19,030 --> 00:50:20,560
as more pine needles come down,

1357
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:21,930
and rain, and snow, and everything else,

1358
00:50:21,930 --> 00:50:23,010
they're gonna be half buried.

1359
00:50:23,010 --> 00:50:24,760
You come back in two years,

1360
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,410
you'd be lucky if you find
one bone of that creature,

1361
00:50:27,410 --> 00:50:29,390
and I've experienced that
growing up in the woods.

1362
00:50:29,390 --> 00:50:31,690
When I would visit my
uncles house in Montana,

1363
00:50:31,690 --> 00:50:35,013
there was a moose that died by the river

1364
00:50:35,013 --> 00:50:37,380
where he was into the river,

1365
00:50:37,380 --> 00:50:39,040
at about a quarter mile from his house,

1366
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,500
and I remember when we first saw it,

1367
00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:42,992
it was like a skeleton,

1368
00:50:42,992 --> 00:50:46,200
and my uncle told me
that it died a month ago,

1369
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,830
and it was like had
flesh on it everything.

1370
00:50:47,830 --> 00:50:48,663
It was picked clean,

1371
00:50:48,663 --> 00:50:51,620
it looked like a white
skeleton from a museum.

1372
00:50:51,620 --> 00:50:52,760
Then I remember over a few weeks

1373
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,810
coming back to bones being
a little more scattered,

1374
00:50:54,810 --> 00:50:55,920
a little more broken down,

1375
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:57,835
and then I remember the next
summer coming up to visit him,

1376
00:50:57,835 --> 00:50:59,760
going back, and looking for it,

1377
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:01,360
and maybe finding one, or two bones,

1378
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,133
and it was just as a kid, like,
wow, things don't last long.

1379
00:51:05,430 --> 00:51:07,180
So the animals are gonna
go away from humans,

1380
00:51:07,180 --> 00:51:08,720
and other thing else,
and die where we don't,

1381
00:51:08,720 --> 00:51:11,243
it's not gonna be convenient
for us to get to them,

1382
00:51:12,250 --> 00:51:13,700
and when it comes to Bigfoot,

1383
00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:16,150
if you look at Neanderthal species,

1384
00:51:16,150 --> 00:51:18,240
if you look at a lot of other pre-humans,

1385
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:20,840
they have found burial
sites of pre-humans,

1386
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,830
large animal such as
elephants have been found

1387
00:51:23,830 --> 00:51:27,500
coming back years later to
where other elephants have died,

1388
00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:29,750
and mourning over them,
and picking up the skulls,

1389
00:51:29,750 --> 00:51:31,650
and playing with them,
and stuff in Africa,

1390
00:51:31,650 --> 00:51:33,597
and they're showing
signs of being mourned,

1391
00:51:33,597 --> 00:51:35,050
and that they remember that person

1392
00:51:35,050 --> 00:51:38,090
coming back to the death of
an individual years later.

1393
00:51:38,090 --> 00:51:41,170
Apes have have exhibited this stuff too,

1394
00:51:41,170 --> 00:51:42,920
where they mourn for the loss of somebody,

1395
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,110
or there's an older ape,

1396
00:51:44,110 --> 00:51:45,480
or something that can't eat as well,

1397
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,430
so they're bringing them food,

1398
00:51:47,430 --> 00:51:48,970
and in my opinion, Bigfoot's being

1399
00:51:48,970 --> 00:51:52,451
much more closer to humans,
perhaps they bury their dead.

1400
00:51:52,451 --> 00:51:55,512
The other thing to
consider, times are tough.

1401
00:51:55,512 --> 00:51:57,850
It's 15/20 degrees out.

1402
00:51:57,850 --> 00:51:59,190
It's really hard to hunt.

1403
00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:02,750
We're buried up to our
belly button in snow.

1404
00:52:02,750 --> 00:52:05,490
If one falls dead, maybe they eat them.

1405
00:52:05,490 --> 00:52:08,072
That's 600, 700 pounds
of protein right there.

1406
00:52:08,072 --> 00:52:09,560
There's lots of evidence

1407
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,330
that modern humans ate Neanderthals,

1408
00:52:11,330 --> 00:52:13,050
and Neanderthals ate modern humans.

1409
00:52:13,050 --> 00:52:15,720
To this day, I mean there's, you know,

1410
00:52:15,720 --> 00:52:18,152
like cannibalism happens, it's very taboo,

1411
00:52:18,152 --> 00:52:21,110
and it's very common in other species.

1412
00:52:21,110 --> 00:52:22,414
Bears will eat other bears.

1413
00:52:22,414 --> 00:52:25,731
It's common in every species
out there, cannibalism,

1414
00:52:25,731 --> 00:52:29,380
and there's even new stuff come out

1415
00:52:29,380 --> 00:52:31,860
in the last couple of
years with chimpanzees,

1416
00:52:31,860 --> 00:52:33,490
where a trooper chimpanzees will go,

1417
00:52:33,490 --> 00:52:35,592
and bait another trooper
chimpanzees, and eat them.

1418
00:52:35,592 --> 00:52:37,372
They'll tear them apart very violently.

1419
00:52:37,372 --> 00:52:40,480
It's horrific to watch people killing,

1420
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,260
or there'll be a troop of chimpanzees,

1421
00:52:42,260 --> 00:52:44,919
and there'll be the leader, and
a young leader will go kill,

1422
00:52:44,919 --> 00:52:47,727
and eat, and dismember
the very violent stuff,

1423
00:52:47,727 --> 00:52:50,687
the older chimpanzees
to take over the troop.

1424
00:52:50,687 --> 00:52:53,183
So why would we think that Bigfoot,

1425
00:52:53,183 --> 00:52:55,800
who has a striking resemblance to humans,

1426
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,270
and apes would not
possibly bury their dead,

1427
00:52:58,270 --> 00:53:00,360
would not possibly eat their dead,

1428
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,050
would not possibly dispose of their bones,

1429
00:53:03,050 --> 00:53:04,449
and crunched them up?

1430
00:53:04,449 --> 00:53:05,382
Who knows?

1431
00:53:05,382 --> 00:53:08,820
(thunderous booming)

1432
00:53:08,820 --> 00:53:11,240
If you have a patch of woods,

1433
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:13,262
there's been a Bigfoot siting there,

1434
00:53:13,262 --> 00:53:15,410
and I think anybody who's grown
up in either in the country,

1435
00:53:15,410 --> 00:53:16,742
or semi-rural area,

1436
00:53:16,742 --> 00:53:19,803
there's always the stories
of don't go down that road.

1437
00:53:19,803 --> 00:53:23,010
Or, oh, those old woods are haunted,

1438
00:53:23,010 --> 00:53:24,330
or grandpa told you

1439
00:53:24,330 --> 00:53:26,020
you can hunt on East side of the mountain,

1440
00:53:26,020 --> 00:53:27,600
but don't hunt on the
West side of the mountain.

1441
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:28,900
Why?

1442
00:53:28,900 --> 00:53:29,903
Just because I said so.

1443
00:53:29,903 --> 00:53:30,890
Don't hunt on the West
side of the mountain,

1444
00:53:30,890 --> 00:53:32,930
and you start looking at
these historical counters,

1445
00:53:32,930 --> 00:53:34,190
the boogeyman reports.

1446
00:53:34,190 --> 00:53:36,123
There's the beast of this,

1447
00:53:36,123 --> 00:53:37,761
or the monster of that, and
you start looking at maps.

1448
00:53:37,761 --> 00:53:40,210
Devil's Canyon, Ape Canyons,

1449
00:53:40,210 --> 00:53:43,842
Devil's Slide, Devil's
Playpen, Demon Ridge.

1450
00:53:43,842 --> 00:53:46,640
Wow, why did they have
such dark grim names?

1451
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,103
Death Valley, Death this,
Death that, and you're like,

1452
00:53:50,103 --> 00:53:51,720
well, how come it wasn't Sunshine Ridge,

1453
00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:54,620
or you know, Flower Meadow, you know?

1454
00:53:54,620 --> 00:53:57,690
Oh no, it was called
Death Canyon for a reason.

1455
00:53:57,690 --> 00:53:58,640
You start looking at it,

1456
00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:00,445
and you start looking at these things,

1457
00:54:00,445 --> 00:54:01,278
and it's like virtually anywhere

1458
00:54:01,278 --> 00:54:03,410
there is a substantial patch of woods.

1459
00:54:03,410 --> 00:54:07,543
My rule is if you see
deer, and you see water,

1460
00:54:07,543 --> 00:54:11,042
it could possibly possibly
support a Bigfoot.

1461
00:54:11,042 --> 00:54:14,020
(thunderous booming)

1462
00:54:14,020 --> 00:54:15,460
- Yeah, I think there's
a plethora of species

1463
00:54:15,460 --> 00:54:17,150
that have been discovered
throughout the years

1464
00:54:17,150 --> 00:54:21,810
from new monkey species to
obviously tons of ocean species

1465
00:54:21,810 --> 00:54:23,143
getting discovered every year.

1466
00:54:23,143 --> 00:54:26,333
Some big mammals were discovered
in Vietnam in the 90s,

1467
00:54:27,510 --> 00:54:29,980
and you know, I think that
that gives me a lot of hope.

1468
00:54:29,980 --> 00:54:31,806
I, you know, and the Amazon

1469
00:54:31,806 --> 00:54:35,080
there's a species discovered
every week technically,

1470
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:35,913
a new species.

1471
00:54:35,913 --> 00:54:37,960
Now a lot of them are
small, granted, you know?

1472
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,330
There's no difference to
me between discovering

1473
00:54:40,330 --> 00:54:42,530
a new biological species
of any kind, and Bigfoot,

1474
00:54:42,530 --> 00:54:45,510
because we're still dealing
with, you know, same modality.

1475
00:54:45,510 --> 00:54:48,970
I mean, we've explored what
percentage of the world?

1476
00:54:48,970 --> 00:54:50,030
Not as high as people think.

1477
00:54:50,030 --> 00:54:51,730
A lot of this, these areas
had been mapped from the air,

1478
00:54:51,730 --> 00:54:52,980
but no one's been on the ground.

1479
00:54:52,980 --> 00:54:54,240
There's a lot of open areas up there,

1480
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:55,840
especially if people don't realize,

1481
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:57,843
it's not like we don't know
more about the wilderness today.

1482
00:54:57,843 --> 00:55:01,646
Most people moving into cities, you know,

1483
00:55:01,646 --> 00:55:05,385
moving away from living out in
the woods, or in the jungle.

1484
00:55:05,385 --> 00:55:07,960
(thunderous booming)

1485
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:08,810
- It's very interesting.

1486
00:55:08,810 --> 00:55:11,504
Up until very recently
we thought chimpanzees

1487
00:55:11,504 --> 00:55:14,700
were mostly fruit eaters,

1488
00:55:14,700 --> 00:55:16,410
and they found that they actually eat

1489
00:55:16,410 --> 00:55:17,810
way more meat than we thought.

1490
00:55:17,810 --> 00:55:20,410
It's now, the vast majority
of the diet still is fruit,

1491
00:55:20,410 --> 00:55:22,047
but they also live in
a very tropical climate

1492
00:55:22,047 --> 00:55:23,890
where there is a lot of fruit,

1493
00:55:23,890 --> 00:55:26,544
and there is a lot of
vegetable, and plant matter,

1494
00:55:26,544 --> 00:55:28,860
but they find that eating a lot more meat

1495
00:55:28,860 --> 00:55:31,269
than they previously thought.

1496
00:55:31,269 --> 00:55:34,352
(thunderous booming)

1497
00:55:36,860 --> 00:55:38,945
- There's not much in terms
of having any DNA evidence.

1498
00:55:38,945 --> 00:55:40,750
There's been some blood samples,

1499
00:55:40,750 --> 00:55:42,990
but again, you can only
correlate it to Bigfoot,

1500
00:55:42,990 --> 00:55:44,820
because it was allegedly left by Bigfoot,

1501
00:55:44,820 --> 00:55:47,520
but you weren't there
when it happened right?

1502
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,890
But nonetheless some of the hair samples,

1503
00:55:49,890 --> 00:55:51,650
and not just here, but
we've had some in China

1504
00:55:51,650 --> 00:55:53,311
that turned out to be primate

1505
00:55:53,311 --> 00:55:56,200
closely related to human, but not human,

1506
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:57,433
and that's as far as you can go,

1507
00:55:57,433 --> 00:55:58,910
because the way DNA works,

1508
00:55:58,910 --> 00:56:00,060
is there's a database of
all the known species,

1509
00:56:00,060 --> 00:56:03,290
and all you could do is
not, if it doesn't match,

1510
00:56:03,290 --> 00:56:05,920
you have something new,
but you can't identify it,

1511
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,410
because you can't match it to anything.

1512
00:56:07,410 --> 00:56:10,025
Since there's no official
Bigfoot species, you know,

1513
00:56:10,025 --> 00:56:13,172
officially, biologically,
or in the DNA database,

1514
00:56:13,172 --> 00:56:16,960
it comes back as unknown, but
there's enough hair samples,

1515
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,290
and I think there's one blood sample,

1516
00:56:18,290 --> 00:56:20,490
I believe that was taking up way up North,

1517
00:56:20,490 --> 00:56:25,100
and I think it was in Canada
that came up as you know,

1518
00:56:25,100 --> 00:56:28,724
primate nonhuman, and
that's extremely intriguing

1519
00:56:28,724 --> 00:56:32,550
stuff to have to explain
that. (thunderous booming)

1520
00:56:32,550 --> 00:56:34,610
- What's going on is there's
a bunch of stories of people

1521
00:56:34,610 --> 00:56:36,238
who've shot these things over the years,

1522
00:56:36,238 --> 00:56:39,200
and people have come out,
the trucks have pulled up,

1523
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,280
the helicopters have landed,

1524
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,920
and they've disposed of the bodies,

1525
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:43,740
and people have said, if
you know it's good for you,

1526
00:56:43,740 --> 00:56:45,780
you saw a bear, or nothing happened here.

1527
00:56:45,780 --> 00:56:47,440
It seems like the government's okay

1528
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,360
with you talking about them,

1529
00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:51,010
with you even going out in the woods,

1530
00:56:51,010 --> 00:56:53,230
and looking for them, or even
making videos about them,

1531
00:56:53,230 --> 00:56:56,100
but if you get that good clear video,

1532
00:56:56,100 --> 00:57:00,238
it's either gonna disappear,
or it's gonna be discredited.

1533
00:57:00,238 --> 00:57:03,863
Though, once somebody gets
good solid information,

1534
00:57:05,180 --> 00:57:07,060
if you come to me, and
say you saw Bigfoot,

1535
00:57:07,060 --> 00:57:08,470
that's fine, but if you,

1536
00:57:08,470 --> 00:57:10,440
and three or four of your
buddies were out on a hike,

1537
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:12,380
and you all saw it at the same time,

1538
00:57:12,380 --> 00:57:15,060
and now four or five people
are telling the same story

1539
00:57:15,060 --> 00:57:16,181
about the same location,

1540
00:57:16,181 --> 00:57:19,298
maybe even one of you has
a cell phone picture of it,

1541
00:57:19,298 --> 00:57:22,790
that's when you might experience
some kind of a coverup.

1542
00:57:22,790 --> 00:57:24,880
Now the reason for the coverup

1543
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:26,200
is why would they want it suppressed?

1544
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:27,780
And there's many levels of it.

1545
00:57:27,780 --> 00:57:28,890
There's a very practical level of

1546
00:57:28,890 --> 00:57:31,230
if they acknowledged Bigfoot existed,

1547
00:57:31,230 --> 00:57:32,860
they would have to protect them,

1548
00:57:32,860 --> 00:57:33,970
and they would have to study them,

1549
00:57:33,970 --> 00:57:36,540
and then that goes into
the logging industry

1550
00:57:36,540 --> 00:57:37,420
would be shut down,

1551
00:57:37,420 --> 00:57:39,650
and there's a lot of insiders
in the logging industry

1552
00:57:39,650 --> 00:57:41,667
as they know farewell about Bigfoots,

1553
00:57:41,667 --> 00:57:42,927
and they hate Bigfoots,

1554
00:57:42,927 --> 00:57:44,500
and some of them, I've even heard stories

1555
00:57:44,500 --> 00:57:47,220
hire guns to go out, and chase them off,

1556
00:57:47,220 --> 00:57:48,720
because if there's Bigfoots in the area,

1557
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,623
they slow down the loggers,
and they don't want any proof,

1558
00:57:52,980 --> 00:57:54,310
and then there's a lot of missing people.

1559
00:57:54,310 --> 00:57:56,300
There's tons of people who
have gone missing in the woods,

1560
00:57:56,300 --> 00:57:58,030
and I myself think, not all of them,

1561
00:57:58,030 --> 00:57:58,910
but some of those people

1562
00:57:58,910 --> 00:58:00,170
who have probably been taken, and killed,

1563
00:58:00,170 --> 00:58:04,190
or eaten by Bigfoot, and
that's a big liability

1564
00:58:04,190 --> 00:58:05,540
if the government knows it.

1565
00:58:06,710 --> 00:58:08,457
Then you start getting into the more

1566
00:58:08,457 --> 00:58:10,850
you know that Bigfoot
isn't a natural creature,

1567
00:58:10,850 --> 00:58:12,710
maybe they have a more paranormal element.

1568
00:58:12,710 --> 00:58:16,880
Maybe there's some kind
of genetic manipulation.

1569
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:21,343
Maybe there's some that had
been manipulated in a lab.

1570
00:58:22,270 --> 00:58:24,290
Maybe some have an alien connection,

1571
00:58:24,290 --> 00:58:26,420
maybe some have a biblical connection,

1572
00:58:26,420 --> 00:58:30,160
and that would kind of go
against evolution, and creation,

1573
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:31,890
and there's a lot of different levels

1574
00:58:31,890 --> 00:58:33,520
from very practical reason

1575
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:34,760
to why they'd want to cover it up

1576
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,680
to some very out there
conspiracy type stuff,

1577
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:39,320
but whatever reason it is,

1578
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,600
there is a campaign to keep Bigfoot,

1579
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,860
a beef jerky commercial,
to keep it a joke,

1580
00:58:44,860 --> 00:58:47,640
to keep Bigfoot on the fringe of things,

1581
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:50,010
to keep it as a coffee
mug, or a funny tee shirt.

1582
00:58:50,010 --> 00:58:52,469
Hide and seek champion, and
oh yeah, he saw Bigfoot.

1583
00:58:52,469 --> 00:58:56,270
Yeah, I bet you got abducted
by aliens, to keep it a joke.

1584
00:58:56,270 --> 00:58:57,553
That is starting to go away.

1585
00:58:57,553 --> 00:58:59,610
I think the internet is a beautiful thing,

1586
00:58:59,610 --> 00:59:01,393
and as much suppression
can be on the internet,

1587
00:59:01,393 --> 00:59:04,548
I've seen a lot of other
really good YouTube creators

1588
00:59:04,548 --> 00:59:06,740
have their views go in the toilet,

1589
00:59:06,740 --> 00:59:10,327
have subscribers be actively unsubscribed.

1590
00:59:10,327 --> 00:59:12,660
It's really whatever it is,

1591
00:59:12,660 --> 00:59:14,610
and there's no saying it's the government.

1592
00:59:14,610 --> 00:59:16,330
There's no saying it's
a third party entity.

1593
00:59:16,330 --> 00:59:18,980
There's no saying it's
Illuminati, or third world,

1594
00:59:18,980 --> 00:59:21,870
or new world order, or whatever it is.

1595
00:59:21,870 --> 00:59:23,330
Not saying it's one
thing, or whatever it is.

1596
00:59:23,330 --> 00:59:24,866
Whatever entity out there,

1597
00:59:24,866 --> 00:59:28,800
if you look close enough, there
is actively an organization,

1598
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:29,660
or a group of people

1599
00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:32,269
trying to suppress the
truth about Bigfoot.

1600
00:59:32,269 --> 00:59:35,352
(thunderous booming)

1601
00:59:37,490 --> 00:59:38,800
I think if they,

1602
00:59:38,800 --> 00:59:42,130
if whoever's covering up
was gonna disclose Bigfoot,

1603
00:59:42,130 --> 00:59:44,600
I said this, the easiest
way they could do it,

1604
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,350
if you think they're gonna
have a press conference

1605
00:59:46,350 --> 00:59:47,640
where they're gonna have a slide show,

1606
00:59:47,640 --> 00:59:48,590
and someone's gonna, you know,

1607
00:59:48,590 --> 00:59:50,180
the Director of the National Park Service,

1608
00:59:50,180 --> 00:59:52,280
or whatever's gonna come
out, and say, you know,

1609
00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:53,200
the Department of Interior,

1610
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,010
whoever that is in the tie,
and big press conference.

1611
00:59:56,010 --> 00:59:58,920
Hey, we know Bigfoot exists,
and this is what we know.

1612
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,420
That's never gonna happen.

1613
01:00:00,420 --> 01:00:03,480
What they would probably
do with stop enforcing it,

1614
01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,370
stop covering it up, just
stop, and let footage come out,

1615
01:00:07,370 --> 01:00:10,240
let somebody shoot one, let
somebody hit one with a truck,

1616
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,530
and bring it in, and
then start from there,

1617
01:00:13,530 --> 01:00:15,430
and that's kind of think how disclosure,

1618
01:00:15,430 --> 01:00:17,260
they always say in the
UFO world, disclosure,

1619
01:00:17,260 --> 01:00:18,180
we want disclosure,

1620
01:00:18,180 --> 01:00:20,670
and I always think you know
how the government works?

1621
01:00:20,670 --> 01:00:22,613
They're not gonna have that
press conference, and say,

1622
01:00:22,613 --> 01:00:24,830
bring a little green man out on the stage,

1623
01:00:24,830 --> 01:00:26,030
and say that we know all that.

1624
01:00:26,030 --> 01:00:27,220
They're not gonna do that.

1625
01:00:27,220 --> 01:00:28,053
Like I said,

1626
01:00:28,053 --> 01:00:30,230
the best thing they could
do is stop classifying,

1627
01:00:30,230 --> 01:00:33,633
and stop covering it up, and
let new information come out.

1628
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,397
- You know, a lot of people
talk about disclosure

1629
01:00:36,397 --> 01:00:37,670
but they're waiting on this like,

1630
01:00:37,670 --> 01:00:40,860
almost like on this Messiah
to give you disclosure,

1631
01:00:40,860 --> 01:00:41,693
and it's not gonna happen.

1632
01:00:41,693 --> 01:00:43,010
You know, obviously,

1633
01:00:43,010 --> 01:00:44,891
I mean every year it's like
this is gonna be a year.

1634
01:00:44,891 --> 01:00:46,650
You know, I think we should be focusing

1635
01:00:46,650 --> 01:00:48,060
a lot more on being proactive,

1636
01:00:48,060 --> 01:00:50,720
and hitting those areas that
a lot of them want to go into.

1637
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,670
You know, instead of reacting,
you know, be proactive,

1638
01:00:53,670 --> 01:00:56,980
which is in a sense the same
way we do Bigfoot research,

1639
01:00:56,980 --> 01:00:59,560
right, I try to be proactive,
go, and get the evidence,

1640
01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:01,590
and found, you know, Bigfoot ourselves,

1641
01:01:01,590 --> 01:01:04,213
and I think whatever
strange, you know, phenomena,

1642
01:01:04,213 --> 01:01:05,760
and modalities you're dealing with,

1643
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:07,709
I think that should be the approach.

1644
01:01:07,709 --> 01:01:10,792
(thunderous booming)

1645
01:01:13,210 --> 01:01:15,333
- Mattsquatch is a play on Sasquatch.

1646
01:01:15,333 --> 01:01:18,091
Back in a day I had a big gnarly beard.

1647
01:01:18,091 --> 01:01:20,320
Everybody said I looked like a Sasquatch,

1648
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:22,007
so they would call me Mattsquatch,

1649
01:01:22,007 --> 01:01:23,330
and it was just kind of a nickname.

1650
01:01:23,330 --> 01:01:25,760
I actually started just as
a generic YouTube channel.

1651
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:27,640
I wanted to do cooking videos,

1652
01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:29,060
and do some prepping videos,

1653
01:01:29,060 --> 01:01:29,893
and some hikes,

1654
01:01:29,893 --> 01:01:31,973
and I told a couple of
Bigfoot stories on there,

1655
01:01:31,973 --> 01:01:34,830
and they kind of went viral,

1656
01:01:34,830 --> 01:01:37,200
but a lot of people watched
them, and was very interested,

1657
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,300
and then West had me on
Sasquatch Encounters,

1658
01:01:39,300 --> 01:01:40,847
and then I said a number of people,

1659
01:01:40,847 --> 01:01:43,370
and then I just started
talking about Bigfoot videos,

1660
01:01:43,370 --> 01:01:44,610
and kind of just did it for fun,

1661
01:01:44,610 --> 01:01:46,390
and then my own research,

1662
01:01:46,390 --> 01:01:48,020
even before all of this, and stuff,

1663
01:01:48,020 --> 01:01:49,760
I was looking at, I had notes,

1664
01:01:49,760 --> 01:01:51,820
I still have the notes
in my phone of, hey,

1665
01:01:51,820 --> 01:01:54,310
the Pacific Northwest,
these type of Bigfoots

1666
01:01:54,310 --> 01:01:55,500
look a lot like this.

1667
01:01:55,500 --> 01:01:57,620
In the South, they look a lot like this,

1668
01:01:57,620 --> 01:01:59,290
and here they look a lot like this,

1669
01:01:59,290 --> 01:02:01,280
and then it was the four types of Bigfoot

1670
01:02:01,280 --> 01:02:03,390
than it was the 10 types of Bigfoot,

1671
01:02:03,390 --> 01:02:04,550
and then that went popular,

1672
01:02:04,550 --> 01:02:06,990
and then I started showing
my research, and things,

1673
01:02:06,990 --> 01:02:09,440
and ideas, and just kind
of took off from there.

1674
01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:11,510
Everything from hardcore science videos,

1675
01:02:11,510 --> 01:02:14,900
to some more lighthearted
stuff, to more paranormal based,

1676
01:02:14,900 --> 01:02:16,170
and conspiracy type stuff,

1677
01:02:16,170 --> 01:02:17,620
whatever you want to know about Bigfoot,

1678
01:02:17,620 --> 01:02:19,350
I've probably talked about it,

1679
01:02:19,350 --> 01:02:20,950
and I'm on a hiatus right now,

1680
01:02:20,950 --> 01:02:22,160
but I am gonna pick it up soon,

1681
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:23,810
and continue to talk about more.

1682
01:02:23,810 --> 01:02:25,080
There's field research videos

1683
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:26,625
where I'm out in the
woods looking at stuff,

1684
01:02:26,625 --> 01:02:28,988
lots of videos discussing
different sub genres,

1685
01:02:28,988 --> 01:02:32,480
and questions like how
much does a Bigfoot weigh?

1686
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:33,985
How tall do they get?

1687
01:02:33,985 --> 01:02:36,029
You know, different types of things.

1688
01:02:36,029 --> 01:02:37,810
You know, what a tree structures mean,

1689
01:02:37,810 --> 01:02:39,010
what a tree knocks mean?

1690
01:02:39,010 --> 01:02:40,480
What do the different calls mean?

1691
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,320
My interpretations of
what these things mean.

1692
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:44,350
Not that I definitively know,

1693
01:02:44,350 --> 01:02:46,700
but my opinions based on what I've heard,

1694
01:02:46,700 --> 01:02:48,240
and what other researchers have done.

1695
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:49,950
I've look at famous Bigfoot sightings

1696
01:02:49,950 --> 01:02:52,830
on different websites,
and go to that location,

1697
01:02:52,830 --> 01:02:55,200
and kind of do a followup
even years later.

1698
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:56,130
Look at the surroundings.

1699
01:02:56,130 --> 01:02:57,700
Could this area support a Bigfoot?

1700
01:02:57,700 --> 01:02:59,030
Could it not support a Bigfoot?

1701
01:02:59,030 --> 01:03:02,040
Is there cover, and break it
down from different cases,

1702
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:04,930
and famous sightings, and
stuff, and go through lore,

1703
01:03:04,930 --> 01:03:07,229
kind of cover all sorts of things Bigfoot.

1704
01:03:07,229 --> 01:03:09,560
(thunderous booming)

1705
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:11,513
There are a lot of very good people,

1706
01:03:11,513 --> 01:03:12,960
a lot of normal people

1707
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,187
that on the weekends instead of, you know,

1708
01:03:15,187 --> 01:03:17,980
go into play basketball,
or whatever they do,

1709
01:03:17,980 --> 01:03:20,270
they go out in the woods,
and they look for Bigfoot.

1710
01:03:20,270 --> 01:03:22,147
A lot of them have very good evidence.

1711
01:03:22,147 --> 01:03:25,100
Like any field, there's
good, and bad, you know?

1712
01:03:25,100 --> 01:03:27,350
People get very protective
of their information.

1713
01:03:27,350 --> 01:03:29,130
People get very protective
of their evidence,

1714
01:03:29,130 --> 01:03:31,060
but there's a lot of good people,

1715
01:03:31,060 --> 01:03:32,330
a lot of normal people

1716
01:03:32,330 --> 01:03:34,490
who have experienced
something extraordinary,

1717
01:03:34,490 --> 01:03:35,820
and they just want answers,

1718
01:03:35,820 --> 01:03:38,690
and they're not in it
for the gratification.

1719
01:03:38,690 --> 01:03:40,090
They're not in it for the notoriety.

1720
01:03:40,090 --> 01:03:41,250
They're not in it to prove.

1721
01:03:41,250 --> 01:03:42,410
They're not in it to shoot one,

1722
01:03:42,410 --> 01:03:45,720
and bring one in, and be, I
shot Bigfoot looked at me,

1723
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:46,900
they just want answers,

1724
01:03:46,900 --> 01:03:49,410
and that's kind of, the core
where I was at with it too,

1725
01:03:49,410 --> 01:03:50,510
is they really want answers,

1726
01:03:50,510 --> 01:03:52,430
and there's a lot of really good people.

1727
01:03:52,430 --> 01:03:53,913
- People have to stop thinking that

1728
01:03:53,913 --> 01:03:57,460
we should be doing this for
free in the field because,

1729
01:03:57,460 --> 01:03:59,660
and not because, you know,
I want to drive a nice car,

1730
01:03:59,660 --> 01:04:00,610
I want to go out, and you know,

1731
01:04:00,610 --> 01:04:02,890
and with the ladies,
or whatever, you know,

1732
01:04:02,890 --> 01:04:06,338
but it's expensive, and
it takes a lot, you know?

1733
01:04:06,338 --> 01:04:08,470
And I spend most of my time
here frustrated in my apartment,

1734
01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:09,830
because I can't get out there.

1735
01:04:09,830 --> 01:04:11,590
So I think we need to really
start thinking in terms

1736
01:04:11,590 --> 01:04:14,030
of having a professional
teams that are well funded

1737
01:04:14,030 --> 01:04:15,830
by people that are capable.

1738
01:04:15,830 --> 01:04:17,540
I think that's the only way

1739
01:04:17,540 --> 01:04:18,760
we're gonna find anything, you know?

1740
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:20,140
So for me personally,

1741
01:04:20,140 --> 01:04:22,700
that's what I'm focused on right now.

1742
01:04:22,700 --> 01:04:24,490
- What astounded me a couple of years back

1743
01:04:24,490 --> 01:04:25,940
when I went to a Bigfoot conference,

1744
01:04:25,940 --> 01:04:28,110
the International Bigfoot Conference,

1745
01:04:28,110 --> 01:04:31,330
listening to the guest speakers,
approaching the experts,

1746
01:04:31,330 --> 01:04:33,040
talking to people who have their books,

1747
01:04:33,040 --> 01:04:35,199
and getting all the different things.

1748
01:04:35,199 --> 01:04:36,032
It's just the people in the audience.

1749
01:04:36,032 --> 01:04:36,865
I remember sitting next to this one

1750
01:04:36,865 --> 01:04:40,480
older gentleman, shirt
tucked in big mustache.

1751
01:04:40,480 --> 01:04:41,550
He looked like an old cowboy,

1752
01:04:41,550 --> 01:04:44,530
and he owned a ranch in Washington state.

1753
01:04:44,530 --> 01:04:46,280
He was like, yeah.

1754
01:04:46,280 --> 01:04:50,050
I was kind of hoping to
talk to professor Meldrum

1755
01:04:50,050 --> 01:04:51,050
about these footprints,

1756
01:04:51,050 --> 01:04:52,970
and you had a binder in his lap,

1757
01:04:52,970 --> 01:04:54,650
and I'm like, what kind of footprints?

1758
01:04:54,650 --> 01:04:57,230
Well, I've seen him a
few times off my porch,

1759
01:04:57,230 --> 01:04:59,930
and you can always dismiss
somebody in a siting.

1760
01:04:59,930 --> 01:05:01,123
He opens his book,

1761
01:05:01,123 --> 01:05:05,750
and he's got perfect Sasquatch
footprints left in the snow.

1762
01:05:05,750 --> 01:05:08,210
Hundreds of yards of tracks, strides,

1763
01:05:08,210 --> 01:05:10,450
way bigger than any of us could do.

1764
01:05:10,450 --> 01:05:12,670
Big giant footprints all in the snow.

1765
01:05:12,670 --> 01:05:15,059
Then he's got pictures of them
in the springtime in the mud.

1766
01:05:15,059 --> 01:05:17,100
He's got pictures of fur,

1767
01:05:17,100 --> 01:05:19,410
he's got tree breaks,
and snaps, and things.

1768
01:05:19,410 --> 01:05:22,403
Weird structures like
10 feet up in the air.

1769
01:05:22,403 --> 01:05:25,043
He's had stuff swiped off his porch,

1770
01:05:25,043 --> 01:05:26,230
all that kind of stuff,

1771
01:05:26,230 --> 01:05:28,382
and he's got this big binder

1772
01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:29,759
full of all these pictures, and evidence,

1773
01:05:29,759 --> 01:05:31,425
and I'm like, these are
gold. What are you gonna do?

1774
01:05:31,425 --> 01:05:32,258
You want to share these?

1775
01:05:32,258 --> 01:05:34,590
And he's like, oh nope, not interested.

1776
01:05:34,590 --> 01:05:35,670
These are just for me,

1777
01:05:35,670 --> 01:05:38,620
and I just wanted to talk to
Meldrum privately about it.

1778
01:05:38,620 --> 01:05:40,001
He shared them with me.

1779
01:05:40,001 --> 01:05:42,640
How many people have stuff
like that that they just,

1780
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:43,630
they don't want the attention.

1781
01:05:43,630 --> 01:05:44,910
They don't want people on their property.

1782
01:05:44,910 --> 01:05:46,770
They don't want finding
Bigfoot on their front door.

1783
01:05:46,770 --> 01:05:48,610
They don't want, they don't want it.

1784
01:05:48,610 --> 01:05:50,166
They just want their own private answers

1785
01:05:50,166 --> 01:05:52,990
that have this kind of evidence?

1786
01:05:52,990 --> 01:05:54,370
So there's great evidence out there.

1787
01:05:54,370 --> 01:05:55,203
You just need to look.

1788
01:05:55,203 --> 01:05:56,797
When people say there,
I love it when you get,

1789
01:05:56,797 --> 01:05:59,522
it's always somebody who's
typically college educated too,

1790
01:05:59,522 --> 01:06:01,240
who considers themselves fancy,

1791
01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,730
like people in my family have PhDs,

1792
01:06:04,730 --> 01:06:06,300
or they're medical doctors,

1793
01:06:06,300 --> 01:06:10,170
or my aunt is a wildlife researcher,

1794
01:06:10,170 --> 01:06:13,440
and she studies bears, and
Wolverines, and stuff like that,

1795
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:14,580
and they track them, and collar them,

1796
01:06:14,580 --> 01:06:16,680
and having a conversation
with her about Bigfoot.

1797
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:18,750
She's like, well, there's
no evidence for Bigfoot,

1798
01:06:18,750 --> 01:06:20,540
and I go, BS.

1799
01:06:20,540 --> 01:06:22,000
What do you want?

1800
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:23,550
Do you want to see video?

1801
01:06:23,550 --> 01:06:25,945
Do you want to hear audio?

1802
01:06:25,945 --> 01:06:27,370
Do you want footprints?

1803
01:06:27,370 --> 01:06:28,410
Do you want hair samples?

1804
01:06:28,410 --> 01:06:29,400
Do you want DNA?

1805
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:30,550
Do you want thousands of years

1806
01:06:30,550 --> 01:06:33,540
of native American traditions
from virtually every tribe,

1807
01:06:33,540 --> 01:06:35,690
all across the United
States, Canada, and Mexico,

1808
01:06:35,690 --> 01:06:37,840
all referring to the same creature?

1809
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,040
Do you want thousands
of modern day reports

1810
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:41,420
from every walk of life?

1811
01:06:41,420 --> 01:06:42,787
You want physical evidence?

1812
01:06:42,787 --> 01:06:44,300
The evidence is there.

1813
01:06:44,300 --> 01:06:45,790
It's just up to you to believe,

1814
01:06:45,790 --> 01:06:47,310
and you reach a certain
point where you say,

1815
01:06:47,310 --> 01:06:48,150
there is no evidence,

1816
01:06:48,150 --> 01:06:51,230
and you look at all the
evidence that I described,

1817
01:06:51,230 --> 01:06:53,760
and then you listen to all
the eyewitness reports.

1818
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:55,860
Then you look at the really
credible eyewitness reports

1819
01:06:55,860 --> 01:06:57,785
from firefighters, military, cops,

1820
01:06:57,785 --> 01:07:01,080
people of who are supposed to be trusted.

1821
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,200
Then you look at historical encounters,

1822
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:07,087
and how much evidence do
I have to present to you

1823
01:07:07,087 --> 01:07:09,973
before I'm not the
ridiculous one and you are?

1824
01:07:10,950 --> 01:07:12,457
If I've shown you
everything you've asked for,

1825
01:07:12,457 --> 01:07:14,410
and you're still not convinced,

1826
01:07:14,410 --> 01:07:17,160
then the only thing
that's gonna convince you

1827
01:07:17,160 --> 01:07:20,210
is Bigfoot in person, and I
cannot provide that to you.

1828
01:07:20,210 --> 01:07:22,830
I can't go to a museum
appointed a stuffed one.

1829
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:24,930
I can't go to a zoo, which
I think would be sad,

1830
01:07:24,930 --> 01:07:27,120
and point at one in a cage,

1831
01:07:27,120 --> 01:07:30,161
and good luck trying
to keep them in there.

1832
01:07:30,161 --> 01:07:33,244
(thunderous booming)

1833
01:07:34,502 --> 01:07:35,335
- I think maybe one thing

1834
01:07:35,335 --> 01:07:38,170
that doesn't get talked about enough is

1835
01:07:38,170 --> 01:07:40,780
the danger associated with
going on in the woods,

1836
01:07:40,780 --> 01:07:41,870
and looking for Bigfoot.

1837
01:07:41,870 --> 01:07:43,310
You know, so we have a lot of TV shows

1838
01:07:43,310 --> 01:07:47,400
right, dramatize, or
show how much fun it is

1839
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:48,233
to go out in the woods,

1840
01:07:48,233 --> 01:07:51,063
but you're still putting
yourself in certain danger

1841
01:07:51,063 --> 01:07:52,280
when you're out in the woods,

1842
01:07:52,280 --> 01:07:54,620
and it's not for everyone, and I get that,

1843
01:07:54,620 --> 01:07:57,740
but whether you're dealing
with a hominid species,

1844
01:07:57,740 --> 01:07:59,733
so related to man, or an ape specie,

1845
01:08:01,174 --> 01:08:03,150
you're still dealing with
a certain amount of danger.

1846
01:08:03,150 --> 01:08:04,290
You're dealing with a big specie,

1847
01:08:04,290 --> 01:08:07,100
big animal that may feel threatened

1848
01:08:07,100 --> 01:08:08,930
when you go towards his territory.

1849
01:08:08,930 --> 01:08:10,150
So I'd want people to go out there,

1850
01:08:10,150 --> 01:08:10,983
and go, I'll bring their kids,

1851
01:08:10,983 --> 01:08:11,907
we're gonna go looking for Bigfoot,

1852
01:08:11,907 --> 01:08:14,910
and you know, in an alleged,
you know, Bigfoot area,

1853
01:08:14,910 --> 01:08:16,760
I think there's certain
amount of danger to that.

1854
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:17,880
You still dealing with either,

1855
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:19,460
you know, again wild animal,

1856
01:08:19,460 --> 01:08:23,290
or primitive human that
may feel threatened,

1857
01:08:23,290 --> 01:08:25,440
and they'll react to defend themselves,

1858
01:08:25,440 --> 01:08:28,370
or especially if they have a,
you know, a juvenile nearby.

1859
01:08:28,370 --> 01:08:30,720
I think we need to start
thinking in terms of that.

1860
01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:32,311
I mean, there's tons of
disappearances right?

1861
01:08:32,311 --> 01:08:34,350
Out in the forest, people
disappear all the time.

1862
01:08:34,350 --> 01:08:35,840
They're never found.

1863
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:38,430
I've personally, I've heard some stories

1864
01:08:38,430 --> 01:08:39,827
of people being attacked,

1865
01:08:39,827 --> 01:08:41,370
people who didn't want
to go on the record,

1866
01:08:41,370 --> 01:08:42,702
but they've told me

1867
01:08:42,702 --> 01:08:43,850
they'd been attacked by Bigfoots you know,

1868
01:08:43,850 --> 01:08:45,750
a group of them at times, even.

1869
01:08:45,750 --> 01:08:47,000
I even tell you an exclusive story,

1870
01:08:47,000 --> 01:08:48,240
and this isn't from North America,

1871
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,993
but it's from a, it happened in Nepal,

1872
01:08:51,830 --> 01:08:53,165
and this was years ago,

1873
01:08:53,165 --> 01:08:55,810
but I think it exemplifies
kind of the dangerous involved.

1874
01:08:55,810 --> 01:08:57,540
So this was this doctor.

1875
01:08:57,540 --> 01:08:59,120
He actually worked for the CIA,

1876
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:00,480
the whatever work he was doing, right?

1877
01:09:00,480 --> 01:09:03,284
And he was over this ledge and
he was hearing this growling,

1878
01:09:03,284 --> 01:09:05,630
and the other side of
the ledger is a tiger,

1879
01:09:05,630 --> 01:09:07,962
and what he called a Yeti,

1880
01:09:07,962 --> 01:09:10,360
and in the middle of that,

1881
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:11,660
there was like some kind of dead prey,

1882
01:09:11,660 --> 01:09:13,650
like a deer, or whatever, you know,

1883
01:09:13,650 --> 01:09:17,120
native species similar to deer in Nepal,

1884
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:19,667
and apparently a tiger,
and a Yeti were fighting

1885
01:09:19,667 --> 01:09:23,550
for who's gonna get to
eat, you know, tonight,

1886
01:09:23,550 --> 01:09:24,700
and at some point, you know,

1887
01:09:24,700 --> 01:09:26,120
apparently the tiger swiped at the Yeti,

1888
01:09:26,120 --> 01:09:27,685
and the Yeti apparently got pissed off,

1889
01:09:27,685 --> 01:09:30,190
and grabbed a tiger, put it over his head,

1890
01:09:30,190 --> 01:09:33,050
snapped his back, threw it on the ground,

1891
01:09:33,050 --> 01:09:35,250
and he grabbed the prey, and walked off.

1892
01:09:35,250 --> 01:09:36,650
Now I've got this second, you know,

1893
01:09:36,650 --> 01:09:39,523
kind of second generation
story so I can't prove it,

1894
01:09:40,470 --> 01:09:41,830
but this was private.

1895
01:09:41,830 --> 01:09:43,730
I don't see, you know, a
reason why someone would lie,

1896
01:09:43,730 --> 01:09:45,310
and I've heard similar stories like that.

1897
01:09:45,310 --> 01:09:46,611
So you're still dealing with something

1898
01:09:46,611 --> 01:09:47,673
that's very big, very strong.

1899
01:09:47,673 --> 01:09:49,273
There's certain amount
of danger, you know,

1900
01:09:49,273 --> 01:09:51,273
associated with going out there.

1901
01:09:51,273 --> 01:09:53,750
- The thing I always tell,
and I end all my videos,

1902
01:09:53,750 --> 01:09:55,583
I always say stay safe in the woods.

1903
01:09:56,680 --> 01:10:00,107
There's virtually nothing in
this world that is harmless.

1904
01:10:00,107 --> 01:10:04,030
What makes you think
that a seven eight, nine,

1905
01:10:04,030 --> 01:10:06,700
10 foot tall creature is harmless?

1906
01:10:06,700 --> 01:10:09,329
Now they aren't godless,
bloodthirsty killing machines.

1907
01:10:09,329 --> 01:10:12,360
You have to think of them as like a bear,

1908
01:10:12,360 --> 01:10:15,550
or like a gorilla, or
like a mountain lion,

1909
01:10:15,550 --> 01:10:18,640
or if there was an
uncontacted tribe of people,

1910
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:20,470
like there's still parts of the globe

1911
01:10:20,470 --> 01:10:21,610
with uncontacted tribes.

1912
01:10:21,610 --> 01:10:23,830
You know, how they meet outsiders?

1913
01:10:23,830 --> 01:10:25,430
With arrows and spears.

1914
01:10:25,430 --> 01:10:27,530
- It's a passion, but it's a passion

1915
01:10:27,530 --> 01:10:31,219
where I think you also need time away,

1916
01:10:31,219 --> 01:10:33,510
because I do know sometimes

1917
01:10:33,510 --> 01:10:35,502
nightmare stories of people who've,

1918
01:10:35,502 --> 01:10:37,930
it becomes an obsession to the point

1919
01:10:37,930 --> 01:10:40,440
where it actually affects their lives

1920
01:10:40,440 --> 01:10:41,950
and marriages and things,

1921
01:10:41,950 --> 01:10:46,730
because that obsession
quite literally takes over,

1922
01:10:46,730 --> 01:10:50,440
and I can see how easily that can happen,

1923
01:10:50,440 --> 01:10:52,470
but for me, you know,

1924
01:10:52,470 --> 01:10:55,670
I have to have time to see
what's going on with the soccer.

1925
01:10:55,670 --> 01:10:57,110
- If you out in Bigfoot area,

1926
01:10:57,110 --> 01:10:59,270
besides, if you take bear spray with you,

1927
01:10:59,270 --> 01:11:01,300
which is really hopped up pepper spray,

1928
01:11:01,300 --> 01:11:04,120
if you take a buddy with you,
if you take a GPS locator,

1929
01:11:04,120 --> 01:11:07,377
if you take a map with
you, and extra water,

1930
01:11:07,377 --> 01:11:10,740
and a first aid kit, if you
take a big hunting knife,

1931
01:11:10,740 --> 01:11:11,790
if you take a machete,

1932
01:11:11,790 --> 01:11:13,460
you take that bear spray, pepper spray,

1933
01:11:13,460 --> 01:11:15,950
if you can take a gun. If you
don't like guns, I get it.

1934
01:11:15,950 --> 01:11:17,873
You know, take bear spray with you.

1935
01:11:17,873 --> 01:11:19,810
What have you lost?

1936
01:11:19,810 --> 01:11:21,176
Nothing.

1937
01:11:21,176 --> 01:11:22,040
You're prepared against
bears, and mountain lions,

1938
01:11:22,040 --> 01:11:24,994
and everything else out
there, but preparing yourself,

1939
01:11:24,994 --> 01:11:26,830
you have never lost anything,

1940
01:11:26,830 --> 01:11:28,240
you've only ever gained for it.

1941
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:30,610
So stay safe in the woods.

1942
01:11:30,610 --> 01:11:32,220
Be aware that there's more in the woods

1943
01:11:32,220 --> 01:11:33,840
than trees and squirrels.

1944
01:11:33,840 --> 01:11:35,250
Not everything isn't your friend.

1945
01:11:35,250 --> 01:11:37,410
When you're out in nature,
you're in nature's element.

1946
01:11:37,410 --> 01:11:38,600
You are not in charge.

1947
01:11:38,600 --> 01:11:39,500
This isn't your house.

1948
01:11:39,500 --> 01:11:43,710
You're out in nature, and bad
things can happen to people.

1949
01:11:43,710 --> 01:11:46,240
So just be safe out in the
woods, and that's my big advice.

1950
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:48,490
You don't know what
these creatures could do.

1951
01:11:50,539 --> 01:11:55,539
(epic booming music)
(tribal chanting)