03x04 - Creatures in the Trees

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] Previously
on Expedition Bigfoot...

That's behind us,
go, go, go, go.

[Russell speaking]

[cameraman speaking]

[Bryce] Come on, baby.

Oh, wow.

What in the heck is that?

Some sort of crude
stick figure.

[Mireya] We could set up
a camp, light it up at night,
walk away from it...

[Ronny] Yeah.

[Mireya] ...and then see
if anything comes
in that's curious.

[inexplicable noise]

[Mireya] That was an
incredibly odd sound.

It just went off, Ronny.

There's something
right behind you.

[howling]
[theme music playing]

[Mireya] Oh, my God!

The lights have been
triggered.

Which one?

Every single light
out there is lit right now.

Oh, [bleep].

[narrator] While staking out
a decoy camp to lure
a mysterious creature

into the open,
a series of motion-activated
infrared lights

have indicated something
is nearby Ronny and Mireya.

I'm going
to try and focus in.

[narrator] They can only
monitor the area with their
night vision camera,

which is quickly running
low on battery power.

Are you seeing
anything in the IR camera?

[Mireya] No, and I'm on my
last battery pack with only
one bar of power.

We're running out of time.

Can you make a sound?

I want to see if it'll move.

Sure.

[twig snapping]

[Mireya] Hey, Ronny,
was that you?

[Ronny] Negative.

[twig snapping]
I just heard wood
break right between you and I.

[Mireya] Ronny,
there is something running
towards me right here.

[Ronny] Are you moving out
of your position towards it
or are you staying?

[Mireya] I moved out
of my position
and I'm heading towards it.

Something's moving right here.

[Mireya speaking]

[Mireya speaking]

[Mireya]
My camera is about to die.

[Ronny speaking]

[Mireya speaking]

I'm not going to be
able to capture
or see anything.

[Ronny] Okay,
so mine died, yours died.

That's not good.
Frustrating.

[Mireya] Whatever
was here is moving
in some other direction.

So there's no way that
we're going to be
able to track it.

[Mireya speaking]

[Ronny speaking]

[Mireya speaking]

[Russell] There's something
moving right down here.

Where are you?

[narrator] Seven miles
to the northeast,
survivalist Russell Acord

is continuing to travel along
the game trail that
parallels the river,

but he has just learned
that he may not be alone.

Right now,
there's something tracking us,
just something big.

Talk about a very,
very difficult moment

when you know that
you are something's prey.

[cameraman speaking]

No kidding.

It smells like...
Seriously, it smells like cat.

I think we're being
traced by a mountain lion.

I don't want to be
in this den stuck with a cat.

Let's go out this way.

-This is not...
-[twigs snapping]

[Russell] Holy crap!

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell speaking]

[Russell] Do you hear it?

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] Hold tight, Zack.

[Russell] Okay, listen.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] Did you notice,
when we stopped it stopped?

I want you to walk ahead
of me about 20 steps
and then stop.

I want to see
if this thing knows
I'm ducking down.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] Okay, go.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] All right,
let's get out of here.

[Russell]
Instinctively, the first thing
I think of is mountain lion,

but it felt like
we were being pushed out.

And I know in a situation
like that, a mountain lion

or a bear wouldn't
behave like that.

Does this thing
want me to leave?

Does it want me to press on?

I don't know.

[cameraman speaking]

Let's get
out of here.

Let's go this way.

I know we're not that
far from camp.

Let's just get out of here.

[Bryce] This place is way
out here.

I haven't seen
another car for miles.

[narrator] After strange
occurrences at the remote
mountain lake,

including a mimicked whistle
and finding what appeared
to be something

constructed by hand
underwater,

Bryce Johnson is searching
for information

as to what is behind
these bizarre incidents.

[Bryce] I knew I needed
to talk to somebody
who knows more

about this area
and just what goes on here.

So, I'm on my way
to speak with a woman
named Harvest Moon.

[Harvest humming]

[Bryce] Harvest Moon
is a member
of the local Quinault tribe.

Now, they've lived
in this same location
for hundreds of years

and have many legends
of Bigfoot-like creatures
living in these forests.

Harvest is an elder
in the tribe and lives
very near to the lake

that I've been investigating,
and I'm hoping
she can shed some light

on what I've been
experiencing there.

[Bryce] Hello, Harvest.

Thank you for meeting me
out here tonight.

No problem, no problem.

As a Quinault storyteller,
I go out and share legends

and the culture here
in the Pacific Northwest.

And we're not only
well known for the amount
of rain,

But we're also well known
for the bigfoot.

So, Harvest,
I wanted to ask you,

recently we've been
experiencing a lot of strange
activity around a nearby lake.

Is there anything
to the stories of Bigfoot
in bodies of water?

[Harvest] Oh, oh, yeah.

They go for the water
because of the salmon.

Now, he knows for a fact
that's a safe spot,
where they hunt.

They would either go
to the river, lake or bay.

[Bryce] So, what types
of things have you heard
really gets

the attention of these
creatures?

[Harvest]
He's a very curious,
curious beast.

He likes trinkets.

He likes salmonetes.

He likes kids playing.

-Oh, really?
-[Harvest] Oh, yeah.

There was
these three little boys

from the Makah Reservations
in the early '60s

and they were coming back
from the beach.

[Harvest speaking]

When they looked up,
there he was, right
in front of them.

-Hmm.
-Those poor little boys,
they never were the same.

[Bryce] Harvest's story
about Bigfoot terrifying
children

is not the first one
I've heard.

These stories are actually
pretty common
in Native American legends.

[narrator]
For hundreds of years,
there have been reports

of Bigfoot kidnapping
children.

Indigenous legends
tell of villages being robbed
of their young

and warned them
never to whistle in the woods,

or they could become
the victim of hungry
Sasquatch.

Harvest,
I'm really fascinated
with this idea

of piquing these
creatures' curiosity.

I've read some reports
that children's laughter
sort of lured them

in and it has worked
in the past.

Do you think something
like that could work now?

Possibly.

But a baby crying,

when you hear a baby crying
in the middle of the woods,
you're going to check out

why is there a baby crying.

If what Harvest
has suggested is true,

then we may have just
discovered a brand-new tactic
in our search for Bigfoot.

[Bryce] Harvest told me
she gets tons of activity
on her property,

so I'm going to just make
my way out there.

Tonight, I'm going to play
the sound of a baby
crying to see

if we can get a response
from the creature we're after.

[narrator] Bryce has equipped
the speaker system
with a library of sounds,

including children's cries.

His plan is to broadcast
the sounds across

Harvest Moon's vast
forested property.

[Bryce] Let's give it a shot.

Let's see
if we could lure in a Bigfoot.
[baby crying]

[Bryce]
As a father, it's absolutely
heartbreaking

to hear these sounds,

but I also know that
the predators of these
forests listen for sounds

of distress and vulnerability.

And if Bigfoot is a predator,
then they, too, would be
attracted to that sound.

[Bryce]
There's definitely
an eerie silence

that fell over this field.

-[footsteps approaching]
-[Bryce] Can you hear that?

[Bryce speaking]

[cameraman speaking]

[Bryce speaking]
[dramatic music playing]

[baby crying]

[Bryce speaking]

I'm going to grab
the thermal camera and see

if I can scan the treeline
out there.

[twigs snapping]

[Bryce] Did you hear that?

[twigs snapping]

[Bryce] Looks like
a trail right here.

Something's come through here.

[Bryce speaking]

[Bryce] Frankly,
it's disturbing,

a hulking creature lured
in by the sounds
of a baby crying.

This grass is just so high.

It's really hard maneuvering
in the dark
and finding trails.

I mean, one thing's for sure
is we are off the beaten path.

I feel very vulnerable
out here.

She says she gets
a lot of bears coming
through here as well.

[Bryce] Using the sounds
of a baby crying definitely
prompted a response.

I don't know
what to make of it.

But whatever it was,
it was definitely interested
in that sound.

I've been out here
for quite a while now,
so I'm not seeing anything.

So, I'm going to pack it in.
[music intensifies]
[owl hooting]

[Mireya] Hard to make
sense out of last night.

[Ronny] Right.

[narrator] Ronny
and Mireya have returned

to where their
motion-activated
infrared lights

were tripped
last night.

Mireya and I heard
something definitely moving
in between our positions.

So, the first order
of business
is to go in and see

what exactly was causing
all that noise.

[Mireya] If something
big was moving through here,

you think we'd see
a lot of matted down
vegetation.

[Ronny] Right.

[Mireya] But we don't.

-This whole area is super
rocky and spongy.
-[Ronny] Yeah.

[Mireya] Like, there's no way
to see any signs of anything.

How close did it seem
to you when you heard it?

Close enough that
I got up and turned around.

-[Mireya] Did you?
-[Ronny] Yeah.

Heard it right in here.

I was positioned
right over there, so...

And I heard it seemingly
close as well.

[Ronny] Isn't that weird?

[Mireya] So weird.

The only other possibility
is that there were
several things

-moving through the forest.
-Right.

[Mireya] And that's why
you were hearing
it back here...

-[Ronny] True.
-...and I was hearing
it up there.

[Ronny] So,
that would make sense.

One of the names
we talked about before
is the tree peekers.

So, I can definitely see,
like, that ability to kind
of use these trees

and kind of ping
from one to the other,
move, hide behind it

and then you really can't
get, like, heat signatures.

You're not going
to really see much.

[Mireya] Has anyone ever
reported seeing one
in the trees?

[Ronny] There has been
a report. Actually, not
too far away from here,

some campers had rocks
being thrown at them.

They saw what looked like
two dark figures up
in the treeline

that were in the shape
of something bipedal.

[Mireya] Most people
don't think of big animals,
for example, gorillas...

Yeah.

[Mireya] ...being
up in the trees.

But, interestingly enough,
gorillas do spend an awful
lot of time up in the trees.

And when they're up there,
it's actually quite silent,

'cause
they're not moving
around a lot.

[narrator] Despite weighing
upwards of 500 pounds,

gorillas have been known
to climb and even
travel through the trees

to forage for food
as well as socialize.

I think we should
think about putting trail
cams higher up in the trees

just to see
if we see anything.

Yeah.

I think researchers
haven't really looked at that.

It'd be interesting
for us to...

to kind of take
a look that way.

[Mireya] Okay.

[Mireya] One of the best ways
to understand a habitat
is to look

at it in its completeness.

And in all of our
previous expeditions,

we've focused solely
on what we can see
on the ground and around us,

not above us.

[Ronny] Yeah!

[Mireya] So, Ronny and I
decided to set up some
trail cams to see

if we saw any type
of movement up in the trees.

That's where we're going
to stay in this area tonight.

I'm here.

If there's anything out here,
we'll be able to see
it and record it.

-It's good.
-[Ronny] Got it set up.

[Russell] Take a look
at these breaks here.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] There's something
big out here.

[narrator] Russell
believes that a large,

aggressive animal
was stalking him in this area.

He has returned
in the light of day
to try to determine

what type of animal it was.

[Russell] The last
couple of nights,
I've been being followed.

Something actually moves
when I move
and stops when I stop.

[Russell speaking]

[Russell speaking]

[cameraman] No, it's not.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell] Yeah.

I'm trying to figure out
if this thing
is tracking me.

[Russell speaking]

[narrator]
Last year in Kentucky,

Russell's trail camp
and tent were
savagely attacked.

Something destroyed my tent.

[Russell]
This literally feels like

I've got the attention
of something

that knows that
I'm on his trail.

Check this out.

[Russell speaking]

-[tense music playing]
-[Russell] Zack, come here
and look at this.

This is so bizarre.

God, they're all set...
they were...
these were all placed.

It's the thick side up,
lean side down.

On a stump, there's a bunch
of twisted corkscrew branches
that have

all been placed
on the front of this thing,

like it was put there
with a purpose.

It's a weird anomaly,
something that seemed
out of place.

This has been here
for a long time.

[cameraman]
But why is it here?

[Russell] I don't know.

Maybe a signal or a place
where they come together.

It's like a marker.

It's what Ronny
would call a tree structure.

[narrator] Many Sasquatch
researchers believe that
tree structures

are a form of Bigfoot
communication.

They are used to claim
territory, mark important
locations

or warn others to stay away.

[Russell speaking]

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell speaking]
[cameraman speaking]

Mountain lions
are opportunists.

[Russell] It's big,
but I can't get a fix
on what it is.

I really want to go
directly down towards that
and see

if I can see anything,
because something
is moving right here.

[Bryce] I had an incredible
night at Harvest Moon's
property.

Just being able to talk
with somebody
who's a tribal storyteller

and who collects these
stories about Sasquatch
and Bigfoot was incredible.

-[phone chimes]
-[Bryce speaking]

Oh, I just got a text
from a guy I've been
hoping to hear from.

I'm just going to find
a place to pull over, here.

This is a guy
who I've been sort
of communicating

back and forth between,
and I just want to strike

while the iron's hot before
he gets cold feet.

Needless to say,
I'm really intrigued.

Oh, amazing.

This guy wants to talk.

Perfect.

Let's chat.

-Hey, Denny, how's it going?
-[Denny] Hey, how are you?

Thanks
for reaching out to me.

I understand you have
some incredible information

you'd be willing
to share with me.

Yes. But before
I start, let me give you

a little background
of who I am.

I don't want to come
across as some wacko
or crazy nut.

[Bryce] Okay.

[Denny] In the '70s,
I worked for a company
that developed jet engines.

I'm an engineer by trade
and we were working
on jet engines

to fit the stealth fighters
and stealth bombers.

-[Bryce] Wow!
-[Denny] Everything
was top secret.

And in our neighborhood
we had a lot
of friendship going on.

It was a very close-knit
community of military people.

Okay.

A friend of mine
invited me
to a Christmas party.

So, I go to his house
and the guys were kind of
hanging out in this room.

And I say, you know,
"What's going on?"

He said,
"My... my uncle's here."

Turns out he was a zoologist

and he was working
for the US Government

and investigating Bigfoot
on the Olympic Peninsula.

Oh, wow!

[Denny] He had a five-year
assignment he was working on.

And he had a small portfolio
with him that had...

the pictures
said "classified."

You saw
this portfolio?

I saw the portfolio
and I actually
saw the pictures.

When I looked at these
pictures, it startled me.

To this day, I can see them.

One was definitely a female
because of the breasts.

One was a male
and then there was family.

The other picture
I saw was in a pine tree.

Oh, wow,
that's incredible,

because we actually have
a team investigating
trees right now.

Can you tell me more
about that photo 'cause
I don't hear a lot about

these creatures, you know,
climbing up these trees.

I can't tell you
how big it was,

but I've got to say it's
seven, eight feet anyways.

I could clearly see arms
and I could see
part of shoulder.

And, as they were
taking pictures,
a head appeared,

hanging on and sticking
his head out, looking.

-Wow!
-[Denny speaking]

He also discussed about
what they went through
as far as having

rocks thrown at them,
big pieces of lumber.

Were these
researchers camping out there

for a prolonged period
of time?

I guess I'm just wondering
where did they establish
their base of operations

[Denny] The government
has bunkers underground.

They use them
for research facilities.

They used them
to develop technology.

Do you think
there was any underground
bunkers used in,

in the research that
was going on
in the Olympic Peninsula?

-Yes.
-[Bryce] Incredible.

And that makes me think
of secretive laboratories
that might be

hidden underground out there.

And when you
hear of Bigfoot possibly
being

stealth or vanish,
disappear...

Mmm-hmm.

...there's technology
there, if it was true.

-Yeah, 100%.
-[Denny] Okay.

Why wouldn't they want
to go after that technology?

[Bryce] Yeah.

Denny, would you be
willing to share with me
the area

where we could try
and locate these
research bunkers?

[Denny] I'd be willing to,
but I would do it off camera.

Understood.

On that note, Denny,
I want to just say

this was a really somewhat
shocking and... and very
intriguing conversation.

I really appreciate it.

-Thank you.
-It's my pleasure.

[Bryce] There were
so many things about that
conversation that

really just has me reeling
because if we could find
some of the remnants

of these structures that
may have been hidden
underground

in the Olympic Peninsula,
then it would prove
what Denny was saying is true.

But also something that
really stuck out to me
was this photograph

that Denny saw of a Bigfoot
high up in a tree.

We're always looking
for footprints
or tree structures

and our head is always down.

We should also be
looking up in the trees,

which Ronny and Mireya
are doing right now.

You know,
it sort of has me thinking,

if these creatures
do look out from high
above the trees,

we could be encroaching
on some very
important territory.

We have to be careful.
[intense music playing]

[Ronny] I'll be your
eyes and ears.

What do you want to do?

I'm going to stay
on the ground
and I'm going to search

and I'm going to wait to see
if you see or hear
anything, let me know...

-Okay.
-...and I'll just
go straight to it.

[Ronny] Sounds good.

[narrator] The team
is investigating the area
with a brand-new approach.

Ronny will observe
from a tree stand 32 feet
in the air

with a state-of-the-art
parabolic microphone
and thermal imager,

while Mireya will keep boots
on the ground ready
to investigate

any anomalies that
Ronny spots.

[Ronny] If there's anything
moving around out there,

with this vantage point
and tech,
we should be able to see it.

Looking on the ground,
but I'm also trying to look
for anything in the trees.

I'm looking for any
kind of weird sign.

I've done a few scans
of the area.

I'm not picking up anything
on the thermal so far.

I also just did a quick
audio scan,
definitely hearing the river.

Pretty quiet all around you.

Yeah, so far,
it's pretty quiet back here.

Humans tend to think
of themselves as the superior
being of the animal kingdom.

But, actually, we're pretty
poorly equipped to night-time
in the forest.

Animals can see better
than us, hear better than us.

We don't have that advantage.

And, so, you really need
to be sensitive
to everything around you.

Any little noise,
anything that is out
of the ordinary

puts you on high alert.

Hey, Mireya,
I'm getting some movement
off to my left of my position.

All right,
I'm making my way back.

[Mireya] Does it sound like
something big
or does it sound close, far?

Tell me a little more.

[Ronny] Right now,
it sounds like something
trying to be very quiet,

but I can hear subtle
branch breaking off
to my left.

I'm not getting anything
on the thermal just yet,

but I'm definitely hearing
something moving closer
to my position.

[rustling]

[Ronny] I am getting a heat
signature off to my left.

It's definitely hot
and it's moving and it's gone.

[Mireya] What?

[Ronny]
That was really creepy
as [bleep].

[Mireya] Could you get
the kind of shape
from the heat signature?

[Ronny] Like something
standing up and then
ducking back down.

You're getting closer
to the position.

[Mireya] Did you see
which way it was headed?

[Ronny] I didn't.

It's keeping itself concealed.

Well, then, that means
that whatever you saw
is still here.

Okay, you're literally
right on top of where
I saw that heat signature.

-I don't have...
-[rustling]

[Ronny speaking]

[Mireya] What?

Mireya,
I just heard a tree
snap in your direction.

Was that you?

[Mireya] I'm just
standing here.

[Ronny speaking]

[Mireya speaking]

[Mireya] Ronny, did you hear
it from where
I'm shining my light, here?

[Ronny]
Yes, exactly, right there.

I don't see anything.

It's, basically, like
anything could be hiding
in here

and it would remain hidden.

[Ronny] Yeah,
whatever it was, it stood off.

I think it definitely knows
that because it ducked
right back down.

[Mireya] Ronny,
where I'm standing right now,

it would be like
finding a needle
in a haystack.

[Mireya] There are
a lot of animals

that roam these woods
at night,

so I'm not sure
what Ronny saw.

But, unfortunately,
these thermal cameras
don't work like X-ray vision.

So if the vegetation
is dense enough,
which in this area it was,

whatever is there could
just simply disappear
and hide.

[Ronny] I can hear a lot
of movement right below me.

[Mireya] All right, I'm
moving towards it, then.

Do you see
any disturbance at all?

No, this thing
goes straight down.
[bleep].

It nearly looks like
a vertical wall.

[Ronny]
Well, that will explain

why I saw something pop up,
then drop back down.

Whatever it is
would have to scale this wall.

Yeah. Well,
whatever it did, if it scaled
it, it did it with ease.

That one little
section leads to several
different small game trails.

It sounds like
we should probably check
that out in the morning.

And go down those trails
and see
what we come up with.

[Mireya] Sounds like
a good plan.

The idea that
there could be these
hidden research bunkers

is really intriguing.

This isn't the first hint that
we got that the government

is aware of these creatures.

[captain] So you're out here
looking for Bigfoot, right?

[Bryce] Yeah.

[Bryce] Starting back
in Kentucky,

when I was approached
by that former army captain.

[captain] They are real.

The government knows
about them
and they're in this area.

[Bryce] He claims
his superiors warned him
about Bigfoot

in the Olympic Peninsula.

And then there were
those military helicopters
that came just

a little too close
to the team last year.

Helicopters.

What the hell!

And, now, a witness
speaking of possible
research bunkers,

these signs are too
intriguing to dismiss.

So, I've called in a favor
and recruited Pete Kelsey,

a 3D imaging expert.

He has access
to state-of-the-art
Lidar technology

that's capable of mapping

huge swaths of land
and uncovering hidden
land features.

It's even been used
to track animal movement
and discover ancient ruins,

so it's the perfect tool
for this investigation.

Our survey zone will be
based on information
provided by the witness

and where our team
has experienced the bulk
of this activity.

Now, if there are hidden
features below
the Olympic Peninsula,

I have every confidence
that Pete and his equipment
is going to tell us

exactly where they are.

[chiming]

[Bryce] Hey, Pete.

Listen, thank you
for joining us
on such short notice.

I appreciate you getting
boots on the ground

while I coordinate
from back here.

So, tell me a little bit about
how the tech works, Pete.

You said we're going
to be able to see underneath

the canopy
onto the forest floor.

Yes, that's kind
of the beauty of Lidar,

is it actually makes
the invisible visible.

It's known as bare
earth Lidar.

So, you can actually
pull away all these trees
and see what's on the ground.

So, if there is anything
interesting out there,
it'll jump out in the data.

Wish us luck.

Yeah, good luck
and good scanning.

Look, if we're able
to find these hidden bunkers,

not only does that tell us
that we are exactly
in the right place...

[Pete] Powering up
and coming up.

[Bryce] ...but it also goes
a long way in helping us
to prove that the government

does, in fact, know about
these creatures' existence.

Coming at you.

[Bryce] And I'm confident
that if there is something
buried out there

in the Olympic Peninsula,
Pete and his Lidar drone
are going to find it.

[Pete] There we go.

-[Ronny] Hey, Mireya.
-[Mireya] Yeah.

-[Ronny] Anything interesting?
-This looked
like a print,

but now that I'm closer to it,
it's hard to tell
what that is.

[narrator] After spotting
a massive anomaly
on the thermal

imager last night,
the team has returned
to investigate

two possible game trails
the unknown creature
may have used to escape.

[suspenseful music playing]

[Ronny] What the heck!

[Mireya] Sounds like
a chainsaw.

[Ronny] Over there.
Somebody is out here?

-What's that up here?
-[Mireya] That's bizarre.

[Ronny] Who's out here
cutting down trees?

I thought we weren't in a spot
where there's active logging.

-[Mireya] Hey!
-[Ronny] Hey, man.

[man speaking]

You got permits?

[Mireya] We do.

[man] What's with all
the cameras?

[Ronny] Hey, don't worry,
we can blur your face.

[Mireya] We're doing
a documentary.

-[man] Out here?
-[Mireya] Out here.

[man] Documentary on what?

Bigfoot.

[man] Bigfoot?

[Ronny] Yeah,
I'm a Bigfoot researcher,

and so we're looking
into Bigfoot out here.

There's a lot of reports.

Have you seen
anything like that?

[man] The guy I worked
with a couple of years ago,
he saw some weird stuff.

[Mireya] What did he see?

[man] There's, like,
some holes, almost like
a hovel or something.

How big are they?

[man] It's about the size
of, like, a bear den,
but it's not a bear den.

[Ronny] Wow.

[man] Certainly,
he texted me these pictures.

You got pictures of this?

[Mireya] What did he find?

[man] Here.
You see what I mean?

Oh, yeah.

[Ronny] Oh, my God!

[man] A bear didn't make that.

That ain't a bear den.

[Mireya] Wow!

[man speaking]

[Ronny] Holy [bleep].

[Ronny] Holy crap,
that looks like
a potential nest.

[Ronny] Amazingly,
he showed us
Bigfoot nests,

which reminds me,

in Oregon we experienced
almost a similar situation.

[Mireya] What the hell?

[Ronny] I'm noticing
all these broken branches.

They're all either
twisted or dense.

[Mireya] Mmm-hmm.

[Ronny] Definitely not
a natural kind of tree break.

Something actually
did something to it.

How different is this
from the bear dens?

[man] Like, bears
don't do that.

They don't connect
stuff like that.

Bears will make,
like, they'll make places
to lay down.

[Mireya] Yeah,
but they don't make like that.

-[man] It was like woven.
-[Mireya] Woven.

[man]
And with these, like
if it was a person,

that would make sense, but...

[Ronny speaking]

And this was just
on the ground?

[man] Mmm-hmm.

It's funny because
gorillas will, every night,
make ground...

-Nests.
-...nests, yeah.

Super thick,
kind of mattress-like,

super comfortable.

And every single night,
they abandon those nests,

they move on
and they make new ones.

[Mireya] The photographs that
this logger had were
something that

we had not seen in the area.

But he was able to show us
something that we could
look out for

and pointed us in a direction
where we might be
able to find them again.

And that's the sort
of invaluable information
that you can get

by simply asking questions
of the people in
and around the area.

I appreciate you
sharing those with us, man.

-That's...
-[Mireya] Yes, thanks, man.

[man] And good luck with...

[Mireya] Thank you.

-[man] ...Bigfoot hunting.
-[Ronny] Thanks, man.

That was kind of shocking.

[Russell] Got a couple
of pressure points here.

It could be deer,
so I'll keep moving.

Make up a little bit
more time before it gets dark.

[narrator] After finding
a possible tree structure
yesterday,

Russell has been tracking
what he believes
is a large animal

making its way up
the mountain ridge.

[Russell] Come check this out.

[Russell speaking]

[Russell] Judging
by what I'm seeing,
there's been a lot of traffic.

Makes you wonder,
has the Bigfoot
been through here?

Sun setting to the west.

We're losing the light fast.

Let's see
if anything's moving.

Hold on, look at this.

You see how these ferns
are turned over, right here?

Something here has been
turned over

but the rest of these are laid
over flat.

Something has been
through here.

You see, it's all matted
down here,
but then it's fluffy up here.

Something that big, it
could be a bear.

It could be a large footprint.

Let's follow
this thing through.

Oh, here we go.
Oh, [bleep].

Look at that.

That's insane.

That's a hair.

Look how long that is.

Holy crap!

There's a spot where
a tree had broken off.

I found hair underneath
this thing where
something had ducked

underneath of it
and dragged its back
against it.

I got hair samples.

What makes that exciting
is it's more than
waist high on me.

Whatever came underneath
this log literally
had to squat

to get underneath there,
and it still scraped.

A bear, a mountain lion,
any of the basic known
species here

are not going to drag
their back
on something that tall.

Look how long those hairs are.

Holy cow.

Those are long.

[cameraman speaking]

[Russell speaking]

[Russell] I'm not exactly
sure what this hair is,

but I'm going to go ahead
and collect this sample,

get it to Bryce
and have him analyze it.

This could actually give us
the clue of what's been
stalking me

these last few days.

It's amazing.

[Bryce] Oh, here we go.

Hey, Pete,
any update on the scan?

There are some
openings and there's some
hints

at what appears to be
something man-made.

Really?

[Pete] It's coming down.

[narrator] After several
hours of scanning,

Lidar expert Pete Kelsey
has found an anomaly
in the area.

[Pete] This is the Lidar
of the site we flew.

And here you go.

[Bryce] So,
what are you seeing?

At least three spots
that just don't belong.

This big spot right here...

[Bryce] Oh, yeah.

[Pete] I mean,
what's going on there?

That's something
really interesting,

because why would there
be trees on all sides
but this big blank spot?

And then there's two
more of them.

There's one here
and one here and even
another,

now that I'm staring at it.

Is that normal
to see that many different
anomalies on a scan?

That
just doesn't belong.

Why, in such a dense forest,
would there be a great
big open spot like that?

And I swear

I see a couple of squares
on this really flat surface

at the bottom of this hole
in the forest.

That's interesting to me.
I've been looking
at Lidar for 15 years,

and that doesn't happen
naturally in the forest.

You're telling me
that you've uncovered evidence
of manmade structures

beneath the forest floor,
right?

I would have to say...
[tense music playing]

...maybe.

I'm... I'm definitely
intrigued.

What's really interesting

about this big one is
the bottom of it looks poured.

Something strange about that.

So what I'm thinking is,
I can actually walk
with this scanner.

And now that I know
where this is,
because I have latitude,

longitude for these areas,
even in the dark,
we can navigate to them

and put the scanner on them
from the ground.

And that could be
really interesting, especially
if they're man-made.

I love that.
Let's... let's do that, man,
get out there on foot

and see what you find.

[Pete] Will do, Bryce.

[Bryce] That's amazing.

So, Pete is going to continue
his investigation on foot

and see if he can't find
more evidence.

If this is a government
bunker and we just found it,
then what is in there?

Because
we've got these really
interesting openings

in the forest out here,
we have to get more
data on them.

And the best way to do
that is to actually walk
with the scanner.

[narrator] 3D imaging expert
Pete Kelsey has discovered
what he believes may be

man-made structures
in the middle of the forest.

To get a more detailed image,
he will scan the anomalies
by hand.

The closer I can
get this scanner to anything
I'm interested in,

the higher the quality
of the data is going to be.

Powering it up
and then we'll be off.

[automated voice] Connected.

[Pete] Okay. All that's left
to do now is to basically
find my way in the dark.

Here we go.

Literally going to let
the Lidar be my eyes.

Here we go.

So far, all I see is forest,
and a lot of it.

[twig snapping]

[Pete] What the [bleep]
was that?

Did you hear that?

[cameraman speaking]

[Pete] There is something
really big in front of me

and not particularly far away.

Whatever that was,
it's a whole lot bigger
than I am.

Hey, Pete,
what's going on?

You're not
going to believe this.

I'm not even sure I do.

But we walked
the scanner into the woods.

There was a loud crash
and then a couple of subtler
crashes after that.

Something really big
and really heavy, I think,
ran right across my back.

What do you think it was?

I'm kind of
hyperventilating.

All right.
Well, just slow down, man.

Tell me what happened.

[Pete] Look.

Now, in the industry,
I do this for a living,

Lidar scanning,
we call these ghosts.

And usually,
it's when someone
is in my scan

and messes it up and then
I have to clean it up.

But something,
and you can see as this thing
moved across,

the view of the scanner,
that looks like a person.

[Bryce] Are you serious?

So, Pete, are you just
saying you think
you might have caught

a Lidar scan of something
walking by?

I mean,
I'm kind of freaking out.

What the [bleep] is that?

Did Pete just capture
a Lidar scan of a Bigfoot
walking through the forest?