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Right there. What is that?

Heather, I found it. It's big.

It just took off running.

I hear it out there.

On this episode of "Expedition X"...

I've also found tracks where they're in a family unit,

which is unheard of.

Phil and Heather head to Kentucky, chasing reports of

a highly intelligent Bigfoot. - It's moving along shore.

Oh my God.

That's an X.

No way.

Journeying deep into the wilderness,

they encounter evidence of not just incredible brawn,

but incredible brains...

How did these branches get arranged like this?

Ah!

...and find themselves in the eye of the storm.

Oh, [bleep].

Are they about to be outnumbered and outsmarted

by a Sasquatch?

- What the hell was that? - You heard that too?

Camera traps down.

OK, guys, I want to play you this audio recording.

This was taken by Bigfoot researcher, Thomas Marcum.

He claims this is the sound of multiple Bigfoots talking.

- OK. - I'm all ears.

Take a listen.

Oh, it sounds like shouting.

Isn't that crazy?

Yeah, now I've heard everything, right?

I've heard accounts in the past of Bigfoots,

you know, whooping and roaring, but now they talk?

Which is exactly why I'm so interested in it.

Thomas's theory is that if these are Bigfoot, they may be

way more intelligent than we ever thought possible.

Where did he record this?

In the Appalachian Mountains, Harlan County, Kentucky.

He's also found curious stick structures, unusual footprints,

all within this same 70 square miles of woods.

He genuinely believes he may have found a group

of highly evolved Bigfoot. - Bigfoot geniuses.

Yeah, why not?

Well, look, Kentucky does have a long history of

Bigfoot sightings.

So, if there is a group of highly evolved Sasquatch,

maybe they're there.

In the remote wilderness of Harlan County, Kentucky,

tales of mysterious Bigfoot-like creatures

date back to the first people who called these valleys home.

The Shawnee and Cherokee spoke of a forest giant living in

the woods in the Appalachian Mountains.

Early European settlers shared their own tales of encounters

with so-called "hairy men" for generations.

But researchers really started paying attention to the region

in the 1930s when Harlan construction workers reportedly

discovered an eight-foot-tall human-like skeleton.

In 1955, stories emerged of five more very unusual

skeletons found at nearby Pine Mountain.

Upon analysis, medical professionals reported

the femurs were twice as thick, but significantly shorter than

those of a normal human.

These humanoids would have stood only five feet tall,

but would have weighed between 200 and 300 pounds,

leaving some to speculate that these might be the bones of

a juvenile Bigfoot.

But no skulls were reportedly found with the bones,

and so the evidence was far from conclusive.

In the decades since, hunters, hikers, and locals

in Harlan have regularly claimed

to see large, hairy, bipedal creatures in the woods.

They've also reported hearing

unexplainable calls and screams.

In recent years, as the coal mines closed,

the human population has significantly declined.

But incredibly, the number of potential Sasquatch sightings

has only risen.

And it's not just the quantity that's intriguing.

If they're authentic, these Harlan sightings would

indicate Bigfoot intelligence

unlike anywhere else in America.

There have been groupings of tracks showing what some say is

unprecedented evidence of Sasquatch working together.

Sightings of sophisticated cage-like structures

built against cliffs.

And now, this latest shocking audio evidence--

what sounds like a back-and-forth conversation

between two of the creatures using a basic form of language.

What is happening in the Kentucky wilderness?

Could a decrease in humans and a boom of wildlife have

created the perfect environment for Bigfoot to not just thrive,

but also evolve?

Now, obviously, these are some very big claims in need of

scientific investigation.

Communicating, hunting in family units,

building intricate structures, all of it gets

the scientist in me very curious and very excited.

And what about you, Heather? What do you make of all this?

All right, there is a long history of Bigfoot sightings in

the Appalachian Mountains, and I'm totally down with that.

But to say that these are the world's smartest Bigfoots,

and they're talking to each other, that might be

a little far-fetched for me.

You don't want to talk to Bigfoot?

Yes, I want to talk to Bigfoot. I got questions.

Why are you so good at hide and seek?

Where are you?

But chatterbox or not, we have to look into this story.

I agree, so let's look into it.

Your mission is to head south to Harlan, Kentucky, meet this

researcher, and see if you can verify this report.

And hey, if he's right, this could be one of the most

intelligent animals in the world.

So, keep your eyes and your ears open in case Bigfoot wants

to say hello. - OK.

Let's do it.

It takes four hours to fly from New York to Lexington,

and another three hours to drive to remote Harlan County,

to the nexus of the reports of a Bigfoot genius.

- Whew, look at this. - It's beautiful.

A lot of rolling hills, a lot of forest.

- A lot of places to hide. - That's true.

It's Bigfoot country.

Not just Bigfoot country-- world's smartest Bigfoot country.

I'm here for it.

I mean, to be fair, primates are way more

intelligent than we give them credit for.

They can recognize faces, they use tools.

They have to be expert foragers, mushrooms, grubs.

Mushrooms, I can do. Grubs, not so much.

To catch a Bigfoot, you have to eat like a Bigfoot, Heather.

Grasshoppers can be pretty good.

- Wait, you've tasted bugs? - Oh, yeah.

- Ugh. - Delicious-- ants.

Ants?

The right kind taste lime Doritos.

Oh, my gosh.

- Maybe I'll find you some bugs to eat. - No.

Not today.

OK, here's the lake.

Ooh!

- Look at that. - That is beautiful.

Not too shabby. This should be interesting.

Hey, guys.

Heather and I are meeting our witness on the edge of

the Cranks Creek Wilderness,

where most of his evidence has been found.

How you doing, Phil?

How you doing, Heather?

Thomas Marcum has been searching for Bigfoot

in Harlan County for over 30 years.

He's convinced that whatever's lurking in Kentucky's woods is

much more sophisticated than your average primate.

Rumor has it you guys have the world's smartest Bigfoot

roaming around in these woods.

What have you seen that makes you think so?

Well, I've heard them speak, for one, and I've also found

tracks where they're in a family unit,

which is unheard of.

So these are some of those tracks?

- Yes. - Wow, look at these.

- I recognize that one. - Yes, you should.

That's a human track I used just for comparison.

This track here was found next to two more Bigfoot tracks.

I definitely believe it's a family unit,

a father, a mother, and a young offspring.

And usually, you don't find that

in most sightings out west.

What makes you think it's Bigfoot, and not just

a family of humans walking around out there?

The location. It's a remote location.

There's no houses within miles.

The chances of someone walking back there barefooted,

you know, four miles back in the wilderness, is very slim.

You'd have to have really tough feet.

Yeah.

And then there's the vocalizations that

you sent us. - Yes.

Can you play it one more time? I got to listen to this.

Absolutely.

Where were you at the time?

I was here in Harlan County, investigating a sighting,

and when I first heard the chatter, I thought it was

a person, and I actually think the Bigfoot was mimicking me.

Well, that's a smart Bigfoot then.

Yes.

Have you ever tried playing this audio back to them?

I've not done that, but I have done gifting, where I'd leave

out a food item or a toy.

You've left toys for the Bigfoot?

Yes, I left a orange ball.

It disappeared, stayed gone for about two months,

and then it shows back up.

Wait a second, they brought it back?

- Yes, it came back. - So what do you make of that?

It's something intelligent.

I don't think a bear would take it and bring it back.

What else have you seen?

I've found a lot of stick structures over the years.

For example, I've seen sticks in a X formation.

What do you think they're for?

To me, it's a warning for the other Bigfoot.

Be careful if you go this way.

So, you are convinced by the evidence.

- You think Bigfoot's out here? - You could never change my mind.

- What makes you so certain? - I've seen him.

My friend had experienced something years earlier,

where he heard a sound.

And I took him out in the mountains,

and he replicated the sound. - What was the sound?

It was just a big, loud whoop, cry.

A large tree pushed over and fell,

and it freaked us out. So we started looking around.

He hands me the binoculars, and there stands a Bigfoot,

probably at 20, 30 feet away.

This thing was probably 10-foot tall.

It was very large. He was looking directly at us.

- Were you scared? - Of course.

You're talking about something that's very strong.

You take a chimpanzee, how much stronger is a chimpanzee

than a human?

Well, we got something that's much bigger than a chimpanzee.

So where do we look for the world's smartest Bigfoot?

I've got a real good hotspot for you.

I don't want to give it away publicly, because I think

there's family units in there.

But I'll put you guys right in a prime location where

you should be able to find some things.

- We got our secret Bigfoot spot. - Good luck to you guys.

Y'all stay safe.

With Thomas's sighting location running along the edge

of Cranks Creek Lake,

Phil and I agree we have to get out on the water,

allowing us to observe all 360 degrees of shoreline.

So, we link up with Thomas's friend, Steve...

- Hey, I'm Phil. - How are you?

...a local boat captain and guide.

We set out to reach the center of the lake by dusk, which is

when large animals like bears hunt for food along the banks.

Hopefully, Bigfoot does too.

At least we picked a pretty night.

- Oh yeah. - It's gonna be a full moon.

Can you take us to a place where we can see a lot

of shoreline? - Yeah.

There's a tail end right out here, and it opens back up.

OK.

- Kill the engine? - Yeah.

- We can see every inch of shoreline here. - Yeah.

If anything is coming for a drink or to come to fish,

I think we have a really good chance of seeing it.

- So I'm gonna use the flare. - Agreed.

- I've got my night vision binoculars. - OK.

Get this guy out.

Let's get a baseline of what's out here.

Let's try and play that Bigfoot chatter, and see if that

attracts anything to the shore. - OK.

- Let's try it. - OK.

Whoa. Big heat signature, that way.

Right there, right there. That was not there before.

It is huge.

- You seeing this? - Oh, my god.

- What is it? - I have no idea.

It's moving.

- Can you get us over there? - Yeah.

- Look how big that is. - Oh, [bleep].

- Where's it going? - It's moving along shore.

Slowly.

Ready to light it up?

It's up on shore.

Just disappeared.

Where'd it go?

- Can we get on shore here? - Should be able to.

OK.

Right up here, right where all these branches are down,

- I'm jumping off. - OK.

Here's the flare.

All right.

OK, I got my walkie.

You see anything? I don't see anything.

OK.

Holy

- What? - To your left.

- No way. - That's an X.

Oh my god.

Weird.

Is there anything over here?

That can come down in a storm.

But how did these branches get arranged like this?

That is heavy. And look,

something recently was here.

Kick this up, maybe even put this in position.

I think that looks intentional.

Heather, anything around me on the thermal?

- I've got nothing. - OK.

I just want to make sure

if whatever we just saw comes back,

you give me a warning. - I've got your six.

- But be careful. - OK.

I need to go a little further.

Look right here.

Something has been walking back here.

See little disturbances right here?

Clear path...

leading here...

Is that a hair?

I have two hairs.

They're tiny. They're absolutely tiny,

OK.

Got the hair.

It is tiny, but where there is hair, there's DNA,

which allows us to identify whatever this is.

With the sun about to rise, our boatman, Steve, takes us

back to civilization, where we plot our next move.

Our witness Thomas reaches back out with a lead.

There's been another very strange, supposed

Bigfoot encounter.

But to meet this new witness, where their sighting happened,

we're going to have to go very off-grid.

Whoo!

So this witness, John, wanted to meet us

at the actual location where he had this encounter.

If you can't tell, it's remote.

- All right, we're in the middle of nowhere. - Oh, yes.

Whoo!

- You OK over there? - Yeah!

That's why they got the oh-[bleep] bar in here!

You see him?

Not yet.

- Ah, there he is. - There's our guy.

John Caldwell is a seasoned hunter who claims he had

a terrifying encounter with a large, seemingly intelligent

creature that he's certain was a Sasquatch.

- How you doing? - Hey, John, I'm Phil.

John.

So tell us what happened out here.

I was out four-wheeling, coming off this ridge up here,

and I noticed something went up on that bank right there.

That flat spot below those cliffs?

Yep.

- And I first thought it was a bear, - OK.

but that wasn't no bear. - Why?

Just the immense size.

It was 10-foot-plus, 1,000 pound or better.

- I mean, that's giant. - It's huge.

It was huge.

You see a lot of animals out here?

I've seen bear. I've seen cougar.

We've got about everything, but this was different.

- I knew what I was looking at. - What were you looking at?

- Bigfoot. - You knew it was a bigfoot?

Oh, yes. It was too big to be a bear.

Way too big.

But when I come down a little farther to try to get

a better look at it, it had already moved on and hid.

I sat and watched, see if I could see it again for about

30 minutes. It never showed up.

But the feeling that I got was, it was looking at me.

- You felt like it was close? - Oh, it was close.

Did it make any noise?

Not that I could hear, but I don't know how he'd done it,

but whenever it hollered, I mean, I felt it.

It was like standing in front of a subwoofer.

I mean, I felt it through my body.

Wow.

I wonder if they can make a sound that humans can't hear.

- You're talking infrasound? - Infrasound.

So infrasound is a frequency that's below

what humans can hear.

There's animals like elephants, tigers--

they can make infrasound.

But I don't know if they can make it that powerfully.

So it was communicating with you.

- Yes. - Do you think they're smart?

Highly intelligent, because it was hid, and it wasn't

giving up that position.

Any other animal would have, would have broke and run.

If we want to see Bigfoot, where should we look?

I would look in this general direction, right here.

- Same direction that whatever you saw was heading? - Yeah.

Because there are several caves up through

there, and overhangs.

Plenty of places for Bigfoot to hide.

Plenty.

And be careful, because they'll be looking at you,

and you won't even know they're there.

- Well, thank you, John. - You're welcome.

- Appreciate your time. - Nice meeting you.

Y'all be safe.

John's encounter stands out to me, not because of what he saw,

but what he felt.

Infrasound refers to sound below the frequency range of

human hearing.

Given there are large animals capable of producing

infrasound, could the reason we haven't heard Bigfoot be

because our ears physically can't?

To explore this theory, we're going to need some

special tech.

I spend the evening making some phone calls and setting up

a surprise for Heather, and hopefully a surprise

for a Sasquatch. Check it out.

- What in the hell is that? - This, Heather, is infrasound.

This is the only commercially available speaker that can

reach 10 hertz. And you know what 10 hertz is?

- Infrasound? - Infrasound.

And we have a stack of four subwoofers that can reach

literally miles deep into the woods.

So you're going to try to communicate with Bigfoot

using subwoofers? - Exactly.

First, I want us to get a sense of what

infrasound feels like.

And I'm so glad you volunteered to be first.

- Oh, here we go. - Let's do this.

It's starting to rain.

I'm gonna open up this umbrella.

All right. There you go.

Thank you.

I want to see those sound waves.

"Jurassic Park" moment.

Exactly, because we may not be able to hear infrasound,

but we could see it. - And maybe feel it.

Maybe.

OK...

10 hertz. You ready?

Maybe.

Ah!

- That's rude. - How does it feel?

Not great.

It's, like, literally being shoved by sound.

- Really? - Yeah, you try it.

Oh!

- What?! - I know.

Well, experiment one, infrasound feels awful.

Check.

Experiment two, is there anything calling back?

And for that one, we've got to grab our bags

and start heading five miles in

to where John said is prime territory.

- Bigfoot territory. - We'll see about that.

Let's do it.

John has pointed us to a network of caves five miles

south of our current location.

With the coordinates too far to reach before sundown,

Heather and I grab our gear and prepare for

an overnight stay in what could be Bigfoot's backyard.

We'll be in touch.

We'll let you know when to play the pulse.

- You got it. - All right.

One of our crew members, Andrew, stays behind to operate

the infrasound equipment.

It's getting dense in here.

Yeah.

So we are about three miles out at this point.

- Good time to try it? - Yeah, I think so.

OK.

So if those speakers are the voice, this sensor

is the ear.

This thing is a military-grade infrasound detector.

Whatever we can't hear, it'll pop up as a visual graph.

All right.

But right now, mostly a flat line.

Should we get hit with 10 hertz again?

Sure.

- All right, Andrew, let her rip. - All right, 10 hertz coming in.

Let's see if anything responds.

- There it is. - There it is.

It's picking up the infrasound readings.

All right, so the equipment works.

Yeah, but there's nothing responding right now.

Maybe it doesn't communicate at 10 hertz.

Let's try another level.

All right, Andrew, can you play 17 hertz?

That is right at 17 hertz.

It just got quiet.

- Yeah. - No animal sounds, no squirrels, no birds.

Birds have been calling all day out here.

Question is, is anything going to respond to it?

Oh, look, look, look.

That's got multiple frequencies right there.

The infrasound readings we're receiving are incredibly

distinct, which indicates something may be responding to

the infrasound we put out at 17 hertz.

Hey, how many pulses did you just play?

That's like 15, 20. What is that?

That could be a response. That could be Bigfoot.

I will say those are some very prominent infrasound readings,

but that could be a lot of things.

I'm gonna grab the flare.

OK.

Do you see anything?

Nothing.

It's like this forest is all one temperature.

So, I think this is our spot.

I think we should set up camp here and keep pushing tomorrow.

- Right in the middle of this. - What better place?

All right.

With the sun beginning to set, we get to work building

our camp in the heart of Bigfoot country.

We set up a perimeter of camera traps to monitor any activity

throughout the night.

I have one camera trap facing my tent, another facing yours.

So we'll know if someone comes to visit at night.

We'll be covered.

Night, Heather. Don't let the Bigfoot bite.

Good night.

What was that?

Something just broke a branch out there.

Now the frogs are going off.

- What the hell was that? - You heard that too?

Yeah. What was it?

Sh, sh, sh...

The frogs are going...

crazy. See anything?

No.

I don't see anything out here.

I want to do one more scan with the FLIR.

It's clear. Not seeing anything.

- Taking that as a good sign. - OK.

Phil says it's a good sign.

I'm going back to bed.

Oh.

I do not know what that was.

But it's loud enough that it woke everybody up.

So, uh...

I woke up to this storm. That's a lot of rain.

Ah!

Holy

Whew, that was-- that was, like, right here.

OK, that was a long night. Probably slept two hours.

Rise and shine, Heather.

Wait. Do you know what I just realized?

Your rain fly, it's on upside down.

So all the rain hit and just whoop, right in.

Did you get soaked?

It's a "yes."

There she is.

Would you like some mildly warm coffee?

Isn't camping fun?

Birds chirping in the morning,

you get soaked by rain all night.

Got a nice warm fire.

We're about halfway to the area that John targeted for us.

Let's get our tents taken down, let's get packed up.

Still have a few more miles.

Just let me have this cup of coffee first.

OK.

After downing our sodden tents and a few more cups of coffee,

Heather and I push deeper into the wilderness,

following our witness John's directions to where he believes

Bigfoot might call home.

We search for a rock overhang that might hide a network of

caves large enough to house a family of

intelligent creatures.

- Oh, look at this. - That's a big rock.

This looks fun. Let's see what's up here.

You see anything?

Oh, there's a cliff. That is a big drop.

Let's see if we can find another way around, then.

Yeah, let me check around right.

- You go left. - I'll check left.

- Not seeing anything over here. - Whoa, I've got something here.

You got something?

- Yeah. - What is it?

Wow. It's a slide.

That's a way down.

That could lead to potentially a cave underneath this thing.

There's no telling what's down there.

Hopefully, Bigfoot. Careful.

Yeah, yeah. That's the idea.

Whoa!

You OK?

Yeah, I'm OK.

- Whew, oh my God. - What?

- Holy [bleep], Heather! - What?

You are not gonna believe what I just found.

- Heather? - Yeah?

There is a giant cave down here.

- No way. - Yes.

You may be knocking on Bigfoot's front door.

- Coming down. - OK.

Whoo.

Look at this thing. Look, look, look.

Oh, no way.

How far back does it go? Oh, that goes far.

This is exactly what John described.

I can hear a stream nearby. So that's water, that's food.

This is shelter.

- Shall we? - Let's just look for eyeshine.

There genuinely could be something living

in here right now. - OK.

- I'll follow in your footsteps. - OK.

Wow, this thing is so much bigger than I thought it was.

It's huge.

We gotta figure out if there's any evidence of something

living in here.

I've seen a little bit of rodent scat over here,

but I'm looking for something bigger.

I'm not seeing anything.

Nothing, nothing.

Come on.

- Heather? - Yeah?

Look at this. Look at this.

What? What do you have?

- I think I got hair. - No way.

Long, dark hair. Look, look, look.

Right next to these walnuts, something was eating here.

OK, I need to take some samples here.

Look at that-- brown-black,

It's dark, for sure.

And it looks like hair, not fur.

Yeah. Maybe bear?

That's really long. That's not deer.

- That's not elk. - Could be Bigfoot.

- Whoa. - What is that?

- Is that an arrowhead? - It looks like one.

I mean, it's sharp.

Yeah.

This could be cracking open the walnuts.

Could be used for hunting.

If we're looking for signs of tool making, intelligence,

this could be it.

It does look like some kind of tool, but in a cave this remote,

for all we know, that tool has been here for

hundreds of years.

So let's get some images of it, but let's leave it here, OK?

With everything we found, do you think something lives

here or lived here?

There's definitely evidence that something lived here

in the past.

As far as lives here, there's only one way

to find out.

I think we should do a little bit of a cave stakeout.

Let's get out there, let's set up some camera traps,

give it some distance.

See if someone comes a-knocking.

Yeah.

- OK, so. - What do you think?

Let's cover this cave entrance with camera traps.

I'll set one up here on the slide, maybe one here

facing the entry. - OK, I'll take over there.

And this isn't wide enough to get around this tree.

This tree's a little bit too big to get a strap around it,

so I'm gonna put it on this log here, placing it

right at the entrance.

Let's go.

- So, hear me out. - OK.

Everybody's so convinced that there's some genius Bigfoot

around here. So let's give it a test.

So you know how we keep our snacks inside

this bear vault... - OK.

...to keep our food in, so that no bear can get to

our food, right? - Right.

But a human can, if given a test.

There you go. OK.

I did it. I'm not a bear.

You're not a bear. You passed the test.

So.

- Locked? - Locked.

- You think Bigfoot likes apples? - Well, we're gonna see.

But now, we wait.

All right, let's give this thing some distance and see

if anything shows up.

Good luck, little guy.

Right through there, you can just

make out the cave, but I feel like we're far enough away that

we're not gonna spook anything off.

I think this is my best angle, so I'll post up right here.

All right,

I'll grab the flare and watch your six.

OK.

We keep an eye on the cave entrance

and the surrounding area.

As the hours pass and the sun sets, the woods stay

unusually quiet.

How long are we gonna do this, Heather?

As long as it takes.

It seems like we're in the right spot.

Just maybe the world's smartest Bigfoot doesn't want to come

around us. - Thankfully, we got these.

Otherwise, we wouldn't stand a chance to know

what's out here. - Yeah.

What was that?

There was something there.

Did you hear that?

It's doing it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

OK, go for it.

Look.

Right there.

What the hell is that?

Even the most famous explorer of the Kentucky wilderness,

Daniel Boone, reportedly had a run-in with Bigfoot.

According to legend, Boone awoke one day in

the Kentucky backcountry to find his horses stolen.

He and his son tracked the horses for miles.

Then, Boone heard his son's musket fire twice,

turning to discover, quote, "The largest man

he'd ever seen."

The giant grabbed his son, slamming him to the ground,

almost killing him.

As the giant crouched to pick Boone's son up again,

Boone shot the giant dead through the eye.

Folklore says the body of the pale, yellow-haired

monster measured 10 feet, 8 inches tall.

And as wild a story as this is, Boone supposedly told it

repeatedly in his final years.

And I guess now we know the real secret to

catching Bigfoot,

a coonskin cap.

- What is it? - I don't know.

I can hear it move.

- I'm gonna get closer. - Be careful, you don't know what that is.

It's moving.

I lost it.

Where did it go?

Look, look.

Right there.

What is that?

Sh, sh, sh. Heather, you copy?

I can hear you loud and clear.

- I found it, it's big. - What is it?

There's so much brush, I'm just getting little hints of it.

It does look tall, but I can't tell if it's standing upright,

or crawling, or what.

How close do you think it is?

20 yards away right now.

Seems close, but there's a lot of brush between me and it.

, just took off running.

- Where's it going? - I think it's going parallel

to the cliffs, to the right.

I hear it out there.

Sounds like it's heading towards the cave.

I'm gonna try to follow it. Meet you over there?

See if we can get eyes on this.

We'll come from either side, sounds good.

- Go carefully, OK? - Got it.

OK.

- Anything? - I didn't see it anywhere.

Let me see.

- It's clear, nothing in here. - Nothing in there?

Nothing.

- Where did that thing go? - I don't see any tracks, either.

- Oh, my God. - What?

- Guess what's missing? - No.

Yeah.

- Completely gone. - And the camera.

Camera trap's down.

I thought you put it on the tree.

The strap wasn't wide enough to go around the tree, so I put it on this.

It must have fallen over.

- Maybe it's on the camera. - You got to check it then.

- There's the bear vault. - Yeah.

- Do you see anything moving on the sides? - No.

Phil and Heather searched the wilderness till daybreak...

See anything?

...trying to determine what knocked over the trail cam

and took the missing bear canister.

Whatever it was had seemingly outwitted them,

moving stealthily and leaving no discernible trail.

But there was plenty of other compelling evidence the team

collected while on the hunt.

That could be a response. That could be Bigfoot.

The infrasound data Phil and Heather gathered was sent

for detailed analysis. - Oh, look, look, look.

It was determined to come from an animal, but remarkably,

it did not match any known species.

Two hairs.

Phil sent the fur samples he found, both at the shoreline

of Cranks Creek Lake, as well as in the secluded cave,

out for DNA analysis.

The first sample at the lake was disappointing,

originating from a local possum.

Brown-black.

But the sample at the cave was much more intriguing,

with markers indicating DNA from a primate.

But the sample could not be conclusively identified as

human, leaving the door open for the remarkable possibility

that it could be from some unidentified ape.

This evidence is only more remarkable when considered

alongside the shard of stone Phil found in the same cave,

believing it could have been a primitive tool.

Images were sent to a team of anthropologists for review,

and they confirmed that it was consistent with the tools of

our ancient ancestors.

So, are there really highly intelligent Sasquatch living in

the Kentucky wilderness?

The strange potential language the team encountered,

the curious stick structures, the footprints showing

a possible family unit, and most significantly,

the cave containing possible primate hair

and primitive tools.

This litany of evidence has convinced believers of

something mind-blowing...

, it just took off running.

...that somewhere in Kentucky, there really could be a Bigfoot

that's big-brained.