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Around the world, there are tales of strange creatures.

There have long been legends of monstrous

blood, thirsty wolves.

Hey, hey.

From an evil entity allegedly caught on tape.

Doesn't look like an earthly sort of creature.

To goblins in Kentucky.

This is a very creepy video

and I've never seen anything quite like this before.

To a dinosaur in a backyard.

It's a raptor or some type of a dinosaur.

And whatever is slithering around our sewers.

It's large, it's slimy and black,

it's crawling out of a toilet.

Malaysia is pretty well known for blood-sucking invertebrates.

Are these legendary creatures

more fact than fiction?

I knew exactly what we had on camera.

It's very typical of what witnesses say

Bigfoot walks like.

On this special episode of,

"The Proof Is Out There: Unexplained Edition",

our team of experts will investigate strange species

from around the globe.

Then, we'll pass a verdict.

These videos are astonishing and unbelievable.

The proof starts now.

Good evening and welcome to "The Proof is Out There".

The Philippines is a country rich in history and legend,

but by far its most famous

and feared local creature

is an evil shapeshifter known as the Aswang.

Tales of the beast go back 500 years at least,

but sightings still happen.

Two of them occurred just last year and fortunately for us,

they were caught on camera.

Pavia Iloilo, Philippines,

a CCTV security camera rolls on a warm July evening in 2021.

The camera captures a dimly lit street

where a woman later identified in the news as Mary Lou

sits in front of her home cleaning dishes.

Unbeknownst to Mary Lou, a stranger approaches from behind

then quickly and as quietly as she arrives,

the woman continues down the street, reaches a tree,

then she seemingly folds over dropping to the ground.

The woman begins to crawl on all fours

back towards Mary Lou.

Terrified, Mary Lou stands up and threatens to throw

a bucket of water at her.

The woman turns and runs away.

Watch again.

This moment, some people say she doesn't just bend over,

but transforms.

A week later, another alleged sighting in the same village

captured on a second CCTV camera.

This time the person or creature

switches between crawling and hopping.

As we push in, we see a woman exiting her home

then jumping back in shock.

It doesn't look like an earthly sort of creature.

The legs are bent in weird directions

and there's this long neck right there.

One of the many stories about Aswangs

is that during the day, they're just like people in your village

that you may even know.

But after nightfall, they shapeshift.

They have this proboscis tongue for lapping of blood

and they go down on all fours and change their shape

and turns their legs around in weird positions.

Aswangs are said to be responsible for miscarriages

in the community or really anything bad,

like a child dies of some disease.

It's kind of the catchall boogieman.

If you want your kids to behave,

it's like don't go out there, Aswangs are out there.

The Aswang are believed to take the forms

of vampires, weredogs and witches.

It said they can be warded off by salt,

ash, or urine depending on whom you ask.

Is this mythical creature what we're seeing here?

We'll need to ask our experts.

This creature appears to be quite flexible

in its mode of locomotion.

It appears to be hopping and transitioning

between being quadrupedal and bipedal,

unlike what's been reported for the Aswang.

Next, he turns to the creature's anatomy.

In my opinion, the body proportions

are very similar to a human.

The hind limbs appear to be much longer than the fore limbs

and the feet are pointing forward.

When we line up these proportions

with that of a human, that certainly looks like a match.

As for the head...

The head is rather obscure in the image,

but it looks as though it actually removes a hat

as it exits the video.

This could be a hoax because

as the creature comes to this tree,

it pops up and it looks over to see

if this person is coming out of their door.

That is more human-like

and because they wanna make sure they're seen.

If it's a fake,

Strain thinks it might be serving a higher purpose.

Folklore has a place in society

to teach certain skillsets or certain beliefs.

We tracked down the guy who made the second video

and he admitted he staged the stunt

after being inspired by the first Mary Lou video,

not for fun, but to help with COVID quarantine compliance

during the pandemic.

After I saw that video,

I was thinking that it might be a inspiration for me

to do the hoax

and so I did the video for the community purposes,

just to force the children to stay inside of their home

because it was in the midst of pandemic.

This actually the mask that I wear on that time.

So that may explain the second video,

but what about the first one that inspired it?

Is it possible that an actual Aswang is responsible

for terrifying Mary Lou in the alley?

When this lady comes back towards her

and gets down on all fours,

she's behaving like a typical Aswang,

according to Filipino folklore.

She's now gone into a different state

where she's no longer human.

And her trying to get closer to her without being seen

indicates to me that she meant that lady harm.

But you don't have a clear view of what she looked like

when she was totally down on the ground.

It's kind of dark, she's behind a fence.

I'm willing to say that I don't really know

what happened there.

So we have a split decision.

We know the second clip is a hoax,

but we can't say that for certain about the first.

Aswangs are traditionally women,

and while we don't know this woman's intent

or state of mind,

we do know she was crawling

and Mary Lou was genuinely frightened.

We'll stay on the lookout for any future Aswang sightings.

Next we head to the great state of Kentucky

known for its horse racing,

its bourbon and its barbecue,

but it's also becoming quite famous

for its frequent sightings of both UFOs and goblins.

As our next story shows,

there's something strange happening

in the Bluegrass State.

July 5th, 2022, Morehead, Kentucky,

65 miles west of Lexington,

a warm summer's day turns to night in the backyard

of Douglas Windsor McCloney III.

Doug's security cameras are on duty when they capture this,

a mysterious pale figure appears.

It's lanky, yet hunched and lurking

near the back garden of a home.

The figure moves slowly, carefully,

as it seemingly looks around

while approaching the owner's car.

For some, this ghostly gremlin is reminiscent

of the state's most infamous cryptids, the Kentucky goblins,

which traced back to a famous incident

on the Sutton farm near Hopkinsville in 1955.

According to several eyewitnesses,

these strange short statured, silvery humanoid creatures

appeared on the scene

very similar to what we're seeing in this video.

The Sutton family actually blasted one of these goblins

in the face with a shotgun

from point blank range

with literally no effect.

Now the Hopkinsville goblins

were allegedly connected to a UFO sighting.

In fact, many speculate they could be members of the Grays,

the widely reported humanoid aliens made famous

by incidents like Roswell.

But others suggest Kentucky's goblins

don't come from the skies above,

but from deep under the ground.

Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky

boast one of the largest cave systems in the country

and it has been speculated

that these goblin-like creatures

came from deep in the earth.

As you can see, the body of this creature

is very humanoid, but when it gets close

to these parked vehicles right here, take a look.

It appears to be much smaller in scale

than your average person.

One could even say it is goblin sized.

Let's see what our experts think.

Animals that have adapted to live exclusively in caves,

they don't need to produce pigmentation

to protect themselves from the sun.

So they will often be light or white colored,

which is what we see here in this video.

Anatomist Jeff Meldrum tries to determine

if this tiny driveway demon

could possibly originate from off world.

It looks otherworldly on the basis

of the very uniform appearance of its coloration,

its texture, and it has very spindly appendages,

very narrow arms and legs.

I don't immediately see

any definition of hands or feet.

Well, the creature is undeniably strange looking,

Meldrum doesn't think it fits the profile

of a Sutton farm invaders or the Grays.

I've never seen an eyewitness depiction

of a Gray describe that posture.

This crouching, sculking figure.

I would investigate with people much more knowledgeable

about the technical aspects

of that sort of a video.

So that's exactly what we did

by taking this video to our forensic video analyst,

Michael Primeau.

Digitally, this is a completely different format

than what was originally recorded

by the surveillance system.

And so is this an authentic video?

It's inconclusive.

We don't have any original properties about the video

and whether or not it's some sort of extraterrestrial

is difficult to say.

Our verdict, we're calling this an unidentified creature.

It certainly could be a hoax,

but without more data about the footage,

our forensic video analyst couldn't say for sure.

But I gotta say, Kentucky,

goblins, aliens and bourbon,

we couldn't do the show without them.

We've all been taught dinosaurs went extinct

more than 65 million years ago,

but what if they still exist

and are running wild in our neighborhoods?

Sounds wacky, I know, until you watch this.

April, 2021, Cristina Ryan is asleep

in her home in Palm Beach, Florida.

But while her eyes are shut,

her home security camera is wide awake

and it captures this wild footage.

The video just four seconds long,

shows an animal running across the front yard

in the dead of night.

Let's slow it down and take another look.

It's hard to tell exactly what this is,

but there is no doubt in Cristina's mind

about what her camera recorded.

My immediate thought is it's a raptor

or some type of a dinosaur

the way that it's running and just the entire shape

and everything indicated to me, dinosaur.

It appears to have a kind of a long

and powerful sturdy tail.

This is kind of the the classic image

of a small bipedal therapod type of dinosaur.

As crazy as it may seem,

Gerhardt shares that there are many modern day accounts

of living dinosaurs just like Cristina Ryan's

right here in the US of A.

In southwest Colorado,

there have been many sightings in they're referred to

as river dinosaurs or river lizards.

These are basically smaller types

of theropod-like dinosaurs,

just like we're seeing in the Florida video.

There are also traditions in southwest Texas

of tall bipedal lizards called mountain boomers,

larger versions of a known smaller species.

These sightings are fleeting, but they do happen.

So is it that crazy to think

that other dinosaur species could be alive

and well in Florida?

Let's ask our experts.

Because it's moving at a high rate of speed

and the encoder is not set to capture

that information with a high quality,

it's essentially blurring and elongating some of that

with motion trail compression artifacting.

The pixel information that was captured

was not captured with accuracy.

So Primeau says the footage hasn't been altered,

but it still may be distorted in the camera.

The tale of this creature may not be what it seems.

So we brought in our resident zoologist, Roxy Furman,

who reminds us where this happened

and why that may be a clue.

Florida is famous for its exotic pet trade

and also they obviously have gators in the region.

The way it moves could be reptile like,

it moves kind of side to side in this waddle like manner,

but its body pattern has no indication of scales

or any different coloration or variation along the back.

So for me, that kind of rules out any kind of reptile.

That would eliminate giant prehistoric reptiles

like raptors too.

So if it isn't a dinosaur,

then what is it?

What I think is most likely is a dog that's got loose.

You can see the tail running behind it.

The tail looks like a lizards

due to the picture distortion Primeau identified.

And it also looks like there's something

kind of dragging like a leash.

And that would also explain kind of this white area

that we see around the head,

which would most likely be a reflective collar

and it's just kind of running through someone's garden.

So our verdict, this is just a dog on the loose,

not a runaway raptor.

But again, thanks to Florida's laid back,

exotic pet regulations,

gigantic lizards have gotten free in the Sunshine State.

So there's a chance Christina might capture some footage

of a living dinosaur descendant any day now.

It's been said that Bigfoot exhibits nocturnal behavior,

perhaps to hunt or to avoid detection.

But the cloak of darkness couldn't hide the creature

in the stunning footage you're about to see,

captured by two campers,

armed with a night vision camera.

It's May 2012, near the town of Quincy, Florida.

Retired Army Ranger Stacy Brown Sr., now deceased,

and his filmmaker son, Stacy Brown Jr.,

are camping in Torreya State Park

on a search for the elusive Bigfoot.

They start hearing some noises,

so they pull out their FLIR thermal camera

and head off down a trail.

We would hear something running on our right

and then we would hear something running on our left,

and it just had stopped real quick.

And then Dad looked up at the,

you know, up at there at the tree,

and he's like, "Oh, I see something."

The thermal camera is rolling

as Stacy Sr. notices a little black object

sticking out of one side of a tree.

Then it takes off and crosses this gap,

and he goes into full-blown panic mode.

The camera goes dead.

He's like, "We gotta go, we gotta go."

He's like, "Do you got your gun?"

Back at their truck,

Stacy Jr. gets a first peek at this eye-popping footage,

and this money shot

that looks just like the iconic lookback frame of Patty

from the famous Patterson-Gimlin film,

which claimed to capture Bigfoot strolling

alongside a northern California creek in 1967.

I knew exactly what we had on camera.

It was proof to me and my dad,

because who on a Tuesday night

is a mile and a half into the woods

running around with no flashlight.

Noted Bigfoot investigator Steve Kulls

says he's not surprised by the area

where this footage was captured.

In Florida, they have something called the skunk ape,

and there's been a lot of sightings over many years

of what they described as a Bigfoot type of creature.

What they call that is the skunk ape,

partly because it smells skunky,

but for all intents and purposes,

it's the same thing as a Bigfoot.

It's not quite as big or robust

as the ones in, say, the Pacific Northwest,

but that is kind of expected

due to the climate being a lot more tropical.

These swamp sightings go back to the native tribes.

The Seminoles and the Muskogee

called the creature Este'Cvpko, or Tall Man,

and claimed he was the protector of the forest.

So could this be what the Browns encountered?

We turn to our experts for answers.

We first ask the most obvious question,

could this just be a person?

It was shot with a thermal imager,

and so it's picking up the heat signature.

Typically, if any clothing is being worn,

it masks the intensity of the heat

emanating from those covered parts of the body.

Honestly, I don't see any of that.

It's just a pretty uniform signature

that would suggest a body a la naturelle.

But why would a person be walking around nude

in the woods?

It looks to be like a large primate.

But it doesn't seem to match the body structure

of the living apes, of chimpanzees

or gorillas being the most prominent ones.

It seems like its legs are too long,

and when gorillas walk on their hind legs,

they're not hunched over like that.

They're more upright.

Some have theorized that gorillas or large chimps

could have escaped from one of the private zoos

that have littered Florida over decades.

The way it comes out of the trees

is what we call a groucho walk.

It's very typical of what witnesses say

Bigfoot walks like.

You can see it on the Patterson-Gimlin film.

You can see it in other examples

where it's this strangely bent knee gait.

It seems to be out of human proportions

in the sense that you can't see a neck.

It has very beefy-looking arms.

It has interesting legs that seem shorter

than what you would see in humans.

Whatever this was was pretty big,

in excess of 6, 6 1/2, 7 feet in height, perhaps,

and quite bulky.

It appears very substantial.

That is, the arms and the legs are not spindly.

They appear to be thick and muscular.

Or could this all just be a hoax?

In order to have this video be credible,

I would expect to see a lot more thermal imagery

through the trees.

I wouldn't expect it to just completely disappear.

Stacy Brown Jr. claims the reason the clip ends

is because the camera stopped working.

So what does Meldrum think?

I know Stacy,

actually, personally, and have visited with him.

I have no reason to suspect that he contrived this.

And so the only other question would be,

is anyone foolish enough to trapes around

butt-naked in the dark?

Our verdict? Unknown creature.

Given that this footage was filmed at night

with an early-generation thermal imaging camera,

we don't quite have enough information

to reach a definitive answer.

But whether this was indeed the Florida skunk ape

or merely a subspecies of Florida man

with a proclivity for nocturnal nudism,

we can say this:

the situation definitely warrants further investigation.

Giant menacing canines have been featured

in literature for ages.

Arthur Conan Doyle wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles",

about a murder supposedly

committed by a huge dog.

Stephen King's "Cujo" centers on a rabid St. Bernard.

All works of fiction, or so we thought.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?

Maybe you should be.

September, 2018, Saskatchewan, Canada.

A local fishing guide is going about a normal day

in his lodge when he spies something

strange out his window.

Something dark and hairy is huddled on the ground

amongst the trees.

At first it looks like a small bear

and then it stands in nearly triples in height.

It's a huge wolf

and we only understand at scale

when it lunges at the regular sized dog

who's defensively barking.

The animals quarrel until the man goes to intervene.

Hey, hey!

Let's see that again.

This large shape suddenly becomes animated

and springs up

and charges at the dog.

And much to my shock and horror,

it appears to be a wolf of mind-boggling proportions.

It's truly monstrous.

There have long been legends of monstrous,

blood thirsty wolves.

In France, we have the Beast of Gévaudan,

in Alaska, there's something known as the Amarok

or demon wolf.

And nearby in the Nahanni Valley of Canada,

we have something known as the Waheela.

The Nahanni Valley is also known as the Headless Valley

because the decapitated bodies of prospectors and trappers

have been found there and have been linked to the legend

of this giant wolf-like Waheela.

So we have these long, enduring traditions of giant wolves

and we have to wonder if there

might be a grain of truth to this legend.

Some have speculated that this wolf

might be more familiar than we think,

a creature not from the realm of legend,

but from our own pre-history.

The largest gray wolves, canis lupus,

have been known to achieve weights of about 200 pounds.

But if we go back over 10,000 years ago

to the Pleistocene Epoch,

there were these monstrous bone crushing wolves

known as dire wolves, aenocyon dirus.

A relic population of dire wolves

may have survived as recently as 4,000 years ago

in Arkansas's Ozarks.

We could be dealing with a dire wolf genetic code

that's been locked into modern wolves

and is now resurfacing in this remarkable individual.

An interesting note about that French Beast of Gévaudan.

Though that monster wolf lived on and kept killing

after being driven off by a young boy,

that kid was rewarded for his bravery.

King Louis the 15th paid for his education.

Now let's get the educated opinion on this specimen.

Could there be something off about this wolfs genetics?

Some sort of mutation?

There is a phenomenon called an atavism,

where a creature has traits from its ancestors

preserved in its genes.

However, it's unlikely in this case

as atavisms aren't likely to manifest

in the form of a canine size.

An extra toe is more likely.

To me, it didn't look like the dog was in danger.

That was really suspicious.

So that's what makes me think that it was CGI.

It's my conclusion that there is no additional information

that was introduced into these recordings

that would be similar to something

that was CGI'd or manufactured.

With the clip appearing to be legitimate,

biologist Floyd Hayes discusses the creature's resemblance

to the dire wolf.

The dire wolf is a little bit larger than a wolf

with a larger head and smaller feet.

What's more, the dire wolf head's shorter,

stockier legs to keep them warmer

during the cold winter months.

The wolf we see here is proportion much more similarly

to our modern day canine.

So with all other possibilities unlikely,

Hayes says it's just a gray wolf,

but there's a surprise,

he did a size calculation

and found the specimen to be one of the largest wolves

ever documented.

Hayes says the dog looks like a type of husky

which tend to grow a little over two feet tall

and around 60 pounds.

And the wolf looks about one and a half times larger

than the dog here.

Hayes guesses this wolf is about 3 feet tall

and 6.5 feet from end to end.

That's longer than most men are tall.

And what's more, it's nearly a record.

Compared to the largest wolf ever recorded,

Hayes thinks this is only half an inch shorter.

So this wolf is truly a gargantuan, incredible.

Our verdict, an actual wolf who just happens to be

quite large for his species.

This is not a supernatural creature, but he is an outlier.

How he got that big is still a mystery,

but we know he's a loner

who probably branched off to form his own pack.

You probably don't think about potatoes too often,

but the average American eats

about 124 pounds of them a year.

They could be fried, mashed, or roasted,

but how would you prepare one

that appears to be crawling?

July, 2018, Portsmouth, England,

a resident of the town is having a small problem with pests.

But when she goes to check an ant trap, she finds this.

Look closer, the internet is buzzing with claims

this is some kind of potato creature.

But looking at the ant trap,

it looks like an awfully small potato to us.

Observe how it resembles an undulating corn dog.

The really strange thing about this creature

is this long, rat-like tail.

That is something that I've never seen

admittedly on a caterpillar, grub,

larvae or anything else.

It's like a potato with a long tail.

And keep in mind this tailed potato

is being filmed in a country

crawling with strange sightings.

One example, the Canvey Island Monster of 1953.

It was described as being about four feet long

with bulging eyes,

appendages that appeared to be sort of long, gangly legs.

There was all types of theories and speculation

ranging from an unknown deep sea creature,

humanoid in appearance,

to some type of extraterrestrial or alien.

The Canvey island Monster is now considered

to have actually been a monk fish.

But back to our crawling potato.

And an interesting fact, the day this creature was filmed,

there was a total lunar eclipse.

Could there be a connection?

Some people believed in the middle ages

that lunar eclipses were caused by magicians

or moon hungry monsters.

Interestingly enough, there are theorists who speculate

that celestial events such as eclipses

often coincide with the appearance

of interdimensional creatures,

beings, entities, and apparitions

that are not of this world

somehow stepping from another dimension

or through a portal into our reality.

A totally eclipsed moon is sometimes called a blood moon

for its reddish color and can last for nearly two hours.

So what is this thing and where did it come from?

We asked the experts to hash it out.

I could totally understand

why she thinks it looks like an alien.

It's really bizarre looking.

It looks like something that most people haven't seen.

Manka begins her analysis

by considering that ant trap scene at the top of the video.

Might this be an actual potato

or other object being carried by the ant colony

the homeowner was trying to kill off?

Ants are so powerful that they can carry objects

5,000 times heavier than their own body mass.

People might think this is ant's moving a large potato,

but you can see the body vibrates.

So something internally is definitely causing that.

It's not just a solid shape being moved along the ground.

It itself is moving.

And we can really see it when it goes around the corner,

it actually bends its body.

You can see the body move like a caterpillar.

You can see the movements along the entire body.

Our experts think this creature

is about a few inches long, so a pretty small potato.

What about a caterpillar or worm then?

There are about a million different species of worms

ranging from microscopic in size

to one in Australia that was two feet long.

This could be some sort of a worm,

but the thing about it that's really weird is it has a tail.

Worms don't really have this distinct tail

like we're seeing in this video

That unnerving tail narrows the options

because there's really only one animal that matches,

a critter that can cause intestinal infections in humans.

It's nothing you want in your home.

This is a rat-tailed maggot,

the larval stage of a drone fly.

So they are born in ponds

and they have these tail like things

that help them breathe above the water.

They're in really stagnant ponds.

The tail is a siphon that helps them get oxygen

and then eventually they'll turn into a drone fly,

which resembles a bee.

Although we've never seen anything like it

and never want to see it again,

that telltale tail does it for us.

Our verdict, this is a rat-tailed maggot.

Joe, don't make me look at that thing again.

Imagine lifting a toilet lid

to find a mysterious creature crawling out of the bowl.

Maybe you think that's funny.

Maybe you think it's scary,

but do you think it could really happen?

Well watch this.

In October, 2017, a man is about to step

into his sister's bathroom in Alor Setar, Malaysia.

When he notices something crawling out of the toilet,

the 28-year-old immediately rushes out to tell his sister,

who whips out her camera and captures this video.

The footage shows a strange slithering creature

emerging from a bathroom

with its head poking out of the door.

It surveys its surroundings

before finally crawling out onto the tiled floor.

Let's take another look.

The creature appears to be about 6 feet long

with a small head, thick body and a short tail.

It's large, it's slimy and black,

it's crawling out of a toilet.

That's about as bad as it gets.

People don't generally spend a lot of time,

if any time in a sewer.

So we really don't have any idea

of what types of creepy crawlies might be down there.

Gerhard says the most persistent urban legend

involves the sewers of the Big Apple.

There are accounts and rumors going back to the 1930s

that describe sizable alligators

actually living and breeding in the New York sewer system.

There is one theory that perhaps these were pets

that were somehow discarded

and flushed down the toilet when they were small

and then grew to massive sizes in the sewer.

Of course, not all sewer animals are monster.

Sometimes animals just get stuck in the sewer,

trapped by size or circumstance.

And everything from giant rats, feral cats,

even cows have been found in sewer systems around the world.

And marine biologist, Dr. Shea Steingass,

says in Southeast Asia, giant snakes turn down there too.

It's a really tropical, forested environment.

In fact, it's been known that there have been snakes

that have emerged from toilets or plumbing.

In fact, in 2019,

this 14 foot cobra was found in a sewer in Thailand.

Sewer creatures have been making headlines for decades,

but it is rare to encounter anything this big

and this disturbing.

So could this be a giant snake

or maybe just some form of camera trickery?

Let's go to our video expert.

This recording has been compressed pretty heavily,

so in layman's terms, it's too blurry to see anything

to be able to identify exactly what we're seeing.

However, in terms of authenticity

of the way that the recording is playing

and the way that the camera operator

is capturing this object, I don't see anything to suggest

it's been CGI'd or Photoshopped.

So if the video is real, is this thing a snake?

Malaysia is home to amphibians that we call caecilians.

And these are salamander like animals

that don't have limbs or any external appendages,

so they look a bit like giant worms.

These animals can actually get five to six feet long.

But what you have in essence is an animal

that's only a few inches in diameter.

And so my idea that this could be some sort of caecilians

goes out the window.

Steingass has another thought that's even grosser.

Malaysia is pretty well known for its leeches,

which are blood sucking invertebrates.

But if this were a leech,

it would have to be 30 or 40 times bigger

than a known species of leech,

which I think is really unlikely.

Hayes is pretty sure he knows what we're looking at

and it's not some sort of mythical serpent.

There are quite a few different species

of snakes in Malaysia.

This one appears to be very thick bodied

and there's not that many species

that would look like this.

It looks a lot like the elephant trunk snake.

Hayes says that the baggy skin,

which gives the impression that it's too big for the animal,

is the telltale sign.

So our verdict, based on its known habitat and size,

we think the sewer monster is an elephant trunk snake.

And while they usually make their homes

near rivers and lagoons,

this one chose a toilet instead.

No accounting for taste.

The fossil records show

that at least six different dinosaurs

lived in Idaho millions of years ago.

And this video suggests that one creature

from the Cretaceous Age might still be living there today.

September 4th, 2015, Boise, Idaho,

a pedestrian is walking on a crisp gray day

when they notice something alarming overhead

and record this,

a large pterodactyl like creature with a massive wingspan

glides overhead.

The wings pull back then flapped several times

before the animal soars out of view.

Let's watch that again.

There's a notable triangle shaped face

leading to a point on the back of the skull

and beyond the massive wings, there appear to be two legs.

We can clearly see the brownish skin

as the creature dives then glides past the trees.

So this clip is really near and dear to my heart

because for decades, I have been actively researching

accounts of living Pterosaurs or Pterodactyls.

I've interviewed dozens of people that swear

that they've seen these giant flying reptiles, not birds.

The pterosaurs who supposedly went extinct

65 million years ago were neither bird nor dinosaur.

70 million years before birds came on the scene,

the first flying vertebrates were the pterosaurs

and they were a highly specialized form

of flying reptiles.

They evolved into these massive pterodactyls

with wingspans up to 36 feet long,

making them the largest flying animals ever.

Pterosaur fossils have been found

on every continent, including Antarctica.

But how the heck could one be flying around Idaho today?

Gerhardt is reminded of another sighting,

one that became famous in the days of the Wild West.

There's a famous story from 1890,

cowboys riding in the Wetstone Mountain,

sighted this giant creature.

They'd supposedly shoot this thing with their rifles

and kill it, and they brought it back to town.

There was a photograph which appeared

in the Tombstone Arizona Epitaph newspaper.

And this photograph purportedly shows

something that looks exactly like this animal.

What's really strange though is that the photograph

seems to have disappeared.

While hundreds of people claim

to remember seeing this photo,

there's still no physical evidence of it to this day.

However, a number of strange photos featuring cowboys

and winged creatures have surfaced over the years,

although most, like this one, were easily proven fake.

If the famous Tombstone photograph does exist,

it actually does prove that these animals did survive

into modern times.

Gerhardt points to another possible theory,

not from the Old West, but from a dystopian future.

There are some people that have actually tried

to construct drones

that have a very organic appearance,

resembling birds or other animals.

In fact, technicians at New Mexico State University

have been actively working to build

what's called an Ornithopter,

which is essentially a mechanical flying device

which utilizes wings like birds and pterosaurs

and other animals.

These Ornithopters are using actual bird carcasses

for the casings of their machines

as a way to blend in and monitor wildlife.

Could we be looking at similar tech?

I think we can't discount the possibility

that this is in fact a modified

and actually a very cool looking drone.

Idaho isn't the only place

where sightings like this have been reported.

In a prior season, we investigated a living pterosaur

or flying above Papua New Guinea

and its surrounding islands.

As for this Idaho footage,

let's let our experts swoop in and do their thing.

If a creature this large were able to survive,

it would need prey to survive on

like cows or calves, sheep or goats.

Because it would need to hunt for food across a large area,

it would most likely be seen by humans

before this one video.

Manka also suggests

that some of these creatures movements

are anything but organic.

So here it looks like this pterosaur

is going to dive down,

but then it lifts its head back again

without really being able to recover.

It would need more distance from the ground

to go back up again.

They're not able to defy gravity

and it definitely makes me question if this is real.

So could this be a taxidermy drone,

like the ones being created at New Mexico State University?

The idea of using real birds as drones is enthralling,

but although birds do have a hinge right here,

their wings don't bend upwards like that.

That would be like me being able to bend my elbow backwards.

This is not anatomically correct.

This isn't a drone in a taxidermied bird.

It's my conclusion that a software program

created this file, not a digital video camera.

This video definitely appears to be processed.

There's no direct source of light

that in theory would produce these tonal values

underneath the wings.

So that would be more of an indication

that something was changed on the underside of those wings.

Although Primeau thinks this is a fake,

even he has to admit, it's a pretty impressive one.

The metadata and structural analysis doesn't give us

any kind of indication as to what program may have done this

or how it was done.

This could very well be one of the best CGI videos

that I have ever analyzed.

Our verdict based on Manka's observations

and Primeau's video analysis,

we're calling this a hoax.

But be warned, now that AI has entered the field

of photo manipulation,

generating fakes like this will soon be as easy

as typing a sentence.

We'll do our best to stay one step ahead of the charlatans.

Whether it's rat tailed maggots in England

or cryptids haunting Kentucky,

the world is brimming with bizarre,

strange, and sometimes unexplained species.

So keep your eyes open

and let us know what you find lurking in your neighborhood.

Thank you for watching the special edition

of "The Proof Is Out There".

Please send us any video, images or sound

that you think we should investigate

and remember to keep those cameras rolling.