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Tonight on
The Proof Is Out There

Unexplained Edition.

For generations, people
have reported encounters

with mysterious creatures.

Now, some are being
caught on camera.

In North Carolina, something
moves through the woods.

Could this be a Sasquatch?

Seeing one of these
things must be horrifying,

especially if it's chasing
you out of an area.

What's
making these sounds

deep into Pennsylvania Forest?

This roar shook the ground

and I know there was no bear.

I think if these kinds of
animals were out to get us,

there'd be very few of us left.

And on Lake Superior,

what did boaters capture
beneath the surface?

We were having a good time

and then this came
across the screen.

This could be the first
evidence that we have

of the mysterious lake monster,

known as Pressy.
- Around the world,

unexplained encounters
are being recorded.

Tonight's focus,
cryptic creatures,

our experts will
analyze the evidence

and then we'll pass a verdict.

You have to take a deep breath

and say what on God's Green
Earth severed this shark?

The proof starts now.

Good evening and welcome
to The Proof Is Out There.

Did you know that our
National Forest Service

manages a whopping 193
million acres of land?

That's almost 9% of the country.

So is it really
so hard to believe

that Bigfoot could be
living somewhere in there?

April 28th, 2009, we're
in North Carolina's

Uwharrie National Forest.

Bigfoot researcher Mike Green

has set up thermal
imaging cameras

to record through the evening.

He says he's encountered
Bigfoot in this forest before

and he's determined
to capture it on film.

After leaving the cameras
unattended for a few hours,

he returns to see that
they've recorded this.

The thermal imagery makes
it hard to identify,

but if we push in

and enhance the footage,

we can clearly see a
large humanoid figure

skulking between the trees.

Green estimated the figure

to be over seven and
a half feet tall.

The technique of putting
out a recorder or a camera

and then leaving the area, it
frankly makes a lot of sense.

Sasquatches are paranoid enough

and if there's a
person lurking around,

they're gonna be
acting differently

than they would if
they were alone.

Then nearly
10 years later in 2018,

another Bigfoot
researcher, Matt Hooper

of the Carolina Cryptid
Field Research Team

set up audio equipment
in the same forest.

I started hearing
the stories of

what other people were
encountering out there.

So I went out there for
five days with a friend.

I had my recorders
going as usual.

And when Matt checks
them the following morning,

he captured a howl
in the distance.

Then another roar that seems
to overlap with other howls.

It's hard to hear, so
we'll pump up the volume.

You can see it, the
spikes on the waveform

and this thing is moving
through the tree line.

Hooper wouldn't tell us

where in the forest
he recorded the sound,

which is standard practice
among Bigfoot researchers.

I don't share my best
spots for the same reason

I don't share my
best fishing spots.

I don't want people going in
there and planting evidence

and trying to hoax me.

Do these
overlapping howls

suggest multiple creatures

possibly staking claim
to their territory?

Stories from the past suggest

that Sasquatch are
indeed territorial.

Take the case of Portlock,
Alaska, the prime peninsula

that was chock full
of valuable game

and shellfish was found
mysteriously abandoned

by the local natives

who told stories about
people being torn apart

by the Nantilnaq or Hairy Man.

An attempt made in the 1920s

to industrialize the area failed

after continued disappearances

and strange animal attacks
prompted all the townsfolk

to flee, leaving the area
deserted to this very day.

Seeing one of these
things must be horrifying,

especially if it's chasing
you out of an area,

but I argue that
these kinds of animals

are not overtly aggressive

because I think if they
were out to get us,

there'd be very few of us left.

Going back to that footage
from 2009, Mike Green,

the man who collected it, said
whatever was in the video,

stole two things from his
camp, a Zagnut candy bar,

and a squeaky toy that
belonged to his grandchildren.

This is why many people now
call this the squeaky thermal.

Could these recordings be proof

that beasts are
lurking somewhere

within the Uwharrie
National Forest?

Let's talk to the experts.

Let's start by
taking a closer look

at Mike Green's thermal video.

I am impressed by
the shape of the head.

It has a kind of receding brow
to a high point posteriorly,

that is a characteristic of
hominids lacking a large brain.

They don't have the
prominent forehead

that a human skull would have.

Still, the
image is too ambiguous

to be convincing
proof by itself.

What about the audio recording?

There does not
seem to be any edits

or any discrepancies that
would lead me to believe

that there was anything
tampered in the recording.

It appears to be an
authentic recording.

Many people thought
these could just be coyotes,

so we compared the sounds.

It's not a coyote.

Next, we compare the recording

to the so-called Ohio howls

recorded in Columbiana
County, Ohio in 1994.

Some Bigfoot researchers
consider it to be

the genuine sound of a bigfoot

howling and
disturbing local dogs.

The Ohio howls have
this change of frequency.

The sounds from Uwharrie
recording have a very

constant frequency.

They're from different sources.

So if
that's not a match,

then what are we hearing?

Although the exact location
of the recording is unknown,

one clue might be an important
landmark just several miles

outside of the Uwharrie Forest,

that's the North Carolina Zoo.

One of the questions
would be,

how far away from
the zoo could it be?

If there isn't much wind,

probably we could hear
a zoo animal perhaps up

to half a mile away
so we don't have a way

of knowing exactly what
the sound source is here.

This would be from
some other origin,

something worthy
of investigation.

Our verdict,

we're calling this one
an unexplained sound.

Both the video and audio
recording weren't enough

for our experts to
come to a conclusion.

So if there is a monster lurking

in the Uwharrie National Forest,

it will remain anonymous
until further investigation.

The Sunshine Coast
of Australia is known

for its seaside resorts

and who doesn't love
a walk on the beach?

But as you'll see
in our next video,

one beach goer discovered
more than shells in the sand.

It's March 21st, 2022,
Maroochydore Beach,

60 miles outside of
Brisbane, Australia.

Alex Tan is strolling along
the coast when he stumbles

across something unusual,
he takes out his camera

and records this.

I honestly don't
know what it is.

An odd
looking creature,

which appears to be
deceased, lying in the sand.

Let's take a closer look.

It sure doesn't look like
it came from the sea.

More like something out
of an HG Well's novel

with its dog like body
and rodent like head.

So I'm trying to
figure out what it was

and had the color of, you
know, like a chicken nugget.

It was just weird.

It really just threw me off.

I was just so fascinated
at what I'd found.

Author and
journalist Erin McCarthy says

that when the video
first went viral,

thousands of social
media users suggested

this could be a bunyip.

Sure it could, but
what's a bunyip?

A bunyip, which is
actually a creature

from Indigenous
Australian folklore

that it said loves
to eat people,

specifically women and children.

It's a creature that
lives in waterholes, lakes

and rivers around Australia.

It's been said to
look like a seal

or sometimes a swimming dog.

The word bunyip actually
first appeared in print

in the 1840s when some
discovered fossils

that were theorized
to be a bunyip.

There was actually what was said

to be a bunyip skull displayed
in the Australian museum

in Sydney for a couple
of days in the 1840s.

McCarthy also wonders

if this creature's
odd appearance

could be explained by some
sort of mutation caused

by nuclear testing.

Some have actually speculated

that this creature
is a mutated wallaby.

Between the early 1950s
and the early 1960s,

the British government
performed nuclear tests

at three sites across
Australia, Emu Island, Maralinga

and the Montebello Islands.

There were 12 major tests
performed at these sites

and some of the weapons that
were detonated were actually

as big as the bombs
used during Hiroshima.

Those particles have
caused a lot of problems

for the wildlife that
live in those areas.

One other thought.

There's also a
biosecurity sciences lab

located in nearby Brisbane.

Could this thing
have been the subject of

some secret medical experiment
and somehow gotten loose?

This show is no stranger
to odd beach carcasses.

One of our first segments
focused on this strange creature

found in South Carolina.

Some said it had escaped from
a nearby off limits island

where thousands of monkeys
are bread for research.

Could something similar
have happened here

or perhaps this is
the legendary bunyip

or some new undiscovered species

from Australia's vast outback?

Let's let our experts see
what's up, Down Under.

We are able to confirm

that these four recordings
came from an Apple iPhone.

There were no programs that
interacted with these files

and changed the evidence
in any way digitally.

If the video
hasn't been altered,

what could we be seeing here?

It looks like a mammal to me,

but there's not a lot
of definable features.

The bunyip is said to be
kind of a aquatic animal

and what I see here looks

to be a really typical
quadrupedal animal.

So I think because of this fact,

it's very unlikely to say
that this is a bunyip.

But if it's not a
bunyip, what could it be?

Radiation can damage DNA cells

and any time there
is damage to DNA

during replication process,

this creates mutations
usually from radiation.

The DNA makes mistakes
in replication

and just keeps replicating
cells and they're tumor cells.

Damage caused by
radiation like in the Chernobyl

disaster usually leads to side
effects like cancer

or radiation sickness,
which can cause hair loss.

But Shutler has another theory

that explains why this
creature is hairless.

You can tell the tide is
going down so it's very likely

that this creature
has been in the water

for a long time in the ocean

and when they're exposed
to the ocean water

and the sun's rays, it can
cause the fur to come off

as part of the
decomposition process.

So what about
the wallaby theory?

A creature known to be
widespread Down Under?

Wallabies are
similar to kangaroos,

but I don't see evidence
that it's a wallaby.

If it were a wallaby,

you would have more
powerful hind legs.

They would be longer in
comparison to the the forearms

and in this case they
seem to be pretty equal.

It looks more like an animal

that walks on all
fours rather than hops

like a wallaby would.

Australia has lots
of possum species.

I think it's the
brushtail possum.

The limbs are similar in length.

Opossums have naked tails.

They don't really have
any fur on their tails.

Our verdict, this is
a brushed tail possum

in the stages of decomposition.

It's missing its hair because
it's been in the ocean

and the head looks strange

because predators will
often chew the skin off

a possum's head and
leave the skull.

But if any bunyips ever
wash up on the shores

of your beach, let us know.

Father and son hikes can
lead to bonding moments

that last forever,

but this particular hike
led to a terrifying moment

that nobody can forget.

1978, Morris Township,
Pennsylvania.

It's a crisp fall day

and 10-year-old
Daniel Adams is hiking

through the woods
with his father

trying to find the source

of strange sounds they've been
hearing on their property.

We could hear this thing
growling that my dad told me

to stay there, that
he was gonna walk

down and see what this was.

The duo has brought
along a tape recorder

and managed to capture
this chilling audio.

We hear a horrible
howling made by a dog,

followed by a
guttural growling made

by something else,
something unknown.

Take another listen as
we've isolated these sounds

through our audio filter.

Although he says the recordings
don't do the sounds justice,

over 40 years later,

Daniel still remembers this
frightening encounter vividly.

This roar shook the ground.

It was 200 yards away

and I felt it like a bass
speaker in your chest

and I know that was no bear.

There ain't no
bear that do that.

Shortly after this
recording was captured,

Daniel says they heard
whatever it was fighting

with the neighbor's dog,
presumably the dog they thought

they heard in the recording

and that was the last time
the dog was heard from again.

A detail some researchers
think supports the idea

that the mystery
creature is a Sasquatch,

which they say is no vegan.

Being a Sasquatch,
you're an omnivore.

Everything's on the menu, man.

In fact, I know of one
homestead in Wisconsin,

they had about nine or 12 cats,

but they noticed the numbers
slowly dwindling over a month

or two and that was a Sasquatch
predating on the cats.

From Fido to Fluffy.

Everything is a meal
if you're a Sasquatch.

And if that's true,

then why aren't Sasquatches
also going after people?

There are a small number
of Sasquatch reports

of them going after
humans as a food item,

but generally they don't
want anything to do with us.

Any Sasquatch

of adult age has probably
observed human hunters.

They can't like the rifles
or the noises that they make.

That kind of makes sense.

Studies show other large
creatures like bears

are normally shy,
retiring animals

that have very little desire
to interact with humans.

On the other hand, they
compete directly for food

with canines like wolves.

Could the same be
true of Bigfoot

and could that explain

what we're hearing on
Daniel's recording?

We turn to our experts
to investigate.

Forensic audio
analyst Dr. Rob Maher

confirmed the
recording is authentic

then compared it to a recording

of a black bear
native to this area.

The bear sounds have much more

of a low frequency
quality to them.

It's more of a grunt
sound that the bear makes,

but the low frequency grunt
qualities here is not something

that we see in the
Pennsylvania recording.

Humans have
a vast vocal range.

Could this be a person?

Although humans can make
sounds that are very similar

to perhaps a wolf or a coyote,

the characteristics in
the Pennsylvania recording

don't match up with
this type of a sound.

We also asked
Maher to compare this

to the Sierra
Sounds, a famous set

of alleged California Sasquatch
recordings from the 1970s.

How do these match up?

There's an upward sound

and then a a little bit
of a kicker to that sound

that goes in there.

That is not what we hear
in the Pennsylvania sounds.

They have more of a shriek

or a growl sort of quality
than what we would attribute

to the Sierra sounds.

There were a couple of
little high pitch inflections

that were more indicative
of some kind of a call

that is not out of character
with some recordings

that have been
attributed to Sasquatch.

Our verdict, our
experts are calling this

an unknown animal sound,
but they can't identify

what exactly made these
grunts in the 1970s.

However, we do know Sasquatch
sightings in the area

continue today.

Now let's talk sea
monsters, from giant squid

to giant spider crabs.

Japan is certainly no stranger
to uncanny aquatic creatures,

but a recent video is
puzzling marine biologists

allegedly showing
something or someone

lurking on the ocean floor.

Have a look.

2010, Sagami Bay, just
southwest of Tokyo.

JAMSTEC, the Japan Agency
for Marine Earth Science

and Technology is using
deep diving ROV cameras

to record exotic marine
life on the ocean floor

when they suddenly capture this.

It looks like a large
sea creature

lurking on the bay floor

at a depth of 3,353 feet

with small eyes and a
peculiar Mona Lisa smile.

Look closer.

Whatever it's seems
partially buried,

some speculate only its
head is peeking out,

which means its full
body could be far bigger,

but with no other visual
reference for scale,

its exact size remains unknown.

Ken Gerhard suggests

that we could be looking
at actual evidence

of the mythical Japanese
creature known as the Ningen.

In Japanese mythology,

the Ningen is a titanic
aquatic sea monster

ranging from 65 to a
hundred feet in length

and it's characterized

by having very smooth blubbery
skin humanoid features

including a large human
head with giant eyes

and a big slit for a mouth,
also having tendril like limbs

or arms and hands.

These alleged photos

supposedly show Ningen swimming

in the Atlantic and
Antarctic Oceans.

However, with no clear
source behind these pics,

their authenticity
is questionable.

Japanese sailors have also
told stories about monsters

haunting their
waters for centuries.

One nightmarish legend,

could supposedly tear
large boats right in half.

Many believed it played a hand

in the 1955 Toya
Maru Ferry disaster

where more than 1000
people drowned at sea.

But could this be one

of the many unexplained
Japanese sea creatures of lore?

The Japanese
scientific expedition

that shot this footage
was actually able

to classify eight brand new
species of marine animals.

What they were unable to
classify is the animal

that we're seeing in this film.

Just southeast
of Japan is an area

known as the Devil's Sea.

Basically the Pacific's
version of the Bermuda Triangle

where all manner of
ships have gone missing.

It's been speculated

that unidentified sea
creatures could play a role.

There are few things more
exciting than identifying

a new species.

So what is this?

We turn to our experts.

Many people who have seen
this video think this could be

a beluga whale, but Shea
Steingass says that's unlikely.

Beluga whales are
an arctic species.

This is such a warm
environment compared to

what they're adapted to.

It would be
incredibly unexpected

to see a beluga whale
in this environment.

The Ningen is said to
have human-like legs

and that doesn't make a
lot of evolutionary sense.

Marine mammals tend to have
fins, if you were to have legs,

you would have to have
very powerful blood flow.

This would cause the bends.

When humans dive
deep, nitrogen leaves the lungs

and is absorbed into
the bloodstream.

The nitrogen returns to
our lungs when we rise,

but if done too quickly,

it can get stuck in
our circulatory system

causing decompression
sickness, AKA, the bends.

Fins have circulatory
systems far less complicated

than those found in
human appendages,

requiring far less blood flow

and many marine mammals can
even collapse their lungs,

evolutionary steps to prevent
them from getting the bends.

A humanoid type body would
not do well in these types

of depths underwater.

So we're
starting to wonder,

is this footage even real?

There's a lot of visual
aspects that aid in verifying

that there's something
under the water

that the camera is capturing.

The onscreen telemetry
information has

the same kind of artifacting

or chroma aberrations
that you would expect

to see from a video
that was created

by underwater technology.

And while this
footage appears legit,

Primo is doubtful

that the thing we are looking
at is actually moving.

It appears to
be that the motion

of the camera may be tricking
the mind into thinking

that it's moving, but through
frame by frame analysis,

I was not able to detect any
evidence of the object moving.

So how could an organic
specimen be so motionless?

Well, Steingass
suggests this thing

may not be organic at all.

It's really easy to think
that this might be some kind

of animal at first glance

because that's exactly what
our brain is telling us.

But I think we're just
looking at something

solid on the ocean floor.

Some kind of geological
formation like a sea mount

or a rock spire,
something made out of sand

or rock with a couple

of small ocean creatures
sitting on top of it.

It's a mix of geological

and animal phenomenon

that together looked like
it could be an organism.

Just an example of
our brain tricking us.

Our verdict.

We are saying this thing is
an unknown inanimate object

with a couple of small
sea critters tagging along

masquerading as facial features.

We can't identify it exactly,

but both Steingass
and Primo agree.

Whatever this thing
is, it ain't moving.

More than 2/3 of
our planet is ocean,

and yet less than 5% of
that area has been explored.

That's why what you're
about to hear has become one

of the great
mysteries of the deep.

It began in 1991 when a deep
water hydrophone like this

first detected a sound
emanating from 5,000 miles away

someplace in the Pacific
Ocean, roughly halfway

between Australia
and South America.

Let's listen to it again.

The whoop sound
ascends at the end.

That's why it's
known as the upsweep.

Now, the ocean is a noisy place.

There's manmade machines,
geological events like volcanoes

and glaciers

and the sea life is much noisier
than previously believed.

There are many creatures
that roam the sea

and that people felt
were in fact myth

until they were
actually discovered.

For instance, the giant squid.

It is now known that it exists.

One thing is
certain, the source

of the upsweep
has to be massive.

So let's consider
this candidate,

the massive prehistoric
shark known as the megalodon.

It's been established that
the megalodon actually did

exist albeit two and a
half million years ago,

with estimates of its length
being in excess of 60 feet

and weight upwards of 50 tons.

However, there are
people who feel

that the megalodon still exist.

Could this recent
photo be proof

the megalodon is still alive?

It shows a huge mako shark found

by a fisherman off the coast
of Australia bitten in half.

You have to take a deep breath

and say what on God's green
earth severed the shark.

How big could that have been?

It's unlikely that megalodons
are still in our oceans

because of the fact that shark
teeth are continually shed

through the animal's life.

There's never been a current
specimen of a megalodon tooth

that's ever been found,

And as for that
chewed up mako shark.

If this were attacked
by a megalodon,

it likely could have been
swallowed completely whole.

Instead, what you see are
several very large semi-circular

bite marks, including
some teeth rakes.

What this tells me is that
this animal suffered a number

of bite wounds.

But something
is making that sound.

And if it's not the
megalodon, what is it?

Audio expert Dr. Ben Gottesman

is struck by the
sound's intensity

focusing on the stunning fact

that it was first detected
at a distance of 5,000 miles.

That's what makes me
think it's some very large,

very intense seismic sound.

So let's listen to the
sound of an underwater volcano.

Note that it trails
off at the end.

Now the upsweep, again,
the signature ascension.

This doesn't match
anything seismic.

So what about a manmade
source like the machinery used

for offshore oil drilling?

Pile drivers or different
machines in the ocean

have a more mechanically spaced,

more stereotypical
impulsive sound.

That's not what we see here.

Because the upsweep
varies,

Steingass says it's
likely the sound was made

by an animal, but with a catch.

The upsweep is a sound
that we have as yet attributed

to any species of marine mammal.

The upsweep doesn't currently
match any of these profiles.

Humpback whale sounds
can travel thousands

of miles just like the upsweep,

but again, none match
its acoustic profile.

So you see why it's remained
a mystery for so long.

Every possible explanation
doesn't quite fit.

Our verdict, a very large
unidentified marine mammal,

not the megalodon,

but something we don't
even have a name for yet.

Now, let's move on to
another favorite topic of ours.

Lake monsters, forget Loch Ness.

Legend has it

that something monstrous
is stirring at the bottom

of Lake Superior.

And forget legends.

Thanks to modern technology.,

we may finally have
actual evidence

about what's going
on down there.

June, 2022, Lake Superior in
between Michigan and Wisconsin.

Fisherman Andrew Bicek is
out on his boat with a group

of friends using sonar to scan

for the lake's catch of the day.

Suddenly, Andrew spots
something strange.

We were having a good time

and then this came
across the screen

and I said, hey everybody,
come look at this.

A screen grab of
Andrew's sonar shows a

mysterious shape swimming at the
bottom of the lake.

You can see what appears
to be a long neck

and a small head connected
to a cylindrical body

with a long tail
and a potential fin.

It looks like it's
60 or 80 feet long.

First thing that
jumped out at me is

this kind of looks like
the Loch Ness monster.

In Lake Superior,

there is this creature
known as Pressy named

after the nearby
Presque Island River.

The physical descriptions
are always very similar.

A giant snake-like animal
about 75 feet in length

with a horse like head,
two distinct pectoral fins,

snake-like tail, and
perhaps most intimidating,

a mouth rimmed with
razor sharp teeth.

Legends of Pressy
stretch back to the late 1800s,

but it wasn't until 1977
that someone was thought

to have captured actual
photographic evidence

of the creature.

A gentleman was staying
at the Presque Isle Campground

when he managed to
catch a photograph

of which he believed was Pressy.

He said it had the girth
of a Volkswagen bug.

Perhaps the
most striking evidence

of Pressy's existence
is 400 years old.

There are some
intriguing pictographs

that are painted at Lake
Superior Provincial Park

of this giant strange snake-like
animals hovering under

a canoe filled with five people.

And according to the
local Ojibwe tribe,

there are actually legends
of strange serpentine animal

that is said to snatch people
off of boats and devour them.

Sonar evidence may be the
key to discovering the truth

behind legends of the
world's lake creatures.

Back in 2016,

a sonar equipped submersible
drone captured images deep

inside Loch Ness
of what appeared

to be the lake's
infamous monster.

Unfortunately, it ended
up being a 30 foot model

of Nessie made for a movie
that sank in the 1970s.

But could this image be proof

that Lake Superior's
Pressy does in fact exist?

Our experts dive in.

Many online doubters claim

that this footage is
showing nothing more

than a large sturgeon fish.

Sturgeons can
grow really large,

however, the largest
sturgeons in the Great Lakes

are only about eight feet long.

This thing here, it would be
too long to be a sturgeon.

So could
this be some other

prehistoric creature
like the Plesiosaur?

Plesiosaurs are known to
have existed in North America.

At first glance,

this looks like it could
be maybe a Plesiosaur.

I can see how you
might interpret this

as something like a head
and a long neck with a body.

However, Steingass
believes the truth

behind this creature lies
in the proper interpretation

of how sonar captures images.

We can see that the supposed
Plesiosaur has different

colors throughout the image

and those colors
indicate density.

If we were looking
at a singular animal,

all of that coloration
would be red.

Instead, what we're probably
seeing are two dense areas

of organisms along
with a weaker area

of organisms that is
that blue coloration.

So then
what exactly is it

that Andrew found on his sonar?

What I think we're seeing
here is maybe two separate

schools of fish within
a bed of lake weed

and a school of fish nearby

with some other
fish trailing off.

And that would make a
lot of sense biologically

because fish tend

to hang out in protected
vegetated areas

within the Great Lakes.

I think this might be a case

where there is an apparent
image that we're looking at

that's really easy
to misinterpret.

Our verdict.

For better or worse,

this image is showing us
several schools of fish,

not a Plesiosaur like
the infamous Pressy.

And while that may be the
case this time, the legend

of Pressy certainly rages on
as reported sightings continue.

So keep your eyes

and your sonar trained
on those deep lake beds.

America's first zoo
opened in Philadelphia

on July 1st, 1874.

Today, there are well
over 400 zoos operating

in this country, welcoming
about 180 million visitors

each year.

But as you'll see
in our next story,

maybe humans are not the
only ones coming to observe

what's inside.

May 21st, 2022.

Amarillo, Texas.

It's around 1:25 AM

and the zoo's security
cameras are keeping

their sleepless eyes on its
animals when they capture this.

A strange figure just
outside the zoo's perimeter

lurks in the darkness,
as we push in,

the figure appears to
be standing on two legs,

just on the other side of
the fence, looking inside.

Shocked by the size
of the creature

and it's rather wolf like head,

The Amarillo Zoo has begun
asking the general public

for help figuring out

what this UAO, unidentified
Amarillo object could be.

Take another look.

This bipedal creature
is quite puzzling.

The image goes viral with
thousands of people viewing it.

Now let's take a closer
look at this image.

A lot of folks have said they
could discern fur on this

thing's arms and pointed
ears on its head.

On the other hand, some
people say it's standing

like a human and it looks
like it's wearing pants

and they see this as a jacket.

As for me, I have no idea.

One of the theories is
that

it could in fact be a
chupacabra, a famous creature

that has been talked
about throughout

Latin American culture
since the 1990s and

is a blood sucking
type of creature.

The name Chupacabra
actually means goat sucker

'cause it's been alleged that
these creatures will drink

the blood of goats and
other small farm animals.

I've examined the remains
of several creatures

that have been
called chupa cabras

and all of those
animals displayed

very dog-like features,

pointy ears, long
snouts, strange skin,

long fangs, other
physical abnormalities.

During a two month
period in 2010,

more than 300 goats were
slaughtered in rural Mexico.

Ranchers believe these deaths
resulted from a chupacabra

stalking their livestock.

So could this image be a
chupacabra stalking the zoo?

Our experts investigate.

To me, it looks like the fence
itself may be 12 feet high.

The animal looks like it's
maybe six feet behind the fence,

which would make it smaller.

It appears to be about half
the height of the fence.

It's maybe about seven
and a half feet tall.

That's much bigger
than the alleged

size of a chupa chabra.

And there's another issue.

The Chupacabra
allegedly a quadrupedal

or four-legged animal,

but this appears to be bipedal
rather than quadrupedal.

Bipedal means it's
walking on two legs.

Chupacabras are described as
being more hairless with gray

and scaly skin.

In this image, it seems
to be more shaggy.

It seems to have long
hair, especially on top,

so it doesn't fit
the description.

And even
though sightings

of the creature
have been reported,

Shutler says the proof
has yet to be discovered.

Any evidence of
animals that were thought

to be chupacabras,

it always ended up
being a canid species

like a coyote, dog
or fox with mange.

Demodectic mange is
caused by a parasitic mite

that lives in the hair
follicles of canines.

To rid themselves
of the parasites,

canines will scratch their fur
and skin until it falls off.

But the biggest red flag

of all why the zoo
only released one image

of such a startling discovery.

Camera traps when
they're triggered,

they usually take
multiple photos.

So I would love to see the
photos before and after.

There's rarely a singular photo

of an animal when the
cameras are triggered.

I suspect this was
a publicity stunt

by the Amarillo Zoo.

If they really wanted to figure
out what this animal was,

there would definitely
be more photos of it.

Now, hold on a second.

If this is a hoax,

then the zoo has been keeping
up the deception for months.

Our verdict,
unidentified creature.

A Seattle based company
specializing in wireless cameras

donated 80 color night vision
cameras to the Amarillo Zoo

after this image went viral.

So should this creature
reappear, there should be plenty

of proof to determine
what it is as.

As more sightings of mysterious
creatures are captured,

the search for
answers continues.

Parts of what we've
seen have explanations

while others still
remain a mystery.

Thank you for watching
this special episode

of The Proof Is Out There.

Please send us
any videos, images

or sound that you think
we should investigate.

And remember to keep
those cameras rolling.