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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,044 --> 00:00:03,504 A giant, hairy beast 2 00:00:03,587 --> 00:00:05,877 that walks on two legs. 3 00:00:06,006 --> 00:00:08,006 A ferocious killer wolf 4 00:00:08,091 --> 00:00:10,591 with a taste for human flesh. 5 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:14,059 And a red-eyed, nocturnal bird of prey 6 00:00:14,181 --> 00:00:17,891 that is believed to be a harbinger of doom. 7 00:00:19,436 --> 00:00:21,726 Throughout the world, there have been 8 00:00:21,813 --> 00:00:25,613 countless sightings of bizarre creatures 9 00:00:25,734 --> 00:00:28,284 that, based on eyewitness accounts, 10 00:00:28,403 --> 00:00:32,623 can only be described as monsters. 11 00:00:32,741 --> 00:00:34,741 Fearsome, grotesque beasts 12 00:00:34,868 --> 00:00:37,078 that cannot be explained by science. 13 00:00:38,288 --> 00:00:42,878 Is it possible that there really are terrifying monsters 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,420 lurking in the shadows of our planet? 15 00:00:45,546 --> 00:00:48,586 Well, that is what we�ll try and find out. 16 00:01:08,277 --> 00:01:10,987 Bigfoot researcher Matt Moneymaker and a colleague 17 00:01:11,113 --> 00:01:14,073 are investigating reported Bigfoot sightings 18 00:01:14,157 --> 00:01:17,077 in a wooded area near the town of Kent. 19 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,500 After spending years pursuing Bigfoot in hopes 20 00:01:20,622 --> 00:01:23,632 of seeing one himself, Matt is eager to find out 21 00:01:23,709 --> 00:01:27,919 whether there really is a giant creature in these woods. 22 00:01:29,131 --> 00:01:31,131 We were staked out along a road. 23 00:01:31,258 --> 00:01:33,298 The guy I was with was about 60 feet away. 24 00:01:34,928 --> 00:01:37,178 And at about 2:30 a.m., 25 00:01:37,306 --> 00:01:39,636 something comes walking down the road. 26 00:01:39,766 --> 00:01:41,516 I see something. 27 00:01:41,643 --> 00:01:43,653 He sees it first through night vision. 28 00:01:47,983 --> 00:01:49,823 Matt rushes over to investigate 29 00:01:49,943 --> 00:01:53,203 and is stopped dead in his tracks by the sound of... 30 00:01:54,990 --> 00:01:56,780 inhuman growling. 31 00:01:58,827 --> 00:02:01,577 This thing steps out, 32 00:02:01,663 --> 00:02:05,083 a very big, tall, hair-covered thing... 33 00:02:06,835 --> 00:02:09,205 standing out there growling at me. 34 00:02:09,338 --> 00:02:12,418 When you�ve got something that big that close to you, 35 00:02:12,507 --> 00:02:15,257 you could see it well enough to know that must be a Bigfoot. 36 00:02:15,344 --> 00:02:19,064 So I just kind of backed up and walked away. 37 00:02:22,476 --> 00:02:25,436 I was pretty happy at that point, because I�m thinking 38 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,400 if this one�s going to do that reliably, 39 00:02:28,523 --> 00:02:30,168 then this is a place that we�re going to get 40 00:02:30,192 --> 00:02:31,732 some video footage of them, 41 00:02:31,860 --> 00:02:33,780 if we�re coming here with the right kind of gear. 42 00:02:34,404 --> 00:02:36,704 But when Matt returned with camera equipment 43 00:02:36,782 --> 00:02:38,032 to document the encounter, 44 00:02:38,158 --> 00:02:40,368 the creature had vanished. 45 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:42,754 Although Matt was not able to photograph the large, 46 00:02:42,871 --> 00:02:44,251 hairy beast that he witnessed, 47 00:02:44,373 --> 00:02:47,253 he remains convinced that what he saw 48 00:02:47,376 --> 00:02:50,126 was, in fact, Bigfoot. 49 00:02:51,213 --> 00:02:54,423 It�s one of those things that sounds so over the top, 50 00:02:54,549 --> 00:02:57,929 but after I had a face-to-face encounter, 51 00:02:58,053 --> 00:03:00,393 I knew it was exactly the same thing 52 00:03:00,514 --> 00:03:04,064 that all the witnesses around there had described. 53 00:03:05,018 --> 00:03:08,058 The encounter inspired Matt to found 54 00:03:08,188 --> 00:03:13,608 the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, or BFRO. 55 00:03:14,653 --> 00:03:17,743 The roots of it are people who were sharing information. 56 00:03:17,864 --> 00:03:20,164 We were sharing sighting reports mainly 57 00:03:20,242 --> 00:03:21,552 from different parts of the country. 58 00:03:21,576 --> 00:03:23,576 And I came up with the idea that... 59 00:03:23,704 --> 00:03:26,004 Why don�t we put all these into a website? 60 00:03:26,081 --> 00:03:28,831 You know, sort it by county and state 61 00:03:28,917 --> 00:03:31,287 so people can look up reports. 62 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:33,590 And when we did that, it worked really well. 63 00:03:33,672 --> 00:03:35,922 Lots of people started submitting reports. 64 00:03:37,092 --> 00:03:39,642 According to the BFRO, there have been more than 65 00:03:39,761 --> 00:03:44,271 3,500 credible Bigfoot sightings since 1960. 66 00:03:45,183 --> 00:03:48,273 Although science has yet to prove the existence 67 00:03:48,353 --> 00:03:50,313 of the legendary man-beast, 68 00:03:50,439 --> 00:03:52,769 that hasn�t stopped Bigfoot 69 00:03:52,899 --> 00:03:55,819 from becoming a full-fledged phenomenon. 70 00:03:57,446 --> 00:03:59,776 Bigfoot is literally everywhere. 71 00:03:59,865 --> 00:04:01,825 There are Bigfoot stories in Nevada. 72 00:04:01,950 --> 00:04:07,000 There are Bigfoot stories in Nebraska, Florida, Texas. 73 00:04:07,122 --> 00:04:09,172 Literally every part of the country 74 00:04:09,291 --> 00:04:12,631 has its own stories and legends of Bigfoot. 75 00:04:12,711 --> 00:04:15,961 It�s likely wherever you live in this country, 76 00:04:16,047 --> 00:04:17,837 you are within 100 miles of a place 77 00:04:17,966 --> 00:04:19,296 that purportedly has a Bigfoot. 78 00:04:21,303 --> 00:04:24,103 If these sightings are of a real creature, 79 00:04:24,181 --> 00:04:27,061 then what exactly is Bigfoot? 80 00:04:27,142 --> 00:04:30,142 And how did this phenomenon begin? 81 00:04:31,980 --> 00:04:34,150 Bigfoot is generally reported 82 00:04:34,274 --> 00:04:39,244 to be a very large, very furry, hominid creature. 83 00:04:39,321 --> 00:04:43,411 Something like a person, but not a person. 84 00:04:44,284 --> 00:04:47,004 Seen very often remotely in the forest. 85 00:04:47,078 --> 00:04:51,918 And with various stories about sightings or about footprints 86 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:53,880 that really are pretty widespread 87 00:04:54,002 --> 00:04:57,592 in many, many communities in the United States and in Canada. 88 00:05:01,843 --> 00:05:04,603 Before 1958, people didn�t use the word Bigfoot. 89 00:05:06,264 --> 00:05:08,934 But it was in 1958 in Northern California 90 00:05:09,017 --> 00:05:12,397 guys building a road found footprints 91 00:05:12,521 --> 00:05:14,791 around their gear when they would come back in the morning. 92 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:18,235 And a guy named Jerry Crew made plaster footprints 93 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:20,950 of these tracks and showed them to a reporter 94 00:05:21,029 --> 00:05:25,069 in Eureka, and they dubbed it Bigfoot. 95 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:27,700 That was where the name first originated 96 00:05:27,828 --> 00:05:29,948 and got into American vocabulary. 97 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:33,919 Photos of Jerry Crew�s cast of giant footprints 98 00:05:34,042 --> 00:05:37,462 made headlines across the country. 99 00:05:37,546 --> 00:05:40,416 Many Americans came to believe that a tall, 100 00:05:40,549 --> 00:05:42,929 bipedal, apelike creature roamed 101 00:05:43,051 --> 00:05:46,101 the forests of the Pacific Northwest. 102 00:05:47,222 --> 00:05:49,102 I grew up in Washington State 103 00:05:49,224 --> 00:05:51,734 where it�s hard to underestimate Bigfoot�s power. 104 00:05:53,728 --> 00:05:56,688 Bigfoot is the mascot of different companies. 105 00:05:58,066 --> 00:06:01,566 Bigfoot is all over billboards. 106 00:06:01,653 --> 00:06:03,653 As a young boy in Washington State, 107 00:06:03,738 --> 00:06:06,818 I fully believed in Bigfoot�s existence. 108 00:06:09,327 --> 00:06:12,407 In 1967, interest in Bigfoot surged 109 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:16,249 when an investigator named Roger Patterson 110 00:06:16,334 --> 00:06:18,544 captured incredible footage 111 00:06:18,628 --> 00:06:22,258 of a creature that matched the description of Bigfoot 112 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:25,302 near Bluff Creek in Northern California. 113 00:06:27,095 --> 00:06:29,965 Patterson�s film became an instant sensation, 114 00:06:30,098 --> 00:06:31,928 but skeptics claimed 115 00:06:32,017 --> 00:06:33,887 that it had to be a man 116 00:06:33,977 --> 00:06:35,977 in a monkey suit. 117 00:06:36,104 --> 00:06:38,734 One of the issues when it comes to people believing 118 00:06:38,815 --> 00:06:43,485 in Bigfoot existing is, let�s face it, 119 00:06:43,612 --> 00:06:46,992 mainstream sciences shun away from this topic. 120 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:51,785 However, amateur researchers are trying to pick up the slack, 121 00:06:51,870 --> 00:06:56,500 bridge that gap between amateur and mainstream science. 122 00:06:56,625 --> 00:06:58,925 Bigfoot researchers claim that the vast majority 123 00:06:59,002 --> 00:07:01,712 of Bigfoot sightings are sincere 124 00:07:01,796 --> 00:07:06,716 and that hoaxes represent only a small fraction of reports. 125 00:07:06,801 --> 00:07:08,641 They also point out that stories 126 00:07:08,762 --> 00:07:12,972 of Bigfoot-like animals are not merely a recent fad. 127 00:07:13,058 --> 00:07:16,688 Believe it or not, more than 3,000 years ago, 128 00:07:16,811 --> 00:07:19,151 the ancient Babylonians told stories 129 00:07:19,230 --> 00:07:22,570 of a creature that sounds an awful lot like Bigfoot. 130 00:07:22,651 --> 00:07:24,991 Except they called it Enkidu. 131 00:07:26,905 --> 00:07:31,665 Enkidu is a hairy, wild 132 00:07:31,743 --> 00:07:35,003 man-creature with super strength, 133 00:07:35,121 --> 00:07:38,371 and he�s fearsome, he�s ready and willing 134 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:41,840 to defend this wild territory that he inhabits. 135 00:07:41,962 --> 00:07:44,512 The king, Gilgamesh, becomes his soulmate, 136 00:07:44,589 --> 00:07:46,169 basically... best friends. 137 00:07:46,299 --> 00:07:52,219 So, this king becomes this amazing hero 138 00:07:52,347 --> 00:07:56,767 through his relationship with this wild man 139 00:07:56,851 --> 00:08:01,311 that has shown him how to negotiate the boundaries 140 00:08:01,398 --> 00:08:05,608 between humanity and wildness. 141 00:08:05,694 --> 00:08:09,704 Since that time, descriptions of so-called "wild men," 142 00:08:09,781 --> 00:08:11,411 half-human, half-ape beasts, 143 00:08:11,533 --> 00:08:15,083 have popped up throughout history, all over the world. 144 00:08:15,203 --> 00:08:18,373 In the Caucasus, there was something called the Alma 145 00:08:18,456 --> 00:08:21,416 that was a big monster, a nature creature. 146 00:08:23,044 --> 00:08:26,094 In Australia, there�s the aboriginal version, 147 00:08:26,214 --> 00:08:27,724 which they call it a Yowie. 148 00:08:27,841 --> 00:08:30,841 There is the Yeti in the Himalayas. 149 00:08:30,927 --> 00:08:32,967 So there are local variations, 150 00:08:33,054 --> 00:08:35,434 but the story is more or less the same: 151 00:08:35,557 --> 00:08:38,137 very big, seemingly animallike. 152 00:08:38,226 --> 00:08:40,386 Or is it human or is it some hybrid? 153 00:08:40,478 --> 00:08:41,808 There�s the point. 154 00:08:43,106 --> 00:08:45,566 In North America, there are Native American legends 155 00:08:45,692 --> 00:08:47,442 that go back centuries, 156 00:08:47,569 --> 00:08:49,859 long before the discoveries made by Jerry Crew 157 00:08:49,946 --> 00:08:52,106 or Roger Patterson. 158 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,950 We know that Sasquatch, the preeminent Bigfoot creature 159 00:08:57,078 --> 00:08:58,578 that we have in the United States 160 00:08:58,705 --> 00:09:00,585 located in the Pacific Northwest, 161 00:09:00,665 --> 00:09:06,085 that very word, Sasquatch, comes from a Salish tribal word 162 00:09:06,171 --> 00:09:09,421 that means wild man or hairy man. 163 00:09:10,925 --> 00:09:12,965 The natives of the Northwest say 164 00:09:13,094 --> 00:09:17,814 that there are creatures that walk upright and only at night. 165 00:09:17,932 --> 00:09:20,772 And can speak in their language. 166 00:09:21,853 --> 00:09:24,943 I found in speaking with indigenous peoples 167 00:09:25,065 --> 00:09:28,485 that they don�t describe them as an animal at all. 168 00:09:28,610 --> 00:09:32,700 They call them the First Ones or the Old Ones. 169 00:09:33,782 --> 00:09:36,992 These were the tribe that was here before we got here. 170 00:09:40,997 --> 00:09:45,997 Could Bigfoot be one of man�s ancient ancestors? 171 00:09:46,127 --> 00:09:47,847 According to many cultures around the world, 172 00:09:47,879 --> 00:09:49,709 it�s a distinct possibility. 173 00:09:49,798 --> 00:09:53,548 And if Bigfoot does exist, could it mean 174 00:09:53,635 --> 00:09:57,685 that we might share our world with other strange creatures? 175 00:09:59,140 --> 00:10:01,020 Perhaps a clue can be found in Texas, 176 00:10:01,142 --> 00:10:04,852 where legend has it that a vicious monster 177 00:10:04,979 --> 00:10:09,029 prowls the night and has an insatiable thirst 178 00:10:09,150 --> 00:10:11,440 for blood. 179 00:10:20,203 --> 00:10:21,963 After purchasing a brood of chickens 180 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:25,576 from a neighboring ranch, Phylis Canion makes a series 181 00:10:25,667 --> 00:10:30,377 of gruesome discoveries inside her brand-new henhouse. 182 00:10:30,505 --> 00:10:34,685 I brought the chickens home, and I had them for about two weeks. 183 00:10:36,344 --> 00:10:41,774 And I went outside, and one of the chickens was dead. 184 00:10:43,685 --> 00:10:45,275 What makes it unusual 185 00:10:45,353 --> 00:10:48,063 is the chicken was still laying there. 186 00:10:48,189 --> 00:10:51,439 And with the amount of predators that we have 187 00:10:51,526 --> 00:10:53,356 in the state of Texas, 188 00:10:53,444 --> 00:10:57,414 any predator would have taken the chicken and eaten it. 189 00:11:01,369 --> 00:11:03,681 Over the next few weeks, Phylis collected the remains 190 00:11:03,705 --> 00:11:06,375 of 27 more of her chickens, 191 00:11:06,457 --> 00:11:11,337 each one killed in the same inexplicable fashion. 192 00:11:11,421 --> 00:11:16,221 Every one of them had been opened up in the thorax area, 193 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:19,681 the feathers missing, and what appeared to me 194 00:11:19,762 --> 00:11:22,522 to be no blood on the ground. 195 00:11:22,599 --> 00:11:27,479 So, that told me then whatever it was 196 00:11:27,562 --> 00:11:32,902 was not interested in the meat but interested in the blood. 197 00:11:33,026 --> 00:11:35,896 And when I was talking to friends and neighbors about it, 198 00:11:36,029 --> 00:11:37,659 they all immediately said, "My gosh, 199 00:11:37,739 --> 00:11:39,409 "that�s the behavior of a chupacabra. 200 00:11:39,532 --> 00:11:41,532 It�s going to kill the animal and suck the blood." 201 00:11:44,829 --> 00:11:46,709 "Chupacabra." 202 00:11:46,789 --> 00:11:49,129 To those who claim to have encountered one, 203 00:11:49,250 --> 00:11:51,750 it is a fearsome monster. 204 00:11:51,836 --> 00:11:54,916 Chupacabra means "goat sucker." 205 00:11:55,006 --> 00:11:57,926 And it�s a really creepy-looking creature. 206 00:11:58,009 --> 00:12:00,089 Some people say it looks like some kind of 207 00:12:00,178 --> 00:12:02,718 strange hybrid-like dog. 208 00:12:02,805 --> 00:12:06,225 The continental North American chupacabra, 209 00:12:06,309 --> 00:12:09,479 is a four-legged, or quadrupedal animal 210 00:12:09,604 --> 00:12:12,944 about the size of a dog, completely hairless 211 00:12:13,024 --> 00:12:16,864 with a bluish-gray elephant hide type of covering. 212 00:12:16,945 --> 00:12:20,035 They also display a number of abnormal characteristics. 213 00:12:20,114 --> 00:12:23,374 Oftentimes, their limbs are disproportionate lengths. 214 00:12:23,451 --> 00:12:27,291 So they�re very grotesque, odd, weird-looking animals. 215 00:12:28,998 --> 00:12:31,458 Certain that what was preying on her chicken coop 216 00:12:31,584 --> 00:12:34,884 was not a coyote or any other known canine, 217 00:12:34,963 --> 00:12:39,973 Phylis began to consider whether it might be a chupacabra. 218 00:12:40,093 --> 00:12:45,143 And then one morning, she got her answer. 219 00:12:45,265 --> 00:12:49,855 One Saturday morning, I got a very early call, 7:00. 220 00:12:49,978 --> 00:12:53,938 My neighbor rancher called and said, "My gosh. 221 00:12:54,023 --> 00:12:58,243 "The strangest animal has been hit and killed 222 00:12:58,319 --> 00:13:00,399 in front of the Canion Ranch." 223 00:13:00,488 --> 00:13:05,578 So, I got in the truck, drove over there and I brought it back 224 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:09,250 and I took a 50-pound feed sack 225 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:12,750 and I cut it in half and laid it on the ground 226 00:13:12,834 --> 00:13:15,884 and I laid the animal on it to give everybody 227 00:13:16,004 --> 00:13:19,424 a perspective of the size of the animal. 228 00:13:21,175 --> 00:13:24,635 I have seen mangy coyotes all of my life, 229 00:13:24,721 --> 00:13:29,231 and this had no hair on it and no indication at all 230 00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:33,270 that the skin was infested with any type 231 00:13:33,354 --> 00:13:36,864 of skin disorder from mange or anything else. 232 00:13:36,983 --> 00:13:40,033 It just did not have any hair on it at all. 233 00:13:40,945 --> 00:13:42,695 Phylis sent tissue samples 234 00:13:42,822 --> 00:13:45,872 from the dead creature out for analysis. 235 00:13:45,950 --> 00:13:48,990 After waiting expectantly for weeks, 236 00:13:49,078 --> 00:13:51,208 she was surprised by the results. 237 00:13:52,123 --> 00:13:55,133 So, when they called me, they said, 238 00:13:55,209 --> 00:13:59,589 "Well, it�s coyote on the maternal side 239 00:13:59,714 --> 00:14:03,264 and Mexican wolf on the paternal." 240 00:14:04,177 --> 00:14:06,887 The DNA tests indicating that the... 241 00:14:06,971 --> 00:14:09,061 the animal was a... was a hybrid, essentially, 242 00:14:09,182 --> 00:14:12,312 between a Mexican wolf and a coyote 243 00:14:12,393 --> 00:14:14,023 is a little surprising in the fact 244 00:14:14,103 --> 00:14:16,273 that those species don�t typically hybridize. 245 00:14:16,397 --> 00:14:18,147 But it�s not entirely impossible. 246 00:14:18,232 --> 00:14:21,532 We do know that the ranges of those two species do overlap 247 00:14:21,611 --> 00:14:24,241 in Arizona and Texas and northern Mexico, 248 00:14:24,322 --> 00:14:26,072 so it�s at least physically possible 249 00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:29,409 that they could encounter each other, um, to form hybrids. 250 00:14:32,580 --> 00:14:35,880 With such conclusive DNA results, 251 00:14:35,958 --> 00:14:38,378 many considered the case closed. 252 00:14:38,461 --> 00:14:40,801 But according to Phylis, 253 00:14:40,922 --> 00:14:43,882 something was not quite adding up. 254 00:14:44,926 --> 00:14:46,336 The mystery of the whole thing 255 00:14:46,427 --> 00:14:48,717 was the manner in which every chicken was killed. 256 00:14:48,805 --> 00:14:51,145 It would suck all of the blood out. 257 00:14:51,265 --> 00:14:54,805 So, we know that it�s coyote and Mexican wolf, 258 00:14:54,936 --> 00:14:58,186 but neither of those animals suck blood. 259 00:14:58,272 --> 00:15:03,572 So, even though this animal has that DNA, what is it? 260 00:15:03,653 --> 00:15:06,113 Why would it have that behavior? 261 00:15:06,197 --> 00:15:10,447 When the taxidermist mounted it for me, 262 00:15:10,576 --> 00:15:15,706 he had to get a coyote mold and a wolf mold, 263 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:20,540 and blend them together to make the hide fit. 264 00:15:20,628 --> 00:15:24,208 The tail is longer than a wolf tail or a coyote tail. 265 00:15:24,298 --> 00:15:28,888 The neck, the ears, everything was so extreme. 266 00:15:28,970 --> 00:15:31,640 It took him forever to get it mounted. 267 00:15:33,057 --> 00:15:37,807 We had about 13 different specialists 268 00:15:37,895 --> 00:15:41,065 from around the world come and look at it. 269 00:15:41,149 --> 00:15:45,149 And to date, they�ve all left scratching their head 270 00:15:45,278 --> 00:15:46,988 like the day they came in, 271 00:15:47,071 --> 00:15:50,201 because they just cannot figure it out as well. 272 00:15:52,326 --> 00:15:54,616 If they really exist, 273 00:15:54,704 --> 00:15:59,084 are chupacabra merely the result of natural selection gone wrong? 274 00:15:59,167 --> 00:16:02,247 Or could this grotesque monster 275 00:16:02,336 --> 00:16:05,086 be the result of not natural causes 276 00:16:05,173 --> 00:16:06,843 but manmade ones? 277 00:16:06,924 --> 00:16:09,514 There are some who believe the answer 278 00:16:09,594 --> 00:16:13,354 is a disturbing yes. 279 00:16:13,431 --> 00:16:15,181 Through the course of my research 280 00:16:15,308 --> 00:16:16,928 on the Texas chupacabras, 281 00:16:17,018 --> 00:16:20,268 I found a direct correlation between sightings 282 00:16:20,354 --> 00:16:22,944 on Phylis Canion�s property and elsewhere, 283 00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:25,404 and coal-burning power plants. 284 00:16:25,526 --> 00:16:27,526 Coal-burning power plants, 285 00:16:27,653 --> 00:16:31,033 in fact, emit huge amounts of sulfur dioxide 286 00:16:31,115 --> 00:16:33,945 and other hard metals like lead into the atmosphere. 287 00:16:34,035 --> 00:16:35,955 And in recent studies, scientists have found 288 00:16:36,037 --> 00:16:39,037 that sulfur dioxide is, in fact, a mutagen. 289 00:16:39,123 --> 00:16:41,673 It altered the cellular makeup or genetic makeup 290 00:16:41,751 --> 00:16:43,291 of laboratory mice. 291 00:16:43,377 --> 00:16:46,007 So, in fact, this pollution could be having 292 00:16:46,088 --> 00:16:50,048 a similar effect on these Texas coyotes or other canids. 293 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:52,640 Chemicals in the environment 294 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,350 can absolutely cause mutations to animals in-in the wild. 295 00:16:57,433 --> 00:17:00,393 We saw this in Minnesota when a classroom 296 00:17:00,478 --> 00:17:03,188 out on a field trip discovered a pond 297 00:17:03,272 --> 00:17:06,652 with frogs that had extra legs or missing limbs 298 00:17:06,734 --> 00:17:09,994 or body features in the wrong position. 299 00:17:10,071 --> 00:17:12,531 And these were most likely caused by some type 300 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:15,665 of environmental contaminant. 301 00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,703 There is actually a type of chupacabra 302 00:17:17,787 --> 00:17:20,077 that�s been reported from parts of Puerto Rico. 303 00:17:21,249 --> 00:17:24,589 The Puerto Rican chupacabra is described as about 304 00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:27,090 three and a half to five feet tall, 305 00:17:27,171 --> 00:17:31,301 standing on two legs, fangs, claws, 306 00:17:31,425 --> 00:17:34,545 and strangely a row of spikes going down its back. 307 00:17:34,637 --> 00:17:38,017 Why are there so many different versions of the chupacabra, 308 00:17:38,099 --> 00:17:39,979 and why are they so radically different-looking 309 00:17:40,101 --> 00:17:41,891 in terms of the Puerto Rican version 310 00:17:41,978 --> 00:17:44,608 versus the North American version versus other versions? 311 00:17:44,689 --> 00:17:47,359 So, in fact, pollution could be having 312 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:51,451 a similar effect to create all types of strange creatures. 313 00:17:53,531 --> 00:17:58,121 Is the chupacabra a genetically mutated animal 314 00:17:58,244 --> 00:18:02,044 that evolved as a result of industrial pollution? 315 00:18:02,123 --> 00:18:04,173 Perhaps, but then again, 316 00:18:04,292 --> 00:18:06,252 monsters have been reported for centuries, 317 00:18:06,335 --> 00:18:09,245 long before the onset of modern civilization. 318 00:18:09,338 --> 00:18:13,878 For instance, in 18th-century France, 319 00:18:13,968 --> 00:18:17,218 more than 100 people fell victim 320 00:18:17,305 --> 00:18:21,105 to a ravenous, wolflike creature that was known 321 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:24,443 as the Beast of G�vaudan. 322 00:18:32,653 --> 00:18:35,613 On a warm summer morning in this farming region 323 00:18:35,698 --> 00:18:38,158 of south-central France, 324 00:18:38,284 --> 00:18:40,294 14-year-old Jeanne Boulet 325 00:18:40,369 --> 00:18:42,959 leaves home to tend her flock of sheep. 326 00:18:45,207 --> 00:18:47,457 By sundown, she�s dead. 327 00:18:50,171 --> 00:18:52,971 Murdered by a mysterious animal 328 00:18:53,049 --> 00:18:55,589 that reportedly mutilated her body, 329 00:18:55,676 --> 00:19:00,966 severed her head and ripped out her heart. 330 00:19:01,057 --> 00:19:04,807 Jeanne Boulet was the first documented casualty 331 00:19:04,894 --> 00:19:07,654 of a monster that many people believed 332 00:19:07,730 --> 00:19:10,150 was roaming around south-central France 333 00:19:10,232 --> 00:19:13,572 beginning in the late spring of 1764. 334 00:19:13,694 --> 00:19:15,534 By the end of September, 335 00:19:15,613 --> 00:19:19,203 another ten or so casualties, however, had appeared. 336 00:19:20,242 --> 00:19:23,662 La B�te du G�vaudan, also known as the Beast of G�vaudan, 337 00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:26,076 was a mysterious wolflike creature 338 00:19:26,207 --> 00:19:28,577 which mounted a murderous rampage 339 00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:31,919 over a three-year span within the 18th century. 340 00:19:32,046 --> 00:19:35,256 The Beast frequently attacked women and young children 341 00:19:35,383 --> 00:19:37,183 who had been assigned the task 342 00:19:37,259 --> 00:19:41,099 of herding sheep and cattle in remote mountainous meadows. 343 00:19:41,222 --> 00:19:42,762 And in many cases, 344 00:19:42,890 --> 00:19:44,810 they were rather defenseless and vulnerable. 345 00:19:46,602 --> 00:19:50,192 Between 1764 and 1767, 346 00:19:50,272 --> 00:19:52,322 the so-called Beast of G�vaudan 347 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:54,480 terrorized the Margeride Mountain region 348 00:19:54,568 --> 00:19:56,358 of southern France. 349 00:19:57,905 --> 00:20:00,235 According to historical records, 350 00:20:00,324 --> 00:20:04,544 more than 100 people were brutally killed. 351 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,870 The Beast of the G�vaudan�s ravages 352 00:20:07,957 --> 00:20:10,577 did incite panic among the people. 353 00:20:10,668 --> 00:20:13,628 And we know this largely from evidence from journalists 354 00:20:13,754 --> 00:20:15,344 and others who were commenting about 355 00:20:15,423 --> 00:20:17,303 the activities of the Beast. 356 00:20:17,425 --> 00:20:21,355 By early 1765, newspapers all across France, 357 00:20:21,429 --> 00:20:23,969 and indeed all across Europe and in America, 358 00:20:24,098 --> 00:20:26,978 were reporting on the Beast of the G�vaudan. 359 00:20:27,101 --> 00:20:29,731 His exploits, the various hunts for the Beast, 360 00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:32,022 the various mysteries surrounding it, 361 00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:35,476 which is why so many people were transfixed by this story. 362 00:20:37,278 --> 00:20:39,464 There were many attempts to hunt down the Beast. 363 00:20:39,488 --> 00:20:42,528 People in the G�vaudan region typically did not own guns, 364 00:20:42,616 --> 00:20:44,696 but there were posses formed. 365 00:20:44,785 --> 00:20:46,763 Groups that would go out in the woods and literally 366 00:20:46,787 --> 00:20:48,707 beat the brush with pitchforks, 367 00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:52,079 sticks, knives, whatever types of weapons were available. 368 00:20:52,168 --> 00:20:54,998 However, the hunt for the Beast really ramped up 369 00:20:55,129 --> 00:20:58,049 when King Louis XV became involved. 370 00:20:58,132 --> 00:21:01,762 He brought in a professional wolf hunter named d�Enneval, 371 00:21:01,844 --> 00:21:04,354 who allegedly killed over 100 wolves, 372 00:21:04,472 --> 00:21:06,522 but the killing still did not end. 373 00:21:07,850 --> 00:21:11,190 According to multiple reports, the beast resembled a wolf 374 00:21:11,312 --> 00:21:16,112 but was unlike any canine that was known to man. 375 00:21:16,192 --> 00:21:19,572 Many of the local villagers noted as saying it resembles 376 00:21:19,653 --> 00:21:22,613 a very large wolf, but the Beast of G�vaudan 377 00:21:22,698 --> 00:21:24,318 attacked and killed people 378 00:21:24,450 --> 00:21:27,410 in a nature that was very unlike a wolf. 379 00:21:29,163 --> 00:21:31,673 The nature of these attacks... 380 00:21:31,749 --> 00:21:33,709 the way that this thing was decapitating people... 381 00:21:35,211 --> 00:21:36,841 disemboweling people, 382 00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,522 this was something completely different. 383 00:21:39,673 --> 00:21:43,643 One of the reasons this becomes such a magnetic story, 384 00:21:43,719 --> 00:21:46,219 it�s because there were always new strange stories 385 00:21:46,347 --> 00:21:47,887 about the Beast�s behavior, 386 00:21:48,015 --> 00:21:50,345 its appearance, its strange abilities. 387 00:21:51,477 --> 00:21:55,437 The peasants on the ground were describing it as 388 00:21:55,523 --> 00:21:59,073 having the ability to walk on its hind legs, 389 00:21:59,193 --> 00:22:03,573 glowing eyes, and having five or six talons 390 00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:05,617 rather than four. 391 00:22:06,867 --> 00:22:08,827 They didn�t use the word "werewolf." 392 00:22:08,911 --> 00:22:11,411 They used descriptions of this creature 393 00:22:11,539 --> 00:22:12,959 that made it easy to believe 394 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,000 that this could indeed be a werewolf. 395 00:22:16,836 --> 00:22:19,416 The Beast of G�vaudan is one of France�s 396 00:22:19,547 --> 00:22:22,087 most enduring and popular mysteries. 397 00:22:22,216 --> 00:22:23,796 There are museums. 398 00:22:24,885 --> 00:22:26,635 There are statues. 399 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:29,100 There are songs. There are stories. 400 00:22:29,223 --> 00:22:32,273 This was like a real-life nightmare. 401 00:22:32,393 --> 00:22:34,943 To this day, the Beast of G�vaudan is celebrated 402 00:22:35,062 --> 00:22:39,072 in French culture and it really has a profound effect on people. 403 00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:43,492 The descriptions of the Beast were so terrifying 404 00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:45,951 that it�s not surprising locals thought 405 00:22:46,073 --> 00:22:50,333 it was some kind of supernatural monster. 406 00:22:50,411 --> 00:22:53,331 But there were scientists at the time 407 00:22:53,414 --> 00:22:56,124 who proposed a different theory. 408 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:58,790 Among the many hypotheses that emerged 409 00:22:58,919 --> 00:23:01,379 was that the beast might be an African hyena. 410 00:23:02,339 --> 00:23:05,469 The hyena was this very mysterious creature 411 00:23:05,593 --> 00:23:08,683 that lots of naturalists and others wrote about 412 00:23:08,762 --> 00:23:11,972 in the 1750s and �60s. 413 00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:14,849 The general description of the Beast of G�vaudan 414 00:23:14,935 --> 00:23:17,975 was a wolflike creature but bigger, 415 00:23:18,105 --> 00:23:21,145 the size of a mule or a calf, perhaps. 416 00:23:21,275 --> 00:23:23,285 It had a large head. 417 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:27,702 It had a long muzzle, lined with razor-sharp teeth. 418 00:23:27,781 --> 00:23:29,241 Pointy ears. 419 00:23:29,325 --> 00:23:33,545 A long tail with a tuft of fur on the end. 420 00:23:33,621 --> 00:23:35,541 The coat of fur was typically described 421 00:23:35,623 --> 00:23:38,713 as a reddish-brown or gray, 422 00:23:38,792 --> 00:23:42,552 with a black stripe running down the back and a white breast. 423 00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:46,550 These are hyena-like characteristics. 424 00:23:47,968 --> 00:23:51,048 Back in the day, kings and even people of status 425 00:23:51,138 --> 00:23:53,718 had exotic pets, they had exotic zoos. 426 00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:56,177 Who�s to say that a hyena didn�t escape? 427 00:23:56,310 --> 00:23:58,900 If you take a look at the victims, 428 00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:01,569 their chest cavities torn apart, 429 00:24:01,649 --> 00:24:05,739 their limbs missing, their heads decapitated, 430 00:24:05,819 --> 00:24:09,279 this all resembles attacks of a hyena. 431 00:24:10,741 --> 00:24:15,001 Could the Beast of G�vaudan have been an escaped African hyena? 432 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:16,199 Perhaps. 433 00:24:18,332 --> 00:24:21,922 But while that theory may make sense, 434 00:24:22,002 --> 00:24:24,462 the best clue scientists have today 435 00:24:24,546 --> 00:24:26,376 about the Beast�s identity 436 00:24:26,507 --> 00:24:30,257 was obtained on the day it was reportedly killed. 437 00:24:31,178 --> 00:24:35,888 The Beast�s reign of terror ended on June 19, 1767, 438 00:24:36,016 --> 00:24:40,056 when a local hunter named Jean Chastel 439 00:24:40,187 --> 00:24:43,607 felled the monster with one shot of a silver bullet. 440 00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:50,605 After Chastel shot this strange creature, 441 00:24:50,698 --> 00:24:53,278 the killings actually stopped, so everyone was in agreement 442 00:24:53,367 --> 00:24:55,407 that-that he had actually killed the beast. 443 00:24:57,246 --> 00:25:00,206 A surgeon who conducted an autopsy determined 444 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:03,752 that while it resembled a wolf, it was not a wolf. 445 00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:06,417 And in fact, it possessed 40 teeth 446 00:25:06,547 --> 00:25:11,427 compared to a wolf�s 42 teeth, which is quite strange. 447 00:25:13,554 --> 00:25:15,934 The Beast�s remains were paraded around 448 00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:18,516 the G�vaudan region for weeks thereafter. 449 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,480 And by the time the carcass was taken 450 00:25:20,561 --> 00:25:24,651 to the Palace of Versailles and presented to King Louis XV, 451 00:25:24,732 --> 00:25:28,242 it was so smelly that he immediately demanded 452 00:25:28,318 --> 00:25:29,898 that it be removed from the palace. 453 00:25:30,029 --> 00:25:31,949 And to this day, nobody knows what happened 454 00:25:32,072 --> 00:25:33,702 to those remains... They vanished. 455 00:25:35,159 --> 00:25:37,199 Ultimately, while some people feel 456 00:25:37,286 --> 00:25:41,246 the Beast of G�vaudan may have been a supernatural phenomenon, 457 00:25:41,331 --> 00:25:45,631 the deaths, the occurrences documented, they�re real. 458 00:25:45,753 --> 00:25:50,133 And the Beast of G�vaudan remains a great mystery. 459 00:25:52,092 --> 00:25:56,562 Was the Beast of G�vaudan a common wolf 460 00:25:56,638 --> 00:26:00,098 or something far more terrifying? 461 00:26:00,225 --> 00:26:02,095 Either way, the people of France believed 462 00:26:02,227 --> 00:26:06,357 that the Beast needed to be hunted down and killed. 463 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,860 But fighting back against monsters 464 00:26:08,942 --> 00:26:10,532 may not always be an option. 465 00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:12,361 In fact, there have been reports 466 00:26:12,446 --> 00:26:17,236 of another wolflike creature, in Utah. 467 00:26:17,326 --> 00:26:20,496 One that is so fearsome and so powerful 468 00:26:20,621 --> 00:26:23,421 that not even bullets can stop it. 469 00:26:33,550 --> 00:26:36,970 Here on 512 acres of rugged land 470 00:26:37,096 --> 00:26:39,886 lies a remote cattle ranch. 471 00:26:41,100 --> 00:26:44,980 But according to local legend, this desert landscape 472 00:26:45,062 --> 00:26:50,232 is also home to a creature of unspeakable evil. 473 00:26:51,652 --> 00:26:55,322 A creature known as the Skinwalker. 474 00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:58,490 A Skinwalker is a shape-shifter. 475 00:26:59,618 --> 00:27:03,158 It can become many things: a fox, a coyote, a wolf. 476 00:27:04,331 --> 00:27:07,831 There are these recorded stories of bipedal creatures 477 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,750 that are walking around with wolflike heads. 478 00:27:10,838 --> 00:27:13,048 The locals on the reservation, they won�t talk about it 479 00:27:13,173 --> 00:27:15,683 because even mentioning the name of the Skinwalker 480 00:27:15,759 --> 00:27:17,549 invites these things in. 481 00:27:20,848 --> 00:27:22,558 Skinwalkers. 482 00:27:22,683 --> 00:27:24,353 Shape-shifting werewolves 483 00:27:24,434 --> 00:27:27,774 who dwell not in remote forests of Eastern Europe 484 00:27:27,855 --> 00:27:32,155 but in the remote desert regions of North America. 485 00:27:38,866 --> 00:27:41,446 Experienced ranch hands Terry and Gwen Sherman 486 00:27:41,535 --> 00:27:44,295 purchased the ranch and the surrounding area. 487 00:27:44,371 --> 00:27:46,961 Almost immediately, they find themselves face-to-face 488 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,710 with something they would later describe as pure evil. 489 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:55,716 One day, Terry had gone up to check on his cattle and noticed 490 00:27:55,799 --> 00:27:58,219 this extremely large, what appeared to be a wolf 491 00:27:58,302 --> 00:27:59,972 walking around on his property. 492 00:28:01,555 --> 00:28:03,225 It grabbed one of the calves by the snout 493 00:28:03,307 --> 00:28:04,887 and began to tear at it. 494 00:28:04,975 --> 00:28:07,735 So he pulls out his .357 Magnum 495 00:28:07,853 --> 00:28:10,483 and shoots point-blank. 496 00:28:11,857 --> 00:28:13,477 And the wolf doesn�t react. 497 00:28:13,567 --> 00:28:15,487 It doesn�t appear fazed at all. 498 00:28:15,569 --> 00:28:18,029 So he grabs his deer hunting rifle 499 00:28:18,113 --> 00:28:21,453 and shoots the wolf to knock it down. 500 00:28:21,575 --> 00:28:24,995 A piece of fur and flesh flies off of the wolf. 501 00:28:25,078 --> 00:28:28,118 But, again, completely unfazed, 502 00:28:28,248 --> 00:28:30,998 and at this point, the wolf is kind of trotting off 503 00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:33,344 into the distance, casually. 504 00:28:33,420 --> 00:28:36,590 Leveling his rifle, Terry cautiously 505 00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:39,505 followed the wolf�s trail, 506 00:28:39,593 --> 00:28:43,143 only to discover it had disappeared. 507 00:28:45,265 --> 00:28:46,845 In the days and weeks that followed, 508 00:28:46,934 --> 00:28:49,524 the Shermans began to wonder if what they encountered 509 00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:52,023 was a normal wolf 510 00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:53,515 or something more. 511 00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:58,129 In the case of the bulletproof wolf, what�s interesting 512 00:28:58,153 --> 00:29:00,363 is that wolves are not native to the state of Utah 513 00:29:00,447 --> 00:29:02,527 for, I think, the past 100 years or so. 514 00:29:04,493 --> 00:29:08,003 The werewolf of legend is described as looking 515 00:29:08,121 --> 00:29:11,291 very much like a regular wolf except much larger. 516 00:29:11,375 --> 00:29:13,675 And oftentimes, it is said to be 517 00:29:13,794 --> 00:29:15,884 sort of bloodthirsty and cunning. 518 00:29:16,797 --> 00:29:19,877 We have lots of interesting legends around the world. 519 00:29:19,967 --> 00:29:21,467 For example, in Russia, they�re known 520 00:29:21,551 --> 00:29:24,221 as the v�rcolac or the bodark. 521 00:29:24,304 --> 00:29:27,144 In France, you have the loup-garou. 522 00:29:27,224 --> 00:29:32,154 In Scotland, the wulver, and in South America, the lobizon. 523 00:29:32,229 --> 00:29:33,957 And even in countries where you don�t traditionally 524 00:29:33,981 --> 00:29:36,071 have wolves, you have similar legends. 525 00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:39,439 For example, in India, there are weretigers. 526 00:29:39,528 --> 00:29:42,818 And in Africa, wereleopards and werehyenas. 527 00:29:42,906 --> 00:29:46,156 And even in Mexico, werejaguars. 528 00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,253 We have to acknowledge that the notion 529 00:29:49,329 --> 00:29:51,789 of a shape-shifter, like a werewolf, 530 00:29:51,873 --> 00:29:53,543 something that combines the elements 531 00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:57,047 of human and animal together into one single body, 532 00:29:57,170 --> 00:29:59,760 from a scientific perspective, is quite troubling. 533 00:30:01,216 --> 00:30:02,756 But the fact that these legends 534 00:30:02,843 --> 00:30:05,473 are so widespread is quite intriguing. 535 00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:10,603 An enormous, bloodthirsty, cunning wolf 536 00:30:10,684 --> 00:30:13,234 that also happens to be bulletproof? 537 00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:16,193 Is it possible that the Shermans encountered 538 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:18,445 one of the werewolves that may have been haunting 539 00:30:18,525 --> 00:30:20,935 Skinwalker Ranch for centuries? 540 00:30:21,862 --> 00:30:25,702 And if so, what physical evidence is there 541 00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:28,412 to support such a fantastic notion? 542 00:30:29,286 --> 00:30:31,156 There has been numerous reports 543 00:30:31,246 --> 00:30:33,956 of cattle mutilations that occur not only on Skinwalker Ranch 544 00:30:34,041 --> 00:30:35,961 but the entire Uinta Basin. 545 00:30:36,043 --> 00:30:38,803 Many of the accounts of animal mutilations 546 00:30:38,879 --> 00:30:42,129 from Skinwalker Ranch describe animal carcasses 547 00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:45,125 that have almost been surgically dissected. 548 00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:49,308 Certain large cats can make very clean, precise wounds. 549 00:30:49,389 --> 00:30:51,389 Things like mountain lions. 550 00:30:51,516 --> 00:30:54,436 But it is notable that you have so many accounts 551 00:30:54,561 --> 00:30:59,231 of weird livestock mutilations from Skinwalker Ranch. 552 00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:03,316 This is very hard to explain in terms of the natural world. 553 00:31:04,404 --> 00:31:08,454 With so many accounts of cattle mutilations 554 00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:12,615 and sightings of unusually large and ferocious wolves, 555 00:31:12,746 --> 00:31:16,666 it is difficult to escape the notion that something strange 556 00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:19,420 is prowling the grounds of Skinwalker Ranch. 557 00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:22,214 But according to some scientists, 558 00:31:22,297 --> 00:31:25,007 that doesn�t necessarily mean 559 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:27,512 that people are seeing a werewolf. 560 00:31:27,594 --> 00:31:30,684 One of the really fascinating theories that relates 561 00:31:30,764 --> 00:31:33,734 to these monstrous wolves from Skinwalker Ranch 562 00:31:33,809 --> 00:31:37,189 is that these could, in fact, be surviving representatives 563 00:31:37,270 --> 00:31:40,940 of a species known as dire wolves, Canis dirus. 564 00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:44,566 These were very robust wolves that lived 565 00:31:44,653 --> 00:31:48,363 during the Pleistocene epoch up until about 11,500 years ago, 566 00:31:48,448 --> 00:31:50,658 and they were very prevalent in North America. 567 00:31:50,784 --> 00:31:55,124 They were certainly much larger and stockier than modern wolves. 568 00:31:55,205 --> 00:31:57,125 So it�s not beyond the realm of possibility 569 00:31:57,249 --> 00:32:00,749 that a species from 11,000 years ago may have survived 570 00:32:00,836 --> 00:32:04,956 in small pockets in certain remote areas of North America. 571 00:32:06,758 --> 00:32:09,388 Is the Skinwalker a rare breed of animal that simply 572 00:32:09,469 --> 00:32:13,469 hasn�t been identified yet by mainstream science? 573 00:32:14,641 --> 00:32:18,561 Or could it be exactly what witnesses insist it is: 574 00:32:18,645 --> 00:32:20,225 a werewolf? 575 00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:22,483 Well, if a shape-shifting canine 576 00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:24,857 sounds too frightening to be true, 577 00:32:24,985 --> 00:32:29,495 then just wait till you hear about our next monster. 578 00:32:30,490 --> 00:32:33,910 It�s a flying beast with glowing red eyes 579 00:32:33,994 --> 00:32:37,584 that has been seen in the skies above West Virginia, 580 00:32:37,664 --> 00:32:42,174 and it�s known as the Mothman. 581 00:32:52,429 --> 00:32:54,599 Linda Sigman and her boyfriend 582 00:32:54,681 --> 00:32:58,271 head out for a quiet nighttime drive. 583 00:32:59,311 --> 00:33:01,521 Far beyond the city lights, they pull over 584 00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:03,775 to do some amateur stargazing. 585 00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:09,033 After a few minutes, they realize they�re not alone. 586 00:33:09,821 --> 00:33:12,571 We got out and we sat on the car, 587 00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:15,619 and we�re sitting there talking for a little bit, and... 588 00:33:15,702 --> 00:33:18,912 I noticed a bright star over to my right. 589 00:33:19,039 --> 00:33:21,919 And all of a sudden, it started to get bigger. 590 00:33:22,042 --> 00:33:25,042 And it turned bright red and started to glow, 591 00:33:25,128 --> 00:33:27,378 and like it burst through the clouds. 592 00:33:27,464 --> 00:33:31,304 And it came right over in front of the car, and we looked up, 593 00:33:31,384 --> 00:33:35,304 and the object was so big that we couldn�t see 594 00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,638 the night sky or the stars or anything. 595 00:33:39,476 --> 00:33:42,396 When my boyfriend tried to start the car and it wouldn�t start, 596 00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:45,899 finally got the car started and we started to pull forward, 597 00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:47,324 and I saw him. 598 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,650 And he appeared to be 599 00:33:49,736 --> 00:33:52,026 a large flying man with wings. 600 00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:54,533 It was the creature 601 00:33:54,616 --> 00:33:56,366 that I perceive to be Mothman. 602 00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:02,497 His wings were back, and he was anywhere between 603 00:34:02,582 --> 00:34:05,502 eight and nine feet tall, and as we were going around a turn, 604 00:34:05,585 --> 00:34:09,795 the Mothman flew and flew into the trees. 605 00:34:09,923 --> 00:34:12,093 I don�t know what else it could�ve been. 606 00:34:13,301 --> 00:34:14,681 The Mothman? 607 00:34:15,762 --> 00:34:20,982 A large, red-eyed, human-sized creature that flies? 608 00:34:21,101 --> 00:34:25,731 But if such a creature exists, where could it have come from? 609 00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:30,028 Mothman is one of the most enigmatic creatures 610 00:34:30,110 --> 00:34:31,860 in the annals of the unexplained. 611 00:34:31,945 --> 00:34:34,035 And first gained public notoriety 612 00:34:34,114 --> 00:34:36,454 in November of 1966. 613 00:34:36,533 --> 00:34:39,083 And within a matter of days and weeks, 614 00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,540 there were dozens or perhaps hundreds of sightings 615 00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:44,081 of this creature around the Point Pleasant area, 616 00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,665 causing a mass hysteria situation. 617 00:34:49,129 --> 00:34:51,209 Skeptics have attributed the Mothman sightings 618 00:34:51,298 --> 00:34:54,838 to a misidentification of giant owls 619 00:34:54,968 --> 00:34:57,138 or even a crane that is local to the area. 620 00:34:57,262 --> 00:34:58,972 There�s all kinds of other explanations 621 00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:01,017 that have been given, but when you interview 622 00:35:01,141 --> 00:35:03,891 the people that actually saw and experienced this, 623 00:35:03,977 --> 00:35:05,477 they�re not talking about anything 624 00:35:05,562 --> 00:35:07,112 that is conventionally known. 625 00:35:08,148 --> 00:35:10,938 West Virginia people are outdoorsy people. 626 00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:13,396 They know all the animals in the woods. 627 00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,816 Most are avid outdoorsmen, hunters, 628 00:35:15,947 --> 00:35:17,657 fishermen, they know the difference 629 00:35:17,782 --> 00:35:21,412 between an owl and a Mothman type creature. 630 00:35:22,579 --> 00:35:25,249 We have to consider that the Mothman�s behavior, 631 00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:28,882 which involved chasing cars at over 100 miles an hour, 632 00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:32,172 taking straight up off the ground like a helicopter, 633 00:35:32,297 --> 00:35:37,137 none of those would indicate any type of flesh-and-blood animal. 634 00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:41,178 Chasing cars at over 100 miles an hour? 635 00:35:42,015 --> 00:35:44,685 If true, then this thing is no owl. 636 00:35:44,809 --> 00:35:46,849 At least not a normal one. 637 00:35:49,356 --> 00:35:52,526 But for the residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, 638 00:35:52,609 --> 00:35:55,279 the more pressing question is whether the Mothman 639 00:35:55,362 --> 00:35:59,532 is a friend or a foe. 640 00:36:00,867 --> 00:36:04,037 It�s been seen a lot of times right before tragedies happen. 641 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,040 That�s the only common thing we know. 642 00:36:06,164 --> 00:36:08,374 It seems to show up at tragedies. 643 00:36:10,043 --> 00:36:12,633 On December 15, 1967, 644 00:36:12,712 --> 00:36:14,462 the Silver Bridge, which spanned 645 00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:17,007 from Point Pleasant over to Kanauga, Ohio, 646 00:36:17,092 --> 00:36:21,302 collapsed at about 5:00 on a Friday evening. 647 00:36:21,388 --> 00:36:24,638 It was the worst bridge disaster in U.S. history. 648 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,640 46 people died. 649 00:36:27,727 --> 00:36:29,557 I was six when the bridge fell. 650 00:36:29,646 --> 00:36:32,646 And I remember at that time there were people that claimed 651 00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:35,282 that they seen a large bird flying back and forth, you know, 652 00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:38,112 across the river before the bridge fell. 653 00:36:38,238 --> 00:36:41,948 The official story is that it was just wear and tear 654 00:36:42,075 --> 00:36:44,335 and the 46 people who were killed 655 00:36:44,411 --> 00:36:46,541 just didn�t really stand a chance. 656 00:36:47,497 --> 00:36:50,327 There are rumors that the Mothman was seen 657 00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,747 around the time that the bridge collapsed. 658 00:36:53,837 --> 00:36:58,877 So, there was inevitably talk around town that somehow 659 00:36:58,967 --> 00:37:01,587 the Mothman had either caused the tragedy 660 00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:03,348 or, in a strange way, 661 00:37:03,430 --> 00:37:06,430 was kind of like a grim reaper for many people. 662 00:37:09,894 --> 00:37:14,154 To this day, residents of Point Pleasant draw a connection 663 00:37:14,274 --> 00:37:16,284 between the Mothman and this bridge collapse, 664 00:37:16,359 --> 00:37:18,779 perhaps perceiving the Mothman�s appearance 665 00:37:18,862 --> 00:37:22,532 as some type of premonition or omen of the tragedy. 666 00:37:25,285 --> 00:37:28,005 I would say probably in Point Pleasant it�s 50/50. 667 00:37:28,121 --> 00:37:30,411 50% of the people believe that Mothman caused 668 00:37:30,498 --> 00:37:33,128 the Silver Bridge tragedy, and the other 50% believe that 669 00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:35,001 he may have been here as a warning 670 00:37:35,128 --> 00:37:37,488 to get everyone on guard that something terrible may happen. 671 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:44,640 Is it possible that, contrary to popular belief, 672 00:37:44,721 --> 00:37:47,221 the Mothman is a force for good? 673 00:37:48,308 --> 00:37:49,678 It�s an interesting notion 674 00:37:49,809 --> 00:37:52,519 and suggests that some strange creatures 675 00:37:52,645 --> 00:37:55,225 may have more in common with humans than we realize. 676 00:37:55,315 --> 00:37:57,535 For instance, there have been reports 677 00:37:57,650 --> 00:38:01,150 of a bizarre beast that dwells in the swamps of South Carolina 678 00:38:01,237 --> 00:38:03,907 and is said to be part man... 679 00:38:05,533 --> 00:38:07,663 and part reptile. 680 00:38:15,585 --> 00:38:18,715 17-year-old Christopher Davis stops to change a flat tire 681 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:22,428 deep in the back roads of Scape Ore Swamp, 682 00:38:22,509 --> 00:38:25,339 and he quickly senses 683 00:38:25,428 --> 00:38:28,098 that he is not alone. 684 00:38:30,683 --> 00:38:33,443 About the time he�s putting the jack and the flat tire 685 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,440 into the trunk of his car, 686 00:38:35,522 --> 00:38:37,362 he looks up and he sees something 687 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:39,780 coming at him in the moonlight. 688 00:38:40,693 --> 00:38:43,113 The closer this thing got, 689 00:38:43,196 --> 00:38:46,566 the more he knew this wasn�t a person. 690 00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:49,239 He looked up and he saw 691 00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:52,289 a greenish-looking figure, 692 00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:55,672 maybe about seven to eight foot tall 693 00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,210 and arms that draped down to the side 694 00:38:58,294 --> 00:39:01,514 with three claws on each hand. 695 00:39:03,091 --> 00:39:04,841 Sensing he could be in danger, 696 00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:06,546 Christopher bolts into the car 697 00:39:06,678 --> 00:39:08,298 and drives away as fast as he can. 698 00:39:10,223 --> 00:39:12,563 Christopher looked in his rearview mirror, 699 00:39:12,684 --> 00:39:14,564 and could see this thing pursuing him. 700 00:39:15,395 --> 00:39:17,565 He was completely frightened, 701 00:39:17,689 --> 00:39:21,819 utterly overwhelmed by what he saw coming at him. 702 00:39:21,901 --> 00:39:24,821 Eventually, it disappeared into the darkness. 703 00:39:25,864 --> 00:39:29,664 Christopher got home safe and sound. 704 00:39:29,742 --> 00:39:33,412 But his terrifying story quickly spread through the media. 705 00:39:33,538 --> 00:39:36,328 Newspapers and television stations 706 00:39:36,416 --> 00:39:39,496 jumped on the bizarre encounter. 707 00:39:39,586 --> 00:39:42,296 Deep in the Scape Ore Swamp of South Carolina, 708 00:39:42,422 --> 00:39:44,092 there reportedly lives a creature 709 00:39:44,173 --> 00:39:46,683 that is part man and part beast. 710 00:39:46,759 --> 00:39:48,679 A creature that 17-year-old Christopher Davis 711 00:39:48,761 --> 00:39:50,511 claims attacked his car late one night 712 00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:52,307 on this lonely country road. 713 00:39:52,432 --> 00:39:55,352 Seven feet tall. 714 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,025 Long arms. Red eyes. 715 00:39:59,105 --> 00:40:02,105 There was a media frenzy once the story got out. 716 00:40:02,191 --> 00:40:06,821 There were stories in newspapers in Korea about the Lizard Man. 717 00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:08,276 And that�s just a tribute 718 00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:11,446 to the viral-ness of the Lizard Man. 719 00:40:12,535 --> 00:40:16,205 During the media frenzy, dozens of other eyewitnesses 720 00:40:16,289 --> 00:40:19,919 began contacting the Lee County Sheriff�s Office. 721 00:40:20,001 --> 00:40:22,091 They all claimed to have had similar encounters 722 00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:25,130 with a strange, three-fingered creature 723 00:40:25,214 --> 00:40:29,724 that appeared to be part man and part reptile. 724 00:40:29,802 --> 00:40:32,722 But rather than dismiss such reports, 725 00:40:32,805 --> 00:40:35,635 law enforcement took them quite seriously. 726 00:40:36,726 --> 00:40:38,266 They had the witnesses come in. 727 00:40:38,353 --> 00:40:39,693 They interviewed them, 728 00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:43,072 in some cases gave them polygraph tests. 729 00:40:43,149 --> 00:40:45,229 And all of the witnesses 730 00:40:45,318 --> 00:40:48,238 that reported sightings of the Lizard Man were credible. 731 00:40:50,114 --> 00:40:52,664 Could there really be a reptile species 732 00:40:52,784 --> 00:40:57,964 that evolved to walk upright like humans? 733 00:40:58,039 --> 00:41:01,579 And if so, is it possible that there are bizarre 734 00:41:01,668 --> 00:41:05,588 human-and-reptile hybrids that are still alive today? 735 00:41:05,672 --> 00:41:07,722 There have been a number of other sightings 736 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:11,010 of the Lizard Man outside of Lee County 737 00:41:11,135 --> 00:41:13,005 and Sumter County in South Carolina. 738 00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:16,217 There�s some in Europe. There�s some in South Africa. 739 00:41:16,349 --> 00:41:18,729 Every one of them was about six to eight feet tall 740 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:20,811 with red eyes. 741 00:41:20,895 --> 00:41:23,475 It always had red eyes. 742 00:41:23,564 --> 00:41:26,694 That is one commonality that you can�t get over. 743 00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:30,946 And so, it is certainly possible that the Lizard Man is real. 744 00:41:31,864 --> 00:41:33,704 So, what do you think? 745 00:41:33,783 --> 00:41:36,743 Do we share our planet with Lizard Men, 746 00:41:36,869 --> 00:41:40,289 otherworldly beasts and bloodthirsty wolves? 747 00:41:41,541 --> 00:41:42,961 May seem hard to believe. 748 00:41:43,042 --> 00:41:44,462 That is, until you come face-to-face 749 00:41:44,544 --> 00:41:46,804 with one of these creatures yourself. 750 00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:49,422 So perhaps we should heed the warnings 751 00:41:49,549 --> 00:41:52,469 of the eyewitnesses, just in case 752 00:41:52,552 --> 00:41:56,142 there really are dangerous monsters on our planet that, 753 00:41:56,222 --> 00:42:00,142 for the moment, remain unexplained. 754 00:42:00,192 --> 00:42:04,742 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 61148

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