In Search of Aliens: The Search for Bigfoot (S1, E5) | Full Episode

i'm on my way to washington state's olympic peninsula which is one of the world's most active areas for bigfoot sightings according to the ancient astronaut theory extraterrestrials came to earth in the remote past and modified our dna to make us what we are today there are depictions throughout the ancient world of strange hybrid beings like some of the gods in ancient egypt and the chimera in greece and there are also numerous stories of giants and hairy wild men so could alien visitors have done other genetic experiments ones that resulted in a race of beasts that have survived virtually undetected for thousands of years or could there be another and even more incredible connection i'm on a mission to find out if bigfoot really exists and if it isn't just a giant hairy beast but living proof that extraterrestrials not only were here but maybe they are still living in our midst my name is giorgio tsukolos i explore the world that exists between reality and speculation the known and the unknown what we've been taught by mainstream scholars is not the whole picture but i'm convinced that every day we are one step closer to the truth in 1958 a bulldozer operator in bluff creek california discovered 16 16-inch human-like footprints near his equipment when he told his story to a local newspaper he said that the footprints must have been made by an animal with a really big foot and the legend of bigfoot was born but tales of mysterious hairy beasts can be found in cultures throughout the world dating back to ancient times in the himalayas they have stories of the yeti or the abominable snowman in australia they talk of a giant ape-man known as yaoi in mongolia they have the yaren and although the stories come from different parts of the world the accounts are surprisingly similar most describe a tall massive creature walking on two legs and looking very much like some sort of a giant ape but nowhere are the stories more prolific than in america's pacific northwest where thousands of people claim to have seen or encountered the mysterious bigfoot i'm about to see the people of the olympic project they are bigfoot researchers and apparently they have all sorts of scientific equipment and they have dedicated their lives to investigating the mystery of bigfoot sasquatch the big hairy monster this is in the middle of nowhere and it is god's country it is absolutely gorgeous by the way i have no idea what to expect all right this has to be the place gentlemen hey hey how you doing look i found him he's right there you can stop your search i mean what are you guys doing game over right here yeah right how long have you been doing this and what are you doing i mean this is uh i love the pots and pans the olympic project's about six years old and it's pretty much it started out as a comprehensive camera trap program where we would camera trap predatory travel routes we're basically taking this core area right here we're documenting every single thing that happens in hopes of getting pictures of sasquatch the team of two dozen researchers includes experts in everything from wildlife habitats to high-tech audio and video recording to date the group has spent thousands of hours monitoring the olympic forest looking for evidence of bigfoot leading the team is long-time bigfoot researcher derek randles he has invited both myself and dr jeff meldrum a professor of anatomy and anthropology at idaho state university to join the team on an overnight expedition on the olympic peninsula i explore the ancient mysteries of the world and so the whole idea of bigfoot to me is interesting because all throughout history there are bizarre stories of these half-man half-beast creatures that are found not just in this part of the world but all around the globe given my background i'm always a little more reticent i'm a little more critical initially so i'm down here and then as i investigate things and and ask for the questions and look for correlations and corroborations then that level of acceptance may increase what can you tell me about the area and you know are there any local legends that talk about this uh amazing creature here the olympic mountain range has been for many years of a serious hot spot in bigfoot activity curiously the olympic mountain range is also a hot spot for ufo activity over the years there have been hundreds of reported sightings of strange objects appearing and then quickly disappearing in the sky in june 2011 two people even claimed they witnessed a cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky for nearly 15 minutes there have also been reports of people who saw strange lights following a bigfoot encounter and there are even some reports of bigfoot being seen coming out of a disc shaped craft i started actually investigating the olympic mountain range in 1985 when i had my own encounter and it forever changed my life you had your own encounter so you've seen yes bigfoot yes [Music] back in the early 80s i would get together with a couple hiking partners of mine and we would go up on the trail system there's a very elaborate trail system throughout the olympic national park so at that time we started to take our backpacks off and pull our tents out and ready to get situated for the evening and we heard a very loud crash and here comes a rock and it's arcing and it comes down and lands about 10 feet to the left of us and we didn't even say anything we even moved we just stood there and then another one boom and it landed about 10 feet to the left of us and then we panicked and we just started gathering our stuff up off the ground and then another rock hit didn't even take the time to put our backpacks on we just grabbed him up and started running down the ridge and i just happened to look back before i turned around and there it was it kind of stepped out of the timberline and there was no mistaking of what it was my world just came to a screeching halt right there right and the next day pretty much i went into bigfoot research and i've been doing it ever since derek's account seemed very genuine but then i have to ask myself with all these bigfoot encounters why do we still not have concrete evidence of the creature's existence perhaps the olympic project will be able to find that evidence during our expedition so what are we looking at here it's very colorful what we're looking at is a spectrogram of an audio file what i like to do is set up a recorder in an area that has promise and record all night long and then review the audio file to see if i can find anything of interest okay what i've got here is an isolated signature within a loop of five different vocalizations that are suspicious those lines are those the vocalizations they are okay so now this is just a loop of this specific vocal okay [Music] it's like a guy yodeling it's very interesting yes we can't say specifically that it's a sasquatch but that's what interests people that are analyzing the audio what do you say to someone that might suggest well what we just heard is nothing else but a wolf howling it's possible but since we're looking at it in a spectrogram we can compare it to a wolf spectrogram david ellis has collected dozens of animal sounds recorded in the olympic forest and each new sound collected is compared to documented animal sounds by using spectrogram analysis with it he can eliminate sounds that match with known animals for example a wolf howl according to ellis the sound we are listening to now does not match up with anything else on record that is very interesting the team arms themselves for the hunt with an arsenal of super sophisticated equipment their so-called secret weapon is the fleur camera which stands for forward-looking infrared often used by law enforcement and the military fleur is the top of the line in thermal heat sensing technology they also bring along an audio dish for amplifying sounds coming out of the forest and motion detector still cameras all in an effort to find concrete evidence of the legendary creature known as bigfoot all of this is great but as you all know the real research takes place out in the field so i would love to take all these gadgets and all our gear out in the open and let's see what happens let's do it [Music] i'm in washington state's olympic peninsula about to sit out into the forest with the olympic project i'm here to find out if bigfoot actually exists and if so could there be an extraterrestrial connection so derek where are we headed right now we're gonna actually go up on this this bench up here on the side of mueller the team often conducts their bigfoot expeditions at mount mueller where numerous sightings have been reported so we're doing this on foot now with that helicopter foot all right let's do it is this beautiful through here the scenery is absolutely beyond anything i've ever seen this area there are apparently over 200 reports of sightings by different people and whenever i hear stuff like that i'm interested because you know you can't suggest that all these 200 reports are from crazy people so what if something really is going on here and so i'm very excited to be out here and maybe we'll get some clues to explore this mystery even further ready for break just take a break here on every expedition he goes on dr meldrum carries footprint cast samples with him for comparison in the event they find a fresh one and many have recently been discovered in this particular forest so dr meldrum you know you have to tell me to you what is the most compelling reasons that you think that bigfoot might be real well from my point of view it's the footprint evidence i mean clearly that's my area of expertise and so it it has the greatest significance to me let me show you a couple of examples here oh wow you brought a cast i did a couple of pair of them in fact you'll hold that one for a second wow these are amazing now these are some good examples of some some very classic sasquatch tracks uh this is probably a large male it measures between 16 and 17 inches in length it's quite broad nearly seven inches across the forefoot here and in contrast the female this one which measures between about 14 and 15 inches maybe five inches across the forefoot here and so i mean clearly these are not just simply someone with a big foot walking around barefoot check this out wow dr meldrum has over 200 examples of footprint casts that indicate that the anatomy of the creature could be similar to that of a large bipedal ape with a foot measuring some 16 inches in length it would stand somewhere between 8 and 10 feet tall and would weigh in excess of a thousand pounds but rather than an arched foot as in the case of humans the creature's footprints indicate that its weight is distributed much more evenly giving it flat but still very flexible feet so dr meldrum you're off to conviction that these prints are real i am i am some unknown creature has been leaving these footprints after hiking for several hours the team sets up camp everyone works together to get organized quickly before the light fades then we head out into the woods with thermal cameras and audio equipment to search for bigfoot so this is what we're going to be using how long do you leave a camera out like this batteries usually last for three to six months depending on how many pictures they're taking and it only picks up when there's movement movement okay okay all right so now we've set up the infrared camera looks good let's go back in addition to the motion control cameras david ellis places audio recording equipment near game trails to capture any unusual vocalizations this is a parabolic dish and it is designed to amplify sound from a specific direction and usually i'll have somebody off in the distance and we'll do sound checks so i get an idea of how close something is to the dish so would you be so kind as to do a sound check for me are you saying you want me to be bigfoot is that what you're saying fine i'll do it okay so just into the distance right here all right that's probably far enough all right now give me a whisper can you hear me perfect so you could hear me whisper 75 feet away yeah i mean it clears a belt right yes so i'm good all right in the end all of this is about the unknown derek randalls is one of the founders of the olympic project i wanted to spend some time with him and tap into his expertise about what he thinks this creature is and is not so in your opinion why do you think bigfoot is so elusive i think that there's very few they're very few they're very smart they're expert woodsmen to just go out and find a sasquatch you're going to win the lottery first they are far and away are superior out here in the woods i find it interesting that every member of the olympic project talks about bigfoot as being this very large but also intelligent creature when i hear this i'm reminded of the story of the watchers from the book of enoch this apocryphal text which was edited out of the traditional christian bible tells of a group of angels called the watchers who descended to earth from heaven shortly after the time of creation according to the book of enoch the watchers mated with early humans and bred a race of giants called the nephilim might otherworldly visitors have come here and engaged in some sort of genetic manipulation and could one of these genetic experiments still be living among us right here on earth i want to talk to you about sound we've also been told that people clap in order to make their presence known and then there is a return clap or something like this what's that all about you're probably referring to wood knocks okay we do wood knocks to try to solicit a response i've actually got a knocker if you want to oh is that is that that thing right here all right i can show you what i'm talking about and here i thought you were a barkeep right so normally we just try to find a tree like this that's not too thick because then the sound will carry better so this is kind of perfect right here but i'll show you what i'm talking about and then generally after you do that you just listen to see if there's going to be a return knock and believe it or not it does happen you want to try it of course yes absolutely maybe something will happen [Music] silence silence this is great can i keep this while we walk through the woods keep it i need protection the modern day phenomenon of bigfoot isn't something that has just sprung up recently but there are in fact legends from ancient times from all around the world for example in the remains of the ancient city of nineveh it was present-day iraq sumerian tablets dating as far back as 1800 bc tell the story of king gilgamesh and his companion named enkidu enkidu is described as a large hairy wild man living outside human society but the most fascinating part of the story is that enkidu was supposedly created by powerful beings called the anunnaki which when translated means those who from the heavens came so could the story of the anunnaki and enkidu be connected to the similar stories about the watchers in the book of enoch and if bigfoot really exists could it be the product of extraterrestrial engineering let's go find bigfoot let's do it as the light fades james and i set off with the mobile fleur camera to look for any signs of bigfoot so james is this what you do you drive around all night with them with the machine on and you scope 360 degree to you absolutely we'll go find a place that's got great visual and we'll set up and sit there and watch for a while or we'll just keep following the roads and see what we see pretty impressive for technology i mean this looks pretty cool i mean it's a thermal camera and we will see things that are emitting heat and so you know we can point the camera all the way to the sky potentially see some ufos who knows suddenly something appears on the monitor look look what's this over here i mean this thing is it's glowing some kind of body part in the fading light all we can see are trees but the thermal camera has hit on something which appears to be a warm warm-blooded animal i'm gonna actually see if we can make it move now he's moving see his head can you see it oh wow his head's down right now [Music] whoa [Music] what's the deer i've been a hunter for years and i cannot pick that deer out of the brush right there this technology is quite amazing in 1980 investigative journalist linda moulton howe discovered a connection between bigfoot and the unexplained phenomenon of animal mutilations linda had received a letter from a man in snohomish washington just 90 miles from where we are now he reported seeing a silver disk in the sky that shot a beam of light down to the earth in the beam of light he saw what he described as a tall shaggy creature which walked off into the woods as the craft disappeared over the next few days there were reports in the area of livestock found dead with missing organs and body parts but all looked as if they had been removed with surgical precision if a connection can be made between bigfoot and these strange animal mutilations i think it's safe to suggest that we may very well be dealing with something of an extraterrestrial origin dr meldrum has one personal question that i would like to ask you and that is have you ever had an encounter well i've had a variety of experiences ranging from you know vocalizations bumps in the night finding footprints on a number of occasions i've even seen a fleeting silhouette that could very well have been a sasquatch but i'm still waiting for that vivid conclusive uh definitive encounter in broad daylight you know all of this stuff today it really got me thinking in correlation to the ancient stories that i'm familiar with of these hairy beasts in ancient times that are described all around the world in different cultures so what if what we have here is something rather similar the investigations have to continue but i'm tired and so tomorrow is another day and i'm going to turn off the lights and go to sleep the next day dr meldrum and the olympic project team informed me that they had decided to continue their expedition for two more days but unfortunately i needed to move on uh that way right yes yes straight back before i leave the pacific northwest i'd like to meet up with richard germoe a former police officer he claims to have seen bigfoot not once but twice so i'm really stoked to hear his take on the whole bigfoot phenomenon i've been told that you've actually had an encounter with bigfoot twice i mean that's like hitting the lottery so tell me more about this well i did have a an encounter back in 2000 i was a police officer in la busch washington at that time and the push is an indian reservation on the coast many native american cultures share traditional ancient legends which refer to large hair covered man beasts whom they believe inhabit the deep woods of the pacific northwest even today the quinault indians of the olympic peninsula report sightings of a huge ape-like hominid they call siatko in fact the existence of these tall shaggy creatures also known as sasquatch is simply taken for granted by many native american tribes i was driving down the road and it was about seven or eight in the evening but it was still plenty light you know i was coming around this corner and the beach was off to my left and um just this dark figure that was really tall and big stepped out of the brush on one side onto the roadway and it convinced to take about four steps before it cleared the road and it went into the brush and just kept going so from what you saw during that first encounter how big was that creature the chest to the back looked massive i mean i don't know how deep it was but it was thick and i was only about a mile and a half away from my office that i worked in at that point so i drove right there and at that time there was a deputy from the county sheriff's office that was there and two of my co-workers and i told them what happened right away wow and they ridiculed me and laughed at me like people normally would richard's experience affected him so strongly that despite the ridicule he received from his colleagues in the police department he went on to co-found the olympic project with derrick randles in 2010 richard set up a number of motion control cameras in an area believed to be a bigfoot layer [Music] i had a really bad feeling even when i got there everything was really quiet and it was kind of drizzly it was just an eerie day so i hear twigs break but there's nothing over there not more than a few seconds after that i hear it like an exhale and um i started to look up and i could see something was standing about 20 yards in front of me and then in one motion it was shot through this opening i said if i don't leave now i'm gonna die so i turned and i ran the other way it was really close and it was huge and um i'm a little sick enough of it just right now talking about you were shaking just recounting the story it was a traumatic event although legends concerning large hairy creatures have been told and retold for centuries what turned bigfoot into a household name was the notorious patterson gimlin film even though some have judged the footage as a hoax there are many who believe that it offers convincing evidence that bigfoot really does exist so what do you think that creature actually is in the beginning when i got into it i kind of looked at it as it must be a relative combination of some type you know north american ape and that certainly is a possibility but when you look at the native american history that's much more supernatural even to some aspects of a shape-shifter interdimensional type being a shape shifter an inter-dimensional being now when i hear things like that my mind goes to stories of shape-shifting beings that appear in many ancient cultures including the greek tale of zeus who transformed king lycheon into a wolf many native american myths include legends of creatures known as skinwalkers humans who can change their shape at will and often take the form of large hairy beasts um i'm not saying that i necessarily believe along those lines but those stories exist they do exist and there must be a reason for it that's a verbal history of those people and all tribes tend to have the same type of stories about these beings well rich thank you very much for allowing me to come out here and to hear your stories the second encounter the way you describe that that will haunt me for the rest of my life after hearing rich germoe's incredible first-hand account i've decided to reach out to my good friend dr jonathan young an expert in mythology and the founding curator of the joseph campbell archives so thanks very much for for seeing me on such short notice but i recently met this former detective rich germoe and he thinks that bigfoot or whatever it is he saw was some sort of a shape-shifter or a skin walker and so i know that that is right up your alley whatever is happening it's significant so we have yeti in the himalaya areas we have giants in africa we have all the reports in the pacific northwest which have been the bigfoot sightings the fact that they keep happening suggest that there's something to it i want to show you some things come with all right i was thinking giorgio about this wild man image how it shows up in some really popular forms a very familiar form from western culture is merlin he's a shamanistic magician he lives in a cave so you've got the cave diver tradition there this the troglodytes all the way back to the greek historians now this is a truly fascinating connection to me because many historians believe that the wizard merlin is actually based on a legendary welsh figure named merden wilton who is described as a hairy madman who wandered in the company of beasts now in the ancient greek myths the troglodytes are these large hairy beastly looking creatures that lived underground and could be extremely terrifying but they were also depicted as being very wise and according to the ancient legends the troglodytes descended from the sky and were hiding out in caves and tunnels because they wanted to keep their presence a secret there have been stories about magical animals and humans turning into animals animals turning into humans from well pretty much as long as we've had recorded history so take the where we'll have those characters transcend our moral code they do what they want they are like beasts in that regard and then they become people again is the big foot a shapeshifter is it something else part of the time is that why we don't see it all the time man the idea that bigfoot could be some sort of a shape shifter like a werewolf is incredible because if true it could explain why bigfoot has been so elusive it is able to hide among us in human form i've always been fascinated by the idea of the hybrids these half-man half-animal creatures that permeate all of history in your opinion what are we looking at there yeah it's it's just very very interesting the way they show up in so many variations they've got an image here of a half horse half man it's very close to the image of pam and it is very powerful crossing between the known and the unknown all around the world we can find carvings or statues of what are called hybrid beings in india we have the naga which is a half man half snake in greece there is the medusa who has snakes for hair in egypt there is an entire god pantheon of half man half animal deities like anubis a creature that has the head of a jackal and the body of a human being various hybrid images that show up from time to time all through history and a recent present day manifestation is bigfoot yeti do they have the kind of impact that these hybrid gods had are they showing us the way to something metaphysical something transcendent that's what gets me excited about these sightings life is strange and there's a lot to know that we do not know and it's important to study the margins to study the things that we don't understand yet bigfoot and i will cross paths jonathan this was great thank you very much for your time i've learned a lot now we know that scientists are always discovering new organisms all the time so it isn't so hard for me to believe or speculate that there really could be a creature even one as large as bigfoot that has so far evaded detection or even capture but the big difference between believing something and knowing it is the difference between faith and science and because scientists are the hardest people to convince i've made a trip to the museum of man in san diego to ask biological anthropologist dr tory randle if she thinks that a creature like bigfoot could actually be real [Music] one of the main attractions here is a model of lucy a hominid whose skeleton was discovered in ethiopia in 1974 it is considered by scientists to be what many have claimed bigfoot could be a missing link between apes and humans all right there she is this is lucy she's an australopithecus afarensis i'm an early hominin that lived about two to four million years ago she stood about three and a half feet tall and she has some ape-like and some more human-like traits she's bipedal which is one of the things that we attribute to humans right although lucy is far too small to suggest that she may have a direct connection to bigfoot there were in fact a number of very large primates that walked the earth as far back as a hundred thousand years ago one of these known as gigantopithecus stood an incredible 10 to 12 feet tall and if bigfoot really exists could it be a direct descendant of this giant prehistoric creature [Music] who are these two friends right here so we have a couple of um reconstructions of different hominins here this one is an australopithecine which is an earlier form of hominin um probably about two to four million years ago this one is a homo habilis which is the first member of the homogeneous which is what we are as homo sapiens um so a little bit more modern if you're comparing these two so tori in your opinion do you think it is at all possible that a subspecies for example bigfoot could exist under the radar and it hasn't yet been discovered is such a thing possible having a subspecies that's existing in isolation somewhere that definitely is possible this has been an incredible opportunity to explore something that i've been interested in for a long time the development of animals and humans on our planet did we descend from apes over millions of years or was there some extraterrestrial intervention it raises many questions involving science and the unknown but what i find myself blown away by is that a biological anthropologist like dr tory randall believes it's possible that a large hairy creature like bigfoot could in fact exist if one were to subscribe to the idea that a species like bigfoot exists what would have to have occurred for such a thing to even happen an organism can be isolated there can be interbreeding where two different populations can come together and a brand new trait will show up or there can be a mutation where there's a brand new random trait that no one's ever seen in that organism before dr randall's notion that bigfoot may possibly exist but also may have been able to escape capture due to centuries of evolution is really interesting to me perhaps centuries ago they were hunted by early man but by now only the smartest and most elusive ones have survived so what are the primary gene differences between apes and humans our dna in general is very similar we share 99.8 of our dna with a chimpanzee but there are particular genes that distinguish humans from other apes for instance the duf-1220 gene scientists have discovered that a protein called duf-1220 may in fact be the so-called missing link in human brain evolution six million years ago as humans began to diverge from the ape family there was also a noticeable increase in duf-1220 [Music] if we're talking about brain size modern humans have a cranial capacity about 1200 to 1300 cubic centimeters in this gorilla it's about 400 to 450 and the same thing in this australopithecine is about 400 to 450 so this is you know one of our earliest ancestors and they had a brain size about the size of a modern day ape this is really interesting because not even scientists can sufficiently explain why early humans suddenly featured an increase in genetic coding such as duf 1220 which is part of the so-called secret sauce that makes us who we are today now was it simply evolution a random mutation or was it extraterrestrial intervention some people have proposed that bigfoot might be the missing link between humans and apes what do you think about that people find a brand new species that's alive all the time that you know something in the rainforest that no one's ever seen before and someone comes across it so i certainly would be open to the possibility that a fossil is going to be found that we've never seen before and to hear you say this is very exciting to me that you know to me science is always to be open-minded and not to be closed off to the possibility of asking a question what if and so to thank you for your time i wanted to give you this right here as a token of my appreciation which is an ancient pre-columbian funerary object that has been found in multiple tombs and uh keep me up to date if anything new happens in the development of finding the various missing links i would like to hear from you i will i will thank you so much tori until next time bye after connecting all the dots i'm more and more convinced that if bigfoot exists it isn't likely the product of extraterrestrial gene manipulation because we are in fact what if bigfoot is what humans would be if aliens had not intervened on this planet possibly the last survivors of mankind's genetic ancestors before we received the so-called secret sauce that made us the creatures we are today before we shed our fur for hair or learn to speak and before some of us began traveling the world in search of aliens

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Published: Sun Oct 31 2021