MonsterQuest: BIGFOOT IN NEW YORK (S2, E12) | Full Episode | History

a mysterious beast is lurking in the woods of  upstate new york i know that creature exists   for over 100 years eyewitnesses claim to have  seen an elusive monster we've catalogued some   like 140 to 150 different sightings that  has terrorized the region i was terrified   for the first time ever monsta quest builds  a profile of the creature these are people   who have seen something many years ago and it has  stayed with them in their mind subjects witnesses   including a police officer to lie detector tests  it is infallible and launches an expedition into   one of america's most remote habitats tracking  these animals at night becomes like a game of   cat and mouse cory speak to me witnesses  around the world report seeing monsters are they real or imaginary science  searches for answers on monster quest new york is the epitome of man's  evolution a concrete technological   jungle teeming with people and traffic but  away from the sprawling urban metropolis   the town of whitehall is nestled  within 6 million acres of wild country veiled in mystery for over 100 years the  townsfolk have talked about a towering monster   that lives in the surrounding woods it was close  to seven feet tall it was something i've never   seen before it was too big to be a regular  person the moment i saw it i was terrified   this thing is out there eyewitnesses describe  a huge bipedal creature weighing approximately   800 pounds its face is described as eerily human  with flared nostrils thin lips and piercing eyes the description matches that of the sasquatch a  legendary creature that looks part man partake   although no physical evidence has ever provided  conclusive proof that the creature exists   reported sightings go back hundreds of years the  consistent descriptions are for some too similar   to discount this area has a long history of this  type of phenomena and it's very very much what was   reported hundreds of years ago is still reported  today paul bartholomew is a local historian and   author of two books on the subject if we look at  the historical perspective we have the reports of   the algonquin and the iroquois of the stone  giants and the giant men of the mountains   classic reports of sasquatch type creatures  the first recorded account of the sasquatch   living in this region came from the french  explorer samuel de champlain in the early 1600s   in his diary he recounts stories as told to him  by native americans tales of a giant and hairy   human-like creature that lived in the woods but  with a lack of physical verified photographic   or videographic evidence it is difficult to  convince the scientific community of its existence   every year there are there are millions of  visitors to the adirondack park ken kogut is   the regional wildlife manager for the new york  state department of environmental conservation   there are also conservation officers forest  rangers and if there was something out there   it definitely would have been seen and if the  townspeople of whitehall are seeing anything ken   says it's most likely a case of mistaken identity  i would say people in in the whitehall area who   are claiming to see sasquatch are really seeing  probably black bears or or some other local animal   it's a possible explanation but more difficult  to dismiss are the multiple sightings reported   by police officers men trained in the art  of observation and attention to detail   i would not have pulled that  revolver unless i was afraid dan gordon is a retired whitehall village  police officer on february 15 1982 dan was on   a routine patrol when he saw something he cannot  forget i was heading north on route 22 with my   and this creature came from the left i saw it  take two steps off the road over the guard rails   i immediately hit the brakes and pulled  the car off to the side of the road   i said to my partner that was some bear wasn't  it and he said to me you know that wasn't no bear   dan immediately left the vehicle armed himself   and went in for a closer look i could hear the  rustling of the brush as it was retreating from me   now if i was to say i saw this by myself i would  say okay that might possibly be a an illusion   but i want to ask you why  two of us saw the same thing   at the same time reports like these come  as no surprise to this local researcher   every year there's at least two or three sightings  that comes to me bill bryan has been investigating   local sightings and has monitored the movement and  behavior of the creature for more than 30 years   a white hall will certainly be one of  the areas to consider an expedition or   you know a study because there's been so  much activity in this area for such a long   period of time and there's been multiple  sightings seen by multiple witnesses at one time one of the reasons for that  consistency he believes   is the region's ecology we're talking about such  a vast area through here you know this is vast   wilderness area this is basically wilderness  area all the way back to the canadian border   but for many scientists there is another more  logical explanation for the sightings there   is no evidence for large primates in in the past  several million years in north america dr phillips   stevens is a professor of cultural anthropology  at state university of new york in buffalo   one of his interests is the study of belief  systems which includes both religion and folklore there is a class of folkloric belief in hairy  humanoid or human-like creatures that is reported   from every region of the world living undisturbed  in a pristine wilderness it seems to be   universal to the human cognition the human psyche  to project images of ourselves out into nature   this is called anthropomorphism there is  something fundamentally human going on here   dr steven's skepticism is shared by the majority  of biologists and wildlife researchers but there   are a handful of scientists on the other side of  the fence i look at the sasquatch as a an extant   north american mammal dr john bindernagel has over  30 years of field experience and has served as a   wildlife advisor for the united nations he's been  studying the north american sasquatch since 1975   well the sasquatch is a mythical animal  it's very well uh established in myth and   legend beavers occur in myth and legend killer  whales occur orcas occur in myth and legend   eagles many mammals and birds occur in myth and  legend but also occur as real extant mammals   dr bindernagel is in whitehall to build the  first ever profile of the new york sasquatch   he will examine evidence interview  witnesses and analyze the region's ecology   while several witnesses agree to a polygraph  test to corroborate their claims and monsta quest   heads out with nesra the north eastern sasquatch  research association on an expedition for proof   but this investigator doesn't need any convincing  that the monster is alive and well in whitehall   what made the mainstream skeptics need to do  is need to come out there and get out in the   field and see what researchers have seen steve  kulls is a sasquatch researcher and investigator   he believes that he is closing  in on the elusive creature in august 2003 steve kulls was contacted by  two young boys who had been playing on nearby   train tracks they told him that they heard a hoot   like an owl but when they looked up what  they saw instead was a huge hairy creature   standing on two legs that looked like a gorilla  it stared back at them before disappearing steve set out in the direction where the  kid said the creature had been headed so after entering these woods  and tracking a very large animal   that walked through these woods it was right  here it seemed this impression in the leaves   that i found a 14 inch track the sheer size and  clarity of the footprint left steve little doubt   that he had made an important discovery but  is it proof of a sasquatch after examining   the photo of the print researcher bill bran  seems to think so you can see the toes you can   see the impression where something very heavy  has walked through there everything is matted   down crushed i think with the the ruler here  gives us an exact example how long this print is so i think we got an excellent example  of a sasquat print here in the northeast   actually is the right size steve cull's  track measured 14 inches in length   dr john bindenagle has spent the last  30 years studying evidence like this   he meets up with steve kulls and bill brand to  examine tracks that have been documented in the   whitehall region yeah this was cast on november 16  2006. track was actually found about 6 30 and we   all thought we had heard some sort of vocalization  and as we're walking back we'd come across   this right off to the side of the trail like  something had walked across the trail and there   was a lot of um leaf litter so what we did was we  cast it and at that point we left for the night   yeah it's quite good it's interesting because  the toes i don't know if they were actually   gripping but if they bent downward that's that  comes up from time to time and cast and uh yeah   this the width is so impressive because sasquatch  tracks are not simply scaled up barefoot human   tracks they are proportionately uh much broader  and that certainly shows up here and often   maximum breadth approaches half of the length  which is considerably broader than the human foot   as a wildlife biologist when we do mammal  surveys we depend heavily on tracks when   tracks are reported they corroborate  that this was actually a physical animal   walking you know across a muddy field  or something alleged sasquatch tracks   even when thousands of miles apart often  have the same identifying characteristics   superficially the sasquatch what looks like an  enlarged human foot and so you we get the name   bigfoot on closer examination there are  many anatomical differences that we see which suggests that hoaxers would  have to have a shared knowledge   of supposed sasquatch morphology we now have a  large enough collection of track casts that we can   we can look at tracks and determine i think pretty  accurately if they're valid or not dr john bidden   eagle isn't the only researcher determined to  prove the existence of the sasquatch in whitehall   we would like to get some some good documentation  from a from a film or video standpoint   christopher bartow is a researcher and one of  the founding members of nesra the northeast   sasquatch research association this particular  area of the adirondacks outside of whitehall   has a particularly rich tradition  of sightings going back many years   in october 2007 christopher bartow  was part of an expedition team here   he heard something approach camp with a growl  unlike any creature he'd ever heard a very bassy   very low frequency growl and it had a it had  a sort of a gurgling sort of resonance to it   in 2005 another nesra member claimed to have  had a sighting in this part of the adirondacks   and this is also the area where steve culls  found and cast the 14-inch track in 2006.   nasra has spent the last few months monitoring  the region in preparation for this expedition   they have invited monsta quest  to be part of this expedition   but have asked that the exact  location be kept confidential i think that as time has gone by we've gotten  very keen and aware of people playing hoaxes on us   so we're we're up on that and that's why there's  kind of an are secrecy of where we're going to be   a lot of times or what we're going to do steve  calls is a member of nesra with many years of   field experience behind him and an intimate  knowledge of this area he will lead one of the   teams team from nazareth setting up for expedition  we're gonna be camped uh 50 yards due east of here   there's gonna be teams going out at night uh  patrolling we're gonna be here for the next few   days and uh hopefully we'll get some action we're  going we're gonna flush this right out of here whitehall new york has a long history of sightings  and encounters with a creature that locals can   only describe as a sasquatch i still had a  hard time believing i had seen such a thing   we've got a history of reports of this bipedal  creature the idea that such a creature exists in   new york state is for some simply unbelievable  it just cannot biologically possibly exist but   there are many who disagree dr john bindenagle  is in whitehall to build for the first time ever   a possible profile of the creature and monster  quest has teamed up with nesra on an expedition   into the heart of the creature's habitat  researcher steve calls is checking the area   for signs of unusual disturbances and tracks while  christopher bartow sets up the first trail camera you can see up into the surrounding hills  here and through a good part of the trees   for at least a couple hundred yards in  each direction from that point over there   so number one sounds going to carry well  in this valley and number two we're going   to be in a fairly decent vantage point to be  able to document anything moving through down here we gotta move out of the area now because  when that stops blinking it's gonna start taking   pictures in new york we have uh so much leaf  litter and cover that tracks are so hard to   come by that when we investigate recent sighting  reports uh in the area vicinity of the sightings   we look for fresh breaks in trees not so much at  this height which a buck or a bear could easily do but we look for fresh breaks  that are more or less this height   or this height proving that  something large has come through here we've learned from hunters trappers and  trackers integrated with the technologies   of today such as night vision thermal imaging  track cameras live real-time infrared cameras   and the computer technology to help track what's  going on and pinpoint where things are going on   meanwhile bill bran is mapping out the areas  that he and dr bindenagle will survey the summer   mid-summer to into the fall period is where most  of the sightings are taking place this seasonal   activity is typical of other large mammals in the  area seen more frequently in the low grounds in   the summer months they are forced deeper into  the forest during the winter in search of food   bill also believes that whitehall just happens to  be in the middle of the creature's migratory path   it seems to use these spots more often than  others it's using that area for whatever reason   migration food source i believe is part  of the corridor which this animal travels   while there is no official study to  support the migratory habits of sasquatch   the theory is consistent with the behavior  of other large mammals including bobcats   bears elk and coyotes that make use of natural  habitat corridors passageways that allow them to   traverse between the best feeding grounds  water sources and seasonal habitat areas   why then with such persistent activity is there  so little physical evidence of the creature here   this type of forest floor here with this heavy  layer of pine needles and leaf litter is is a   good example of why tracks don't register very  well in an area like this a soft-footed mammal   like a sasquatch could walk through here and the  leaves would spring back and there'd be there'd be   no sign of its passing at all pending scientific  recognition john bindenagel meet up they set   off to survey the area that has had the most  sightings as you know john this area has been rich   in sightings all around us actually but this  is where it all began for me 1976 was really   the beginning of what my career as being an  investigator in sasquatch research the incident   that bill is referring to is a landmark case and  one that put the village of whitehall on the maps   of sasquatch researchers everywhere i'm definitely  a believer i i was there i know what i saw brian gosselin like dan gordon is a retired  whitehall police officer in 1976 he also came face   to face with a creature he had no explanation  for well the night of the sighting was uh   august 1976 i was a police officer on duty in  whitehall new york and i had two gentlemen pull   up to the side of my patrol car and these guys  came in saying they'd seen some kind of a creature   monster out on a bear road and they were dead  serious i mean these guys were really wound out   and i drove my my own car right out into the field  it was a cool night for august of crystal clear   dead dead quiet and we were talking back and forth  once in a while on the cb and then all of a sudden   i hear jim holler to him he says what the hell is  he saying he's brian he's he said i see something   what is it jim come tearing out of the field with  the patrol car and he headed back to whitehall   i listened to this for a few  minutes coming across the meadow   and and i'm not scared like a child seeing a the  boogeyman but my my skin was crawling my hair   was standing on and i knew there was something  coming at me towards me it wasn't avoiding me   after i got out of the car i had  the door open had my 357 in my hand   hammer pulled back and i flicked that  light on and all i remember seeing   was a creature uh seven seven and a half  eight foot tall 400 pounds hairy and when   i hit it with the spotlight it brought hands  not paws brought hands up and covered its face   and i can remember like it's etched in my mind it  let out such a blood curdling deep toned screech until the 1800s the sounds and sights  of this monster reported by witnesses   defied classification people called it a  monster because they had no way to classify it   primatology had heart had not started yet the  gorilla hadn't wasn't even discovered till 1847   but then when after the gorilla was discovered and  it became north and uh known in north america then   we had a model and people started using it as a  reference saying you know this this looks like a   gorilla you know and we started you know hearing  words like ape-like and gorilla-like and by now   we're quite some of us at least are  quite confident in classifying it   as a great ape you know resembling an upright  gorilla will the nestor crew and the monster   quest team finally get the evidence that the world  so desperately needs to see knight has fallen on   whitehall and the teams are ready nestor plans  to form a triangle around the area where recent   sasquatch sightings were reported steve kulls and  fellow researcher tom hollywood head up the teams   they will mimic alleged sasquatch vocalizations  in an attempt to pinpoint the creature's location   the methods of vocalizations um  are basically trying to make a   primate-like sound and throw it out there  in hopes that we get a return vocalization   purportedly from these sasquatch creatures  distinguishing vocalizations over the years is   acclimating yourself to the sounds of the animals  in the particular area you're doing research in okay i'm gonna do a mount howell  in about 20 seconds from now steve to basecamp um i don't know if um hollywood did uh one  whoop or one howl but uh i've heard two so far uh no steve uh i think he only did it once yeah  i thought that was hollywood i just heard one   about maybe 25 30 seconds ago hey hollywood  how many times did you uh vocalize there you   said you were gonna wait 20 seconds we had  one like right after your first transmission   no that wasn't me i just howled once okay  that one was hollywood the one before that um that's negative i thought that was hollywood and  then we waited and then i heard a second one the   response that steve claims to have heard is not  picked up on tape he describes it as very faint   then steve hears something rustling in the bushes something pull this down looks  like something pulled this down the townsfolk of whitehall new york are being  stalked by a monster who has haunted the local   woods for centuries wildlife biologist dr john  bindernagel is here to investigate the phenomena   and esra the northeast sasquatch research  association is on an expedition in search   of the ultimate evidence will probably be a  body that can be cross referenced and cataloged   and for many in the scientific community  that is exactly what it will take   people have asked what kind of evidence would  i need to to make you know to convince me as   the wildlife manager that sasquatch exists here  in whitehall and that's probably going to be a   dead sasquatch that that's going to make me con  convince me that there is this animal otherwise   i'm always going to be a skeptic but without a  body what will it take to convince the world the   sasquatch is here in this remote region i think  the simplest answer is actually just to verify   the truth alan hills is a private investigator  and a recognized polygraph expert he has been   retained independently by monster quest we  like to call the polygraph a truth verifier   as opposed to a lie detector a polygraph is a  scientific instrument and with the right training   and the right individual it is very very accurate  absolutely accurate for most of the witnesses   who claim to have seen the creature their  encounters have left them questioning themselves   did they really see a monster i was very  scared the moment i saw it i was terrified sue ross was eight years old when she saw the  creature my brother and i were playing in a   shale pit down the road from where we lived a few  hundred feet away and we were walking back home   and i kept getting hit with these little  pebbles in the on my right shoulder and i   thought it was my brother and i you know said  to my brother stop throwing stones at me and he   you know i'm not throwing stones at you but sue  felt several more pebbles hit her before she   turned round to a brother he raised his hands and  again swore that he hadn't thrown anything right   at that moment i'm facing him and a stone hit me  in my forehead coming from the woods to my left   and i turned and looked and there was this  creature standing there and throwing pebbles   terrified sue and her brother ran home you know  i got home and told my mother what happened i was   crying and at eight years old i described it as a  monster i was terrified all these years i kind of   wondered you know maybe it wasn't what i thought  i saw i've had doubts a lot of doubts these   are people who have seen something many years  ago and it has stayed with them in their mind   do you know for sure that the creature you saw was  not human yes could you now take me to the exact   spot where you saw bigfoot yes could you have  imagined seeing a creature described as bigfoot no   according to dr phillip stevens the imagination  is a more likely place for a sasquatch to live   than new york state the fact that people all  over the world are are seeing similar creatures   suggests very strongly not weakly very strongly  now that this is something that people do   something that the human mind does but for dr  john bindenagel these collective reports that   are similar in description are critical when  building an anatomical profile of the creature   fortunately some people who see sasquatches  don't just describe them but they actually   make an attempt to draw them and these  eyewitness drawings are especially helpful   because people will often see something or  remember something as they make a drawing   that they may have forgotten in their in their  verbal description in this one for example we the   muscularity of the of the sasquatch is very very  evident in the short thick neck some are described   as females either because of visible breasts  or because it was apparently carrying an infant   and that's always of interest and then yet others  seem to be young adults or what we call sub-adults   variations in size and gender definitely supports  the argument that in order for the sasquatch to   thrive in whitehall there would have to be a  breeding population the sizes may vary yeah you   may have a report in one area where the creature's  five foot tall and in another area where it's   seven feet tall but this would be normal as a  creature would grow it's very consistent with   a living breathing biological creature but for  those who are doubtful of the creature's existence   this idea simply fuels their skepticism to say  that there is a breeding surviving population   that goes on and definitely is is just a fantasy  claimants say that these things can exist   undetected and uh i'm just we're just looking  at reasons why this is unlikely rather than   impossible and the village and town board of  whitehall may not think it's impossible in january   2004 paul bartholomew lobbied for legislation  to protect the sasquatch and won white hall is   is a protective habitat of the sasquatch because  we've established such a history for the creature   in this area in february 2004 the board passed  legislation for a sasquatch protective ordinance   it reads whereas the possibility of all  endangered species proven impending scientific   recognition should be entitled to protection  under the federal and new york state laws   the legislation supports nasser's belief that  the creature exists in this part of the country   the desperate team chased the strange noise  for more than a mile before the trail went cold well what happened was one of our  guys from another team was going to   commence throwing out of vocalization in 20  seconds then all of a sudden something vocalized they'll try vocalizing again in the hopes of  picking up the trail once more once we get   vocalizations then we can perhaps understand that  there's maybe a creature out there so that kind of   pinpoints the location of where this creature may  be or in some cases to to actually go in and seek   it out or draw it in and that's exactly what  steve and the other nestor members hope to do i'm going to try a few calls out here  approximately south of your location about   400 yards yeah go ahead and start your stuff a large thump or wood knock of some kind  we just want to know if that was you that's negative despite its elusiveness has  nestra managed to pick up the trail again   corey speak to me whitehall new york is rich in  biology history and folklore   it would appear to be the ideal environment  for a creature that reportedly came here   millions of years ago and took up residence  in local mythology woodlands and parks dr   john bindernegel is interviewing key eyewitnesses  who claim to have seen the monster of whitehall   for some it has changed their lives this  man was 18 when he encountered a creature   he had no name for for the first time  he tells his story to john bindenagel   he is asked to remain anonymous it was back in  about 1981 january a very cold night very clear night i was out there with a friend and uh we  were sitting there talking and out of the corner   of my eye i noticed motion in a hayfield off to  my right i'm saying it must be a cross-country   skier but as i look at it it's not moving like  a cross-country skier the gate is like a walk   but the speed is like a run as it's approaching  us i can see it clearly silhouetted against the   white hayfield it's a large shaggy man as far as  i know and that was the point where i got up and   got out of the car i shut the car door after i got  out and when i did that whatever it was seemed to   notice the sound of the car door and i'm still  looking at it still trying to figure it out and   the person with me was becoming quite upset i did  get into the vehicle and we departed post haste the intellectual discord there between what you  know to be real and what you know can't be real   was very distinct and very disturbing witness  accounts are not the only reports that are called   into question one of the biggest problems  i've come to realize is that almost half   the scientific community will not examine evidence  if there's no theoretical basis for that evidence   scientists want a theory and the best theory is  the gigantopithecus theory a fossil ape of asia   may have migrated across the bering land  bridge along with mastodons the giant fever   bison a number of mammals including humans which  came to north america across that land bridge   and persists either as the sasquatch as  gigantopithecus or as a close relative or   descendant theories have abounded over the years  surrounding the mystery creature of whitehall   for the first time ever eyewitnesses take a  polygraph test to prove to the rest of the world   what they believe they saw i do not determine your  truthfulness or whether you're lying until the   entire test is finished all the interview process  polygraph itself then i analyze the results   and i determine beyond a doubt for my satisfaction  whether or not you're truthful on or about january   15 1981 at approximately midnight did you see  a creature you would describe as bigfoot yes   could you now take me to the  exact spot where you saw bigfoot   yes could you have imagined seeing  a creature described as bigfoot no despite the fact that the eyewitness accounts  span two decades each person has given a   similar response the caliber of the person  is telling the story you've got law officers   which are trained observers this is something  there there's no doubt about it it was dark   it looked hairy it was eight to nine feet tall crystal austin was walking her friend melissa  gordon and don juk at home one evening   when they encountered a nine-foot monster  we were walking over one of the hills   and standing in front of us was a large figure it looked hairy dark colored brown it  was about nine feet tall all i seen was like the   black outline of it it was standing on two feet  with its arms just like hanging down straight   and like my heart just started beating we screamed  we ran up the hill and looked back and it was gone around 20 miles away from where the  girls came face to face with the monster   the nestor expedition team believes that  they are hot on the trail of the creature   the events of the evening have them on  high alert there's been a lot of aggressive   behavior in certain parts of this park escorts  screaming vocalizations and now object throwing so what the hell happened up there i was on the  left hill there's a little little dip between   us he's on the right hill i thought i heard  something moving around on the top of the hill   a couple like two three pine cones came over  the top i'm assuming are sticks or something   and then the last one got me in the back of  the head okay we're having movement now uh   you guys heard it we heard it we're having  a tremendous amount of activity up this way could this be the break that  nezra has been waiting for cory speak to me the woods have fallen silent whatever was out  there has gone and what happened is we lost   the trailhead down there coming back because  everything is just knocked down in there and   this type of the lighting even with the lighting  we use you can't tell which trail and what's not   steve calls and the rest of the nesra team head  back to base camp although they didn't manage to   catch sight of the creature tonight perhaps the  trail cameras did tracking these animals at night   becomes like a game of cat and mouse  they have the tactical advantage   what generally runs through my head is did  we tape it but it is too dark tonight and   they'll have to wait until tomorrow to find out  while dr john bindenagle finalizes his report   alan hills completes the final polygraph  analysis one question can be asked numerous times   and each time it's answered you'll  think you're answering it the same way   but your eyes will be different your gesture may  be different your tone of voice may be different   yes all these are part of exactly what's going  on inside your head and they need to be analyzed   properly by a professional could the test yield a  shocking verdict on the existence of the creature   is the creature of whitehall a sasquatch  a legendary monster that is part man part   ape or are the townsfolk simply mistaking it for  other animals native to the region this retired   police officer came face to face with the monster  this man's encounter has haunted him for 20 years this man has dedicated 30 years of his life trying  to prove the existence of the whitehall sasquatch   and this man believes it's only a matter of time  before mainstream science is forced to accept   the creature as a living breathing mammal  with more than 150 sightings in whitehall   only a handful of scientists accept these claims  if there is a population of these creatures as   they're very well as as there must be if we're  going to see any at all they've got they've got to   have moms and dads right and and presumably they  want to reproduce themselves there must be others   and there must be a significant number of others  where where are they while christopher bartow sets   off to check the camera traps from last night's  chase ex-state police detective and polygraph   expert alan hills reveals his findings i am 100  objective in the beginning i must be trained   to be and i am i think that without the  element of objectivity i'm really useless   if i'm convinced at the beginning  someone is lying i'll find them lying   and if i'm convinced someone is telling the  truth i'll find them truthful so if i'm not   going to be 100 percent objective why test these  are people who have seen something many years ago   and it has stayed with them in their mind  can science say without a shadow of a doubt   that the eyewitnesses of whitehall  are truthful in their testimony   the simple fact is that in my opinion they were  not lying about anything for the residents of   whitehall the conclusive results of the polygraph  testing is evidence of multiple sightings i can   believe myself i was afraid some people would look  at me and be skeptical but thanks to this program   i think we can put that to rest what the polygraph  did for me personally was let me know that um i hadn't created in my mind  a truth that wasn't the truth   is dr john bindenagel's report as conclusive well  you know coming from my position as as one of the   handful of scientists that does accept the  sasquatch as an extant mammal you know and   being aware of whitehall new york and upstate new  york report you know i i didn't come here perhaps   with the skepticism that some people would have  nevertheless i really did want to hear from myself   eyewitness accounts and see some of the evidence  which which i have done which i was able to   experience and you know i'm totally convinced that  that the sasquatch does exist here in upstate new   york there's no doubt about it in my mind and  the eyewitnesses who shared their accounts you   know help help with that conviction the sasquatch  phenomenon is a fascinating controversy scientific   controversy so it's it's very very interesting  to begin with and then then to have reports very   credible reports coming from literally our own  backyard in the sense in the white hall area   that becomes almost intoxicating you just  can't ignore that type of report and now we   have police officers uh very respectable people  in the region that had sightings so it's very   credible it's very interesting and whatever's  going on here it's consistent with what's going   on throughout the country and throughout the world  the investigation into the monster of whitehall   is revealing startling results but did the nesra  team manage to capture any photographic evidence on this occasion the images reveal nothing unusual  a disappointment to the nestor crew perhaps   but not the end with the intense  activity over the last few days   they are now even more convinced that  whitehall holds the key to the mystery   what the truthful witnesses are telling me is  the same thing how these creatures act what they   look like what they sound like what they smell  like that to me says volumes about the validity   of this creature in terms of what what's the next  level of research how can we improve in what we do   you know certainly we'd like to provide the  base evidence that will help science get on   board people around the world have been chasing  the shadow of sasquatch for centuries and the   monster of whitehall seems no less elusive but  monsta quest examination has proved something   that the people of whitehall are telling the  truth about what they saw this is a living   creature in our woods there was no doubt  of what i saw now i know they're there and   that whitehall could both support and conceal a  population of sasquatch people are quite resistant   to the idea that the sasquatch could be in new  york state in michigan in pennsylvania but it is for the rest of us the mystery will  continue until the much needed evidence   is presented i think overall the scientific  community is is starting to slowly come around   to the idea that there may be more going on in  the woods in north america than meets the eye you

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Length: 45min 12sec (2712 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021