Survivorman Bigfoot | Episode 6 | Radium Mtn Returns | Les Stroud

oh boy well everything's gone the apple's gone power bars are gone let's check the camera out all right everything's gone okay let's see how many clips we've got here [Applause] nine clips huh all right so there's nine clips on this camera this time the apples were taken the camera did not fall over when i get below we'll find out who the culprit is [Music] ah [Music] this is british columbia a stunning landscape in western canada since the first days of exploration the stories of a big hairy ape living here have endured they're not considered a myth by the local residents lots of jokes can be made about the loch ness monster unicorns and even ogopogo but no one ever jokes about their encounter with a bigfoot so why do i see cancers about sasquatch why not just stick to surviving i have no claim of seeing anything so why research a myth where all myths are rooted in some kind of meaning i'm not a bigfoot researcher i'm not even really a sasquatch enthusiast i'm just an outdoor adventurer and survival instructor and i've had my own experiences that have left me with questions and i want to try and get the answers to those questions but along the way i've been asked a lot of questions now why didn't you do this why didn't you do that why don't you have cameras up on the apples why don't you have other cameras buried why don't you use this scent or that all right well that's what i'm doing it's going for broke it's as i call it the shotgun approach let's put everything out there and see what we get the skeptics and the advocates alike must be willing to look at whatever evidence exists without blinders on they must be willing to accept if found to be indisputable certain pieces of evidence as fact of course it's just what those facts are that matter so ruling out human hoaxing and wildlife is imperative the problem for bigfoot advocates is that there is yet to be indisputable evidence there is yet to be found a smoking gun the problem for the skeptic is that the eyewitness accounts are increasing every year it's going to take forensic study to uncover the truth what i really want to try this time is sort of going for broke and so i'm going to start by putting a camera right in here and have it pointing out all right let's get started really nothing but a lens it doesn't make any sound that's the beauty of it but it also doesn't record anything it's got to be tethered to a recording unit and i've got to bury that because it makes sound eliminating all sounds and lights on hidden cameras will go a long way towards achieving a successful stealth approach okay so this is real simple it's set on motion detect so it will not record unless something moves in front of it and it can record at night in the dark it'll switch to infrared light on its own with because it's got little sensors what i want to do is just bury this whole thing so i've got the plastic container and hopefully if it has a light or it makes a sound well that won't be seen by anything that's the point i'll leave that little lens up there in the stump pointing this way the idea being that a sasquatch comes from the outer bush because he smells all the stuff going on down there with everything that we're setting up and walks right past this camera it's a long shot but it's worth it let's stir it up a little bit here and i'm going to put i've got to put something odd something different unique that wouldn't normally be up there so i have pure beaver caster scent [Music] this stuff stinks i'm gonna put it in front of my first camera [Music] let's put the scent just right here on this log it's pungent okay let's put a little bit of this time anything living here will be used to the smells so the idea is to change things up a bit and promote some curiosity yeah got it all over my fingers all right so that should stink up the place a bit and see if it gets any reaction for me bigfoot filmmaker doug highchick and i discussed this confuse and conquer idea where i'll set up nearly 30 different stations including pheromone chips audio recorders various cameras food is made dna collection traps but will all of this be enough to capture an image of something reported to be the most elusive being on the planet so here's the thought pheromone chip has some sort of strange and crazy attractant the apple as a kind of offering or bait musical instrument just because just you never know maybe someone won't play with it who knows i have no idea down below i've got the audio recorder buried in the ground and then one step below that i've got a dna trap this is really about confusion here one thing i've avoided here is using an ir camera a camera with an infrared light so there's no constant beam or anything like that and i don't know will the apple actually bring something in with a pheromone chip drive something crazy when it gets here whatever it might be be it deer or elk or bear will it knock the musical instruments i don't the musical instrument i don't know but i've got recording device catching whatever sound is going to happen here but no camera however i've got a dna trap just set below here so if anything is going to happen to step on that area i'll get some dna but what's it going to take to convince anyone dna from an unknown primate species has already been gathered in washington state and largely ignored yeah this will work perfect perhaps a combination of gathered evidence can be scrutinized scientifically so for this station i've done quite a number of things got the apple pheromone chip and this time i've set up a camera hopefully if something does get excited over either the apple or the pheromone chip the camera will catch it this time there's an absence of proven consistent methods so i'm setting each station up a little different from the last a camera here an audio recorder there with bait without bait something's got to work each time what i really want to do is just get a little bit closer to something authentic something that just might work at the very least if it brings in a wolf or a fox or a grizzly then i know it's working and this is one of those times where i'm taking the next step let's see how he likes this little guy [Music] perfect call that my grouse cam look at this guy here now i've still got to bury the recorder if it is just an ape i'll be an intelligent one and sooner or later we should be able to outwit it unless of course it's smarter than us all right so the significance of this particular setup is that i've got the grouse up there with the camera set all ready to go the wire runs all the way down the hill and the recorder's down there but look at this look at this see that behind me that was one of the first sasquatch structures that i was ever shown so i basically just violated their main area let's see how they like that maybe they'll take it all out on the grass [Music] it's vital for me to gather all the evidence in the area that i can even if i think i already know what it is or isn't and casting tracks is a big part of sasquatch researchers methodology all this is here is hairspray helps to lock things in place there hydrocal is an inexpensive and easy substance to work with for casting tracks leave that for a few hours we're good to go but are they sasquatch tracks it's too easy to make mistakes and even easier to make wishful assumptions just washing off these casted bear tracks to get a better look at them they really are massive that's huge there's my hand that's a grizzly bear track now this one here is the one that's really important to me now look at that now doesn't that look like a bigfoot track the reason being is that what has happened here is the bear walks in his own tracks and it can create a bit of an optical illusion and look like a bigfoot track see here's where he stepped once but then he followed it by stepping again here put them all together and look at that doesn't that look like a bigfoot track and that's one way that people can be fooled by tracks when they see them and they say no it was huge it was you know what's up 14 15 inches long and it ends up looking like that one two three it's part of my job to push the bigfoot enthusiasts and researchers out of their own comfort zones for years most of them have sat on what they believe and claim to be real evidence and proof of the existence of bigfoot and though i enter their areas of research with respect for their methods i bring with me my own set of challenges to their notions todd stanning considered to be one of the most controversial researchers in the field of study has no issue with accepting any challenge i throw at including returning to places of terror todd and i are just heading out into the bush here spend some time in an area that todd is no stranger to that's a spot where he had one of his most significant and horrifying experiences heading out to the rock where he was surrounded by sasquatch and all he had really was a little camera and some flares and he has been back there since get out of here get ah [ __ ] [Music] and that was right here right here by this rock and uh since that night todd has not ever returned to this rock at night this is it this is the first time and we're gonna sit it out here for a number of hours and just uh see what happens and i don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing but it's a full moon at the time of todd's encounter he had an older version camera with a weak nightlight and the flare that was short-lived this time i don't want to make the same mistake now if only todd could have had a light like i do it would have made a big difference for him this infrared light that you're watching me with right now is just the onboard infrared with the camera if i turn on the extra one this is the mid-level it's really bright but look how far all of a sudden you can see behind me there's todd you can see up in the bush now if we bring into it this massive infrared light and let me show you how this looks here you are with the regular camera light here it is with the mid-level and here it is with the spotlight what a difference it would have made it's important to understand that only the camera can see this imagery to the human eye it's still pitch black now it's argued in some circles that certain creatures potentially sasquatch can see the infrared lights i mean i can see these red lights right now that are making this um todd doesn't agree with that he just feels that when they're off in the distance and you're and you're shooting that infrared light they cannot see it and so the potential is there to get one caught on film because just like any biological being they're out in the dark they have their night vision but infrared is something different altogether even though recently it's been proved that caribou can see ultraviolet light but that's the other end of the spectrum that's a different thing altogether so we're going to sit here for a few hours i guess in some ways hope we don't get the same reaction todd got those years ago maybe something a little more gentle you hear that no yes did you hear that yeah that's what got me out not just the growl but throwing it something sounds like something was thrown something small nothing big there's another is still nothing's moving if something big made a sound we would hear it if something small made a sound we might miss it we gave a hoop before we came in given one hoop here it could be stuff just falling off the trees but already we've heard two little things up in behind me you know this side of me sound like little little things being thrown i'm just gonna sit it out here in the dark and see what happens the nearby rapids drown out much of the sounds this night was something small physically tossed in our direction or did a little toad jump on a dry leaf assumptions can be dangerously misleading [Music] a few small things perhaps twigs fell from the trees close to where todd and i waited in the bush last night but that was all however i'm frustrated by todd's reaction to the same event or non-event depending on how you look at it his quote the next morning was that they threw rocks at us me this is a gross misrepresentation of the reality normally that you've todd or any other researcher down when i sensed that bit of overzealousness but i let this one go and proceeded to head up to the top of the mountain my helicopter spend the night in what todd considers to be his greatest spot a sasquatch action the true ruggedness of the mountains our winning day we can't find a single spot to land the helicopter so we have to move to plan b and climb the crew follows me for a short distance before i choose to take a different route up the mountain than todd's so that my experience of being alone in what is claimed to be prolific bigfoot territory may be enhanced i guess i better bring you with me there is no traveling fast in the wilderness especially straight up hill the best thing is to think like an animal move slow just lumber along break often keep a nice even slow pace and that way if you do need to get out of something fast later you don't have to rely just on adrenaline you can have adrenaline and some reserve strength so i'm gonna go up this mountain a little bit at a time wow it's gonna be a long day advocates of bigfoot simply point to a print in the ground and demand an answer and that's reasonable skeptics say show me the body and that's also reasonable whatever it is it's a fact what it's a fact of is the unknown and even in the name of science we should at least be seeking an answer for it and that'll take effort including climbing mountains farther below my cameras remain on and hidden and who knows what image they'll capture whatever it is it'll be evidence pointing to one conclusion or another i'm prepared to spend a couple of nights on the top of this mountain including one alone as an attempt to peek over to one side of the skeptical fence i normally sit upon well i made it all the way to the top to where we were last year as the fire pit in terms of pure survival if i wanted to be an uh sort of an elusive secretive species existing up here and let's say i caught salmon and ate out caught elk and ate elk deer small mammals picked a lot of roots ate pine needles and grasses and sedges and berries this is the place to do it no matter how much i lament the loss of prime beautiful and pristine habitat and i and i do the fact is there's also a lot of incredibly beautiful places and vast reaching areas where anything could survive this is one of those places you can't sit on the couch only boots on the ground will make you realize just how big beautiful and vast the north american forests truly are up there is where todd calls the forbidden zone the area where he refused to go down here is his spot up there is their spot is what he said but uh he's agreed with me that this year we can push the envelope and push into that territory so i'm not gonna wait for him i'll take a little hike up there now a year ago i went easy on todd and his claims of bigfoot activity this time i'm pushing the envelope [Music] i'm at the top of a mountain in british columbia where a year earlier i heard something banging rocks together only feet from where i slept okay so i just heard the strangest sound it was like um someone taking a a couple of rocks and just banging them together really fast and then just like a sound something substantial just in the bush and we're talking about maybe 20 feet away from me but either way what i just heard was loud distinct i don't know what time it is but it's uh pre-dawn and i'm just gonna lie here and see what else happens that was a year ago this time todd will join me up here for a night and tomorrow night i'll stay alone so here's the barrier i said it doesn't go past this lock huh gotta cross the street sooner or later this is the higher ground on the mountain that todd had reserved for what he believes is a group of sasquatch he has refused to go here for fear of getting them angry or scaring him off so my act he believes would be an act of defiance to them by crossing the arbitrary barrier he himself established this time todd is good with my methods he said try anything after all he spent many years trying to convince the public of what he knows to be real and it's not working todd finally arrived about 40 minutes behind me and we proceeded to look at his new methods to try to catch dna evidence of a species known as giganopithecus it's fairly ingenious too using natural burrs glued to branches to catch hair for dna testing all it takes is one oh those are hairs dude they're still wanting to look at that those are definitely hairs yeah i can see it short very short the collecting of dna remains is one of the most controversial aspects of the phenomenon known as sasquatch on several occasions dna has been gathered and claimed by official university labs to be some kind of human ape hybrid later todd would test this small bit of hair and it turns out to be 95 human dna 5 unknown actually i brought up a couple of the infrared trail cams so i'm going to set them up todd is feeling frustrated with the rest of the world's progress and accepting the existence of what he believes is giganopithecus a bipedal ape and so for the first time he's allowing me to put out cameras and audio devices in an effort to collect evidence these are combined with his usual methods of putting apples on the tree as gifts to entice something the apples are stuck well onto the tree at about 15 and 7 foot reaches with the hopes of ruling out sheep or bears unwilling to climb with the bait firmly in place we'll wait out the night about a hundred yards higher on the mountain with stories ranging from friendship to even fatal abductions all pointing to bigfoot it's only my strong sense of skepticism and my comfort level in the wilderness that enables me to be out here at all most of what i expect to happen is nothing even that is an answer what's becoming more and more difficult for me as time and the research carries on is determining exactly what answer it is i'm looking for all right so i've got a couple of things set up for the night just really in it's all in preparation of potential interaction with uh something that a lot of people claim it's called sasquatch bigfoot i've actually packed my stuff my gps satellite locator i've got my knife and barebangers and things like that and my boots are in my sleeping bag and that harkens back to a story i heard of a trapper that was actually picked up sleeping bag and all and carried off and kidnapped by a family of sasquatch this happened in 1924 but he didn't tell his story really in full till many years later and even swore the story uh before a judge as having been true he was kidnapped and held for a couple of days uh in a cave with a family sasquatch but because there had been activity happening a couple of nights before that that's what he did he had stuff with him inside his bag and he had also um he well actually his backpack got picked up too so that so the sasquatch picked up him and his backpack and carried him for two or three hours off into the wilderness so that happens to me i got all my stuff with me last night was uneventful so my first order of the day is to head 100 yards down the mountain and see if anything took the apples that we stuck on the tree can't be i have to see this with my own eyes well let me show you the disappointing part first i'm left with only one of two alternatives either todd is indeed a masterful skillful hoaxer or something came in and took these apples pushed over the camera went up about 15 feet in the tree and took all the apples huh i don't know what to think anymore and i've got to spend my night out here alone the camera's not over if they didn't pick up that camera before they took these apples there's no way they picked up that camera first i think we did it i think we've got sasquatch footage on there i don't know i do i feel it now i'm nervous todd is clearly excited this is a man who's had to put up with a lot of controversy over the years a lot of a lot of claims of hoaxing and fraud and i've had a lot of people say look he's frauding you he's hoaxing you the hope and i suppose todd's dream is that that camera got shots before it fell over honestly this is the most significant experience i've had because the plausibility of todd going down there doing that is pretty low to be honest with you so taught to leave not too long from now we'll get another apple up on that tree put out some some power bars and then i'm here for the night alone and we'll see what happens i'll certainly be keeping my eyes and ears open i don't think tonight's gonna be night i'm gonna sleep a lot the camera images proved nothing either way it was likely knocked over by this little culprit a pica a kind of rodent but knowing this doesn't answer the question of what took the apples 15 feet up the tree [Music] after helping me put apples and chocolate bars back up in the tree todd will leave me alone on the mountaintop which at the very least will rule out any chance of him hoaxing me if something happens tonight [Music] when we first came on the site here i met it here long before todd did and i found these depressions in the ground that are pretty hard to explain uh other than potentially grizzly bear i think but a very big grizzly bear at that this track stood out you can see the indentations in the ground here are very heavy now it's potential that it was simply a rock that was here and the rock eventually came out of the ground this is a heavy heavy stamp in the ground and you know maybe this is now where suggestion can be very powerful but i can see the toe prints and todd came later and saw it and he thought of course knowing todd he absolutely said it's a big footprint and that's that's the danger being so absorbed in the subject matter on the other hand that's the benefit of being so absorbed in the subject matter if you go out looking for grizzly you'll find grizzly if you go out looking for elk you'll find out if you go out looking for sasquatch i'm only looking for answers ironically the greatest argument is not between the skeptics and the believers it's among the bigfoot advocates themselves no one can agree on what it is that we are all trying to find here in radium springs british columbia todd stanley believes they are the long hidden offspring of a species of humanoid called giganopithecus he may be right and even though his own evidence is considered dubious and faked by many people we can't throw the baby out with the bathwater because whether todd is telling the truth or not the fact remains there are thousands of other people making the very same claim you have to be of two minds out here the job at hand what is that filmmaker documentarian but i'm also a survival instructor and i know how dangerous it is out here and how one wrong step one missed beat could leave me in a very precarious situation just as it is when i'm out doing pure survival and i'm not on the hunt for bigfoot i've got to take real care make every step count monitor my food i don't know if i'm going to even make it down off this mountain so i've got to hold on to the food that i've got it's very little just be careful with it same thing for the water most importantly got to stay warm at night if nothing happens out here tonight that's what i'll say tomorrow morning nothing happened i thought i was going to be saying that this morning i truly thought i'd go down see all those apples on the tree and go well you know todd claims there's a couple of wood knocks sure whatever but instead i went down and all those apples were gone i can't explain that maybe a bird but i haven't seen any ravens or any of the sword come around at all anything that has been here has been little songbirds and one greyjay it's not going to carry off those three apples so what did what took the apples last night what banged rocks together here last year what has left suspicious looking tracks in hard packed ground maybe tonight i'll find out all right this is about halfway between where i am where the apples are what i've done is i've picked a sort of place of cover here and uh put up my second camera it should be filming me right now for now i've changed the card in the camera that was on the apples put up the apple two power bars move the camera bit so it's secure now and it won't fall over put a camera in here both are running now i'll come down later tonight do a couple of hoops maybe a wood knock and i'll leave my audio recorder somewhere around here as well just buried and hidden um for sound and then uh and then i gotta i gotta sit through the night the top of this mountain i'm here to get the right bit of footage that might blow the lid off of this phenomenon or by my persistent search and coming up with nothing proving more that there is nothing out here in the first place all right apple's still in its place camera set up hopefully we'll work audio recorders in turned on go back up and tend my fire in this way being alone the top of the mountain i become the bait the whole idea about the fire is simple apparently sasquatch feel more comfortable because they can see you and you can't really see them so a lot of times nice big fire is when activity happens people say oh something came around it was standing on the edge in the darkness and it came in close or whatever and uh the um the fire seems to do the trick i'm staying outside tonight just because i want to i want to have a good clear view but um in other locations i'll stay inside a tent and see how that works as my night continues things get weird i see large strange lights over a distant mountain hovering in the sky if it was a jet it would have been five times bigger than the concorde four massive lights sat still and unmoving by the time i set up my camera they were gone i shrugged it off and tried to get some sleep oh man i just had the most insane dream i fell asleep and uh fire got cold and i dreamt that a sad squatch came and was sitting on top of me and not letting me get up and it became super vivid just for that moment you know in between dream and awake where you think it's real i lit a big fire we've all had vivid dreams but this went beyond that it felt like a big set of buttocks holding me down while my head was completely engulfed inside the mummy sleeping bag i struggled to get my upper arm free and to pull my head out from the back at this point wide awake and still feeling trapped and the second i did get my face out of the bag the feeling disappeared perhaps just a quincean dream i can't dispute that but it sure didn't feel like one the next morning things get even stranger [Music] oh boy well everything's gone the apple's gone power bars are gone all right well turn around and look at the camera hope it's still up right and it is let's check the camera out all right everything's gone okay let's see how many clips we've got here nine clips huh all right so there's nine clips on this camera and this time the apples were taken the camera did not fall over when i get below we'll find out who the culprit is [Music] let's establish the efficiency of the trail cams their motion triggered with about a half second delay but they're very sensitive here are a series of shots from the base of the mountain where they were set off by something quickly going through the field of vision even dust particles will trigger it to record now for some reason with nothing showing as having just run through the screen here is a recorded image of the apple in its place throughout the night in this first clip i've highlighted the apple with a light circle now did you see that the apple was well stuck on a branch pointing up and away from the ground so gravitational pull shouldn't have pulled it off but in the second clip it just disappears it just vanishes along with three chocolate bars i'd put on the other branches and nothing was caught on film let's look at the two clips again in real time there's nothing to indicate what set off the camera into recording now there do you see that at the bottom what was that let's watch it again in real time once more and this time watch the branches on the middle tree then the bottom left of the screen now here it is blown up in real time and here it is in slow motion now let's freeze frame on the culprit what is that whatever it is it has to be big enough to make a large tree shake but here's the real rub that spot where you see it pop up is at least six feet high off the ground [Music] the skeptic would say the apple somehow simply fell off its perch even though it was well stuck onto a branch and it triggered the camera but fell out of view once on the ground something came and took every last piece of it the missing chocolate bars well we'll have to ignore that for now the creature at the bottom left of the screen was either sheep on its hind legs the top of a grizzly bear who has no ears and left me alone just a hundred yards away while i slept my dream of being sat on was just a coincidental dream the lights in the sky a very large gem the advocates would say it's bigfoot [Music] so you

Channel: Survivorman - Les Stroud

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Length: 50min 11sec (3011 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 16 2020