Survivorman Bigfoot | Willow Creek | Episode 5 | Les Stroud

well there's ever a time to have a bigfoot encounter to be right now this is creepy you can see what i can see which is not much because we're in the dark pretty much almost i'm walking in a thick thick blanket of fog i mean it doesn't get any better than this beware the moors and stick to the road [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the hoopa native territory situated amidst beautiful rugged wilderness and home to the legend of bigfoot northwest california is famous or infamous depending on how you look at it but not for movie stars or musicians rather for its abundance of bigfoot sightings it's the location where roger patterson shot his controversial film footage of a bigfoot a claim he stood by until his death and a claim that his partner in the event bob gimlin still stands behind today this is it this is the place 1967 a film was shot here just a few seconds of film footage except the world of fire spiraled down a road of controversy it's still going strong today roger patterson went to his grave swearing by it bob giblin is still with us and he still holds that it was true that he stood there with roger patterson while he filmed that big hairy creature we come up the creek roger in front of me come around this big downfall tree and the creature was standing just about 30 or 40 feet on the on the other side of the creek and so roger's running across the creek trying to get focused and my first thought was yeah these things really do exist and then roger runs across the creek and he stumbled and fell down then he jumps up and runs over to a log and gets his elbows down on the log and starts stabilizing himself to get better picture i see this thing walking slow but it's covered a lot of ground quickly she got quite a little ways up there and i i said well roger i want to follower and he said don't he said don't leave me here and then he tells me later why because there's three different sizes of tracks down there and he thought that the other two might be right there well i wasn't thinking about the other two or nothing i just wanted to see this thing again to make sure you know to make sure i knew what i was seeing there's two things here either they're telling the truth or it's a hoax there's no in between it's one or the other i've had my strange and weird occurrences out here but i've seen nothing that i can claim is a bigfoot i've only heard some strange things that i cannot explain and that keeps me digging deeper i'm not here on behalf of roger and bob i'm here on behalf of my own curiosity what the heck have i heard when i've been out in the wilderness on so many different occasions when i want answers i go after them and the answers are out here the native residents of the town of hoopa have been extremely gracious in allowing me to film in their area they understand that i come here with deep respect for their traditional and spiritual belief systems up here everyone takes it for granted nobody nobody doubts its existence up here they all just it's here they've all had their experiences and if they haven't their aunt has their cousin has their uncle has somebody's had some kind of experience that they believe of a sighting of a big walking hairy beast for a long time i was like i didn't want to really talk about it didn't tell anybody because i don't want to think i was crazy or nothing as i dropped down right here i turned on my high beams when it caught my eye and by the time i actually got my car to it it was already over and then going down my cousin came back the next day to look for any kind of prints or any kind of things you can see because i was pretty freaked out about what i saw i don't like to be in the woods at night not because i'm i just no don't go into the woods at night the shadow man will get you that's what many native cultures have taught their children is there real substance behind the warning or is it just a scare tactic to get their kids home at night pouring down it's calling for a lot of heavy rain over the next few days and i'm just trying to go in deep into the forest that's that's not good basically i'm just going to take myself down these uh these access roads for a few miles i gotta i gotta get in deep into the forest and start to put myself in the path of potential interaction with something at the very least this is some of the densest black bear habitat in california would be interesting [Music] okay so here this is what i know to be much more classic bear scout it's obvious as soon as i see it what's interesting here is it right beside it there's a small bit of scat it's different different consistency different color and then this big bear scout here which one came first i don't know but usually in cases like this it is it's all territory marking someone goes poop in one spot someone else comes along and goes okay well i'm going to poop on the other side of that log and there you go it's we can we can share this area or i'm just letting you know i'm here so though it's definitely two different types of scat side by side and i'm quite confident the large pile is is bear scout i don't know what the other pile is it's not mine oh yeah it's coming along the road here all ready to see tracks i mean hard to tell i mean whenever they're kind of big and toe print like they become suspicious right it's like okay got to be bear tracks of course you think but then you don't see any claw marks it just gets weird it's a track here the thing is like there's one track down there and the next track is is six seven feet away and that's a definite track wow i i hate how my own imagination gets to me in these times but i mean i can see what looks like toe prints and i do not see any claw prints and it looks like you know the front part of a foot digging as you go up the hill one of the indicators that a track may have been made by a sasquatch it's the distance between the strides it's often as long as five to seven thing feet this forest i find interesting is at least in some spots travel through it it's not all that difficult it's lots of big spaces between the trees flat ground something about this forest i can say seems to affect your psyche though i mean just it just it's felt weird being here ever since the day i showed up it just felt weird but feelings aren't facts although they might be indicators just what do they indicate that's the mystery what the heck i think i can tell you see now check this out in terms of the power suggestion so we know why i'm out here right i see this tree and look at the way the the limbs are gouged and broken off i looked over here look at this it's the same thing again limbs all broken off to the very same height instantly i know that bigfoot researchers are looking at saying that's a sign that's that's definitely you know a sasquatch breaking limbs maybe even ticked off but then i stepped back a bit look at the big picture a little bit and you know what i notice is that along the road there's this swath and it swoops right along there and then goes back out on the road and to me that could simply tell the story of there was a big truck here it was muckier than he thought it was going to be so he gunned it and as he gunned it it was like crack bash bash crack break and then the next tree same thing and then oh back up on the road so you see there are many answers to strange looking things max my second camera operator usually leaves me alone for these tricks but he's joined me to help increase our chances of filming whatever might be out here before we get far we spot what is considered to be by many a sign of sasquatch all right well i gotta do it i gotta stop and look at this huh here we go again [Music] hiking on the back roads of northwest california max and i are off looking for signs of sasquatch and it doesn't take long tree brick this tree is broken off exactly the same way so many others have been there's nothing on the ground here to indicate a log or a old dead branch coming down from above a tree right beside it is unaffected would a human have done this not for what purpose a trapper there's none here rhodes department no snow load well this happened this summer this did not happen throughout the winter last winter this happened very recently you know there is another possibility of that tree break there hoaxing somebody doing it for fun somebody watching a lot of tv and reading up and hearing about things like tree breaks and saying hey let's break some trees i mean my prediction is that you know fake tracks and tree breaks and tree structures are going to start occurring all over the place which is unfortunate because it'll make a mockery and a joke of the subject matter more than it seems to already be which for wildlife biologists who want to be involved in serious research on the potential of just such a species it just makes everything really difficult even i myself i'm not ever going on record right now and saying i believe in bigfoot or i know they exist i don't i've never seen one but i've had some very strange experiences and without you know delving into all kinds of crazy theories the closest thing that i can imagine that's affected me is potentially this this species that's why i'm out here just want to dig deeper and find out but how deep does the rabbit hole go the scientists should at least be interested because the potential is that if it exists at all this is a species closest to our own it can be a legitimate area of study even if it is mythology where does the mythology come from because unicorns and fairies don't leave tracks in the mud or knock on trees just standing right here going over the map making sure wow unless this is a road here i don't want to miss the trailer i got to head off on the right arm clear and distinct tree knock really loud i clearly heard it it wasn't just a you know a tree limb moving or something it was a it was like a some sort of a knock in the woods which could mean absolutely nothing what's needed is a systematic study of the evidence for the real story to emerge i mean it's just really strange given all the information that i've been given over the time to find these and in this case you've got one going one way and one going the other way like they're they're beside each other and they're both broken in separate directions you know if it's snow load or a big wind storm they're always going to be everything's going to be all in the same direction that's not the case don't take anything from what other researchers have told me that's supposed to mean you're not welcome anywhere here stay out or maybe i'm welcome everywhere maybe it means that this would be prime prime time to happen upon any kind of larger wildlife thick thickness everywhere the rain so the my scent is down no wind and when i head out of here it's going to be pretty much a good part of the way in the dark that'll be interesting as i trek further along the back roads of the hoopa territory further signs of activity catch my attention so i mean this is even cured because it's kind of a little tree it's all bent over here you can see some branches have been busted to get it over it had to be pulled over was it it's not it didn't just do this on its own and then if we look at the bottom all of the branches at the bottom have been been chewed and like all of the leaves and it's well known that this is a tree that is good for headaches to eat i mean perhaps if one were to conjecture on the wild side one could say well something had a headache and wanted to eat the willow shoots or just wanted to eat the little shoots period pulled this tree down and nibbled away nibble the way out in the middle but what an area like this would do that so you know maybe maybe just a big big storm see there's a tree break right here that's that's fresh all right see that tree break there that's super fresh that's not very long ago at all and it's got the classic formation of being a tree brick and it's it's the size of a tree that i'm not going to be able to do with my bare hands nor any other man and yet how it would have just come down on its own like that i mean it does not make any sense and it's again pointed towards the trail in my experience as a naturalist i can't really argue that weather or animals have caused these half-broken trees especially when they seem systematic only human hoaxing is an answer but not in the areas where i find them these signs if they can be called that show up again and again and curiously only in places that are claimed to be hot spots for sasquatch it's said that simply walking the forest roads of sasquatch territory at night is a good way to experience an encounter and that's my plan i'll simply use myself as bait night's coming in we have many miles to walk thankfully it's on on a dirt road still gonna be spooky now there's ever a time to have a bigfoot encounter could be right now it's been a few hours of hiking back up the hill quietly dirt road in the middle of bigfoot hot spot if we see one now we're only going to see a silhouette so hopefully he'll stand close enough that i can film him with a night vision camera [Music] this is creepy you can see what i can see which is not much because we're in the dark pretty much almost i'm walking in a thick thick blanket of fog i mean it doesn't get any better than this beware the moors and stick to the road movies and tv shows create an unrealistic fearful image of the wilderness weather shrouded in mist and darkness or lit by bright sunlight nature is where we all come from sasquatch or oma the traditional hupane may represent our link to the earth itself most native cultures don't fear sasquatch they respect them well this time it was about midnight my dogs were barking like heck and i just figured it was a bear again so i took my 22 with me walked outside and my dogs were literally lined up side by side looking up in this tree barking at this thing he jumped right in into my light right into my light he didn't look at me but i seen his whole body kind of a reddish brownish color kind of like an orangutan color man i'm thinking in my mind what the hell was that because it wasn't a bear it jumped out of the tree bears don't jump out of trees they crawl down i never did say it was bigfoot but what the heck else could it have been [Music] over the years thousands of people have recognized the big difference between what they've seen and a bear broad shoulders jumping out of trees running on two legs staring them down with a human face you know a lot of times the question is asked even if there was some sort of bipedal ape slash humanoid big hairy creature how could it live out in the bush and escape our detection i mean we're out there all the time aren't we don't we have roads and logging and things going on well you know what look behind me see that area that's one valley of tens of thousands of valleys that look just like that throughout north america could something live out there there was an intelligent creature who wanted to stay hid and could survive off the land and all it has to offer i could survive out there and so could a lot of other creatures but the catch here is the term intelligent it would need to have a level of intelligence that is far more than most of us are ready to even consider because if it was nothing more than an upright walking ape well my opinion is yes we would likely have one in a zoo there has to be something more to them the burden of proof rests on the shoulders of those who claim that these creatures exist it doesn't rest on the shoulders of the skeptics so think of it like someone coming to your your door and claiming a new religion the burden of proof is on their shoulders not yours that's why if there is something that needs to be studied it's got to be studied by people with the skills and expertise the motivation to study it scientifically and not with junk science with real observation based science that's what's required here then perhaps people will take the subject matter seriously i guess that is black-tailed deer and prime prey species in this area anything that's big enough and strong enough and fast enough to take one down and they go he's going to consider them prey and just what would a sasquatch eat well according to researchers just exactly what makes sense wild edibles berries fruits nuts and seeds mushrooms deer elk squirrels rabbits pretty much whatever a bear would eat and the hoopa area is incredibly rich with plant life on food sources there we go just every part of the season these are wild grapes and they're delicious this whole valley was just covered in berry bushes and so you've got a season upon season upon season where different berries like these are wild grapes and blueberries and blackberries and gooseberries whatever's here they'll all come into their own at different times and if you're a large creature and you just want to pig out on berries this is the valley to do it no wonder there are so many bears here now they don't hunt the bears in the hooper reservation that's another reason why they're here but the main reason is to eat food like this for a long time get big and fat so anything as big as a ford a 650 pound bear can survive here there's got to be some serious food around and what goes in must come out i found this load only yards from the wild grapes [Music] and it's far too big to be human if there is such a creature as sasquatch existing in significant numbers in this area as the residents believe then this big pile of poop could actually be sasquatch feces northern california hides a small community a native territory called hoopa the residents here claim they live amongst beautiful wilderness wildlife and sasquatch this area up in here right over here this is the site of uh fairly incredible story [Music] this woman up in here alone she looked out her back window and saw what will only be described as a bigfoot a large hairy creature with one in each arm he had some of her bags from that that heaping pile of shed there and she she noticed him she called the cops cops came right away and as they came back here right where i am right now look into the forest here they said they could feel the ground shake with each step that the creature took one of the police officers drew his gun came walking into here stood right here right where i'm standing right now looked down into here and said he was overcome with just an intense feeling it was the the creepiest scariest feeling that he'd ever had in his life the hair up on the back of his neck one researcher asked him well did you did you look up and uh he said i didn't want to look up and those were the haunting words of a police officer a trusted member of the community he's far from alone there are many others with stories yeah i was scared of it but what are you going to do you're going to start running running to where there was tracks there bigfoot tracks there and then um some hunters went up there and turned their hounds loose on this one of the dogs got killed there was a bite marks on it but more or less twisted and torn too i had a really close encounter when i was seven years old right here on this on this flat one night i was going to the bathroom on nine o'clock in the evening and our bathroom was relatively small but our window was like you know it's probably six feet up off the floor i looked up into the window and i seen this humongous arm reach right in and it almost touched me and arm was this i mean it was massive huge and um the skin was like not a black color but a really like a really dark tan color and i fell to the floor and i i couldn't holler i was like i was paralyzed and i laid there and and all of a sudden i like heard from my my dad dad dad dad and he can run into the bathroom and he goes what's going on son and he see me laying on your pit so you kind of pick me up and i go at that thing try to grab me dad i think try to grab me and so he runs back into the room and he hollers at uh you know my mom he goes dicey dicey give me that gun he goes my father ran from right here he ran out to back here he said he stopped and he said he looked at this thing and it was standing about right at that plume right there that flume line right there but that was that was an old wooden flume line it was all open where you know the irrigation used to go through there and he said that thing turned and looked at him like that and he cocked his gun he's by the time he cocked his gun he said the thing was already down by the crick he said and it was running he said it took one jump and it jumped the crick all the way across over the top the creek one jump to leap that creek and that crick is a pretty big crick and um it ran up the side right there and by time my father got there it was already gone what do you say to thousands of people credible respectable people with nothing to gain sometimes much to lose by coming forward and telling their stories of sasquatch encounters are they all lying delusional the continued and increasing eyewitness accounts are going to be a problem for the skeptics but people make mistakes imagine things and once they become terrified they can deduce that bigfoot is the culprit inker was taught by the last existing hooper shaman and he's my guide into the hoopa territory into areas considered to be sacred and like so many natives i've come across on this quest to find the truth about sasquatch he reveres them and he's in awe of them most north american native cultures are not laughing at bigfoot they're waiting for their return [Music] deep in the heart of the hoopa territory in northwest california i'm hiking the back roads and trails in search of answers trying to find one more piece of the puzzle called sasquatch i started out looking for what i was told was a big ape now i'm not so sure anymore i keep seeing the tracks like this it's a relatively small track so it could be just something from you know the boot of a human but still when you take a look at it and look at the shape of it and and i try and stamp beside it i can't make the same track and everything is soaking wet right now so if there's ever time i should be able to make a good strong impression of you right now there's my and there's the other see it's too close to tell that really is probably just a boot print it's just that it's got an odd curvature to it that uh doesn't necessarily signify boot but maybe it does it's full-on needle in a haystack when it comes to looking for it so it's kind of like you got a you gotta kind of jump into the haystack and hope that you land on the needle so you just don't know how it's gonna happen when or where nor do i know what's going to happen the possibilities are many no it's not just that moment you can feel absolutely fine the whole way and you get this feeling something's watching you recently i was quite a long ways away from here in northern manitoba canada and there they called it sabe and within the seven teachings that they have each animal represents a different attribute perhaps one animal might represent courage you know that sort of thing and and there's wolves and eagles and bears none of them are mythological there's no thunderbirds they're all regular standard animals that you have in the forest well one of them is right alongside wolf and bear eagle raven and the teaching that is associated with sabae is honesty i find that interesting because for those people who claim to have seen a sasquatch they have to often say look i don't care what you think i'm being honest this is what i saw and let's get something straight by the way i still have people saying well where is he uh with the thought that it's only one thing this is not the loch ness monster we're talking about here uh we're really exploring something that people estimate could be as many from as five to thirty five thousand in the species that's what we're talking about so we're not talking about one creature here one one guy who's walking around photobombing everybody so in case you were still stuck in that mode now you know for many native cultures sasquatch is a spiritual being and a real flesh and blood creature it's both but it's much closer to the human than an aim with abilities beyond what most scientific researchers are willing to even talk about i just want to talk about finding the truth the whole thing this is putting up with this kind of thing [Applause] see one doesn't look like that you got to come here and wait it out let's see if they'll come into you that's the only way this tiny pond is a site of great spiritual significance to the hoop of people they often come here to do ceremonies and they feel they are never alone the sasquatch are said to be here with them always there have been many reports of loud strange screams heard here so what are we talking about an ape a neanderthal a race of humans something paranormal quantum physics or just one big myth looking for answers is a slippery slope there's an old adage don't ask questions you don't want to know the answer to as we work on shelters in the rain max and i find much of our camera equipment failing in ways we can't explain humidity normally just shuts things down but our gear is malfunctioning in ways we've never seen many researchers claim sasquatch have the ability to affect electrical signals and then as if on cue inker comes running from the forest after hearing some loud knocking i have to pretty much just take anchors there are big trees it is trees and sounds in the wind um but i did hear what you heard just a single kind of sound when anchor said he had that feeling in the back of his neck i didn't but i'm getting it now so i just walk here our camera equipment continues to fail while the knocking also continues and in my mind i'm deducing that it does in fact sound deliberate but i'm refusing to believe inker that it's not just a tree in the wind yet it sounds like something inside the tree hitting the tree whenever i turn away my ears can hear it but the camera mics are not picking it up many of these cedars can be hollow from the bottom to the top and anything large could live inside this is you're in the knots all the time right now i do admit it's a strange sound to hear if it was just made by the wind there's all the rest of the creaking in the knocking and banging there should be lots a lot of trees here cause i'm working closer closer to the sound i'm not normally curious about sounds in the wilderness but this one is different [Music] inker was so sure it was a sasquatch i just want to prove him wrong [Music] that's awesome [Music] that's strange [Music] wow no difference i can't hear another single sound of tree noises in the storm only the sound coming from the inside of this tree and the timing of the knobs sounds deliberate for now i've packed away from the trinoms even though they continue at what seems like deliberate intervals we have more important matters our own survival on this small mountaintop the rain is turning to wet snow at times and without a fire we'll have a miserable night oh you gotta be kidding me even the toilet paper is not burning but look at that it won't even burn wow i don't know man [Applause] i know they want us here it's not such a flippant comment after all with inker everything in the wilderness is observed and accepted on a spiritual level he believes we're being tested at a skill both of us should be very good at and with the fire failing so much and the relentless rain inker and i and even my cameraman max are just thinking let's get out of here but our internal spirit is keeping us trying anchor scrounges for dry material but everywhere is drenched both of our lighters are empty and i'm running out of matches this is indeed becoming a test of our character with the tree knocking still sounding deliberate and separate from the storm winds continuing only a hundred feet away match after match fails and now i'm out and left with only a small bit of coal and no dry wood to add to it but coinciding with our lowest moment emotionally and seemingly in the nick of time suddenly only 50 feet from us a massive tree falls down it makes us all jump revealed in the tree fall is a huge supply of dry wood so dry that it powders easily with the new dry wood i'm finally able to coax out flames the wind continues as does the rain but the tree knocking stops the second i get the fire to take inker has his own perspective on what just happened anchor's thoughts are that the creator working in tandem with sasquatch observed us in the testing and blessed us gave us an opportunity to survive it's the kind of perspective that requires an open mind and a big picture view of the circumstances [Music] individually many events don't seem so special but when you string them together only then can you see a connection the dangers of hypothermia two skilled bushmen can't get a fire going and so we're tested a test of our character to not give up and just go home there are strange deliberate sounding tree knocks from the moment we arrive and suddenly as if we had proven ourselves worthy a big pile of dry wood is dropped at our feet exactly when we needed it the second the flame becomes strong enough to hold the knocks stop even though the wind and rain did not and our cameras they malfunctioned only from the moment we arrived at the lake and then they began to shut down only to work perfectly fine the next day you do the math are all these events connected do they hint towards something spiritual or within the realm of quantum physics when it comes to bigfoot or just simple coincidences due to weather and therefore meaningless inker doesn't think it was all so meaningless in fact he believes the whole affair was full of meaning what it all does mean will be revealed when the puzzle is [Music] completed you

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Length: 43min 37sec (2617 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 14 2020