05x05 - Survivorman and Son: Tofino

[bunniefuu]

For 25 years, I've trained in survival,
taught survival, practice survival...

and, of course, film survival.

Essentially, that means that out here,
I've had to exist...

in pretty much the same manner as the
legendary creature we've nicknamed Bigfoot.

Find food, water, build shelters,
stay hidden.

So where do I stand on the subject matter?

I've seen my share of the unexplained out
here.

But I'm a skeptic.

I need to see it to believe it.

And that's what I'm here to do now.

To get as close as I can, if that's
possible, to the legend known as Sasquatch.

This is a remote area in the foothills of
Alberta, a northern paradise...

crisscrossed with trapping lines,
survey lines, and access roads for hunters.

I've enlisted the help of a Bigfoot
tracker named Todd Standing.

He claims to have had multiple
interactions with what he believes to be...

the legendary creature known
scientifically as Gigantopithecus.

He says they're here.

I want them to prove it to me.

Thousands of examples of anecdotal
references, including confirmed DNA

evidence, are not enough for the world to
accept their existence.

And it's not enough for me either.

I need to see one.

The way I see it, there's two ways to ask
the question.

Number one, the easy way.

You believe in Bigfoot?

That's one way to ask the question.

There's another way to ask that same
question.

Do you think it's possible that a bipedal
ape, or a bipedal hominid species,

could exist around the world in extremely
remote locations, or not so remote but

thick enough, be responsible for thousands
of anecdotal references, from rock

throwings, to vocalizations, to sightings,
to supposed film footage?

Do you think that could exist?

That's a different question.

That doesn't require belief or faith.

It requires answers that are
scientifically based.

It requires analysis of thousands of examples
of evidence based on years of research.

It requires an open mind with a skeptic's
eye.

It requires throwing away preconceived
notions and starting at ground zero.

Well, for me, this is ground zero of
proving or debunking the reality,

the myth of the wild man of the forest.

Yowie, Yeti, Sasquatch, Scugog,
Cushtica, Oma, Bigfoot.

I can come out here full of skepticism.

That's fine.

But if I... I do believe that if you bring
out here the intent that you're up against

something, you
know... Me versus them.

Yeah, you're up against them.

You're versus them.

Then it's the wrong way to approach it.

But it's also what I've taught in survival
for many years.

You know, you have to respect what you're
dealing with.

You can't fight it.

You can't fight it.

You can't fight nature.

You're not up against nature.

You are trying to exist within it.

You're trying to survive.

And that survival requires respect,
humility, and paying attention.

And, uh, it's no different in the quest
for Sasquatch and some sort of connection

or experience, whatever that might be,
it's going to require the same thing.

On July 27th, 2007, while filming a scene
from my Survivorman Alaska show,

I was distracted by noises in the bush
about 100 yards away.

If you watch me in these scenes,
you can see times when I momentarily look

off into the bush on a number of
occasions.

I was wondering what the sound was.

I'm used to sounds in the bush,
so I wrote it off as a moose or a bear,

and carried on sh**ting the scenes of
making a grass bed for my shelter.

And eventually, I finished capturing the
footage I needed, and shut off the cameras.

As I walked towards my shelter,
I heard a hair-raising, extremely loud

sound that could only be described as
something like a great ape grunting at me.

I've heard many bears grunt, and this was
nothing like that.

What's more, it repeated
it four more times

very loud while I
stood frozen in my step.

When I made my move to grab the camera,
it took off through the bush and sounded

like a freight train breaking trees as it
covered many hundreds of yards in seconds.

Those sounds have haunted me to this day.

And then I'll do this opposite direction
over here.

So we've come to a bit of a high ground,
and by virtue of your whoop, we've said,

hey, just letting you know we're here.

Right?

Yeah.

That's basically it.

That's it.

Okay.

Yeah.

Hooping has been
referenced hundreds of times

throughout the world when
it comes to Bigfoot stories.

Todd has a theory about markings found
throughout this area where two trapping

brothers claim to have
been scared out of the

forest after visual
contact with a Bigfoot.

They refuse to return.

He feels that the systematic
and seemingly uniform breaks

in trees are signs of
communication from Gigantopithecus.

They were marking territory for the
trappers, part acceptance, part warning.

You know, I've broken a lot of branches in
my lifetime, just doing survival.

I've had to bend over a lot of trees,
break a lot of trees, cut a lot of trees.

Yes.

And I'm just thinking about this,
and I'm just...

You know, it would
need to be a powerful

hand, a grip that snaps
and breaks like that.

See, I keep trying to excuse this by snow,
saying, well, if there's like three feet

of snow crystallized on the top and the
wind comes in and then snap, right?

Yeah.

But that's not usually how it works.

No, it doesn't.

You know, the trees can bow over and they
might just sort of stay like that.

I've seen that over and over again.

To be just out in the open like this,
you know, and to be snapped like that,

yeah, it's like it takes hands.

So I'm just actually starting to really
feel that now, thinking of the different

trees I've seen and being able to,
all of a sudden, I feel like I can

recognize the difference between a tree
that is purposely broken off and put over

versus there was lots of snow on the top
and it bent over in the wintertime.

Well, I'll tell you, it's going
to open up my eyes to,

sorry, to tree breaks whenever
I'm in the wilderness now.

Every hundred yards or so, we find tree
break after tree break, all pointing in

the same direction, all
very conspicuous and

not feeling like a
natural occurrence at all.

They're too systematic,
yet I have to be careful

not to fall prey to the
power of suggestion.

I'm not interested in flirting with
conspiracy theories.

A strong man is not going to do that.

I've worked with enough branches and trees
to know that ain't going to happen.

There's going to be cut marks in it,
axe marks, saw marks.

And again, now we're looking at the age of
this as well.

Don't forget the age.

Yeah, that's not a moose break.

And it's not snow either.

Again, if it was snow, it would be like
that because I've seen this.

It would be March 5th and it's a big,
heavy snowfall.

The next day, it goes up to plus five.

The rain comes in, but then the wind comes
in.

All those heavy trees just like, whoa,
and then you hear snap, crash, bang.

But there's always 10, 20, 30, 50,
hundreds of them all down, not just one.

If the thought is, what is out there for a
great ape to survive on?

Grizzlies are massive.

Huge.

There's lots of them.

And they're out there
surviving on berries and roots

and tubers and grasses and
sedges and rodents and fish.

Same thing.

In 2010, four days into a remote region of
the Rocky Mountains, less than 12 hours

after a freak snowstorm
that provided ideal

cover, Todd was able
to record this footage.

It was this imagery that
convinced me to utilize his field

knowledge in this quest for
answers regarding Bigfoot.

One thing is for certain.

This image is not a blurry image of
something running in the distance.

It's pretty clear.

You can see what I see.

So we're left with only one of two
possible answers.

Either Todd has set this all up,
and it's some kind of elaborate hoax,

and he's a fraud, and
this is a fake, and he's

dedicated his whole life
to perpetrating this hoax.

Or it's not a fake.

It's real.

So what if this is real?

Here in a powerfully
beautiful stretch of the

foothills of Alberta, I'm
looking for some answers.

If you look at and listen to the
overwhelming amount of evidence pointing

to the existence of
Gigantopithecus, it becomes

hard to ignore at
least the possibility.

But like you, I need to see it to believe
it.

Todd and I have really only been out here
for a few hours.

We walked most of the
afternoon, the late afternoon, deep

in, checking out signs and
just getting a read on the area.

Now we're about to bunk
down for the night, and this

time we've got a sleeping
bag, a pad to sleep on.

We're going to sleep
out in the open before

we can even get settled
before the sun is set.

And at this point, Todd's convinced that
we've got not one, but potentially two,

potentially four Sasquatch moving in.

And I heard it too.

I heard movement in the bush over there.

I heard movement in the bush over there.

So we've kind of gone back to our normal
activity.

We're just, you know, if we're being
observed, if this is the situation,

well, we're just being normal,
casual.

We'll see how it goes.

We've got a full moon rising as well.

The night here is just dead, dead calm.

You could hear a branch break from a mile
away right now.

And it's incredibly bright.

The moon is full and just...

I mean, it's nearly as bright as day out
here.

Todd has gone into the truck to sleep for
the night.

And I'm just left out here alone.

Just to see what else, if any other
instances of sound or activity occur.

Nothing's happened.

It's been just calm all night.

There is one incidence of,
supposedly, of a man who

was actually picked up by
Bigfoot in his sleeping bag.

Carried off.

And, uh, spent two days with the Bigfoot
family and, uh, then escaped.

Something to think about.

Especially today, what's
gonna happen is Todd and I are

gonna head off in another
direction, do some basic tracking.

Any kinds of markings, signs, tracks that
are different from what you'd expect.

There really is only
one way to truly get in

and track wilderness
creatures of any kind.

And that's to get in there.

I think the key here
is, in my situation, if I'm

looking to survive, I
look for the same things.

And, uh, this, this is a fertile area.

It's a really good place for survival.

And that's why there's
grizzly, moose, cougar, wolves,

and according to my friend,
Mr. Standing, Sasquatch.

So we'll keep looking.

Right now, over there, a tree structure
that is so significant, I don't think you

could have made it without big equipment
or ropes.

Really?

As a human being.

All right.

So we'll go have a look.

You see it already.

We'll go investigate it.

Okay.

I'll show you why.

Okay.

It's so significant.

As we approach the
structure, it really isn't

something you'd notice
if you were walking by.

There doesn't seem to be anything
exceptional about the area.

It's not high ground or low ground.

There's no nearby creek or specialty food
sources.

Of all the places, why build a structure
here?

I need to see if Todd is onto something that
few, if any, before him have discovered.

Let's give Gigantopithecus the benefit of
doubt for now.

It would be the closest thing to a human
intelligence that we know.

So why wouldn't it make markings and build
structures to communicate?

So the first thing
you'll notice is the cross

section is about


All these trees are from a
different direction, but some of

them, like this one right here,
that's thrown upside down.

Ever seen a butt of a tree?



And even better than that, if you look at
this one over here on the left,

it's suspended in the air.

Look at the butt.

Two feet off the ground.

It doesn't happen naturally.

This structure is over 30 years old,
probably more like 50.

That road that we walked in on is 10 years
old.

You know how far it was to get in?

Can you imagine this being here 30 years
ago when there was no road?

This tree is bent in.

It's actually physically been bent and
twisted into this structure.

To play skeptic, I'm
trying to say, okay,

let's throw the Bigfoot
notion out the window.

Okay.

Let's say, natural occurrence.

And, um,

I can't think of a natural occurrence to
pull this in.

All we really have to
work with out here is

the weight of the snow
and windstorms and rot.

The snow couldn't have done this.

I know that.

Wind wouldn't have done this.

I know that.

Rot wouldn't have done this.

I know that.

There is one missing link.

There is one last thing that could be left
here.

And that is, what about human or humans?

Well, I work with trees all the time.

I maneuver trees around.

I use dead trees.

I use live trees.

I put them in the position.

I make shelters.

I make signal fires.

I make markings.

As a man, I could, I could build this.

The issue is the level of difficulty is
extreme.

There's age to the trees.

Um, and that's very, very difficult to
fake.

And it's aged in position.

These trees were, in some cases,
possibly dragged and put in place.

In other cases, pushed where they stood.

And, and the ones that are pushed where
they stood, I take a look at them.

And the bottom is old.

If this was done, even within the last two
years, it wouldn't look like this.

Which, which, tells me that this thing has
been here for, uh, quite some time.

I'm challenged.

I'm challenged to disprove this.

I'm challenged to say, ah, Todd was in
here last week.

He had some buddies.

They put this all into place.

This is pretty powerful.

The whole point of my trip is to attract a
Sasquatch.

It's said that leaving them gifts does
several important things.

It lets them know that we're here for
them.

That we know they're here.

And that this is their home.

And in recognition of that, we leave them
the gift.

All of this is done with the intent of
building a relationship of trust.

And perhaps even getting them excited
about our being here.

Todd uses apples as the gift.

And we place them high enough that deer or
elk can't touch them.

And anything else should leave obvious
tracks.

That's where we're headed.

And just keep seeking out signs.

Walk through the area.

Be calm and casual in the area.

And whatever is here, be it grizzly,
be it squirrel, be it Bigfoot,

it'll know we're here.

And it'll make its own assumptions on how
to deal with us, or not.

Like different examples of the same
species of wildlife, Sasquatch too have

reputations that run the gamut from
friendly and even helpful encounters to

aggressive behavior that includes
grunting, screaming, rock throwing,

leg pulls, and even abduction.

Todd feels that the
Sasquatch in this particular

area must have some
affinity to humans.

Since in fact, they seem to have accepted
the trappers that were here before,

even if their very appearance alone was
enough to scare the men away.

For me, it always comes down to getting
right out there, deep in the danger zone.

A place where I'm
vulnerable enough for a

creature such as this to
want to attempt contact.

These are the things to follow.

We've just got this perfect indentation.

That's one of the benefits of tracking and
moths.

Marks that get made repeatedly stay for a
while and give us something to follow here.

I don't want to fall prey to the power of
suggestion.

Todd is one of the best in the field.

But what does that even mean?

Yet he, like thousands of
people before him, swears to

have seen the creature
clear enough to have no doubt.

And I just want to erase my own doubts.

The tree breaks are still just a theory.

But like it is when I'm out surviving,
you have to be out here to get it.

Theory though it may be, things do seem to
be lining up.

You feel that, um, they point in the direction
that is, they're okay with you being.

Yes.

But not behind.

That's right.

Where I'm standing, basically.

That's right.

Don't.

You go where the point is.

It's possible that this
was a communication of

acceptance for the trappers
who worked this forest.

Another tree break.

And again, same way.

And a big one, too.

Well, you look at that.

See, we have a uniformity here that's
actually starting to freak me out a little.

And get unbelievable because this is
clearly a trap line.

He's got his trail through here.

Clearly, I can see that, you know,
this break, just like all the others,

it points in the same direction.

It's saying essentially the same thing.

Your side is okay.

My side's mine.

Don't come this way.

And this one follows a trap line all the
way through.

To enhance the possibility of our success,
we continue on the survey and trap lines.

And we stop and hoop specific calculated
points.

A few minutes after
doing our communication

hoops, we're stopped in
our tracks by an answer.

Did you hear that?

I heard that.

That was a Bigfoot.

Right.

You said you want to take nothing for
granted.

That was a Bigfoot.

That was a whoop.

Yeah, I heard it.

Very clearly.

That was not a crow.

Crow.

That was over that way.

I heard it.

That was a Bigfoot.

That's the first time they've ever whooped
back to me, ever hear.

And that's what I was talking about
earlier.

Nothing is... Because
we'll always be walking.

There'll always be something going on.

We'll be talking.

But you just heard that, didn't you?

No, I heard it clear, very clear.

And did we both?

We both went at the very same time.

Yeah.

Let's just take a look at this from my
perspective right now.

I've come out here with the purpose of
skeptically getting closer to a Sasquatch

and discovering what that means and what's
possible.

And I've done that with Bigfoot expert,
Todd Standing.

So we come out here,
we hike for hours, areas

we look at tree breaks,
we do our whoops.

These are things, these are
characteristics and ways of being that

Todd has discovered over years and years
of study will be effective for connecting

or contacting or having an experience that
involves a Sasquatch.

Okay, so I'm down with that and we do it.

We get out to the end, we're way up high.

I mean, it's high and we do our whoops
three and a half minutes, four minutes

goes by and we both are
stopped suddenly by the,

well, what can only be
described as a return whoop.

Now the reality is, hoax, okay,
how in the hell did Todd ever get somebody

all the way out there and
time it for me to land here

and, uh, and then have them
whoop back the way I whoop?

You know, obviously just impossible.

Um, was it a bird?

Well, potential is always there,
but we know our bird calls pretty well.

And just one little whoop like that,
just like mine, off in the distance and

nothing else, that starts to take away the
probability that it's a bird.

So let's just see what happens.

This time let's just
do our whoops and sit

quietly for three or
four minutes just to see.

And if not, we carry on.

I'm just going to wait quietly here for a
couple minutes and see.

If we get the same reaction we did last
time.

Hoops in the forest will not be enough for
me.

I need to keep pushing.

I need to go in deeper.

I need to stay out here overnight and
alone.

I need to see this for myself.

The answer is out there.

Sounds I've heard in Alaska, Ontario,
Alberta, British Columbia, Washington.

Are they all birds and bears?

Or something else?

As we travel, we find more and more
evidence of things that at the very least

seem very much out of place for the
natural forest.

Okay, I just want to show one thing,
you know.

This whole thing about Todd showing me these
structures, it reminded me of something.

And it's this.

I had spent a lot of time in northern
Quebec working with Cree elders,

teaching kids wilderness survival methods.

And one of the things they showed me was
that in fact they utilized branches and

structures to indicate a lot of different
things, especially traveling.

They might set up a branch in a certain
way.

Another one would be leaning against it
like this.

And you come along and you go,
Oh, okay.

Well, Jimmy came this
way and he's suggesting that

over that way is where
the good moose hunting is.

Or depending on where
it exists on the branch,

everything indicated
something different.

It was a way of telling a story to the
person who comes along behind you.

So when you think of this, that humans
have been doing this for a couple thousand

years here in North America, this was
their methodology to take branches,

break them, bend them in certain ways so
that people behind them can get a message.

It starts to make the tree structures that
we're looking at as ways for a Sasquatch

species to indicate something,
to give a message, a lot more plausible.

Because it's so far-fetched that an
intelligent species, an upright bipedal

walking hominid might do the same thing
and that all these tree structures that

Todd is talking about are part of that
process.

Everything is normal, looks as it should
look in a forest.

And then you come upon something that just
seems abnormal.

Like snow load or rot didn't do this.

So what did?

Start from the bottom, right?

So we've got the single tree up the middle
and it's still alive, okay?

It has a whole bunch of trees tangled
around it, twisted around.

And yet it's younger than the trees that
are around it.

Tree number two gets a snow load and falls
like that.

Okay, acceptable, all right.

Tree number three has got to be the
suspended one.

Okay, if it was snow load, then tree
number three fell.

Before anything else was there,
right?

It fell.

I don't know how it could have fallen.

I mean, it'd have to fall in between the
fork branches and then it would have to be

here long enough to rot off the pieces on
either side and remain there suspended.

And tree number four is likely to be the
big burnt one that goes across.

But it's more like it's shoved up through,
right?

If that's the case, then why not these
other trees?

They're just the same size.

Why aren't they snapped over?

So taking into account
the fact that the tree up

the center is new, or
like, yeah, it's still alive.

And then you place all these other
branches.

I'm just trying to, I can't imagine the
complexity it would take for a winter

storm, you know, it's March, it's heavy,
it's wet, the wind is blowing,

to make all this happen.

It's like, it'd be like throwing puzzle
pieces in the air and they land in the

form of the picture they're supposed to
make.

The age of the trees and
their positioning removes

the possibility that Todd
set these up as fake.

Let's call this Sasquatch CSI.

Well, so far, the evidence suggests that
something, not humans, not weather,

not rot, not animal, made the structures.

But what?

Back at base camp, we prepare ourselves
for a night that starts out calm,

but will end anything but.

There's no wind tonight.

It's perfect.

You could hear a mouse moving if you
listen closely.

But that's not what we're listening for.

And at the moment, Todd and I are just
sitting here, by the campfire,

kind of telling campfire stories,
and, uh, sure enough, just heard a good,

solid sound.

You can tell it's a wood sound.

Not far.

Just a few hundred yards from us,
likely.

I heard that?

Yeah.

I'm gonna turn the camera so my
microphone's pointed in that direction.

Three.

There's three.

Okay.

We're not hearing just one thing.

It wasn't just one thing.

Now we've heard it.

It just sounded like someone hitting one
against another.

Todd has popped his mouth.

A couple of small, gentle hoops.

So I've got you positioned
here at the camera so that

the long shotgun mic is
pointed in that direction.

I got chills going up my spine.

Something big, yet stealthy, is out there.

And it's no bear.

It's no moose.

And there's more than one.

At least three creatures make noises of
swishing bushes and tree branches.

Little knocks and pops.

Deep thuds in the ground that you can feel
even though you can't quite hear them.

Why is there no better footage of these
supposed creatures?

I'm a filmmaker.

I have the gear, skill set, and experience
to capture what needs to be captured.

But like survival itself, you have to be
out here to get it.

To know what it's like to
hear a small sound that

makes you turn or a large
sound that makes you jump.

Yet you don't catch it on film.

And leaving the camera on non-stop,
pointed exactly in the right direction,

is not an option.

So I'll wait, look, and listen.

But to what?

At this point I can't explain.

But there is something out there tonight.

I can think of how many times I've heard
those sounds.

I've heard them before.

Perhaps not is all
as it seems in the vast

wilderness areas that
still cover this earth.

Perhaps the confirmed DNA evidence of
unknown ape species found in North America.

The sounds and
sightings and the prevailing

native lore actually
mean something after all.

If there were only a few dozen or even a
few hundred and they were intelligent

enough to hide, they could certainly do it
out here.

We're going to head off into the woods
here and investigate where we heard the

three sounds last night, look around,
see if we can spot any prints at all.

I mean, the sounds we heard were distinct.

There was no wind, there wasn't creaking
trees, there was definitely not a grizzly

or cougar or anything like that,
no unglet, no hooved animals.

Now, what we heard
was something else, we're

going to go in and see if
we can find some tracks.

You're kidding me, the apples are gone?

Damn, we might have new prints here.

And no signs of the apples.

At all.

They were here, apples are gone.

I'm seeing new impressions.

Because that looks to me like a Bigfoot
track right here.

Come here and look at this track.

Heal impression.

And then there's like holes.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, so we start back here and it ends up
here.

Gosh, it sure does look like an
impression.

It does, doesn't it?

My foot wouldn't have made that and your
foot wouldn't have made it.

And if we do the pressure test?

It's the same shape, but really slender.

But look at the size of it.

It's huge.

That's not a hoof, it's not a hoof print.

No, that's bigger than anybody's footprint
would be.

Checking out the tree structures,
places where we've put the apples,

just to see if anything's been taken.

And indeed, they're gone from down at this
one.

This is the one right across from our base
camp.

The apples are gone and the prints,
maybe.

I know the print that
I saw in the, in the

sphagnum moss was far
too big for a human to make.

The beauty of tracking right now,
with this kind of sun, is that the sun is

hitting the ground on such a sharp angle
that any tracks, any impressions,

they just pop out at you.

Really easy to see the shadows.

Okay, this is kind of freaking me out
here.

I recognize that the
camera won't capture the

look of this track the
way my own eyes do.

But no animal I'm aware of could have made
it.

And there's no reason for the moss to grow
indented in this manner.

What's freaking me out
about this is the track, the way

it goes, it's got a definite
shape like a human foot.

And then the, the toe end of it,
there's literally holes.

I see the exact same track here as I saw
over there.

Look, slender heel.

What the hell is going on?

Long, right, toe holes.

And look how close he was.

This is close.

You know, he was looking right at us.

Those tracks were not there the day
before.

It's time to go in alone.

That's how I do my best work anyway.

Where I'm going defies
all of my usual logic

for a good place to
survive and be stationed.

It's a small, deep little pocket of a
place far from our base camp.

The way we're setting ourselves up,
and I understand where Todd's coming from.

It's the opposite of what I would normally
do.

I mean, purposely placing ourselves in the
position of vulnerability.

I mean, this is the kind of positioning I
would not put myself in, in an area like

this, when I'm concerned with a good,
healthy population of grizzly bears,

black bears, and, of course, cougar.

But every once in a while, I gotta just
stop and think, man, what am I doing?

What is this, anyway?

I...

But you know what?

I know what I heard yesterday.

And I can't explain it.

Not within normal explanations.

Uh, you know, I think, I
think it's, oh, you know,

ravens can, they can kind
of make whooping sounds.

It's very true, they can, but they're also
somewhat masters of mimicry.

But, uh, that's not what I heard
yesterday.

No, I heard my whoop giving back at me.

Three or four minutes after I made it.

And last night by the fire?

Nah, there's no explanation for what we
heard last night by the fire.

I don't have one.

And I spent most of my life out here.

I start to think back to all the different
sounds and things that I've seen and heard

when I'm out on survival missions,
especially what happened to me in Alaska.

And also what happened to me in Northern
Ontario.

I know the sounds of moose, wolves,
bears, birds.

And these other experiences, they aren't
any of those.

So what are they?

We're following dozens of very strict
rules set out by Todd.

One mistake, and these
elusive creatures could

disappear into the vast
forests without a trace.

In 1995, I spent a year living in the
wilderness.

And on one occasion, I
listened on a calm, dark

night to two heavy feet
walking closer to my shelter.

My wife at the time heard them too.

We sat and listened until
it came so close that we

called out, just as we
would to scare off a bear.

It could only be described as sounding
like a very heavy man walking.

But we were in the middle of nowhere,
with no one around for many miles.

The Walker stopped when we called out.

It turned and just walked away.

I didn't see it, but I know it wasn't a
moose or a bear.

So what was it?

If it happens again tonight, I'll be
ready.

This is the strangest version of being out
here I've ever done, that's for sure.

Surrounded by grizzlies, cougars,
who knows what else.

Here I am.

You know, this is absolutely
by far the last place

that I would normally
leave myself for the night.

The last place.

Completely vulnerable.

Right at the bottom of a bowl.

Everything around me is high ground.

Cougars love high ground.

The whole point is that, according to Mr.
Standing, so do Sasquatch.

And we're giving them that.

I'm giving them that.

I'm giving them... I'm giving...

You can put out trail cams.

Use infrared technology to spot one.

Even hunt them if you want.

You might get lucky.

But I doubt it.

I'm looking for contact.

If there's something out there,
I'll find it.

But beyond!

Keep on gotcha!