Another upside down tree...
[narrator] Previously on Expedition Bigfoot...
[Mireya] So strange.
[Bryce] From the peak of the mountain
to upside down tree to the worksite.
That's an equilateral triangle.
It has meaning.
[Russell speaking]
[man] Oh, wow.
[man speaking]
[man] It will actually see everything in front of it.
[man] What is it doing? Why did it stop?
[man speaking]
[Mireya] Look. Motion detector went off.
[Bryce] Something is at our camp.
[man] Holy...
This is the footage that Russell took.
Right there!
I think we just captured a cloaked Bigfoot.
[Ronny] I can see one of the trail cams.
[Mireya] I see it.
[narrator] After the strange activity they experienced the night
before, Mireya and Ronny are checking the trail cams,
to see if they caught a glimpse
of whatever it was that breached their perimeter.
[Mireya] Something was going on here.
So let's see.
Last night, something set off those motion detectors
that we set around our tents.
We couldn't find any signs
of what triggered those motion sensors,
but we may have something even better,
an image on those trail cameras of what came into camp.
-Searching? -Yep.
[Mireya speaking] All right.
We'll just leave this one up.
[Ronny] I'm kind of surprised we have nothing on this one,
because the field of view for this trail camera,
we have pretty much the entire left side of the swamp,
and we have nothing on it.
[Mireya] Yeah.
Let's go check the other ones.
Okay.
[Mireya] We got something here. Something triggered it.
This was me coming up on it.
That was it.
Nope.
[Ronny] Okay.
[mobile phone ringing]
-Hey, Bryce. -Hey, Ronny, Mireya.
-Hey, Bryce. -[Ronny] What's up?
Listen, I have an important update for you guys.
Russell investigated this abandoned mine,
and we had the entire system lidared.
Well, those results came back.
You guys are not gonna believe what I found.
The lidar picked up what can only be described
as a humanesque figure sitting on a pile of rock.
[Ronny] Holy crap.
[Bryce] But here's the thing.
On the regular mounted camera, you don't see anything.
[Ronny] Oh, wow.
[Bryce] And on Russell's handheld,
he spotted a strange distortion.
That, to me, could only mean one thing.
So we're dealing with something that's
almost invisible?
Exactly.
[Ronny] It's reminiscent to me of the shadow on the rock wall
in Washington State.
I just saw a [bleep] shadow.
[Mireya] What the [bleep] was that?
[Ronny] It went from right to left and it [bleep] disappeared.
I'm thinking the same thing, Ronny.
This could very well be
a camouflage or cloaked Bigfoot.
[Ronny] Holy [bleep].
When Bryce told us about that finding
my stomach dropped.
I'm no lidar expert.
But usually if a figure shows up in the data,
that means that there's something there.
I mean, I've-- I've heard of stories like this,
but I'm a bit skeptical.
Is there anything that would
possibly explain something like that?
[Bryce] There could be several explanations
for what I'm seeing.
But we've encountered enough strange things
on our expeditions to know that
we have to chase down every lead.
Hundred percent.
Whatever it was,
Russell thinks it left the mine
and is still out there.
So I want you guys to stop what you're doing
and head into the direction of the mine to see
if you can figure out whatever it was moving around that area.
Meanwhile, Russell will continue
searching downriver.
[Russell speaking]
If this thing is out there,
it's gonna leave telltale signs.
[Russell speaking]
Really interesting to see what we can find.
Perfect. I'll send you guys the coordinates.
-Thanks, Bryce. -[Ronny] Thanks, Bryce.
[Bryce] All right. We'll talk soon.
-All right. -Wow. That's interesting.
Yeah. Let's go.
[Bryce] While I have the rest of the team on the lookout
for whatever it was on that lidar,
I'm on my way to speak with a witness named Joel,
who's an avid outdoorsman and hunter,
and has spent most of his life in the woods.
He said he'd be willing to share with me
an encounter that he had.
Hey, you Joel?
That's me.
Hey, how's it going, man? Bryce.
-Good to meet you. -Great to meet you.
Thanks for taking the time to speak with me.
So I understand you had some strange occurrences
out in the woods.
Yeah. So I was camping about
two miles up a nearby mountain,
and I awoke to this
really loud sound of a branch breaking,
uh, a thick branch,
and I heard something moving around,
so I immediately thought it could be a bear.
But then I heard, like, the most high pitched scream.
Just-- just blood-curdling scream.
It echoed through the whole woods,
like the roar of a lion.
But-- but high pitched.
And, um, you know, the kind of sound
you just feel going through your body.
And have you ever heard anything like this before?
Definitely not.
Yeah, it was a first time hearing a sound like that.
And how did it make you feel hearing this-- this scream?
Paralyzed.
I mean, I had a visceral reaction to it.
All the hairs on my neck stood up and...
-[Bryce] Really? Wow. -Yeah.
It sounds like a primalistic fight or flight response.
[Joel] Definitely a fight or flight response.
[Bryce] You know, more than once
I've heard a witness describe
this blood-curdling scream that comes from the woods.
Even Mireya described it as that.
[distant screaming]
[Mireya] What the [bleep]?
That had a more human tone to it.
It has me thinking that these same sounds
could also be what those loggers heard.
I can't be 100% sure,
but it just feels like Bigfoot to me.
Do you think this creature is dangerous and capable of,
you know, causing harm?
I mean, we definitely have a lot of people go
missing up here.
Does this happened quite a bit around here or...?
It happens every year.
Yeah. We have people go missing.
What do you think's going on?
They must be encountering something in the woods.
[Bryce] It reminded me that the logger from the worksite
that basically launched our investigation
experienced the same thing.
[man] People disappear out here.
These things come and take 'em.
If people really are going missing
under mysterious circumstances,
then I can't help but think about the safety of our team.
Do you have any advice for me and my team,
if we're looking for these creatures
and evidence of their existence?
[Joel] Just be careful if you're out in the woods.
I definitely wouldn't camp now.
Not at all. Not overnight.
These are definitely strange woods.
There's nothing fresh in this dirt, in this mud.
It's walking a riverbank.
[narrator] After experiencing mysterious activity
in the abandoned mine,
Russell has begun tracking an animal
along the river that leads directly from the mine.
Here we go.
It looks like something literally laid down here.
Like a-- like it made bed out of it.
See all of that's laid down and pressed.
And that's a big flat surface.
And what were we?
Less than a mile away.
Did you hear something on that side?
I thought I heard something.
I swear I heard something over there.
I wanna try something here real quick.
So it's cool enough out here right now.
Anything putting off a heat trace,
we should be able to pick it up on the thermal.
I got that gut feeling
there's something over there looking at us.
But I can't see anything on these thermals.
I swear there's something watching us.
I can literally feel it.
I'm following something and I know that I'm close.
I can hear it.
I wanna know what's moving.
[distant howl]
You heard the whistle?
[cameraman speaking]
There.
That's right there.
There's something going on over there.
[cameraman speaking]
Almost like it was toying with me.
Whatever that is, it's watching us.
Let's work our way up.
We'll go upstream.
See if we can find a way across to it.
I want to be in that forest over there.
Okay.
[Mireya] I think we're getting close to the mine.
[narrator] After Bryce discovered intriguing anomalies...
Right there.
[narrator] ...in the footage Russell recorded,
Ronny and Mireya have made their way
to the forest surrounding the abandoned mine.
[Mireya] This looks like a really well-worn path here.
[Ronny] Oh, yeah.
Mireya, look at that.
That's weird.
This looks somewhat fresh, broken off here.
[Mireya] So do all these, actually.
[Ronny] What the hell?
Holy [bleep].
As we continue further into the forest,
we come across this gigantic tree structure.
The branches are broken off,
and it's shaped in this bizarre pyramid formation.
This is high up in the air.
They would take someone like myself to use a ladder
to put this thing together.
I think this is all natural tree-fall, though.
If you think about when we talk about nests,
there's an actual comfort level to them
that this wouldn't have.
I don't know.
You could bed down all over the place
or at least hunker down for a couple of hours.
[Mireya] It's called the forest floor, Ronny.
I know one of the things out here is that the Bigfoot
or supposed to be much larger, so it makes sense
they would probably use larger materials
to make those structures or different markers.
I completely understand Mireya's hesitation,
but this looks all too conveniently placed to be natural.
We cannot afford to pass up on any evidence
while we're here in Alaska.
I'm trying to find the base of this tree and this one.
These both look like they're just kind of shoved in.
That caught my eye because everything
is almost coming into that pyramid type shape.
I mean, it looks strange, but you can see over
where you're standing,
where that seems to have been rooted there.
[Ronny] Yeah.
And the heavy rains, we've been getting wind,
would cause it to fall and then topple over,
this sort of ripple effect and take these with them.
So I think this is just the natural tree fall.
But there's been reports of Bigfoot pushing trees,
knocking 'em over.
Just looking at these branches,
you can tell they weren't cut with tools.
They were broken by brute force by something powerful.
So to me, it looked like a structure.
The strange part is how they're broken off,
they're hanging.
Yeah, that's what looks weird, is where is that coming from?
I don't see the base of where that is.
So that one has me kind of curious.
Plus, we have a game trail,
which looks pretty well traveled,
going right across.
I wonder if it would make sense for us to set up
a trail cam pointed at this just to see
if anything does
come through here, use this spot.
I mean, to me, this is a natural fall,
but if you feel strongly about it, all right.
Ronny thinks that this could be some kind of a tree structure.
Personally, it looks to me like natural tree fall,
but I still think that this is a very good spot to investigate.
We've definitely seen a lot of tracks of different animals
moving in and around here,
so I'm not against staking out this area tonight.
[Russell] Ryan, let's get on that trail.
[narrator] Three miles from Ronny and Mireya,
Russell has found a narrow portion of the river to cross
and continues to pursue
the source of the mysterious sounds.
See how everything is all laid flat here,
but this leaf right here,
something's just been through here,
and they've literally been pulled up off the ground
by something stepping through that.
This might be the trail we've been looking for.
[distant howl]
Stay there for a second.
I keep hearing this whistling sound
and it's moving with me,
but it's always staying out in front of me.
It's like it's leading me somewhere.
All of a sudden, I come up to this riverbank
with a clearing on the other side of it,
and I think whatever I'm hearing is in that tree line.
I don't want to give my position away.
So I'm gonna stay just inside the shoreline
and set up my tripod,
and a little later on, when it's completely dark,
I'm gonna do as much thermal work as I can.
It'll be dark soon.
[distant howl]
[Bryce] That's just crazy.
In preparing for our expedition in Alaska,
we spent a lot of time and energy
just focusing on some of the dangers
that we were gonna encounter.
Between the wildlife
and the landscape and the weather,
Alaska is a pretty dangerous place.
But after my conversation with Joel,
something raised an alarm, he said,
"People go missing here in Alaska all the time."
And that's kind of a shocking statement.
But it wasn't the first time I heard it.
That worker at the worksite,
he basically said the same thing.
So I wanted to just get a feel of it for myself
and look up these statistics.
And I have to tell you, it was shocking.
Not only does Alaska
have a very high missing persons rate,
it's the highest in the country.
It's three times higher
than the next closest state, Arizona.
You know, look, people go missing for all sorts of reasons.
And being here in Alaska,
just the sheer danger of the landscape
is gonna account for a lot of these cases.
But I'm not gonna dismiss
all of the indigenous legends and stories
that talk about a Bigfoot like creature
coming out of the woods
and kidnaping, even killing men,
women and children.
I don't know what to make of all this.
But the bottom line is Alaska
is an extremely dangerous place,
and we're gonna have to do everything we can
to keep ourselves safe
and not just become another statistic.
I see a little bit of heat on a tree way over
on the other side of that clearing.
It's just like a spike.
It's not a-- it's not like the whole side of a tree.
Keep an eye on that area right there.
[splashing]
Geez.
[shushing]
Did you hear that?
That was right here beside us.
[splashing]
Whoa.
Ryan, there's something hot in the water, just went by.
Right there. Do you see it?
Right there.
Is that a beaver?
That's a beaver.
It's going around in circles.
So they hit their tail into the water.
[splashes]
The only real heat signature I'm getting is there,
their eyes and their face
'cause they're submerged in the water.
They're not gonna put out a very big thermal.
[splashes]
[splashing]
Listen.
That was not the beaver.
Let's go.
All right. Come on.
That thing is definitely bipedal.
Let's go!
It's crazy.
[cameraman speaking]
No, that was...
Just think about the sounds we've been hearing.
It's like one slap at a time, right?
That was continuous.
Not getting anything on the thermal.
I don't like that.
Nothing.
Absolutely nothing.
Come on, show yourself.
What in the heck?
That was up in the tree.
Something was up in that tree. Right there.
On a cold night like this,
you wouldn't expect to see
a big heat trace on a tree, especially at that elevation.
Something big had to have been in that tree.
It's fading.
It's fading fast.
That large heat trace is fading quickly,
which means that it was just there.
That thing was right up in that tree,
when we were sitting right there.
Look at that.
Something just came through here.
Right out here. Come on.
Ryan, I think it went back across.
Whatever was in that tree put out a lot of heat.
I'm not seeing anything here.
What I don't understand
is how something that puts out that much heat on a tree,
can put out no heat on the other side of this water,
unless it's using the water
to cool it's body temperature down.
Think about that.
If it gets in the water,
and gets out on to the other side,
we're not gonna get much of a thermal trace at all.
It's gonna be cold.
But for how long?
I'm already getting a really
eerie feeling about this place.
[narrator] After discovering that the upside down trees,
the mountain and the logging site
made a seemingly perfect triangle...
All sides are pretty much equal.
[narrator] ...Bryce has returned
to the abandoned logging site
where the expedition first began.
We understand there was an incident that took place here?
[man] Yeah, two weeks ago.
That's when the sound started.
That's when people started leaving.
[Bryce] After seeing what I saw in the research
about all the missing persons on this island,
of course, it could be nothing.
But I feel like it's too much of a coincidence
that these locations lined up that way.
It got me thinking, there's a very good chance
that Bigfoot evidence might have possibly gone overlooked.
So right now, I wanna go back to where the worksite is,
because we've never investigated
this specific area.
I mean, it's really quiet.
This place is completely abandoned.
It doesn't look like anything or anyone has come back here.
I don't see anything.
I wanna go down by the river
where he said their stuff was being taken to.
Maybe I can find some DNA evidence,
footprints, tracks, something.
[cameraman speaking]
In this old growth forest, the visibility is so great.
I mean, you can see for hundreds of yards.
I just wanna scan here across the river with this thermal.
Nothing yet.
Let's keep moving upriver a little bit.
This is some really good visibility.
Let me go down here and take a scan.
Hey, hey. Come here.
Check this out.
[cameraman speaking]
There's something down there.
I'm getting a little hot spot right here.
[cameraman speaking]
I have no idea.
Oh, it's moving.
It's moving. Look, look, look, look.
Oh, my God!
Right here.
Oh, it's gone!
[Bryce speaking]
Let's go. Come on.
Oh.
It was right here.
Holy [bleep]. Check this out! Check this out!
Come here.
Look, you can still see a residual heat signature.
Whatever was here, was standing right here.
Are you seeing this?
Look at that.
Wow!
See how it goes from cold.
And then I move over.
Right here.
I mean, it's a really weird shape.
Those look, to me, like--
like where feet would be standing.
But I don't know.
It's hard to make out.
I think we need to continue tracking whatever was here.
Let's go.
[Russell] You see that?
Something's been through here recently.
This place just feels weird, doesn't it?
I've been hearing sounds that I'm not familiar with.
It's spooky here.
And the overall feeling, you can't escape it.
Look at the...
Hold up.
But what I run into is a tree
that's been plucked up out of the ground,
roots and everything turned upside down
and jammed back down into the Earth.
You seeing this?
The most unnatural thing I've ever seen in the forest.
See that distance right there?
And then down here, close to the ground is thinner.
I know that Ronny and Mireya
have been doing an investigation
on something exactly like this,
but I've never seen it for myself.
I'm wondering if it's telling me
that it's dangerous to proceed
or that I shouldn't be here,
but something that is of nature
and ripped from the earth and turned upside down
doesn't feel like a welcome thing.
I don't know if you're hearing that.
[distant screeching]
This place just has some weird sounds, doesn't it?
You see that?
Look at that.
Balanced on an old rotten stump
is a tree that has been placed
strategically across the top of it.
Look at this.
That's just balanced up there like a seesaw.
At first glance, you think
maybe it's just a large branch
that fell from a tree above
and just happened to land on top of this stump.
Just one little finger.
Look at that.
Look how long this stuff's been here.
How would that have fallen from any of those trees?
This was done clearly with intent.
Something smart placed this here
maybe as a marker, maybe to signal others.
And then again, maybe as a warning.
[soft clicking]
You keep hearing that sound?
[soft clicking]
It's almost like clicking or something hitting it's teeth like a...
[soft clicking]
Oh, dude, look at this.
There's another one.
Okay, I've stumbled across my second one now.
Another tree across an old rotten stump,
also balanced perfectly on this log.
You seeing that?
That doesn't happen by accident.
Look how fragile it is.
This is a pattern.
This place is, as Ronny would say,
chock full of high strangeness.
You know, I've never encountered
anything like this in the forest before.
I wanna get ahold of Ronny and Mireya
and just let them know what I found.
Hey, guys.
[Ronny and Mireya on phone] Hey, Russ.
[Russell] Listen, I'm getting some really, really
strange activity in this area.
-Like what? -What I found was a...
like, an upside down tree.
[Ronny] Oh, no way.
[Russell] This thing's only about six or seven feet tall.
It's not like the big ones that you guys are looking at.
But this thing's been here for a long time.
It's got moss growing over it and everything else.
Something that's really wild is,
I found these two separate spots
where these logs are placed on top of old tree stumps.
They've literally been positioned
almost like in a seesaw manner,
and they're balanced perfectly.
Like something placed it or just natural fall?
[Russell] This is definitely with intent.
[Ronny] Logs on the top of stumps, man, that's...
that's brand new from what I've heard
in the different stories out here.
If this is a tree structure, man,
this is unlike one I've ever seen.
There's something else that you guys should know.
I keep hearing these clicking sounds.
I don't know if this is something that's normal for Alaska,
like a native wildlife sound, that's just--
that I'm just not used to yet.
But it seems really, really strange
because it didn't start up until I got in this area.
I mean, that doesn't sound familiar to me here,
but if I talk about primates,
then there is a very large monkey.
It's a mandrill.
It has a very colorful face and it actually clicks
and gnaws its teeth as a warning sign.
It's actually a threat display.
I wonder if this thing is... is either threatened by me
coming into the area
or if it's trying to push me out.
[Mireya] I mean, it's hard for me to say.
I just know that it's not out of the realm of possibility
because primates, they communicate
in a... in a number of ways.
All right.
I'll let you guys know if I see anything else.
In the meantime, you guys just be careful.
Keep us updated, man.
What?
Do you see that?
Is that a skull in the tree?
[bleep]
That's not natural at all.
Look at that.
That thing right there
was positioned there with intent.
I'm facing something that I will admit...
I don't like it.
I have almost had a sick feeling
in the pit of my stomach.
That looks like a goat skull or something, doesn't it?
But it's wood.
Looks like it's a wood.
It looks like a carving.
When I realized it wasn't a skull,
I thought maybe it was a wood carving, but it's not.
What's very strange about this,
this is all natural root system.
There's sticks that are thrust into the Earth
almost in a fashion where
you're looking through this cage at this skull.
But the way it was placed and presented
and on full display...
was meant to startle whoever laid eyes on it.
Let's go back around. This is just weird.
Hang on a second.
Look up against the tree right there.
Do you see that?
It looks like an upside down tree.
I officially don't frickin' like this place.
I don't like it.
I don't like this at all.
Oh, geez.
Scared the crap out of me.
This feels like a sacrifice point or a...
a spiritual thing happening here.
This was all positioned with a reason.
And I'm not sure that I wanna know what that reason is.
I wonder what else is out here.
Hey, Ronny?
-Hey, go ahead. -I'm in position.
Am I in your line of sight?
[narrator] While investigating the area
near the potential tree structure,
Ronny will position himself on a large hill
adjacent to the clearing,
in order to observe Mireya's movements from above.
They've placed motion activated floodlights
throughout the area that will alert the team
if anything comes near.
Trail cameras have also been placed
to capture a visual of any targets
moving through the area.
I have you centered and I have
the motion detectors set up for IR,
so those are gonna kick off if anything comes
into the circle here.
[Mireya] All right.
I'm gonna start heading out
in the other direction opposite you.
Copy that.
So the idea is to take this to the next level
and actually antagonize
a Bigfoot or several to come and check it out.
[Mireya] Not really sure what we're dealing with here,
but walking through a territorial animal's space
is one way of luring out some sort of response.
If anything were to walk through the area
where we've set up the sensors,
we should be well aware when those get triggered,
'cause it'll blast a big light.
Whoa! What is this?
Oh, hang on.
Mireya to Ronny.
Go for Ronny.
There's a trail back here that would take me
a little bit further out towards the river.
You wanna check it out,
and I can let you know if you get out of frame?
Yeah, I'm gonna go head towards it now.
Ronny for Mireya.
Copy.
It just got really, really quiet.
Uh, so just be extra cautious
because definitely getting that feeling right now.
Yeah.
I mean, it's one of those silence
is deafening kind of moments.
Incredibly still.
Okay, I'm going to circle out further.
Just let me know if at any point
I fall out of your sights.
Copy that.
[Ronny] Oh, my God!
Two of the motion detectors, they just got tripped.
[Mireya] Holy [bleep].
[Mireya] Which IR got tripped?
To your left and to the right.
As soon as you were on that trail,
something came into the perimeter,
and tripped them off at the same time.
That means that whatever set them off
is about a 100 feet away from me.
I didn't see any movement, just the lights kicked on.
I wonder if we've had something come in on
either side of this perimeter,
tripping off both of those detectors at the same time.
Maybe we're dealing with one or more...
animals coming in here.
[Mireya] All right, Copy that.
I'm scanning the woods for any sort of eyeshine
and I'm keeping my ears open for any kind of sound.
But so far, I'm not seeing or hearing anything.
Copy that.
It's dead quiet and not seeing anything.
I'm standing right next to the spot
where the IR got triggered.
Gotcha. I have eyes on you.
We're gonna have to reset that motion detectors.
All right. I'm gonna reset the IR lights.
It's possible that something either was here
and moved out when I left
or something moved in when I left.
So I'm gonna start heading back
towards that brook again.
[Ronny] Copy that. I think that's a good idea.
Let's see if it happens again.
Hey, Ronny?
Go for Ronny.
As I'm approaching that little brook here,
the temperature suddenly dropped.
And I...
Honestly, I started feeling like
I was being watched.
Oh, wow.
You're feeling like you're being watched right now.
[distant howl]
I just heard whistles from behind my position.
[Mireya] Ronny, there's something over here.
[Ronny] I've been out here for quite a while now.
Still not seeing anything.
[narrator] Bryce is investigating the area
above a river where he just spotted
a mysterious thermal signature.
Guys, guys, come here. Check this out.
Look at this.
It's a jacket.
And a bag of stuff.
What the hell?
Lighter.
Look at this.
[cameraman speaking]
Who's gonna leave their keys on the forest floor?
It makes no sense.
Oh, that's kind of creepy.
What the hell is this?
Oh.
[cameraman speaking]
Really?
[cameraman speaking]
Which means logger.
Just like that witness was saying,
something was taking their stuff,
bringing it down here by the river and leaving it.
Strange.
Let's get this out of here.
[cameraman speaking]
[cameraman 2 speaking]
[Bryce] Oh [bleep]. Where?
[cameraman speaking]
[Bryce] Oh [bleep]. This is clothes.
Shirt.
What the [bleep]?
Pants.
Sock. Shoes.
That guy told us people go missing around here all the time.
I mean, this isn't just some random clothes strewn about.
This is somebody's outfit.
Finding those clothes stuck on the ground like that
makes me think that they're from a missing person.
Why would you leave your jacket, your shoes?
It makes no sense.
Considering where I am in proximity to this work camp
and what I saw on the thermal,
I'm convinced that Bigfoot could very well be involved.
I all of a sudden don't like being here after seeing this.
What the hell happened here?
This belonged to somebody, and they just left it here
and disappeared to God knows where.
[Bryce speaking]