[music playing]
MIREYA MAYOR: I cannot wait to see what's out there.
MAN: If we're going to find Bigfoot,
this is the perfect place to start.
NARRATOR: In the late spring of 2019, a team of experts
entered a remote forest in Central Oregon.
MAN: This is a very serious task.
You have to be willing to stick it out.
NARRATOR: Their mission, to finally
prove the existence of the world's
most elusive creature, Bigfoot.
MIREYA MAYOR: Eyes.
Shut them off.
[music playing]
NARRATOR: Using a highly sophisticated data algorithm,
the team believed they knew where the legendary beast would
be found.
MAN: And Bigfoot is here.
[music playing]
NARRATOR: The team of specialists,
all experts in their field, includes
world renowned primatologist, Dr. Mireya
Mayor, who has spent decades seeking
out rare and elusive primates.
MIREYA MAYOR: I'm looking for evidence where we
could finally put this to rest.
MAN: That looks fresh.
MIREYA MAYOR: And maybe have Bigfoot walk off
the pages of myths and legends.
NARRATOR: They used cutting edge technology--
MAN: Wow.
MIREYA MAYOR: Wow.
NARRATOR: To amass an enormous amount of evidence--
Got something up here.
Oh, we definitely wanna get eyes on that.
NARRATOR: Audio recordings.
[howls]
MIREYA MAYOR: It feels like there's
something else out there.
NARRATOR: Footprints.
MAN: Amazing piece of tech, huh?
MIREYA MAYOR: It's incredible.
NARRATOR: Hair samples.
MAN 1: Hair right here.
It doesn't match any other known species.
MAN 2: Oh my god.
NARRATOR: And one of the most startling pieces of
thermal footage ever captured.
MAN: Ooh.
That looks like a Bigfoot.
NARRATOR: Now, for the first time since their expedition--
There's so much to talk about, so
let's start breaking it down.
NARRATOR: The team is back to re-examine their findings.
I'm really excited about viewers
to see just how much activity there was in this hotspot.
NARRATOR: Plus, new evidence.
I've got an incredible surprise.
NARRATOR: New analysis by top experts.
It's some pretty incredible footage.
NARRATOR: A new witness testimony.
I seen this thing looking directly at me.
They're real.
NARRATOR: And later, the highly anticipated trailer
for "Expedition Bigfoot" season two.
MAN: What we found and heard--
tell me you heard that-- and witnessed,
it's going to shock some of you.
I hear something.
[howls]
MAN: How's everybody doing? - Awesome.
Fantastic.
- It's so good to see you guys. - You too.
It's so good see you guys too, and especially
indoors where it's not freezing, where
we're not worried about ticks.
Oh, yes.
You don't have to lug a 50 pound rucksack.
Ah, more like 70 plus.
[laughter]
You know, it's so good to actually get a chance to--
to see you guys, and go over last year's expedition,
and look at all the evidence that we were able to come
across because for me in looking back at last year's expedition,
it was an overwhelming amount of things that we saw.
There's a lot to talk about.
Found, there's so much to talk about.
So let's start breaking it down.
What was the most important piece of evidence
that you thought we came across last year?
The most solid piece of evidence for me
had to be the nest.
Look for those dark little nooks
and crannies that look a little bit odd.
NARRATOR: While on his way to investigate a water source--
RUSSELL ACORD: What is that?
NARRATOR: Russell discovered a mysterious structure
built with large intertwined branches.
RUSSELL ACORD: So we've got something here.
That's frickin' significant.
Have you guys ever seen anything like this?
RUSSELL ACORD: Does that smell gamey to you?
[music playing]
MIREYA MAYOR: What the hell?
MAN: This is very interesting.
I'm noticing all these broken branches.
They're all either twisted or dents, definitely not
a natural kind of tree break.
RUSSELL ACORD: It wasn't all the branches
fell in the same direction.
They were literally placed in separate directions
to actually provide cover.
MIREYA MAYOR: I don't know what could have made it.
I am shocked right now.
I'm-- I'm truly at a loss.
There's a lot of information that a nest can provide,
and as you know, I've spent a lot of time
in the field with Western lowland gorillas.
And for a very long time, we couldn't actually follow them.
The only way that we got any information
about their social lives or group numbers,
anything like that, was from these nests.
So for me, that really is the most solid piece of evidence,
and the one that would lead to the most amount of information
in absence of an actual creature in front of you.
Russell, walk me back through that when
you, when you first stumbled upon that nest.
What were you thinking?
Actually, I veered off course.
I had a destination I was headed towards
and the open ground held in front of me.
But the-- the trees were really, really thick to my right
and I thought that's a great place to get
shelter, that sort of thing.
So I got into the deep trees and stumbled
on it surely by accident.
The more I looked at it, the more odd it became.
You know, with the hawk.
Holy crap.
That is insane.
It's an entire dead hawk laying on the ground.
And it hasn't been pulled apart.
It hasn't been eaten by anything.
The nest is a first for me.
A dead hawk next to a nest, it's definitely a first for me.
Ronnie, I see you lighting up.
Is there a significance to that hawk being
found right outside that nest?
RONNY LE BLANC: Yeah, I mean birds and hawks
and eagles, when it comes to Native Americans,
it's a spiritual connection there.
And to see that with the nest I thought was very significant.
I felt like it was a kind of a message to us.
BRYCE JOHNSON: You know one thing
I thought that was incredible about stumbling
upon that nest is that's where we decided
to take our eDNA sample.
MIREYA MAYOR: I'm going to lift this side of the bedding,
and I'll just take some soil from there.
NARRATOR: After the discovery of the possible nest,
Mireya extracted a sample of the ground just inside.
This sample may contain the DNA of whatever
creature created it.
Now, unfortunately, you know, samples like that, they take
a long time for analysis, and I wasn't able to provide you guys
with the information last year.
But did get that analyzed, and, unfortunately, we didn't find
anything out of the ordinary.
What does that say, Mireya?
Well, it's-- I mean, that's disappointing to hear,
but it's not totally surprising because when
you're researching, for example, an aquatic animal,
right, it tends to shed its DNA throughout the water.
So you have a much higher chance of actually finding that.
On something like the ground, it's not a good medium for DNA
to spread, and it's sort of like looking
for a needle in a haystack.
In this case, it could very well be
that whatever made that nest just simply
didn't step in that spot.
BRYCE JOHNSON: So you're saying we still
don't know what made that nest.
Yeah.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Russell, I'm pretty
sure I know what you're going to say, but I have to ask.
What for you was the most important piece of evidence
that we came across last year?
Hands down the thermal.
Do you see that?
It's a big, flat surface here, and here, and here.
NARRATOR: After discovering large footprints and branch
breaks 12 feet off the ground--
There we go.
It's going to tell me if there's something out there
putting out a heat trace.
NARRATOR: Russell set up his thermal binoculars
to stake out the western edge of a massive clearing.
RUSSELL ACORD: See if anything comes through this clearing
and gets bold.
NARRATOR: After hours of scanning the field--
Hey, look at that.
NARRATOR: --something very large appeared
just a few hundred feet away.
The creature seemed to vanish.
I'm going to go have a closer look.
NARRATOR: Russell inspected the area
but found no evidence of the massive animal.
RUSSELL ACORD: What the hell?
Just blows my mind.
For me, the thermal was hands down the most impressive
piece of evidence I found.
Yeah.
It moved on two feet.
And once I saw the size comparison,
it defies all logic.
NARRATOR: Bryce brought the thermal imagery
to world-renowned video analyst, Ron Guzek.
RON GUZEK: So right there, you can see
some-- an indication of steps.
Yeah.
RON GUZEK: And then there's one there,
like, as if something is stepping over
and the arm follows.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah.
RON GUZEK: Right there.
You can see, it changed direction.
Something happened there.
And its weight shift.
NARRATOR: He was able to reveal what
appeared to be limbs moving.
RON GUZEK: You can determine with quite a bit of certainty
that this thing is walking.
This is incredible.
NARRATOR: Also, using comparison footage,
he was able to show the size difference between Russell
and the mysterious animal.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Oh, man.
I'm blown away by this. RON GUZEK: Do you see that?
BRYCE JOHNSON: I do. How can you not?
Russ is no small guy, and I mean,
just the comparison-- this creature just sort of towers
over him.
A child can see it's almost twice
as big and easily 25% taller.
That's something very strange in the northwest.
Instantly when I saw that, uh, I'm like,
we have a Bigfoot on the thermal.
BRYCE JOHNSON: You know, that was such a dramatic piece
of evidence that not only did we have it analyzed last year,
but I got a little surprise for you.
I reached out to a former FBI analyst who
specializes in thermal video, and he wanted
to take a look at the video.
And he had some pretty stunning insights
as to what we captured.
Now take a look.
MIREYA MAYOR: Oh, wow.
Bryce, how's it going?
Hey.
Good.
So I sent you that video.
What do you think?
Well, let me tell you, it's some pretty incredible footage.
And, you know, I've been doing this for several years.
I can honestly say that, um, you have something
really unusual going on here.
NARRATOR: Coming up.
I talked to a guy named Billy, and his encounter
is absolutely incredible.
I was looking at something, and I did not believe it.
MIREYA MAYOR: There was a feeling from the very start
that something was watching me.
Now, to me, that's scientific data.
Whatever produced that sound was not human
and is not known to inhabit the woods of Oregon.
NARRATOR: And later, never before seen
footage of "Expedition Bigfoot" season two.
MAN 1: Oh, [bleep].
It's a tree structure.
MAN 2: There's definitely something up there.
(WHISPERING) I just heard something.
Hey, Ben.
So you've analyzed the thermal footage.
Can you tell me what you found?
Yeah.
I have some answers for you.
It kind of puts a twist on some stuff,
and so let me show you what I've done.
First, I wanted to look at the possibility
that this is definitely not a random encounter
with a human hiker.
So, as you can see here, my first test
was just to take a hiker, and I put him out there.
And in my video, you only see his face is indicating the red.
When you look at side by side to your original footage, though,
the video looks nothing like the anomaly that you filmed.
So now I start looking at other explanations, such
as there was a hiker that had a reflective backpack,
the thermal could read that as being very, very hot.
And so, as you can see here, I had my friend wear
a thermal survival blanket.
But instead of it being red hot, It's black, OK?
And the black in this palette setting means very cold.
And what it actually took for me to replicate your video
was having my friend take his shirt off out there in the cold
and go walking around.
So we can see it's not a perfect match.
The person with their shirt off is actually
hotter than what you recorded.
So I started looking for a mammal that might fit the shape
and reported size but that would also
register a little colder than a human with his shirt off.
For instance, the-- the western lowland gorilla
has a body temperature of 96.5.
Do you ha-- wow.
Are you kidding me?
BEN HANSEN: So it's possible that this is something
shaped like a human that has a heat signature
similar to a large ape.
Wow.
BEN HANSEN: So what's the bottom line?
My conclusion-- I'm kind of baffled.
I'm kind of stumped here.
And-- and this one I'm going to have to categorize
as-- as still unknown.
Man.
That is awesome.
I-- I was convinced seeing it the first time
when you were showing it to me, and I'm like,
you captured a Sasquatch walking.
But now seeing that, I'm even more convinced
that you were that close.
Did you feel anything where you actually captured that?
When you're in a situation like that, it--
I wasn't afraid.
Now in hindsight, you think about the distance
that I was from that thing--
Yeah.
RUSSELL ACORD: --and the size and the heat.
It definitely makes me think about it differently, which
is, I should have been scared.
At the time, I wasn't.
I was just more amazed at what I was seeing and hoping that it
was actually recording and--
and we were capturing that moment.
So Ronny, let me ask you next.
What do you think was the most important piece of evidence
we came across last year?
For me, it was the eye shine.
(WHISPERING) Listen.
NARRATOR: On day 11 of the investigation,
Ronny and Mireya began hearing a mysterious whistling sound.
(WHISPERING) Sounds in the distance coming towards us.
MIREYA MAYOR: Shh.
[whistling sound]
(WHISPERING) Go!
NARRATOR: After tracking in the direction of the sound--
[whistling sound]
--they witnessed what appeared to be light
reflecting off two large eyes more
than eight feet off the ground.
MIREYA MAYOR: (WHISPERING) Eyes.
Oh, my god.
Seeing the eye shine--
that moment the realization that I'm
looking right back at a Bigfoot and it's looking at me.
That was really crazy for me and just kind of put me on edge.
I was like, wow, we are in the midst of all this activity
and we have them right around us, they know we're here.
So that was really significant.
MIREYA MAYOR: I mean, there was a feeling
from the very start when I got to that forest
that something was watching me.
In that moment, I was trying to figure
out, OK, this is something that's high off the ground.
The eyes are far apart.
What animals here have the eye shine?
So I-- I was having a more analytical--
Right.
Sure.
MIREYA MAYOR: --approach in that moment.
Understandable.
And it-- it-- but there was a lot of high strangeness,
let's say, as-- as Ronny was saying, going on in that.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah.
My entire career kind of led me to this moment.
I have spent the last 20 years specifically searching
for primates that are either very little
known or completely unknown.
So I know that there are things out there
that we don't know of yet.
There are things in nature that we still don't
know or can't prove exist.
And so what got me interested in science was that insatiable
curiosity and the wanting to answer questions
that remain unanswered.
That's what science is all about.
One thing that we do have to talk about and recognize--
that important aspect of our field
investigation is the testimonies from the witnesses.
Good to finally meet you in person.
Yeah, it's great to finally meet you, too.
NARRATOR: One of Bryce Johnson's most important
tasks on the expedition is to gather
intel from local eyewitnesses.
- How's it going? - Hey.
Good, how are you?
I understand that you have an experience that you're
willing to share with us.
MAN: I was just about out of the brush and I--
I heard a noise--
the sound of something being knocked over.
The crickets stopped, the wind stopped,
and I got this feeling of being watched.
WOMAN: We're heading back to the car
and we hear this thing come through the brush.
These footprints are just boom, boom, boom.
And I hear something hit the water.
Kind of stopped and looked up, and I couldn't
believe what I was seeing.
WOMAN: It was, like, an eight-foot creature
with manlike features, you know, on two legs, super hairy.
Something big and brown and hairy
was in front of me, probably 7 and 1/2 or 8 feet.
It was a god awful smell.
I'd never-- never smelled it before.
WOMAN: And we were about 50 feet from the car,
like, this is probably the end right here.
You see this see this thing.
It's-- it's-- the way the--
WOMAN: Push too far into their territory.
I would say be very careful.
That's something you don't ever forget.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah.
And that's not something you hang around to see.
It was terrifying.
You-- you get out of there.
Some of those were so emotional.
Oh, yeah.
And you can tell they were reliving something
that traumatized them--
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah.
--and it was coming from their core.
It's very moving to see that.
And the other thing is, these stories
are so terrifying and scary.
They describe them like they just happened.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah.
Well, it's important, too, to clarify that these
people don't have anything to gain from--
from telling their story--
No, they have more to lose in a lot of--
Yeah, absolutely a fear of ridicule.
So it's important to be able to provide
a space where witnesses can come forward with their story.
So who would you say had the most compelling
story that moved you the most?
Well, they were all compelling,
but one gentleman in particular really
had an account that I think shook
him up and left a mark on me.
His name was Brian.
I know you haven't told this story a lot.
I just-- just didn't want to be made fun of.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Mm-hmm.
But at my age now, I don't care.
So, yeah, we were--
we're up in the trees, and all of a sudden,
we just heard just the breaking of these--
of these-- of these trees.
They were just, like, whatever-- whatever was coming
through the woods was coming through to let
you know they were there.
And my brother-- my brother looks at me
and goes, Brian, what is that?
All of a sudden, we heard this most guttural
sound, where it projected.
And just-- you just felt it.
It just like hit you.
And it just-- you felt it inside you.
Sorry.
MAN: No, man, don't be.
I just-- I just remember seeing my brother's face
and how scared he was.
Sorry.
Aw.
Once you experience it and once you feel it and hear that roar,
you know in your DNA this is something so powerful.
It could just rip you apart like a piece of paper.
And I remember asking him, why is he telling me this story?
And his reaction was just, I've lived with it for so long.
I'm getting older now.
And I don't give a damn.
I mean, that was the business of honesty right there.
This guy had a story to tell.
Yeah, that was a very heavy interview.
For me, the witness accounts are
really powerful because that's something that I actually
employ a lot in the field.
So many times when I'm out there looking for a primate
that some primatologists have deemed impossible to find,
I'm relying on witness accounts.
I'm talking to villagers.
I'm talking about their experiences.
And there are times where you have
to get past some of the information
that you're getting to get to that truth.
But when you get to that truth, it's
what has made every one of my expeditions successful.
Their-- their information is invaluable.
You know, another thing which is great about witnesses
and their sightings is they're happening all the time.
And those get fed into the algorithm which determines
where we're going to go next.
(VOICEOVER) Now, when I first started researching the area
around where our second expedition was going to be,
I found a ton of amazing eyewitness reports.
As a matter of fact, I talked to a guy named Billy
who had an eyewitness sighting just last year
and was really listening to his encounter and just how real
it was.
(VOICEOVER) Helped reinforce that where we were headed
was absolutely the right place to go.
And his encounter is absolutely incredible.
He came eye to eye with this beast.
All right.
Hey, Billy, how are you, man?
I'm doing good. How are you?
I'm doing great.
Look, I really appreciate you taking the time
to speak with me today.
And I'm really interested in hearing about your story.
But before we do that, can you just tell me a little bit
of background about yourself?
Did two tours in the Marine Corps.
I bounty hunted for a few years.
And then as a family tradition, I'm
a fourth-generation coal miner.
So I went underground, and I ended up
getting hurt, which is why I had time
off to be around to witness what I witnessed.
Can you walk me through it, what you experienced?
Before this, I never believed anything
about the Bigfoot story.
At least I could say I was a skeptic, at the least.
So as a hunter, when we get closer to deer season, me
and my wife, we always go out, and we start throwing, like,
bags of apple corn out, start feeding the deer,
bringing them in and stuff.
And we noticed the food was disappearing almost overnight.
And this stuff would normally last four, five days,
sometimes a week.
Hmm.
I told her, I said, you know, let's just--
let's set in the blind and see if maybe
another bear's moved in, because we got
bears before on [inaudible].
I was like, maybe a bear's moved in,
and that's where all the food's going.
So we had just put the last bag of apple corn in,
and we got in the grab line.
We hadn't been int there 20 minutes,
and she reached with this hand on the grab line
and grabbed my arm.
And she said, oh, my god, there he is.
And I was like, who?
And at this point, I'm still not looking.
I'm still down here just--
and I said, who?
And she said, Bigfoot.
And I was like--
I was like, shut up.
There's no Bigfoot, you know.
[inaudible] she said, I swear.
Look.
And when I raised up, probably 30, 35 yards,
I was looking at something that I did not believe.
NARRATOR: Coming up--
I cannot get what I seen out of my head.
He was so big that shoulder to shoulder,
he was every bit as wide as the tailgate of a truck.
They're real.
Did you hear that?
Oh, I heard something.
Whatever produced that sound was not human
and is not known to inhabit the woods of Oregon.
NARRATOR: And later, never-before-seen
footage of "Expedition Bigfoot," season two.
MAN: We're in truly wild territory.
Uh, Ronny.
RONNY LE BLANC: Holy [bleep]!
We're gonna find what we're looking for.
Holy [bleep]!
So you saw with your own eyes?
I seen it.
I seen this thing looking directly at me.
The only way I can explain it is--
is it was like there was a static in the air.
It was like if you take a balloon
and you rub on your hair and your hair stands up.
That's how all the hairs on my body was doing.
I know what I seen.
There's nobody gonna tell me what I did or didn't see.
I mean, not a lot of people get to see one
of these things face to face.
Can you describe to me what this creature looks like?
It had the huge cone head, massive cone head,
just like a silverback gorilla.
But a silverback has more facial features, like skin
around the eyes and stuff.
This one didn't.
Under the eyes, you could see the blonde.
He had blonde.
He was hairy all over.
But one of the traits that he had
was the blonde under his eyes.
Yeah.
But he turned.
And he was so big.
And I try to explain to people that shoulder to shoulder,
he was every bit as wide as a tailgate of a truck.
He was that wide.
And he went from standing erect when he was looking at me
to when he turned and started walking,
he kind of slumped and walked almost like--
like a-- a silverback gorilla--
Hmm.
--you know, when they're attacking another
one or chasing another one.
And as he turned and he walked down into the laurel thicket
where he came from, which is 100 yards from us,
he let out a "whoo" back at us.
And if you've ever been to a circus or anything,
you've been around a lion and heard a lion roar, the bass,
the tone, that's what it was.
You could feel it.
I ridiculed people.
I made fun of people about Bigfoot pictures.
I mean, I was that guy that was set and be like, you are crazy.
It's a bear or whatever.
And in that-- those few moments when I was looking eye to eye
with this thing, everything in my life
that I didn't believe in become a possibility.
It was like I went through every emotion humanly possible
in a matter of seconds.
I wish I'd never seen him.
How come?
I do.
It's been a curse.
I wake up.
I think about it. I go to bed.
I think about it.
I thought about it today when I was driving.
I cannot get what I seen out of my head.
And I wished I had never seen it.
I mean, I do.
I-- I would-- would be so much happier
if I had never seen this thing, never laid eyes on it.
And I know that you probably feel
you got, well, lucky or unlucky with your encounter.
But how can we get closer to having a sighting for ourselves
to-- to gather more evidence?
You're going into their world.
Like I said, a bobcat, I've seen one
in my entire hunting career.
And it was by chance.
I fell asleep under a log, and he crawled up on me, you know.
So it's basically the same thing.
If it wouldn't have been for us that day just a spur
of the moment, let's just set up here
and see if another bear's moved in-- we'll set till dark--
we would have never seen him.
And if my wife wouldn't have been with me,
I would have never seen him.
So that's Billy's encounter.
You got some incredible witnesses,
getting them to share these stories that they've
never told anybody.
Can you talk a little bit about that whole process?
These are-- these are stories that have really been boiling
up inside them for a long time.
And I think what people may not understand
is having an encounter with Bigfoot may not
be all it's cracked up to be.
I mean, you know, some people like Billy
wish this never would have happened to them.
And that's interesting.
I mean, we're out there looking for Bigfoot.
But I'm sure a lot of these witnesses would tell you--
and I've heard it before--
I wish I never saw the thing.
Bryce, what about you?
You've asked them at the table, what was the most
important piece of evidence?
What was the most important thing that happened
during that expedition to you?
For me, I took a particular interest in the vocalization.
All right.
You guys ready?
Yes, we're ready.
NARRATOR: Accompanied by a team of advanced sound localization
engineers, Mireya used a high-powered speaker system
to broadcast an audio recording, in the hopes
of getting a return call.
Should we try one more Time
Sure, one more.
[low howling]
NARRATOR: After several attempts,
a mysterious animal call rang out.
Did you hear that?
You heard something?
[distant howling] - That way.
Yep.
That was it.
That was the sound.
Can you track it?
Reaching the sensors, reached sensor two.
Oh, there it is.
NARRATOR: The sound team gave Mireya precise coordinates
of where the sound originated.
But the conditions proved too dangerous to continue
the search.
MIREYA MAYOR: Just impossible.
This is incredibly steep.
And it's getting really dark.
NARRATOR: The sound they recorded may have been
a genuine Bigfoot vocalization.
[low howling]
My particular interest in that piece of evidence
was because it's been long proposed
that these creatures have the capability of using infrasound.
Now, infrasound is a sound wave below 20 hertz.
It's inaudible to the human ear.
And what I wanted to know was did that vocalization that we
captured contain infrasound.
So did you get those sounds I sent you?
I did, and I have them loaded up.
Oh, great.
Let's take a listen.
NARRATOR: Bryce employed the help
of top audio engineer Derek Vanderhorst
to analyze the sound recording.
This kind of bold yellow is what we're interested in here.
That's the call.
Take a listen to that.
[low howling]
BRYCE JOHNSON: Wow.
Creepy.
We can turn that up a little.
[low howling]
BRYCE JOHNSON: Wow, that's wild.
Yeah.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Is there any way we
can take a closer look to see how long those frequencies go?
NARRATOR: The advanced software was
able to visualize the structure of the sound they recorded.
Our Bigfoot call that we recorded
has sounds that are sitting below 20 Hertz.
That's infrasound.
That means there could really be a Bigfoot on this recording.
That vocalization contained sound waves
between 10 and 20 Hertz.
Now, to me, that's scientific data that we can look at
and we can establish as a fact that whatever produced
that sound was not human and is not known
to inhabit the woods of Oregon.
And so for me--
That's really interesting.
Yeah.
I mean, what do you make of that?
That's amazing.
That's the sort of thing that I'm looking for out there.
What piece of evidence are we getting that is not
supposed to be from this area?
Because in the absence of actually seeing something right
in front of me that I can definitively conclusively say
is a Bigfoot, I'm looking for the pieces
that are leading us to that.
And that, I would agree, is a very strong piece of evidence
because that I can think of, there
is no animal in that forest that is able to use infrasound.
BRYCE JOHNSON: Yeah, it's tangible.
I've heard you say, I fear the things that I don't understand.
And for me, that brings up something like infrasound
and its ability to debilitate.
If you think about it, the military
has actually touched on that with exploration
into the infrasound.
And it has actually been weaponized to where
it is used for a tool to use.
Disperse crowds, cause anxiety.
Or to stop rioting or-- yeah, you're exactly right.
NARRATOR: The weaponization of sound waves
has been explored by governments around the world.
Workers at the US Embassy in Cuba
suffered a variety of medical disorders,
after a series of suspected infrasound attacks
in 2018 and '19.
Infrasonic weapons have been used as non-lethal defense
for crowd control.
At high power, the effects of these sound waves
could range from severe headaches
to nausea to severe intestinal disorders.
Infrasound, I know, is real.
Scientifically it's proven it's real.
I mean, perfect case scenario what happened with RPG.
Yeah, I got a little--
a little bit of a headache, you know?
NARRATOR: In the first hours of the expedition,
renowned Bigfoot expert Ryan "RPG"
Golembeske began to feel ill.
It just sounds like someone is pounding
on the back of my eyeballs.
RPG, he's in really bad shape.
NARRATOR: The unexplained sickness quickly developed
into a loss of motor function, as he
was unable to walk unassisted.
What's going on?
So they're running some tests right now.
They're not exactly quite sure what's going on.
NARRATOR: The team was left with just one option.
Unfortunately, we're not gonna continue
the expedition with RPG.
I've just never seen anything like it.
Here's a guy who's full of life, energetic, you know.
He's just a go, go, go.
And all of a sudden, he deteriorated, and he couldn't
really form a sentence.
He had to be carried out.
I mean, he was just completely physically inable of walking.
And he was just a shell of himself.
And it was really-- it was terrifying,
actually, to-- to watch him in that condition.
You-- you hear people getting zapped,
you know, from a Bigfoot.
And they have, like, these moments of they're disoriented,
and they're kind of off trail, takes some twice the amount
of time to get out of that area that it took them to go in,
but not to this severity, where it's, like, seems to have
gone on for days with RPG.
So it's really-- that's pretty crazy that that happened.
You know, speaking of RPG, I've
got an incredible surprise that I think you guys
will get a real kick out of.
Why don't we find out from the man himself?
I-- - Really?
That'd be great!
Yes, absolutely.
Gee, he's expecting our phone call any second.
And in fact, this will be the first time he's ever spoken
publicly about what happened. MIREYA MAYOR: Great!
Yeah, let's give him a ring.
Yeah, it'd be good to talk to him.
Hey!
MAN: RPG.
Hello, party people!
What's up, buddy?
MIREYA MAYOR: Hi!
How are you, Ryan?
It's good to see you guys again.
MAN: Good to see you.
So good to see you!
The team!
[laughter]
We get so many questions from viewers and fans.
And I got to tell you, one of the first ones
are always, how's RPG doing?
I'm wonderful.
Like doctor literally said, hey, you're healthy enough
to have three kids and a dog.
So, boom, I got three kids and a dog.
What happened was weird, man, totally weird and freakish.
And there's no other way to explain it, you know?
And then to come out there and for that to happen,
you know, on the eve of achieving
my dream was devastating.
But now I'm fine.
Everything's good.
I'm healthy.
And I'm happy.
I'm glad to hear that.
Yeah.
RPG, I wasn't there when what went down with you.
Can you describe and explain to everybody what happened?
I literally had one eye-- all of a sudden,
all the colors in my eye.
It was like the matrix.
And it all started shooting like a rainbow this way.
It took me down so hard that I lost
complete control of my body.
I felt like I was in a zombie movie, you know?
And-- and I lost control, completely.
And then when I got to the hospital, they rehydrated me.
And-- and then there was just a little bit of it afterwards,
you know?
But I was feeling great.
I was coming back.
So I don't know what it was.
To me, I felt like I got blasted by something.
Guys, enough about me.
Like, where are you guys going?
What's the next big adventure?
Where are you at?
What can you tell me?
Like, I'm excited, you know?
Well, our research has been completely under wraps
and very secretive.
But I think we can finally say we actually
were led by our algorithm to a place in southeastern Kentucky.
Southeastern Kentucky?
The Appalachians.
We are in truly wild territory.
NARRATOR: The team's target for their second expedition
is a remote corner of the Appalachian foothills
in southeastern Kentucky.
BRYCE JOHNSON: I mean, we are right in the heart
of coal country.
NARRATOR: This region, once a stronghold for the coal
industry, is littered with abandoned mines and
deep unexplored cave systems.
We could have hundreds of miles
of underground passageways to explore.
NARRATOR: The rich deer and elk population
provides the perfect hunting conditions for Bigfoot that may
be migrating through the area.
It's literally a labyrinth of ridges and hollows and
small towns and communities.
It's the perfect place for Bigfoot to hide.
Well, I-- I know that's one of the hottest,
most active spots anywhere because you basically have
a massive cave system underneath the entire thing that
nobody wants to talk about.
And I know a lot of people shun the fact
they think the Bigfoot moves underground a lot
or uses it a lot.
And I totally think so.
Like, I think a lot of when you're looking at mountains
and-- and-- and big spaces like that, you're
looking at ancient places that ancient man
built things inside.
And I think they use them.
I think they know the old history.
And you're exactly right.
There is a huge cave system that's
just west of the Mammoth Cave systems, which
is the largest in the world.
And it is a labyrinthine maze of caves and tunnels.
And I think we fared pretty-- pretty well out there.
So anyway, I wish you guys the best of luck.
I can't tell you how much we all appreciate you taking
the time to speak with us.
We all consider you still a valuable member
to us and an asset.
And we appreciate all that you've done for us.
Thanks, man.
Thank you, RPG.
Thanks, brother.
Thank you.
Great to see you.
Take care.
See you on TV. Rock it!
[laughter]
Awesome.
NARRATOR: Stay tuned for never-before-seen footage
of "Expedition Bigfoot," season two.
What are you guys excited for people to see
in this year's expedition?
The terrain, the green hell that we
went through in Kentucky.
Right.
RONNY LE BLANC: I mean--
BRYCE JOHNSON: How rugged was that?
I felt like we're walking up a wall half the time.
It was pretty insane.
You know, like, and there's just these different--
you'd have a little shelf where you have some good footing.
But everything's just seem to be vertical.
You're dealing with the humidity, the temperature,
all those bugs.
Ugh.
So you're excited for people to see
you be put through the ringer? - Yes!
Yes!
The ticks, he's excited about the ticks.
I'm really excited about viewers to see just how much evidence
we were able to collect and how much activity
there was in this hot spot.
Yeah, activity was the word of--
of this year's expedition.
With Kentucky, there was a ton of stuff,
a ton of activity that was happening,
these nonstop stacking of activity
and things that just keep on going on top of each other that
was incredible.
Well, what do you think, Russ?
You're spot on.
It was-- the terrain was--
there's no other word for it that
fits better than unforgiving, the briars, the steep terrain,
the possibilities of--
of falling.
It was literally straight up and down.
You're gonna go on this incredible journey with us.
And the evidence will speak for itself.
What we found and heard and witnessed was great.
Yeah.
And I--
I tell you what, it's gonna shock some of you.
It will-- it was incredible.
NARRATOR: And now, never-before-seen footage
of "Expedition Bigfoot," season two.
(VOICEOVER) In nature, humans are about the weakest creature
out there.
We might be dealing with a highly intelligent predator.
Look at that tree.
Holy crap.
MIREYA MAYOR: The possible strength, the shear force,
it's mind blowing.
Do you hear that?
What's that?
And so right now I feel like prey.
(WHISPERING) I hear something.
Wow.
Look at that.
We are right in the heart of coal country.
As the population of humans has left this coal mining
industry nature has come in, bear, deer, elk, and Bigfoot.
This is definitely the right place to be.
(WHISPERING) What in the heck is that?
Looks like two eyes coming my way.
MIREYA MAYOR: I think that the potential for injury
is a lot greater here.
MAN: I can't stand up.
I think that mental and physical exhaustion
is gonna be a lot more.
What was that stunt you pulled last night?
If you had been on one of my expeditions,
you'd have been gone.
This is hard.
But the energy that I'm feeling stepping into this forest,
there is something here.
[high howling]
Tell me you heard that.
The feeling in this place, you don't feel safe.
Something destroyed my tent.
I don't know if it's still around or not.
You feel like anything can happen at any moment.
MIREYA MAYOR: Uh, Ronny?
RONNY LE BLANC: Holy [bleep]!
It's a tree structure.
There's definitely something up there.
I've never heard anything like that in my life.
I hope I never do again.
Nature is powerful.
(WHISPERING) It knows we're here.
Definitely more powerful than we are.
[dog whining]
I've never seen her scared of anything.
[dog whining]
MIREYA MAYOR: Ronny!
RONNY LE BLANC: I know that we're on the right track.
This thing is literally pulled in half.
Our methods are proven.
Whoa!
This year, we're gonna find what we're looking for.
[whispering]
[bleep]
That's creepy when you hear branch breaking like 200 feet.