[narrator] Previously on Expedition Bigfoot.
[Mireya] And so the adventure begins.
[narrator] The team began this year's expedition
in the mysterious mountains
of South Eastern Kentucky.
[Russell] Bigfoot should be migrating
through this area for the next few weeks.
[narrator] And in 17 days,
they had some promising encounters.
[howling]
- Tell me you heard that. - [thunder rumbling]
- [Russell] Bigfoot is here. - [Ryan] If it's in range,
and it's got any kind of energy, we can pick it up.
[narrator] And made some shocking...
Whoa, guys.
[man speaking]
[narrator] ...and intriguing finds.
Now we know where to go look for it.
[man] Freaking jackpot.
[woman] We just found a very unusual structure
in the woods.
Looks like a classic tree structure.
[narrator] But just when things started to simmer...
[Mireya] This could be the missing piece
that we need to solve this mystery.
[narrator] ...and the trail was getting hotter.
[Mireya] Holy [bleep].
- Oh, my God. - [man] Whoa.
[Mireya] This is a really great space
for something large that wants to retreat.,
[narrator] ...the window of opportunity
in the hollows of aplasia...
[Mireya] It's just dead end.
[narrator] ...slam shut.
But just as quickly as this one closed...
[man] I was in the, um, Air Force
in, uh, Washington State.
[narrator] ...another possibly bigger one
- just opened. - [man] Our instructor,
he said, you know, "I might as well go ahead"
and tell you guys now.
I don't know what you think about Bigfoot,
but they are real.
The government knows about them,
"and they're in this area."
[Bryce] Finish up your work,
pack up your gear.
We're going to Washington State.
[Mireya] Bryce, we are so [bleep] ready.
- [Russell] Outstanding. - [Bryce] Let's do it.
[ominous music playing]
[Bryce] We may have come very close in Kentucky,
but we need to go where the data leads us.
And now, our algorithm has taken us
to the Bigfoot capital of the world,
Washington State.
[engine whirring]
[Bryce] There are more Bigfoot sightings here
than anywhere in the world.
But unlike our last two locations,
our target zone is beyond massive.
Our algorithm honed in on a giant swath of land.
Over 250,000 acres
of the Olympic Peninsula in Western Washington.
It's an incredible way to start
an expedition in Washington.
Getting a bird's eye view from up here
is a complete tactical advantage.
It's not just our algorithm
that's brought us here.
[man] I was gonna give you a little info
that might help you.
[Bryce] Before leaving Kentucky,
a former captain in the Air Force
told me that not only do Bigfoot exist
in this forest,
but that the government is aware of them.
And if that's true,
how has the government kept these creatures
hidden all these years?
But more important, why?
What benefit does a government get out
of denying these creatures exist?
If we're gonna find Bigfoot,
this is the place we're gonna do it.
This is the way to get it done.
[narrator] The Olympic Peninsula
is one of the most unique places in the world.
The 5,000 square mile mountain range
is home to one of the only
non-tropical rainforest in existence.
With an average rainfall of about 170 inches a year,
it is the wettest region
in the contiguous United States.
[Bryce] This yearly deluge
produces an endless number of waterways
that wind through these mountains.
And in these rivers and creeks
are an enormous amount of Bigfoot sightings.
Over half the sightings in our database
occur within a hundred yards
of a water source.
So we'll be focusing all our efforts
in these waterways.
Russell will be staying up high,
moving along these ridges,
and surveilling the rivers
from an elevated vantage point.
[Russell] There's gonna be a lot to see here.
[Bryce] Ronny and Mireya will be tracking the waters
at ground level, hopefully,
putting themselves directly in the path
of any Bigfoot nearby.
[ominous music playing]
[Ronny] Definitely interesting terrain, huh?
[Mireya speaking]
[narrator] Eight miles from the edge
of their target zone, Ronny and Mireya
are traveling south on the Hood Canal,
the 68-mile long body of water
that borders the eastern side
of the Olympic Peninsula.
- [Mireya speaking] - Yup.
[narrator] These waterways will provide the team
passage into the dense,
untouched wilderness of their target zone.
[Mireya] Kentucky was much more
a tropical rainforest,
where here in the Peninsula,
it's a temperate rainforest,
and it's really different
because you have miles and miles of coastline.
And the Peninsula itself is cut off,
almost like an island,
so you're gonna have species here
that you're not gonna find anywhere else.
[Ronny] This is the right place
for something like Sasquatch to live.
The likely reason why Bigfoot
are spotted in rivers,
is it's not only a water source,
it's a major food source,
it's chock-full of salmon.
[narrator] Every year, tens of thousands of salmon
swim up for many rivers
on the Peninsula to spawn.
These fish are a favorite food
of black bears and cougar.
Each river on the Peninsula
has a different
and specific spawning period.
Researchers believe this could be the reason
Bigfoot move around the region.
[Ronny] There's a lot of Bigfoot stories
dealing with water.
People have seen them here, swimming.
One lady in particular was swimming in a lake,
and had this hairy hand come up from the water,
grabbed her knee, and start to pull her down.
And the sightings are continuing to this day.
They're happening almost on a monthly basis.
I know something is in these woods.
[Bryce] This is incredible.
A lot of our target zone is active logging territory,
so the landscape is constantly changing.
That's why it's so important
that I get an accurate and up-to-date look
at the area. So I'll be searching
not only for signs of Bigfoot,
but targets in land features
that help the team on the ground.
Right down there, that small clearing,
that's a perfect spot for a basecamp.
Mireya, Ronny, come in.
[Mireya] Hey, Bryce, what's going on?
[Bryce] So from up here, I managed to plot
a perfect place to setup our basecamp,
where we'll have access to these rivers and creeks,
to roads where I can get evidence out.
[Mireya] Great.
Send us those coordinates.
Copy that.
[man speaking]
Uh, right here.
- [Mireya] Right there? - [John] Yeah.
How far down do you think that flow goes?
[man speaking]
Is it possible for us to get in there?
[John] I can't get in there with this boat,
so you're gonna have to take this guy.
Okay. Yeah.
I think we should go and explore that.
[Russell] This is a vast expansion
of just amazing mountains, trees.
There's a lot of activity in these mountains.
[narrator] Twelve miles to the west,
survivalist Russell Acord is approaching
the target zone through the mountains
on the northern side.
[Russell] Uh, it looks like we're just about
out of road up here.
Ah, I wonder how far it goes.
These mountains are much higher,
steeper, and more jagged
than anything we saw in Kentucky.
The highest peak we saw was around 3,000 feet.
We're looking at almost double that here.
So it won't be easy, like I've always said,
Bigfoot will be
where humans don't want to go.
And if he's here,
we're gonna find him in these mountains.
- You hear that? - [helicopter blade whirring]
Helicopter.
[Bryce] I can actually see Russell
right now in his truck.
Right now, I'm just looking for a target
he can start moving towards.
Wow. Look at this.
We've got a big problem,
a dried up river with no water flowing.
[narrator] While there are still hundreds
of waterways in their target zone,
there are far fewer than a normal year.
Record low snowfall the previous winter
has caused some rivers to run dry.
[Bryce] With fewer waterways available
in these mountains,
the rivers that are still running
are far more valuable to us.
Prey animals that Bigfoot feed on,
and Bigfoot themselves,
have fewer options to get water.
So, finding a waterway at these altitudes
is more likely to have some activity.
This here looks like the largest water source
in this part of the target zone.
- [radio beeps] - [Bryce] Russell, come in.
- [Russell] Go ahead, Bryce. - [Bryce] So it looks like
there's an active water source in your sector.
I can see a peak nearby that can give you
a great vantage point of the area.
I'm sending you the coordinates right now.
[Russell] Copy that.
So today, my objective,
we're gonna try to get to the peak
that Bryce had pointed out for us.
If any wildlife came through here,
we know they're headed for the water,
and that gives me a big advantage.
[narrator] Russell will travel five miles
to the ridge above the water source,
where he can scout for any activity.
[Russell] Just wanna get past this stuff.
Boy, this really opens up out here.
That water source is just below us.
It looks like the higher we get,
the more of that hillside I can see,
which would be great for thermal imaging.
Hey, man, look at that.
[man speaking]
If you're a predator, waiting for the unsuspecting deer,
or the unsuspecting food source to come by,
you can get up here,
you'll see, or be able to hear
where it comes from any direction,
and actually scan this whole area
as a predator would.
[ominous music playing]
[Bryce] Hey, Brandon, what's beyond
that ridge pass there,
do you think we can head that way?
And with the way the clouds are laying,
and the way the winds come in,
I don't really feel comfortable
going in that way. It can get really bad.
Gotcha.
We've seen about 80% of our target zone,
but the sun is setting fast.
I've already plotted some of Mireya's adventure,
so I think we should head back.
Whatever is behind that ridge,
we'll just have to explore by foot.
[ominous music playing]
It just looks really thick. I don't see
any kind of good opening for us to start trekking.
[narrator] Now three miles into their target zone,
Ronny and Mireya are traveling west
on a small river
that is rapidly growing shallower
as they move in one.
They're searching for a shoreline to dock,
and begin the trek to the location
Bryce has chosen for their basecamp.
[Ronny] It's a lot more difficult than I thought.
[Mireya] Yeah, moving around on land at night is hard,
but moving around on water at night
is a lot harder.
What about this? I mean, what do you think?
This looks like good solid land here.
A good forest behind it,
and enough space for something large
- to get through. - Yeah. I do like this.
- Okay. - Yeah. Let's check it out.
[Ronny] With Bryce being in the air,
he was able to give us an idea
of where our basecamp should be.
But there's so much area
that we need to cover and check out,
so as we're making our way to those coordinates,
we're looking for any type of footprints or sign
that might be promising along the way.
Does it look like something has been over here, Mireya?
This is all matted down.
[Mireya] This whole area looks like
it's had something move through it.
[Ronny] Like perhaps we're in something's territory?
[Mireya] It's matted down over here, too.
There are definitely signs of something
that moved in this direction.
[crunching footsteps]
[howling]
[Mireya] What the [bleep] was that?
[Ronny] A Screech owl?
[Mireya] Well, that wasn't a Screech owl.
[Mireya] This matted down vegetation
was made by something big,
and it's going right in this direction.
[howling]
[Mireya] What the [bleep] was that?
[Ronny] A Screech owl?
[Mireya] Well, that wasn't a Screech owl.
All of a sudden, we hear this
incredibly strange noise
coming from a close distance,
and then, it just completely cut off.
[Ronny] Yeah. When that came on,
it sounded like a police siren,
coming from within the forest in front of us.
[Mireya] The fact that it sounded like a siren,
except it was clearly an animal,
and unlike anything I'd ever heard before,
- it was shocking. - [Ronny] I like to see
where the heck that sound just came from.
[Mireya] Follow me. Here's a game trail
that leads into the direction
of where it came from.
It was loud, but it seemed like
- the sound was traveling... - [Ronny] Yeah.
I don't think I've ever heard
that sound before.
[Mireya] I have no idea what that was.
[Ronny] Right now, I'm thinking that
maybe that sound we heard, it's a warning,
alerting other Bigfoot to our presence,
or maybe, it was a warning for us to stay out.
All right. Let's keep searching
for any signs of what could have made that sound.
Maybe we can figure out what that was.
[ominous music playing]
[Bryce] So I just landed after using the helicopter
to scout the target zone.
But right now, I'm on my way to speak with,
not just an eyewitness,
but the police officer who saw
what he could describe as a Bigfoot-like creature
cross the road in the middle of the night,
right in front of him. I'm curious,
just what in the hell did this guy see.
It's come to my attention that some people believe
that the authorities here in Washington
may actually be aware of Bigfoot.
[man] I don't know what you think about Bigfoot,
but they are real,
the government knows about them,
and they're in this area.
- They're in the area? - [man] Absolutely.
[Bryce] While the man I'm about to interview
isn't in the military, he's an authority,
and maybe he knows something about it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Bryce] Hey, Rich, how you doing?
[Rich] Good.
Hey, man, thanks for meeting with me tonight.
- Yeah, no problem. - Yeah. I appreciate it.
So, uh, as we discussed, you were in law enforcement,
and, uh, you had an encounter with a Bigfoot
almost a decade ago, is that right?
More than that. Two decades ago.
- [Bryce] Wow. - Uh, July of 2000.
Can you tell me a little bit about that?
[Rich] Yeah. I was coming down this road,
and I was on graveyard shift.
The road happened to be clear at this moment
when I'm coming down to my patrol car,
and on the left side,
this figure steps onto the roadway,
I stopped my car in about 50 yards from it.
I mean, the chest was massive,
uh, the thickness of it, it was covered in hair.
Eight feet tall,
around 800,000 pounds,
and it was terrifying.
Did it stop in the road, too, or...
No, it didn't stop. It came out,
and profiled to me, never looked at me.
[Bryce] Did you see the face or...
No, it was profiled to me so no face detail at all.
It took four steps,
hit the fence line on the other side of the road,
and, uh, disappeared.
That was it.
[Bryce] Were you running a dashboard camera
- or anything? - No, no, no,
we didn't have stuff like that in those days.
[Bryce] What was your initial reaction?
And at first, it's shock
and frightened, you know.
Uh, I really... It's just I didn't know
what I was dealing with,
because I know it's a Sasquatch,
but there's more to it than meets the eye,
even when you see it.
Do you think these things are dangerous, or...
[Rich] Uh, I could tell you
that I changed my behavior dramatically.
- How so? - [Rich] Psychologically,
uh, it spooked me.
I didn't like to go places alone for quite some time.
It took me years before,
um, I was able to really start
enjoying myself again like that.
And sometimes being put in me,
and forcing me to feel a way that
it was abnormal and unnatural.
This emptiness, like, this black hole.
So you're feeling an abnormal dread?
[Rich] Yeah, feeling a dread.
If it wanted to do something to somebody,
there's nothing anybody could do about it.
It could just sneak in behind you,
and just grab you like that, and you'd be done.
Yeah.
I've heard specific reports of people
in high government or military positions
having knowledge of Bigfoot.
Do you know anything about that?
[Rich] Uh, I don't... I don't know...
And I actually wrote a memo to the sheriff's office,
categorized it as an unknown phenomenon.
Yeah, it was all documented.
[Bryce] Do you think that it goes up
further the chain of command, or...
[Rich] I don't know whatever happened to that.
[Bryce] After you had that first encounter,
you started researching more into the subject,
what kind of things did you come across?
When I first came into this thing,
I was looking at it
as a law enforcement investigator.
And then, I was finding so much evidence,
it was real apparent to me that there was a lot
more of these things around.
[Bryce] What type of... Sort of topography,
or geographical markers should we be looking for?
Well, there's a lot of major drainages.
They create natural pathways.
A drainage? You mean like a hollow
where the water comes off the mountain?
[Rich] It's easier walking, it has less gradient.
These things have been using them for thousands of years,
to get from point A to point B.
I mean, in there, in Mason County,
there was so much density of sightings,
and it certainly wasn't the same Bigfoot
popping up all over the county.
And there seems to be, uh, generally,
I think groups of three to five.
[Bryce] So Rich, when you say groupings,
are you referring to, like, uh, a family of Bigfoot?
[Rich] Yeah, family groupings.
There seems to be groups
going up most in every drainage area.
[Bryce] This is pretty significant.
Families of Bigfoot,
moving in social groups like primates.
This is tremendous.
The theory of multiple Bigfoots
traveling together lines up perfectly
with the evidence we collected in Kentucky.
Howls coming from multiple locations,
and the witness who found what she believed to be
a small print found within a larger print.
[woman] There was another footprint
inside of that footprint.
- [Bryce] Oh, wow. - [woman] Maybe there was
something stepping inside the tracks.
If you ever notice deer, the fawns,
they're really close to the mom.
And I was like, could this be baby
that are following their mother?
[Bryce] If the Bigfoot here move in family units,
then the team needs to be on the lookout
for a greater range of evidence.
For example, juveniles have smaller footprints,
and are commonly mistaken for human,
we'll have to be diligent out there.
I hear so often that people will witness
these things crossing the road,
just as you experienced.
Makes me think I need to pay special attention
to the roadways in our target zone.
Maybe we could get lucky.
- Possibly, yeah. - Yeah.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Russell] It's quiet and dark,
and very, very calm here.
I'm about a thousand feet above that water source.
This is our night we have the element of surprise.
Hopefully, we'll get some action.
[narrator] Russell is on top of a ridgeline,
overlooking a small river that he believes
is a prime target to spot Bigfoot.
[Russell] Right now, I'm just looking for anything that puts out that you trace,
and when I see something
that has a red signature,
that means it is holding heat,
and one of the prime examples of that
is among this hillside.
You can tell that there's rocks
on that hillside over there because of rocks have held
the heat through daytime.
The only other thing...
that's gonna show that kind of color
would be a hot-blooded animal.
There's something down there.
I see something down on the far side
of the valley that's very interesting.
Uh-huh. There it is, it's moving.
I need to put this thing on the tripod,
so I can stabilize it.
And I'm gonna zoom in on that a little bit.
It's not moving anymore.
I really want you to see this.
Right here,
it's an upright red.
Do you see that?
I'm gonna bring it in tighter.
- Do you see that? - [man speaking]
It looks like someone's just standing there.
Holy [bleep].
I really want you to see this.
Do you see that?
[man speaking]
[Russell] It looks like someone's just standing there.
[narrator] On a ridge above a small river,
Russell has spotted what he believes
may be a humanoid-like figure on the mountainside,
directly opposite his position.
[Russell] I need to go to that same point in person,
see if there's any secondary evidence to tell me,
was it a deer, was it an elk, was it a bear?
Or did we see Bigfoot?
So we'll look in that clearing over there tomorrow.
[dramatic music playing]
[Bryce] Bigfoot, we believe, is an omnivore.
And we like to consider all available food sources
to help us narrow our search.
We've actually identified the locations
of different food sources like deer and wild berries,
using local intel,
as well as something way more high-tech,
satellite imagery.
[narrator] For decades, NASA has been collecting
imagery of the Earth.
Using highly sophisticated satellite technology,
they capture detailed images in the visible spectrum,
as well as infrared,
and thermal infrared spectrums.
In 2009, the government released the images
to the public, and many scientists
now use the data for a wide variety
of world-changing studies.
Archaeologists have discovered
over 1,000 tombs
and 17 pyramids in Egypt.
The data has also been used
to track climate change and deforestation.
Here in Washington, scientists have begun
to use the data to precisely track
the growth of fruit-bearing plants.
These forests are filled with wild berries,
and when these berries ripen,
like all fruit, they change color.
Now, these satellite cameras are so extremely sensitive
that they can actually detect that color shift.
So essentially, from space,
we can tell when and where food is available.
Now,
we've inputted all this collected data
into our GPS tracking maps,
and we now know where Bigfoot is most likely to be feeding,
which is incredible, because now,
we have these feeding hotspots
inside of our target zone.
[melancholy music playing]
[eagle screeching]
[suspenseful music playing]
[Russell] Wanna have a quick look over on this hillside
over here, that thermal we got last night.
It appeared to be something standing upright,
and putting out, uh, a heat trace.
Best guess so far, judging by these rocks,
it would have been a rock, because it stayed still.
But like humans, we can stand in one position
for quite some times.
I'll get that sorted out right now.
[narrator] Survivalist Russell Acord has returned
to the spot where he believes he saw a figure,
standing on a forest hillside late last night.
[Russell] And so judging about where I was getting
that hot signal last night,
there's no rock formations over there.
I'm looking at the same logs and the same structures
that I was last night.
There's nothing that would indicate a rock
that would have held that type of heat.
[suspenseful music playing]
[phone rings]
Hey, Russell, what's going on, man?
[Russell] Hey, Bryce. I got something
on the thermals last night that I need to show you.
I just sent it, so you should get it any second now.
This thing, I thought it was actually
heat coming out the rocks,
and I just came over here and confirmed,
there's no rocks over here.
Whatever it was, it put out...
a really hot trace.
It was human-like in structure,
and put out a tremendous amount of heat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, let me pull it up here, hold on.
Oh, what the hell is that?
[Russell] That thing just stood there,
stock-still for the longest time.
It was like, it was looking down over the valley,
maybe hunting deer or something,
but it did not move,
it was just the strangest thing,
the way it just stood there.
[Russell] Let me just take a look at where you are.
There's a berry patch
about a mile and a half down from where you are.
I think you should descend down there,
and check it out.
It's huge.
It's definitely a point of interest.
Absolutely. Will do.
[Ronny] I kind of feel like I'm in Jurassic Park
with all these ferns and everything.
[narrator] Along their way to the basecamp location,
Ronny and Mireya are exploring a small creek
that runs parallel to the river
they were traveling along.
[Mireya] I would have loved to have gotten
a recording of that sound.
[Ronny] I know.
[howling]
[Mireya] What the [bleep] was that?
Let's try and follow the creek a little bit.
[Ronny] Sounds good.
[Mireya] While we're searching,
we can't just take a direct path.
We tried to follow the river
as much as we can,
but there were times where it's just impenetrable,
and we can't get past, and we have to go back
into the forest, and make our way around.
And that is how a lot of the animals here
actually move.
So we are very much mimicking
the way that animals move in this area,
which is to follow that path of the river
for as far as you can,
but then, head back into the forest.
[Ronny] So I think I got a little game trail
right here.
Definitely deer because those things
just look like stick holes.
[Mireya] Yeah, I mean, you can see it,
making their way up and down the spot.
[Ronny] Yeah.
[Mireya] All right, Ronny. Why don't you follow
that game trail and look for more tracks
away from the creek.
I'm gonna follow the creek closer,
and see what's here.
Some of these ferns are neck high.
[suspenseful music playing]
All right.
Food is everywhere.
[Mireya] Holy crap.
Ronny? That was [bleep] weird.
Something just moved past me,
in front of me, this way.
Whoa.
[Mireya] Oh, my God.
[Mireya] Holy crap.
Ronny?
Something just moved past me, this way.
Whoa.
[Mireya] Holy crap.
Could you see anything from over there?
No. What happened?
[Mireya] So, what it sounded like,
something big was walking down this path,
and it almost started to sound
as if it was walking down the front of me,
while you were over there.
- [Ronny] Did you see anything? - [Mireya] All I saw was movement,
and a sound...
that sounded human-sized,
coming this way.
[Ronny] And the movement stopped though,
- the sound stopped? - [Mireya] And the...
- And the movement stopped. - So it's still right here?
[Mireya] [bleep].
This is not gonna end well.
[Ronny] If it was a normal animal,
we would hear that thing just taking off,
deer, or if it was like...
[Mireya] Deer would have either scampered off,
or we'd see it.
There's something out there.
[Ronny] The brush around us is so dense,
that something very large
could be only a few feet away,
and be totally hidden from us.
And now, we have that feeling that we have eyes on us.
There's something more than just animals
living in here.
Bigfoot's here, too.
This is just kind of, like, a sign of respect,
just to let them know that,
"Hey, we're here. We're coming in."
It's almost like knocking on the door.
Let's see if we get a response.
[Mireya] Well, I wouldn't bang two rocks together
on one of my gorilla expeditions,
we often do make sounds
in order to evoke a response.
In Kentucky, Ronny and I heard
what sounded like a tree knock,
and Ronny attributes that to Bigfoot activity.
[knock on wood]
Ronny, do you recognize that sound?
[Ronny] It means it's just got a tree knocked.
[Mireya] So, it's possible that it could work.
Shh. Listen, listen.
[twigs snapping]
[Mireya] But there is something out there.
Ronny, that sound now was coming from that way.
- So, would it... - So it's moving?
Whatever animal, whatever I heard,
that was just here,
is now way back there.
Whatever it is, it's still...
- Either hunker down or... - I mean, look.
If there is one thing that animals are good at,
- it's hiding. - [Ronny] Okay. Yeah.
[Mireya] I've been out many times,
looking for species
that have been thought to be extinct.
This is like a playground,
a hiding place for an animal
that doesn't wanna be found.
Because we're getting so much wildlife evidence,
and sounds, and activity here...
- Yeah. - ...let's try and camp
somewhere near this creek,
and then survey this area at night.
- [Ronny] Okay. - [Mireya] And see
if we can find anything.
All senses on high alert.
Okay.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Russell] Look at that.
Looks like an old vehicle.
Abandoned.
Yeah, that's been here a while, too.
[Narrator] Russell Acord
is on an abandoned logging road
on his way to a massive patch of wild berries.
The patch is in the valley,
just below where he spotted
what appeared to be a large figure
on the side of a mountain.
[Russell] Bigfoot, like bears, are opportunist.
They'll eat anything that they can get.
Late summer right now,
berries are blooming everywhere.
And what I'm really on the look out for
are the huckleberries.
A lot of testimonies from people say
that huckleberries are their favorite.
Native American legends state the same thing.
So, if we see huckleberries in large concentrations,
we know we're on the right track.
Look at this.
Something has actually brushed up against this.
Right here and here and here.
That is interesting though.
You know how an animal will get it...
Against it, you know,
all the different strands of hair,
this looks like something a little bit
more solid than that.
It's not a finding that we can say definitively
what it was.
It didn't look like fur.
Fur wouldn't leave the sweeping motion
like a paint brush would.
This actually look like skin contact,
or something more solid than that.
Oh, look here. The other half of it sets.
If you look down this road, this is an old,
old wagon road, hasn't been used,
there's trees growing up into it,
but there's no tracks, no nothing.
This thing has been sitting here for quite some time.
It seems like a lot of the stories you hear
around Bigfoot,
a lot of the natives wouldn't say
that Bigfoot is the protector of the forest,
the protector of nature,
and this isn't how this is supposed to look.
And this is how it's supposed to look.
If someone dropped this in my front yard,
I wouldn't be too happy about it either.
There's a game trail that runs off here to the right.
Looks like a pretty well used game trail,
I'm gonna head out in this way.
Gonna keep marching forward.
I still got a few hours before I get there.
I'm gonna head down to that wooded area,
to see if I can find any evidence
to what was moving down there.
What I saw was standing upright.
So, whether it was a human or a Bigfoot,
I'm gonna find that evidence,
but this could be a long walk.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Bryce] After speaking with the former police officer
about the Bigfoot crossing that he saw,
I started to research other similar incidents.
Turns out, it's a pretty common way
to see Bigfoot in this area.
I mean, I must have found about a hundred different reports
in the Olympic Peninsula alone.
So then, I started to look for highways
that were similar to where Rich Germeau
saw that Bigfoot crossing the road.
And I found one inside of our target zone.
It's in the east sector, it runs north and south,
right along the shoreline of Hood Canal.
Now, if Bigfoot are crossing these roads
as much as I think they are,
then this is my chance to spot one.
And I'm not gonna miss it.
This car is equipped with eight cameras.
Four infrared, facing front, back, and side to side,
360 degrees.
It's basically a mobile surveillance unit.
So right now, I'm driving the exact kind of roads
that are perfect to capture Bigfoot crossing.
We're surrounded by dense forest on both sides.
There's no cars on the road, it's the middle of the night.
Even if I don't see something crossing the road,
one of these cameras will pick it up,
and I'll be able to take it back
to the command center later on,
and analyze the footage.
So, if anything crosses the road,
we're gonna get it on camera.
I'm ready.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mireya] You getting something?
[Ronny] It's so quiet.
[narrator] After the mysterious activity
Mireya experienced in the creek bed,
the team has decided to make a temporary camp
in this location, and explore its surroundings.
[Ronny] That's so thick in here.
[narrator] They're first exploring the ridge,
directly above where Mireya's strange experience occurred.
[Ronny] When you're in nature,
you kind of get back to the primal instinct.
I learned to listen to my gut,
where you're following that energy
where you're gonna go.
I'm getting an uneasy feeling now.
- [Mireya] What do you mean? - [Ronny] I don't know.
It's like this...
anxious feeling.
You start to feel like something is watching you,
but I'm getting this...
uneasiness.
But then, there's this energy in the air.
It's almost like there's electricity.
The hair on the back of your neck goes up,
or on your arms,
but, uh, I'm feeling it over in this direction.
[Mireya] So where I heard the sound
- is over in that direction. - [Ronny] Yeah.
[Mireya] And you're having a feeling that it's coming
- from over there? - [Ronny] This way, yeah.
[Mireya] Let's follow your feeling.
[Ronny] I just wanna follow my gut.
[Mireya] All right. Well, lead the way.
I don't think Ronny would've asked us
to abandon our plan to go to this other area
if he really hadn't been feeling something.
And while science is not founded on feelings,
I do think that it's really important as a scientist
that you follow your instincts.
[ominous music playing]
[Mireya] Are you still feeling it?
[Ronny] Yeah. It's like picking up intensity.
[Mireya] It's taking us right through the logging road.
[Ronny] Yeah, logging has a big history with Bigfoot.
Whenever they come in to start logging their land,
they get pissed off.
[Mireya] Are you having the same feeling
- or is it getting stronger? - [Ronny] Yeah.
It's, like, overwhelming.
I feel like a pull in this direction.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ronny] What was that?
There's something brushing by the branches.
- [Mireya] Did you see it? - [Ronny] I can't.
[Mireya] I mean, like, did you see a movement,
- or just a sound? - [Ronny] No, but like,
something sliding.
[Mireya] Which way do you wanna go?
Hey, what are you feeling?
It's... I don't feel it anymore,
like the present tense.
[Mireya] This is, like, kind of playing a game
of hard cold.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Ronny] The one thing they're known to do
is being tricksters, right?
They try to manipulate.
Like, just how we were in Kentucky,
when we got spun around.
I think we got turned around.
[Mireya] What?
[Ronny] We're back to where we started.
I almost wanna know
if that's what's happening again.
[Mireya] Ronny is convinced that Bigfoot is here.
And it's not that I don't believe him,
but we've really given instinct a chance.
Now I'm ready to start using a more scientific approach.
All right. So, why don't we split up then?
[Ronny] All right.
[Mireya] You in that way. And I'll cover this area,
and I've got the walkie on on channel two.
Okay. I'm on channel two.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Mireya speaking]
What's this?
Oh, this looks like a footprint.
[Mireya speaking]
I think I'm kneeling over what looks like bedding.
I see what looks like a very deep footprint.
Hey, Ronny.
I think I'm kneeling over what looks like bedding.
I see what looks like a very deep footprint.
Say it again. You found a footprint?
[narrator] Above a creek bed, where Mireya believes
she was approached by a large animal,
the team has discovered
what could be a massive footprint.
[Mireya] I can't see definitively
that it is a footprint,
but it's worth looking at.
You notice any other footprints around there,
or just that single one?
[Mireya] At a glance, just the single one.
Is there a way that we can check it in the morning?
Sure. All right.
The understory here is really spongy,
but because of its depth,
and the fact that he had this, you know, feeling,
pulling us in this direction,
I think it's worth checking out in the morning.
[Bryce] I don't know. There's something in the air,
that's just feels like the night
that we may capture something on video,
which will just be incredible.
[narrator] For five hours, Bryce has been scanning
the two-lane highway,
where he believes he's likely
to spot a Bigfoot.
I mean, I don't think anybody has ever done this before.
I mean, we have high-tech cameras
armed with infrared, night vision,
and I've even got the thermal,
in the hopes of capturing something
crossing the road,
either in front or behind.
And being able to document these creatures
as part of our expedition,
I mean, it's like really trying
to capture lightning in a bottle.
[melancholy music playing]
[Bryce speaking]
What the [bleep] is that?
[man speaking]
[Bryce] Did you see it cross the road?
There's something crossed the road right here.
Dude, my heart is racing.
[narrator] Next time on Expedition Bigfoot.
[Bryce] Okay. There it is, right there.
What the [bleep] is that?
[howling]
- Did you hear that? - [man] Yeah.
Holy crap.
[man] I want you to close your eyes.
Sleep.
What's happening now?
[Roger] I could see it in the moonlight.
It was so big. And didn't want it to see me.
Roger, what do you think this thing is?
[makes sound]
Uh, guys. What is that?
Seriously, what is that?