Shooting Bigfoot: America's Monster Hunters Storyville

The film you are about to see is authentic.

The Eskimos call the subject of my story Bushman.

The Colville Indians of upstate Washington call him Sasquatch.

The Hoopa of Northern California call him Omah.

But right now, let's just call him Bigfoot.

-That looks like a giant-sized man, about 9ft tall.

-9ft.

The males, the females are about 7ft tall.

My God.

First there was the Abominable Snowman in the Himalayas, then

the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland, and now Bigfoot in South Dakota.

When I was a kid I liked to imagine that some monsters were real,

especially Bigfoot.

But as I grew up and became a documentary film maker, it

became increasingly difficult to believe that a giant ape-man

could stay hidden in the wild.

Over the years, the footage being claimed as Bigfoot seemed to

get worse and worse.

And after seeing numerous hoaxes, I had joined the sceptics.

Inside this shed, there are four Bigfoot.

But I was glad to discover that for some men, the cult of Bigfoot

is still very much alive.

I don't think there's an hour in a day that goes by that

I don't think about Sasquatch.

We try to educate the public about the probability of Bigfoot existing.

What is the probability of Bigfoot existing?

Well, for me it's 100%, because I saw one as a child.

That's why I've been gathering this material all my life.

Bigfoot researcher Geoff Meldrum

says the search for Bigfoot will go on.

I wondered what drives these guys to continue searching against

the grain of most scientific thinking, and set out to see if I

could rekindle my childhood beliefs, on an all-American Bigfoot hunt.

Now Wayne and I have had some hellacious stories

from over the years, haven't we, Wayne?

We've had things happen to us, we've had...he's had rock...

big rocks thrown at him one time.

I've had a rock this big around, like a soft ball size,

thrown at me once.

And who's throwing those rocks?

That's called the Sasquatch.

-Sasquatch, that's the same thing as Bigfoot.

-Sasquatch.

Sasquatch. Yes.

They prefer being called that better than they do Bigfoot.

Want to show you something. See this?

This thing is full of research.

This is all research in here between Wayne and me.

And our other team people.

Dallas and Wayne describe themselves as Bigfoot researchers, and

have spent years documenting the same stretch of their local woods.

I got the proof behind me, hanging on this wall. OK.

But have you got one shot where you can clearly see Bigfoot?

The closest one I've ever gotten is right there.

He's 20ft away from me.

I call him the big dude, and he's big.

This is his head, part of his chest, and his leg coming down,

the curvature of his back and his butt. This is 20ft away.

If you still can't see it...

then there's something wrong.

After spending a short time with Dallas and Wayne, I still

wasn't convinced that Bigfoot existed.

Then I heard this 911 call made in San Antonio, Texas.

'I'm not real sure, ma'am.

'I'm a homeless female. I live right in the middle of the woods.

'This big thing was 75ft away from me. Smells awful.

'Devoured a whole deer carcass, screamed, screeched,

'and took off across the street.'

Was it standing on two or four...?

'It was standing on two legs.'

No type of clothing or...?

'No, it was fur.

'I want to believe that it was a large cat,

'or a bear, but I'm... it's a very large something.

'That's so bad and is bigger than we are.'

I arrived in San Antonio shortly after a man called Rick Dyer,

who describes himself as a Bigfoot master tracker.

-Good morning.

-Hey.

-Hey, brother.

-This is Brianna.

-Hi. Brianna, actually.

-Brianna.

-Yep.

-Brianna?

-Mm-hm.

-Nice to meet you.

-You too.

-What's your role, Brianna?

-I'm his assistant.

-How long's that been?

Couple of days. She has lovely green/tan eyes.

Thanks.

Rick had arrived in Texas 48 hours earlier, and immediately began

tracking the deer-carcass-devouring creature.

Some homeless people called it in, and three motorists called it in.

And then when I came up here, you see my tyre tracks right there.

I came up here, just like this here.

And crossed this path.

I saw it, right there, right through that barbed wire fence right there.

I'm not going to tell you how tall it is because

I don't know, but I know it was a hairy, upright creature.

And when I saw that, my heart dropped.

Now, 100% without no doubt, there is

a Bigfoot and there is a Bigfoot right here.

I found it difficult to believe Rick's story.

Not because I didn't believe there was a Bigfoot in Texas,

but because Rick was a famous liar.

In our number one story,

two Georgia hunters say they have recovered the corpse of a Sasquatch.

You're looking at what the pair say is Bigfoot, in a cooler, on ice.

I'm pleased to welcome Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer.

Gentleman, welcome. Thanks for joining us.

-Hey, how you doing?

-How you doing?

In 2008, Rick Dyer and his then accomplice, Matt Whitton,

started getting attention

when they made some extraordinary claims on YouTube.

We're announcing to the world we have a Bigfoot body.

But the story went global when they teamed up with one of the

most well-known figures on the Bigfoot scene.

We've joined forces with the Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi.

I am very fortunate to say at this point in time the boys have agreed,

and they've turned the body over to me.

What I've seen,

what I touched was not a mask that was sewn on a bear hide.

I have to ask you about Tom Biscardi.

At the press conference today, he actually kind of volunteered,

he said it was his intention to make as much

money as possible off this discovery.

Do you share that goal?

Absolutely.

But before anyone could make any money, reporters discovered

a flaw in the story.

Somebody from the costume website the horrordome.com says

they think the picture looks like their Sasquatch costume.

What do either of you guys make of that claim?

Soon the truth about the Bigfoot in the freezer was revealed.

Their Bigfoot hoax was a joke.

Whitton and Dyer said Bigfoot was a Sasquatch costume

they bought off the web, and filled with possum road kill.

The news story may have been over, but I became fascinated by

this world of Bigfoot hunters, and Bigfoot hoaxes.

I went to northern California to see Tom Biscardi.

-Good morning, nice to meet you.

-How you doing?

-Come on in.

I've seen the creature with my own eyes.

I've heard the vocalisations.

I was 12ft away from one of them, OK.

And I freaked out.

And I made a dedication to myself that day that, damn it, I'm going

to bring one of these things back, because I know it exists.

37 years later, I'm still here doing it.

Tom Biscardi claims to have seen Bigfoot six times, and has

interviewed dozens of fellow witnesses, including the

Bigfoot researchers I'd met, Dallas and Wayne, whilst making

documentaries such as Bigfoot Lives and Bigfoot Lives II.

The thing about it is, you did see something?

-Oh, yeah.

-It's an adrenaline rush, man.

That's an experience of a lifetime.

But Tom hoped his latest DVD would clear him of involvement with

the Bigfoot-in-the-freezer hoax.

This is the Anatomy Of A Bigfoot Hoax.

This movie, this documentary,

this blow by blow action-packed movie...

-Is this...?

-..was real.

-Is this a movie that you've made?

We did this. We put it together.

And I'll tell you the reason why. The world wanted to know...

DISTANT CLANKING

Joan, please, honey, you got to understand something,

everything you do is being picked up here,

every time you turn on a switch, every time you...

you have those doors going up and down, and squeaking,

he gets feedback and he has to go in and edit it, all this crap.

-OK. I'll...

-All right. Please. So don't move.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Tom claimed that he was an unwitting victim of Rick and Matt's deception.

The hoax was perpetrated on myself and my team.

But Rick and Matt had a different story.

This guy, who called himself the Bigfoot Hunter, called

and kind of invited himself out.

And he said, "Guys I know you don't have the body of Bigfoot,

"but we can make a ton of money off this."

He told us, like the fake alien autopsy, that we can do a Bigfoot

autopsy, he said, but we need a body, and we need a body quick.

We purchased dead animals, cut them up and threw them in the suit.

We asked for 50,000.

And he gave it to us in cash.

He gave you 50,000?

I wouldn't call it giving, it was more of a swap.

We put a lot of work into that Bigfoot.

We are the victims.

We had no part in this elaborate scheme at all.

But they say that you said to them, I know the body is not real

but we can make a whole lot of money out of this,

and you would give them 50,000, and so they went along with it.

Where did you hear that?

From them.

I have no idea. I've never heard that before.

Until now.

Until right now. So you've actually talked to these guys?

-When was this?

-Some time ago.

You just heard it, the truth on that tape.

You just seen it, you heard it with your own ears, OK.

But that's why I have to question you.

-Yeah, well, it makes me mad, OK.

-Don't get mad.

I do get mad. And I'll tell you why I get mad.

You just asked me a question, how do I feel?

And I'll tell you how I feel.

If I had them in front of me, I'd like to wring their necks.

I'm not going to sit here and-and-and volley back

and forth with you, or anyone else, about the Bigfoot world.

Half of them, three-quarters of them, they're all full of shit.

OK. They don't know what the fuck they're doing.

And you're riling me up, OK, but I'm glad you are, because

it's about time that somebody comes forth and tells the truth.

They don't know what they're doing.

They all said, oh, Biscardi's in the game just for the money.

Bullshit.

I'm here to do one thing, it's to bring one of these creatures back.

I don't want to talk right now.

Tom, don't get mad though.

Just keep the camera off right now, OK.

I said I don't want to talk. You got it?

Joan, get me a Snapple.

I thought my journey into the Bigfoot world was over.

In fact, it was just about to begin.

You come out in the brush and you see what it's all about with me.

All right. Half of you people all go by the wayside within four hours,

or you cry for your mama in the middle of the night.

Determined to prove he was genuine, Tom invited me on an

expedition to meet Bigfoot witnesses and gather evidence.

A journey that he said might lead us to the creature itself.

But Tom wasn't the only one with something to prove.

Wayne and I are very honest people, we've never lied about our research.

Every bit of it is for real.

Bigfoot researchers Dallas and Wayne were sticking to their story.

I'm not a hoaxer.

I've been busting my butt out here for years,

and the first time somebody calls me a hoaxer, well, if they're

in front of me, they're going to be set on the ground.

I don't hoax.

I'm a researcher. I'm a survivor. I go, I see, I film, I shoot.

I do it all.

You aren't going to claim what I got.

You aren't going to claim it because I'll come and get you.

Despite the threats, I was intrigued by Dallas and his claim that

given a chance, he could deliver the evidence.

Also looking for a second chance, the former hoaxer Rick had

reinvented himself as an authentic Bigfoot hunter, and was

adamant that he'd seen the creature in the woods of San Antonio.

God...has sent me something.

To say, look, there is a Bigfoot, be committed now.

But unfortunately for the Bigfoot...

I'm going to have to kill it.

You're going to have to kill it?

Unfortunately, yes.

I know that there's a Bigfoot out here.

It was either a Bigfoot, or someone in a costume walking away.

And I doubt that it was someone in the costume walking away.

If there is someone in a costume out here,

then they will be dead soon, because I will shoot him.

Fascinated by their conviction, I decided to join these men

on three separate missions.

Were they simply charlatans,

or was there something more complex going on?

HE MAKES AN ANIMAL CALL

Perhaps there was still a faint chance that Bigfoot could

actually exist.

I wasn't sure who or what to believe, but when it was over,

I just felt glad to get out of this alive.

HEAVY METAL MUSIC

No, that one needs to go up. Yeah, down, yeah.

Can you get a qualification, Rick, to be a master tracker?

Can you get a qualification on being an asshole film-maker?

Daddy, Bigfoot is real?

-Yeah, of course Bigfoot is real.

-OK.

You know Bigfoot is real.

Why do you ask that, Audrey?

Because I don't know.

-You don't know if he's real?

-No.

Why, do some people tell you he's not?

My mum tells me that.

I'm fixing to prove it to you, it's real.

Daddy has seen Bigfoot with his own eyes. Do you believe Daddy?

Yes.

I wouldn't lie to you.

-Because I love you.

-OK.

Now is Bigfoot real?

Yeah.

OK. Bigfoot is real.

-Hey, Tom.

-Hey, good to see you guys.

-How are you?

-Well, welcome back. How was your trip over the pond?

-Yeah, not so bad.

-Not bad, huh?

-How are you?

Well, excellent, as you can tell.

30-hour-drive, but we're fresh and ready to go.

This is Youngblood, he's been with me now for four years,

he's my chief tracker and sharp-shooter. OK.

Chico is...sometimes I paraphrase by saying an ex-Navy Seal,

and he keeps correcting me - once a Seal, always a Seal.

So I don't know how to put it to him.

Does he have special skills?

You bet he does. Survival. Survival. He's the best.

So the guy that we're going to meet is a guy who shot...

Shot the creature. Look at the teeth here.

Look at the ears. See the face and the eyes.

Look at the blood right in here.

So this is what we're here to see?

You bet. This is no bullshit, this is the real deal right now. OK.

And who is this guy?

-He's a business-owner in town.

-Really?

Yeah, we're going to go to his business right now.

In what circumstances did he shoot the creature, do you know?

-Self-defence.

-Self-defence?

-He was scared shitless.

-Hey, Dallas.

-Yeah, bud.

The cheap chips are right here.

-The potato chips are right here. The cheap ones.

-OK.

You like pretzels?

Yeah, I like pretzels.

Hey, Wayne, I need to get a can of mackerel.

Mackerel.

You can get mackerel way cheaper than you can here,

but it's up to you, mate, if you want to pay that much money for it.

You going over to the dollar store? No?

Not unless you want to get a can opener.

How much is that one?

4.98.

Forget that one. No, no. No, no.

I've got one at home I should have grabbed.

We'll get that mackerel at the dollar store.

So what's the plan now, Wayne?

Head out to the woods. Do our thing.

HE LAUGHS

Is this a good day to go looking for Bigfoot?

Yeah. Yeah, it's not too hot. It's not too cool.

It's just right.

I get butterflies, because I want to get out there.

I get over-anxious, you know.

That's where you should have your camera pointing at.

Not me, that way.

We get down there, don't put it on me too much,

or Wayne, you're going to be shooting at the woods, Morgan.

-I'm going to make you work.

-HE LAUGHS

Hey, bro, you need to put the camera away,

because I'm worrying about the gun...

We're here. Put the camera away.

THEY LAUGH

Is that a powerful gun?

Very powerful gun. Very, very powerful gun.

Are we all right just to walk in filming with this guy, Tom?

Uh, no. HE LAUGHS

No. We're going to be filmed at a secret place.

He determined it, he's going to...

It's a house that...there's nothing in it. OK.

But he feels better being in there, that there's nobody around,

and you'll understand why when he tells you the story.

-There he is.

-Yeah.

OK. Please, OK, don't...

I'm sitting here with a guy named James right now

in the state of Arkansas.

And at this point in time, we're just going to call him James.

That's the reason why you're not seeing his face.

He's had a remarkable incident going on in his life.

What year did this whole thing start, Rocky?

It was in February of '94.

Just a second, because you just used his name there.

Ooh. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Take one, take two.

What year did this whole thing happen, James?

It was in February of 1994 when I saw what looked like a shadow.

I saw a face, it was coming for me.

I fired three shots. And it was so close that it hit the end of my gun.

Did you take anything off of this body of this creature?

I pulled some hair out of its ass.

What was going through your mind as...

I know you're trying to get freed, because you probably didn't care,

all you wanted to do was get freed, all right.

I don't mean to interrupt you but you said his name again.

-I never said Rocky once.

-Uh-huh.

-Did I...did I say Rocky?

I didn't hear it.

-I didn't hear it neither. Did you hear it?

-No.

Nobody heard it. Please, Chico, do you want to give the interview?

Otherwise, will you please shut up?

You promised me you weren't going to talk.

-I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

-So please shut the fuck up. All right.

Now here's the deal, because I've got a ton of things to do,

and I can't jack jaws all fucking night long, all right.

So can we just get this done, please?

Where were we?

What do you think of the man and the story?

It was quite a long story but...

If I didn't get him to cut most of it, we'd be there still until now.

OK. Because he just goes on and on. He's like Chico over here,

you ask him what time it is and he builds you a fucking watch.

All is I want to do is get to the bottom of the story and get it done.

-As you do. You know.

-Just sum it up for me, Tom, what...?

-I'm tired of talking, to be honest with you, OK.

-OK.

I talk all fucking day, as you know, on this goddamn phone,

and I got two more messages here waiting for me.

PHONE RINGS

'Hi, boss.'

Where are you? We're at the Mini Island sign.

'I thought you were going to call me when you hit the gravel road.'

Listen. Listen, listen, listen, listen.

'..it's not, it's a road.'

All right, just listen up. Hey, hey, hey, hey.

We're at a fucking fork. Do we go left or right?

I know for a fact it's here.

And I will be prepared to kill it.

I don't think it should be killed, but I am a vegetarian, so...

Why are you doing this job then, Bri?

-Um...

-Yeah, Bri, why?

I guess, I wasn't sure...

I didn't know that the goal was to kill the Bigfoot.

So we're going to start looking for tents in the woods.

If you see any tents in the woods on the right-hand side,

you let me know.

See, right there, there's a path here.

Hello.

DOG BARKS

Hello.

Incoming.

Hey, how you all doing?

I'm Rick with bigfoottracker.com.

Oh, I'm sorry, baby. I'm sorry.

-Hello.

-Hi.

Are you the people that called in a Bigfoot sighting?

Yeah, I kind of feel bad about calling 911 because

this might have been some of the last area for him to live free,

whatever it might be. And I understand that.

I wouldn't want people calling 911 on me.

This is a series of dangerous happenings -

seen and heard and smelled.

When whatever was out there farted, it sounded like...

a big...big fat lady fart, I guess you'd say.

That would scare the shit out of me. I mean, right there.

And I don't know, pretend your big sister is out farting,

how far would she have to be for you to hear her?

Just a minute or two later, I saw something standing right

there with his head taller than that blanket.

And it was dark.

And when I yelled and grabbed my frying pan and machete

and started beating it, it went off through the woods that way.

-It yelled and screamed and...

-And it was...

Scared the p-lining shit out of me.

It wasn't a growl and it wasn't a human yell, and...

I told them about the fart.

..it was...it was a terrifying, screeching, howling yell.

And it was bigger than me, I'm 6ft tall. It was bigger than me.

-The thing is, I saw one.

-You saw one?

-Right over here.

So what did you think, Rick?

I believe them. This is an active Bigfoot site, and...

I have to investigate this further by camping out here

for three or four days.

-That's what you're going to do?

-That's what I'm going to do.

HE CHUCKLES

UNINTELLIGIBLE SPEECH

Turn that camera that way.

HE CALLS OUT

What language is that that you're speaking?

That there is a Shaman. Shaman language.

-Shaman?

-Indian language, yes.

Turn your camera and shoot back down that direction

towards that telephone pole.

Right there.

We want to ride on down the road, Wayne?

I reckon.

I seen something come in up here a while ago,

but I don't think I got it.

Right by that telephone pole.

-Yeah?

-Yeah. Ready to go? Let's go, guys.

You all right, Rick? OK?

Yeah.

That can stay there.

Those boots, Rick. Cowboy boots in the woods?

No. It's not.

I like my fucking cowboy boots.

I wear my cowboy boots wherever I go.

How long are you prepared to stay here, Rick?

No less than ten days straight.

So don't start crying and wanting to go out of the woods,

because it's not going to happen.

I hurt a lot of people in 2008 with the hoax,

a lot of true believers, and I would like to redeem myself

and show people that I'm the real deal.

Rick, what did you used to do before you were a Bigfoot tracker?

I was a State of Georgia correctional officer.

So what did you want to be when you were young, Rick?

-Be a cowboy.

-Really?

Yeah.

So why didn't you pursue that then?

Same reason that you don't pursue a lot of your little pipe dreams.

But isn't this a bit of a pipe dream, Rick?

A pipe dream.

A pipe dream is something that you never can achieve.

You know, I'm really honoured about all four of the movies

that I've done. Bigfoot Lives. Bigfoot Lives II.

Anatomy of Bigfoot Hoax, and of course, In The Shadow of Bigfoot.

It's amazing, you know, the first one was out in 1972.

I just marked my 40th year in this industry, off and on.

And for the last seven years, that's all I do full-time.

I want it now. I don't know how much longer I got.

Do you know, I got seven stents in my heart, man, OK.

Am I next? Only the big guy in the sky knows.

All I know is I want to go out and see what's under that next rock.

Have you guys had any sightings?

As far as creature sightings, no, I never have.

I've seen it.

Seen it four times and they all laughed at me.

But they all laughed at me too when I seen the big cat.

I've been living on this road since 1954.

You seen a lot, didn't you, in your time?

Do you ever hear anything strange going on?

-Not really.

-Never.

Anything hairy, tall, walks like a man?

-No.

-OK.

This may be my last expedition, and this may be the time that,

once and for all, we're going to solve this mystery.

We wish you luck. All the luck in the world.

The thing that drives me is that I've physically seen it myself,

along with my team members.

It just irks us that we can't get close enough to capture it.

You hear about people, oh, I'm a Bigfoot researcher,

I'm a Bigfoot hunter, I'm a Bigfoot this, I'm a Bigfoot that.

I'm a crypto zoologist. Crypto my ass, listen.

The name of the game is this, you either heel

and toe it down that street and you go out into the brush

and look, or you'll never find anything.

HORN BLOWS

Like that?

What's that, Dallas?

They'll come in, and they'll sit down on the hill banks

and listen to that music. And relax.

HORN BLOWS AGAIN

This is a Bigfoot tape. Territorial scream.

Hiya, heya...

I always grab the wrong freaking one.

MUSIC PLAYS

No.

It was working good the other day.

HE TUNES RADIO

MUSIC PLAYS

That should be playing.

DISTORTED NOISES

Wayne, is that supposed to attract them?

Yeah. Like I said, they throw rocks at us.

Right here is where we got hit the last time,

right in this area here.

Dallas is getting a loaf of bread and he told me,

he said take his hot dogs up there, and threw the hot dogs...

No, you took the bread up, I took the hot dogs.

-No, you took the bread.

-You took the bread.

-No, I didn't.

-I threw the hot dogs...

No, sir. No, sir. HE LAUGHS

-Yeah, you took the bread up.

-I took the hot dogs up.

-No, you didn't. You took the bread up.

-OK.

-HE LAUGHS

-I know he did.

-No, I took the hot dogs, I know I did.

-No, you didn't.

-Yeah, I did.

-I did.

See what I mean? HE LAUGHS

What do you mean?

I mean we disagree with each other sometimes.

I know what I did. I took the hot dogs...

I do too, bro.

You took the bread up, I told you to.

DOG BARKING

Hello.

Rick, what does that mean if the dogs were there?

That means there's a person staying there.

We've got to talk to them,

because he's going to know if there has been any more Bigfoot sightings.

We need to find this guy.

Now, listen, I need a shotgun, can you bring one? Why?

Hold on. All right, Youngblood, can he have a shotgun in Virginia?

Yes.

He said yeah. The law is good. He says no problem. Bring it.

That's my first-born, TJ, you've seen him in my movies.

He's coming. He's coming from Kentucky.

They're going to be with us in Virginia.

And let me tell you something, I don't bring him on every hunt.

I bring him in when I know that we're close. OK.

So, keep your fingers crossed,

because this is the one for us, I think.

Now, Morgan, this is going to be a live gun,

so you're going to have to stay behind me at all times.

Do not walk in front of this gun. OK.

(What are you doing, Rick? What are you doing?)

Checking the trees.

(Why are you checking the trees?)

Because Bigfoot might be up in the trees.

Isn't that a little bit farfetched?

Why is it a little bit farfetched?

They're not very big, the trees.

Bullshit.

Are you saying that tree right there,

that a 500lb man can't get up it? Yes or no?

Would you hand me my firearm?

How long are you going to stay up in the tree, Rick?

Um...

About three hours. So...

You need to...

Oh, shit. Hey, did you hear that?

I heard somebody talking.

Rick, stop freaking me out.

Rick, I reckon that you'll freak them out

more than they'll freak us out.

If you turn up at like 3.00 in the morning with a gun.

OK.

If someone attacks us, I will shoot them.

Why would somebody attack us?

There's tents.

And there's money, and they see, evidently, we're not homeless.

There's your cameras.

I mean, these motherfuckers around here, they'll fucking

steal your fucking camera and go pawn it for 100.

And go getting fucking high. They don't give a fuck.

Is that her?

Tina. Are you OK?

Hungry?

I'm hungry. I need some money.

I'll give you some money to get something to eat for you,

if you get something to eat. You promise me?

I promise to God and Jesus Christ, amen.

Here. That's 5. Get something to eat.

I feel sorry for her, I really do.

Hate to see her like that. She's a friend.

I've known her for about 30 years.

And I don't know what happened, but drinking stuff, you know, I guess.

She's homeless. There's a lot of homeless people here.

It used to be a prosperous town, but it's not like it was.

There's a lot of job losses, and if you don't know somebody,

you can't get a job around here hardly, you know.

It's the hardest thing you ever do in this world.

And are you working, Wayne?

Not right now, I'm not.

No?

Uh-uh. Not at the moment.

This is the kind of work I used to do, right here, bridge work.

Bridges.

And then what happened?

I fell off the side of a building and I injured myself.

My hips are twisted. I got a ruptured disc out of it.

I miss that work, I really do. I enjoyed it. Made good money.

I miss being around the guys that work together, we worked as a team.

You know.

From my first sighting of a Bigfoot, my whole entire life changed.

Hello, how are?

-Nice to meet you.

-Come on in. How you doing?

Forgive me for him, he just... he's in a different country...

He comes from a different country

and he doesn't know the ways of the people here.

OK. I try to tell him, but he just doesn't understand.

So what we need to do is cut this off right now, please.

OK. All right.

So you've got to be very careful and treat this thing gingerly.

Why is that, Tom? Treat this very...?

He's very secretive, because what he's got, nobody else has.

So it's three Tom Biscardis.

That's right. This is three generations here.

Pleasure to meet you.

My grandson. My son. And I'm the dad.

Look who's here. Chico, American legion. Yeah.

So we've got the A-team here?

I'm reasonably sure that we're going to come away from here with

something that we've been looking for for a long time.

OK. That's all going to be because of this gentleman here.

So, without any further ado,

tell the guys what your plans are for tonight.

We're going to be watching the skies,

we're going to be listening with audio equipment.

If everything goes right,

we hope to prove that science fiction has become science reality.

This is my .357 Magnum.

This is a biopsy gun.

This is a heat seeker.

This is the Holy Grail, a TI, a thermal imager.

If anything has any blood running through it,

it will be seen here on this thing.

Get prepared, baby.

You are going to go for the ride of your life.

You're going to see the best of the best in action.

And if we play our cards right, we just may pop one of these things.

Now, I keep saying that.

I won't...I don't want your people to think...

What do you mean "pop?"

We capture one. You know.

What, alive?

Alive. Yeah. What do you think those Taser guns do?

What do you think the tranquilizer guns do?

We want to get it alive.

Now, if self-defence comes, that's something different.

Are you going to be carrying a gun on your hip?

You bet your sweet ass.

Fuck. That's a man.

(Rick. Tell me what's happening.)

We have located the homeless people, we are going to make contact.

Hey, man.

You're the person we been looking for.

-Me?

-Yeah.

Why you looking for me?

We're doing a show on Bigfoot.

-On Bigfoot.

-Yeah.

-All right.

We actually tried to find you last night to talk to you and stuff.

Have you seen Bigfoot?

Well, a week-and-a-half ago my dog over there went ape nuts,

about 4.00 in the morning,

at something that was walking through here.

-Oh, really?

-So. Yeah.

I came back and it was trashed.

Really?

I'm guessing either a police officer,

or something else came through and cut the tents up.

But the poles were shattered beyond repair.

So something else came through there also.

HE GRUNTS

I'm hoping something will come about for us here. I hope.

All right.

They like this kind of food.

Mackerel for the...

I'm...I'm going to leave it sitting here.

Hopefully the other will attract one, we hope.

It's welcome to have it. It's his, or hers, whichever.

How will you know it's a Bigfoot that takes it?

That's who will come in and take it, period. OK.

Let's go ahead and get on out of here.

Leave it sitting.

And we'll go on back over to the vehicles,

and you and I'll go up the road.

What you got, Rick?

These are ribs. Fresh ribs.

We're going to set them out as bait for Bigfoot.

The homeless people we talked to last time said Bigfoot was

dragging a deer carcass across the road.

Well, this is the closest we can find to a deer carcass,

and we're going to set it up as bait.

Are you trying to lure him in?

Yes.

Seriously. No bullshit. I saw some green fucking eyes.

Oh, you see that?

See him? There's a racoon.

Do you really think Bigfoot is out here, Rick?

There is no other reason I would be out here, Morgan.

What have you got there?

A parabolic dish. Two sets of headphones for me

and Tom Biscardi, and a digital recorder, and a Dr Pepper.

Hi, love.

'How are you?'

I miss you, my darling.

'I miss you too, I've been so sick today.'

You've been sick because I've been gone.

'Stupid, terrible indigestion.'

Well, it's because you eat too damn much.

How are you feeling? You seem a little nervous.

I am nervous because I wanted to be out there a half hour ago,

and we're not moving. We're talking on cellphones.

Honey, let me tell you what it is, you're lactose intolerable.

We need the lights off now. No lights.

-How about the camera?

-Night vision?

This one here.

No, no, no. I'm not going to allow it.

So you have a choice, either shut it off, lock it up,

or just do audio recordings.

I don't want any lights back there, I already told you that.

Hey, Morgan, what's the deal? We're waiting on you?

You're slowing up the operation.

See, you guys aren't following me.

He fell in the water.

TOM LAUGHS

OK. Hey, hey, OK.

TOM CONTINUES LAUGHING

Cut out the laughing. Cut the laughing.

-He fell in the water!

-This is my night, Tom.

-OK.

-Chico. Are you OK?

-Yeah.

Yeah, I was following Tom, and Tom took a right, I took a left,

-and I fell in that goddamn water.

-If you hang right here...

-Let's go.

-TOM LAUGHS

Lucky thing there was no goddamned alligators in there.

TOM LAUGHS

We got to keep it quiet.

If the creatures find out we're here, all bets are off,

and I lose the game.

OK, don't say nothing.

(Hey, Rick, put it down.)

Ssh. Ssh.

Oh, it's just Jeff. What's going on, brother?

-Not much.

-What's up? I like your hat.

Of course.

So how long you been homeless?

About a year.

So what is your goal in life?

Survive the apocalypse.

Oh, my God.

Well, it's coming.

Please don't tell me that you're another nut.

No. I'm not a nut, I'm a realist.

You seem like a pretty good guy, bro. I mean...

I just had a really fucked up history.

Yeah, I have a really fucked up history.

We're going to listen to what I call low frequency hum UFO.

It'll make a sound like rum-rum-rum-rum!

That tells me that the creatures are nearby.

Now hear that rum-rum-rum-rum, that's a low-frequency-hum UFO.

-You hear it, Tom?

-That's an airplane.

Call it what you want, Tom, I'm telling you...

You don't hear that propeller? Listen to that propeller.

I'm not saying they're not equipped with...with...

That's an airplane, look at it.

I believe they're tied to the Bigfoot mission

and they don't want us to collect evidence,

they don't want us to prove the existence of it.

Hey, Morgan, take a picture of that thing flying over.

What is it?

Yeah, looks like a...a plane.

-A plane?

-If I'm honest.

All I can see is a light flashing and moving across the sky.

OK, so...

How do you...why can we...why do we say categorically it looks

like a plane, when that could look like a UFO disguised as a plane?

SNORING

What about your wife? What does your wife think of this?

What does she think?

She thinks there's a possibility the Bigfoot creatures could exist.

She doesn't believe that I ever hear them.

But is she happy with you spending all the time doing this?

No, not at all.

Morning. How did you sleep?

Terrible.

You like filming naked men?

Well, it's taken.

The only thing that can get up here is a Bigfoot.

Couldn't a racoon or something get up there?

Yeah, but I kind of firmly put it in place.

That it couldn't be just knocked off, it had to be jerked off.

-So you think Bigfoot's jerked off a piece of meat?

-Yes, I do.

And that's a very good sign. So now more meat is going up.

I'm feeling worse than I've felt in this past year.

In this past year, I've felt pretty bad.

My wife asked me when will I ever stop and...

it might be time for me to hang up my gloves.

I've seen so much of this in my lifetime, in my tenure.

They get the Bigfoot bug, it bites them,

you become delusional after a while.

After a while, you get to believe your own bullshit, and behind

every rock, and behind every tree, oh, look, there's a Bigfoot.

And I cannot play Freud with these people.

I just don't have the time for it. OK.

I have a strong relationship with my wife but...but, yeah,

if I could put this all behind us and start over, I think

that would be a good thing as far as my wife is concerned,

and as far as strengthening even more the relationship that we have.

Hey, hon'. Hey, babe.

Hey.

First time he seen a Bigfoot, I can remember

the expression on his face, he was white as a ghost,

and he was trembling, and he was telling me what happened to him.

And I thought that he, maybe he lost his marbles when he told me,

you know, it picked him up.

And...

It picked him up?

He told me that a Bigfoot picked him up.

I'm standing there looking down like this on the ground, just relaxing...

And all of a sudden, next thing I know, something...

And I mean big.

After I got calmed down, I went right back out the next day.

I was out there researching for practically over a year,

driving my wife crazy.

How did that affect your relationship?

Rocky. No, it was rocky. We all the time fussed and fight.

Because I want time with him and the children wanted time with him.

Instead of taking time with us, he would go to the woods.

What do other people think, Chris?

Well, the same thing I was thinking. He was nuts.

He don't know what he's talking about.

He needs to get a life.

Um... He's retarded.

'Clint.'

Anthony.

'Yes.'

Tom Biscardi.

So you were the only that actually saw the creature, right?

'Yes, sir, that is correct.'

So we could come out and see you?

'Yeah, doesn't matter to me, however you want to do it.'

Hold on.

What have you got, Tom?

Well, this guy works for the power department,

electrical department, he saw two creatures.

That guy that called, he says, "Can you guys come right away?"

I said, "Wait a minute, let me ask my host."

We're going to do a full expedition to get the two, cos there's not one,

there's two of them. You're invited to go with us.

-Would you like to come with us?

-Uh...

Hi, baby. I love you, darling. I had to call you.

I've been here with a bunch of...cooped up with

a bunch of psychopaths, but I survived the night.

Chico fell in the water. We were zigging and he zagged.

HE LAUGHS

Listen, you know the cuckoo's nest that what's his name was in?

They all escaped, and they're all with me right now.

HE LAUGHS

I got every cuckoo bird in the world with me, man.

They sit here and they go goo-goo ga-ga.

HE LAUGHS

What's happening is, we had a caravan going,

and then they saw it through the windows, that

one car cut in front of the other, and they both flew off the road.

And that's what's happened to him. David isn't here.

So, apparently, he must be back there.

SIREN WAILS

What would you like us to do now?

I want you to go and carry on the mission in Farmerville.

-Carry on the mission?

-Yeah.

-But are you OK?

-I'm OK.

They're going to take me to hospital and give me X-rays and...

You know, my shoulder hurts but other than that, I'm fine.

-Give me a hug.

-All right.

-You scared the crap out of us, dude.

-Oh, man.

-OK.

TYRES SCREECH

Let's go. Come on, guys.

Dave, take it easy, yeah.

He said to go ahead and continue the mission.

So that's what we're going to do, we're going to continue the mission.

OK, let's go. Come on. We're late.

Linguini and clams is waiting.

I don't want him to leave the restaurant.

All right. Come on, we've got to go.

-That was a near-death experience.

-What do you want me to do?

I can't...there's no florist, I can't send any flowers.

He didn't die, thank God. He's good.

Beautiful.

We're going to take a walk.

And...

What was that?

I heard it too. That was...

I think that was just the zoom on the camera.

Oh, was it the zoom? OK.

-I know it was something.

-Something. I heard it too.

But all this time that we're sitting here talking,

and there he is sitting there listening.

-And they're good listeners. Aren't they, Wayne?

-Oh, yeah.

-Aren't they, buddy?

-Why are they listening?

Are they interested?

Turn around slow.

Turn around slowly.

Right through there, see that black spot?

See it?

-Where...where is it, Dallas...?

-See now.

See that black spot, that darkened area?

Look like there's something sitting right down there.

But, Dallas, why do you think it is that you're seeing these things,

and other people aren't?

Like I said, when you're chosen, you're chosen, OK? All right?

HE HOOTS

When I was four-and-a-half years of age, I fell and broke my skull open.

Right here. I have a sheep bone. Sheep bone.

They grafted sheep bone?

Into my skull, right?

Right here in this skull, right there.

HE HOOTS

They say I have maybe traces of the DNA of... OK.

-Of?

-..sheep inside of my body.

-A sheep?

-Yeah. Sheep bone.

Why would that mean that you could see Bigfoot?

DNA animal. I have part animal in me. OK?

That's as far as I want to go on that one. All right.

That bone is still there, and I'm still walking, I'm still alive.

How come there's a good smell from where you're at,

and out here it smells like piss?

Why is that? Give me a little bit of a break, will you?

I can't do any better than that.

Even with the stink?

This is a smoking room, that's why it smells.

What about all the bad element that's walking the streets?

-They're not coming on the property.

-You're guaranteeing me that?

-Yeah.

If you guarantee me that, I'll take the rooms, OK?

Anything happens to my rigs, OK?

I don't care about the insurance, I'm coming after you.

Come here. How you doing, babe? Look at you!

Hey, Gary, here's the guy that recommended us to this slop house.

You going to give him a kickback? Give him something.

This is going to be one hellacious night.

This is a treasure trove here, you don't find this every day, OK?

What you normally find is what we just came from, OK?

Where people are walking through the woods,

and giving you a tour of nothing.

And I'm telling you right now,

if the creature is there, we will nail this son of a bitch.

-Anthony. I want to ask you something.

-Yeah?

-Where did you have the sighting? Straight across?

-Straight across.

-OK.

-They were back there.

They were back there when I saw them, OK?

And I just happened to see them.

Show me exactly where you saw them.

-Right here.

-Now, wait a minute. Hold on, hold on.

-You saw something here?

-They were kind of...

-Sh. Sh.

Kill the light. Kill the light.

HE SNIFFS

I'm getting a sense right now that what we've got here

is a possibility of having our hairy friends here,

but the different version, the smaller version.

HE SNIFFS

You see this? You see the wetness?

Smell it. Smell it.

It sat down to take a dump. And here it is.

Here it is, right here.

It's right there. This is a great area to surveil.

You know what people do when they go Bigfoot hunting?

They go out and they build a bonfire, they drink a bunch of beer,

and they tell stories - old wives' tales.

Since we've got here, we put our mind to the grindstone,

we've done nothing but work.

I'm setting the bait out, and I'm using bananas.

Is there any evidence that they like peanut butter?

We've used it before and found that they like the taste of it, I guess.

Set the cameras. We set the bait.

Then we got to spray the area with scent to mask our human scent.

-Scent?

-Yeah.

-What kind of scent?

-Cougar urine.

It's painstaking work, but somebody's got to do it, right?

PHONE BEEPS

What's that?

It's a text message.

They told me to send a picture of the campfire.

-Who did?

-He is a friend of mine.

Well, I don't...

I can't say friend.

Have you got many friends, Rick?

I have no friends, brother.

I've no friends.

It's pretty sad, ain't it?

Don't get me wrong...

..I mean, I kind of enjoy you being here during the daytime.

But when it's night, I really don't enjoy you shining this fucking light

in my face all fucking night.

UNIDENTIFIED NOISE

-Hear that?

-I heard that.

UNIDENTIFIED NOISE

What are you expecting to see, Rick,

walking around with a big flashlight like that?

Just anything. Get the fucking light out of my face.

OK.

Hey, my tent's open, Rick.

What the fuck?

-That's disgusting.

-That is fucking disgusting.

Is that...? Rick, don't fuck with me, have you done that?

I wouldn't do that.

I've got to fucking sleep in there.

I didn't fucking do it, stupid.

I wouldn't fucking do that.

Get the fucking light out of my face, motherfucker.

-Careful with the gun, as well.

-Huh?

-I said, "Careful with the gun."

Hey, you don't tell me how to treat this fucking gun.

How about that, motherfucker?

Lord God, we praise you for this beautiful creation of yours.

Thank you that we can enjoy being out here in the forest exploring,

and Lord, we...

request a birthday present for Big Tom.

That we might find something on these cameras from last night.

-Thank you, Lord. Amen.

-Amen.

-Amen, brother.

-OK.

All right, so, Youngblood, let's take it out to where you put

the cameras over here last night.

Come here. Come here.

This side. Don't... Get out, get out of there.

Holy fuck. Come here. Come here.

Remember, we're looking at juveniles. Look here.

Look at the toes, look at this print right here. Oh, God.

OK, here. You don't move. Listen to me.

-Hey, pay attention.

-My name is Chico, you talking to me?

Yeah, OK. Yeah, I'm talking to you.

You just fucking pay attention now, OK?

-Just lower your voice down, you're scaring 'em all away.

-Fuck 'em, they're gone. You just listen to me.

-You see what you got?

-I see it.

-You had two juveniles.

-I see it.

-This is a left print. You see the toes?

-See the impression here?

-Yeah.

That's a primate print, man. Oh, God.

He had a piece of peanut butter in his hand, drops it here,

-didn't like it. See it?

-Yeah.

There's ants over it. Oh, my God.

-PHONE RINGS

-'Hello?'

Is this Anthony?

'Yes, sir.' Well, we got a print here, son, it's a juvenile.

-'It's a juvenile?'

-Yeah, just like you said.

-'Awesome, man.'

-How long before you get here?

'Five minutes.'

Do me a favour, get me a diet peach Snapple and a glass of ice.

-'OK.'

-All right, bye, thanks. Hurry up.

Yeah, you're doing all right.

I think what we've got here is definitely a primate, OK?

And I think what kind of primate it may be is of the chimp family.

-I really do.

-So, not a Bigfoot?

I don't know that yet. I don't know yet. Have you got...

Did you capture a Bigfoot to find out if it's part of a chimp family?

You don't know, do you?

-Back this way now.

-That's definitely a primate baby print.

Whether it's of the chimpanzee family,

whether it's of the Bigfoot family, I don't know that yet.

But I'll tell you this -

something came there and something made that print last night, huh?

OK. Erm...him and I need to talk about some stuff,

-and it can't be on camera right now, all right?

-Who?

Him and I, OK?

About what we got to do here tonight.

Why can't we film it, Tom?

Because I don't want it published - what we need to do.

I thought we were kind of in on this.

Well, you are, you've been in on everything.

But now, when it comes to push comes to shove on this thing,

I just can't talk about this on the air.

Can you give me a kind of idea what we're talking about?

Well, we're...we're going to try to capture this thing.

GUNSHOT

HE HOOTS

We've had Bigfoot's holler miles down that way.

-Come on, Bigfoot, answer me.

-One holler, hoot.

FAINT UNIDENTIFIED NOISE

Bit further.

HE CHUCKLES

-Yes, sir.

-That's Bigfoot.

-That's the Bigfoot, buddy.

There was four or five of them, maybe more.

-Did you hear it?

-That gives me cold chills.

-Yeah.

I'm not afraid, but it gives me cold chills. I love it.

-I'm not sure if I heard it.

-You didn't hear it?

I'm not sure.

Come on. Set your camera off and come on.

Might pick it up better.

That was four or five of them.

-It was five or six of them.

-Come on.

(Rick?)

What did you hear?

I don't know, I heard... It sounded like someone.

Oh, it's Jeff. Come here, baby.

Sit.

-What happened to her?

-She got attacked.

Holy fuck, man!

-Fuck.

-I went back to where I had tied her up to the tree.

She got into a fight with another animal, for sure.

So she was just tied up, just over there.

Yeah. To a tree.

And when did that happen?

Sometime during the day.

I'm sorry, baby.

Come on. I know.

I'm sorry, baby, I'm so sorry.

Is she OK now, Jeff?

She's still skittish, she's scared.

-You're not scared?

-No.

You ever get scared out here all by yourself, every single night?

Not really.

Let me show you this.

Let me show you something. I love this.

I just practise like that every night.

I just trained on bladed weapons, swords, bow and arrow, knives, axes.

OK.

Doesn't that freak you out a bit, Rick?

Yeah. I mean, I wasn't expecting that.

I'm not going to fucking bullshit you and say,

"Oh, it's just... It's a Bigfoot. I know it's a Bigfoot 100%."

It's just not the case.

It could have been a Bigfoot, or it could have been a racoon.

It could have been...a skunk.

It could have been...

..this fucker here, cutting his own dog.

He didn't seem too concerned.

He doesn't seem too concerned at all.

Here's how the operation's going to be tonight.

You'll have a goggles, and you'll be armed.

You'll have cameras ready.

Nobody is to talk.

Completely lights out, OK? You have full command.

You do what you have to do. Got it?

-Got it.

-All right.

-So who's coming out, then?

-It's just the four of us.

-No Chico?

-No Chico.

-No.

-No Tom?

-No Tom.

-No Tom.

Tom's back's hurt, and Chico's wore out right now,

so he needs some rest.

-You OK to do this?

-Oh, yes. I'm always on the ready.

Yes, you're coming with me.

Probably 50-60 yards, maybe, at most.

Might be a little closer than that.

Just depends on how it looks. When I got here, my eyes adjust.

-It would be better if you were closer.

-OK.

Can you be as close to me as possible?

I'll be as close as possible.

Yeah, just so I know where you are.

OK, well, you don't have much to worry about, I'll be here.

I can hear you, remember that.

HE HOOTS

HE HOOTS

Come on, Bigfoot, answer me.

Sasquatch, I know you're here.

Come and walk at me.

UNIDENTIFIED NOISE

Hear it?

HE HOOTS

-Hear it?

-Yeah.

He's coming up through that valley, ain't he?

-HE HOOTS

-All right, easy, easy. Easy, bud.

-(He's calling his family.)

-Yeah.

That's what he's doing, he's calling his children.

HE HOOTS

-Rick?

-Yeah?

-Did you hear anything?

Don't know what the fuck it was.

What did you hear? I heard something.

Hey, don't point that at me.

-What?

-Don't point it at me.

This scope is unbelievable.

Hey, Rick, do you reckon Jeff is cool?

Hey, I just saw a fucking kid, man.

-Huh?

-I just saw a fucking kid.

Kid?

That's fucking weird, bro.

-A kid?

-A fucking kid.

You're just fucking with me, Rick.

Fucking... Does it sound like I'm fucking with you?

It sounds like I'm fucking with you.

But I wouldn't fuck with you on this.

That's why I'm tearing off the goddamn flashlight.

Thanks for freaking me out, Rick.

No, there was a girl, a little girl -

five, six years...

Five or six years old in a fucking dress at the end of my scope.

No bullshit.

I'm going to bed, Rick.

-WHISPERING:

-So this is my Blair Witch impression.

OK, not a very good one.

But Rick is doing his best to freak me out again, and...

..I don't know...

I don't believe that there was a child in the woods in a nightdress,

and he could have chosen a more original image to try

and freak me out with.

But, still, I wasn't sure, everything was just a bit odd,

and, I don't know... I mean, Rick is kind of...

I just don't know when he's being straight and when he's not.

And then the homeless guy just kind of always seems to be around,

or, if he's not around,

he seems to know what we're doing, and when we've done it,

and all that sort of thing.

And he just didn't seem that bothered about his dog.

Which was weird. Seemed pretty serious.

Anyway, I'm going to...

I'm going to keep my camera close, and probably not go to sleep.

UNIDENTIFIED ANIMAL NOISES

UNIDENTIFIED ANIMAL NOISES

-What's that?

-It's an owl.

HE CHUCKLES

Why, it freak you out?

Rick?

Rick?

-UNIDENTIFIED ANIMAL NOISES

-Rick?

HE PANTS

Rick?

Rick, is that you? Rick, don't...

-CRASH

-Gee...! Rick?

What?

Rick, was that you? Rick?

Don't fuck with me, Rick.

Rick?

Don't fucking shoot anything, Rick.

-(Rick, it's probably just the homeless guy.

-Shut up.)

Rick, it sounded like a person, so don't fucking shoot.

Rick?

Holy fuck.