Narrator: On this episode of "Finding Bigfoot"...
for over 50 years, the remote woods of northern Georgia have
been a hot spot for bigfoot activity, with hundreds of
documented encounters.
Now, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization,
led by Matt Moneymaker, journey to Georgia to investigate
the latest piece of evidence,
a never-before-broadcast police video that some believe
is photographic proof of the Sasquatch.
The investigation leads the team to a small town on the edge of
Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, where shocking new
eyewitness accounts result in a remarkable discovery.
These look like toes.
Ranae: There's a track that, from 10 feet, you can see is a
footprint... a large footprint.
This might just be the real deal here.
Narrator: As the team closes in on the truth, they're joined
by volunteers from the BFRO in an effort to determine, once and
for all, if bigfoot exists in northern Georgia.
Ranae: Hey, you guys, it's Delta car.
I definitely, definitely have a hit.
Come over here and check it out, you guys.
It was impossibly large.
It definitely wasn't human.
I've been tracking Sasquatches for 25 years.
These animals, in fact, are real.
I've seen them.
They're here.
I'm having a really difficult time finding an
explanation for this.
There's something on the hill!
[Roars]
I do think there's a 'squatch
in these woods.
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Matt: The team and I have traveled across the country to rural
northern Georgia for one reason only... to determine if
bigfoots exists in this lush region of the country.
This wide-open part of the state offers the perfect combination
of small farming communities surrounded by vast tracks of
national forest.
This is just the sort of place we've come to expect bigfoot
sightings to occur, and this is where
our latest report comes from.
Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest has long been known as a
hotbed of bigfoot activity within the bigfoot
research community.
In fact, petroglyphs produced by the earliest Native Americans
that lived in the area depicts them interacting with a
bigfoot-type creature.
So when you take the centuries of documented encounters in
conjunction with almost a million square miles of
untouched and unpopulated forest, you get a location that
is very likely a bigfoot habitat.
But, primarily, we're investigating a piece of footage
that came from a dash cam from a state trooper vehicle.
I can very, very easily articulate that.
Mm-hmm.
It's a classic road-crossing sighting at night, and it's the
first time that's ever been gotten by a law-enforcement's
dash camera.
The police didn't really do anything about it afterwards.
There was no laws apparently broken, so there was no need to
do any kind of a police investigation.
All we have from the incident is the video.
Cliff: Looking at the footage, you can actually count the steps...
one, two, three steps brought it over the white line on the
left-hand side of the road.
The speed of the creature while it moves across the road seems
very quick, but we won't know for sure until we get somebody
in the same position to see if we can re-create it ourselves.
I think there's a very good chance that what we're seeing in
that video is a real Sasquatch.
It's my opinion that this is a hoax, and this is somebody in
a suit, but I'm with you guys.
We got to get some scale, and we got to prove it
one way or another.
A common observation amongst witnesses, when they see one,
it looks like it's gliding, like it's almost like a human
on a bicycle.
You see the legs moving, but the shoulders and head
hold fairly steady.
I have to say, see that here, as well.
Yeah.
It's not clear enough to definitively say it is or isn't
a Sasquatch or a person in a costume.
We came here to see if this video was of a guy in a monkey
suit or was it the real deal...
was it a Sasquatch that they filmed?
Matt: We're going to meet Mary Scott.
She was the passenger in the state trooper vehicle when
the footage was obtained.
We're gonna take her back to where that was and ask her to
tell us everything that happened from her perspective.
So the incident happened right near here?
It did.
Actually, we were traveling this way, and it happened right
before that guardrail.
I think we should take a look, walk down there.
Okay. Okay.
- So, this is it? - This is it.
It appeared to cross right here.
We were coming this way about 55 miles an hour.
It was pitch-black, so it seemed like we were doing 100.
It was so late at night.
There was not another car on the road.
All of a sudden, with no notice whatsoever, this very tall, very
furry, very fast creature comes from that side of the road.
What the crap?
Did you see that?
Yes.
Shoots down here.
We're, of course, going too fast to stop immediately, so we hit
the brakes, spun around, immediately came back.
The officer puts on the blue lights.
We jump out of the car.
The officer had a big gun drawn, and he's identifying himself.
Whatever it was was gone.
I was shocked when I saw it because it was so big, and
normally, in north Georgia, animals jump out, but it's
either usually deer, occasionally a black bear.
Uh, that's it... nothing that large and standing so erect and
running so fast.
So, we know that there are a lot of black bears here, but
this thing was on two legs the entire time?
I have seen black bears.
I've had two even run across in front of me before.
No comparison.
None.
Matt: What I gathered from Mary Scott is that she firmly
believed that they saw a Sasquatch.
At no point did she even bring up the possibility that this was
a person in a costume.
She also just outright dismissed the possibility
that it was a bear.
After meeting with Mary and coming to this location and
seeing the layout, we would be crazy if we didn't try to
re-create it and see if it could be a prank.
The way we're gonna do this reconstruction is we're gonna
get a car of the same size, and then we're gonna drive at the
same speed and have Bobo run across the road.
We're hoping to shed some light on the size of the creature,
the speed it was traveling, and also where it was coming from
and going to.
Okay, I just finished setting up the camera and the recorder
inside the car.
Ranae you're gonna be driving about 55 miles an hour.
Matt, you monitor it, and then I'm gonna be signaling Bobo when
to run across the road.
Hopefully, what we can do here is get a simulation of the
dash-cam video itself and see what we can learn from it,
basically.
And we'll make certain to coordinate so no one
gets run over.
- Great. Let's go, guys. - Sounds good.
I'm really glad we got to come here in the daylight and see it
ahead of time so we know exactly where to go and what to do.
A little light goes a long ways.
Yeah.
All right, guys.
So, you're on the road, ready to be the bigfoot.
Cliff: Bobo's always ready to be a bigfoot.
Been training my whole life for this role.
Matt, please let us know when you're in position.
We're rolling.
Okay, we're past the intersection...
and we've got guardrails on the side.
She's trying to get up to speed.
We're at 40.
And to the guardrail, so 100 feet from the first mailbox...
and coming around the bend.
Another mailbox, and now!
[Chuckles]
I didn't know Bobo could move that fast.
Yeah.
Yeah, if that was a hoax, that person waited till the last
second, 'cause that was kind of sketchy running out that close
to the car.
Did you see him book?
Yeah, I'm thinking once those images are compared
side-by-side, we're gonna start to see some unusual things,
and that will show that this thing that crossed the road is
even less likely to have been a human in a costume.
I've run in front of cars at night before,
but I was always naked.
[Laughs]
Here we go.
Okay, here we come.
Coming up.
There's the first mailbox...
coming around, second mailbox and now.
Oh, there you go.
Did you notice how the bounding movement looks
different than what you see in the footage?
- Yeah. It glides. - Exactly.
It glides real well.
Well, I'm definitely leaning towards this is a Sasquatch on
film, and I can't be 100% sure, but I think the context of the
situation, with Mary's excellent eyewitness accounts.
Matt: There are two telling signs for me that this was a bigfoot.
First, the figure's stride was effortless, while Bobo lurched
with each step.
Second, when you pause the video, you can see that the
figure's legs are basically the same length as Bobo's.
Sasquatches have different body proportions compared to humans.
Their legs are shorter comparatively than humans, and
their arms are longer, so if the legs were the same length, that
would make the figure at least six inches taller than Bobo and
closer to seven feet tall.
The question for me isn't "Is it a Sasquatch?"
The question for me is "Can a person re-create that?"
Yes, a person could.
Bobo: That thing ran kind of bent, hunched, smooth.
It wasn't bouncing up like I was.
I think that was a real 'squatch.
All right, this is what we'll do.
Down here we have a place where a 'squatch crossed the road...
it crossed from the right to the left.
We can split up into two teams.
You and I will go down the path that the thing came from.
Cliff and Bobo will go down along the path where
it would have gone.
We'll go down there, we'll make some sounds, we'll see if we can
kick up some action.
Matt: We're using thermal imagers and night vision devices.
Night vision devices turn night into day.
We can see the road ahead of us, and we can see up to the
edge of the tree line, but with thermal imagers, we can see into
the tree line and see if there's any bigfoots hiding in the
shadows behind the brush.
Bobo: So there's been several reports within
a few miles of here.
Oh, yeah.
Very "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" here, man.
Yep.
[Grunts]
Heads up.
I'll know when we're in a good spot to make vocals.
I think we're too low right now.
We want to be able to hear even the faintest little crunching
sounds, and you can't hear that very well next to the
moving water.
I'm game. Let's go.
Matt: We realized we had to get up on elevation so our sounds would
carry a good, long way, and we got to a point where the sound
would carry out almost, you know, 360 degrees.
The theory is that broadcasting these calls will
draw in any Sasquatches from the area.
Okay, I'm gonna do one... long howl.
Roger.
[Exhaling deeply]
[Inhales deeply]
[Howls]
Hit it, maestro.
[Shrieking]
That rocked.
I didn't know you had it in you, Cliff.
That was pretty cool.
That sounded like a real bigfoot.
I practice...
in the shower.
My neighbors hate it.
Yeah.
Some people sing in their cars.
I do bigfoot screams.
I'm scanning.
We got no owls and no coyotes and no nothing.
It suddenly got a lot chillier.
It did.
[Distant wood knocking]
Oh! Did you hear that?
Do you hear something in that direction?
I heard that.
Was that farther back?
I do think there's a 'squatch in these woods.
Awesome.
There's nobody up there.
I think that was a 'squatch.
Just so you know, one of my claims to fame in the bigfoot
world is I was the one who discovered that bigfoots do wood
knocks and figured out that if you make sounds,
that they'll respond.
No other bigfoot researchers had ever figured that out or
knew that before, 'cause they didn't really go in the field
very often.
Ranae: I try to keep an open mind, but if you go in expecting to
hear something, and you're looking for it, you might find
it when it's actually not there.
It's dead.
We did howls. We did knocks.
We're not getting more action.
Okay, listen, guys.
We're not getting any responses to the knocks.
I want to know if there's anything close by.
The only thing we can do now is...
is just hope that that thing is watching us, maybe it spotted
our lights, and it's just checking us out.
I think we should... we got to move somewhere.
There's only one direction we can move, which is back down the
way we came, and hopefully when we do that, we'll get something
following us, and we'll be able to hear it.
Roger that.
We're on our way back down.
Matt: We haven't heard anything for a while now, so the one last
trick we can try on the way out is to be very conspicuous by
having our lights on as we leave.
[Crunch]
Holy [bleep]
Did you throw something?
- No, did you? - No.
Bobo: Holy... didn't know if that was a branch being snapped or a
rock got thrown.
Cliff: Yeah, I definitely heard something.
It sounded like something dropping.
You can't see anything through here.
Holy [bleep] Matt.
We just had a big branch break, or it might have been a rock
being thrown through some dry timber, but it was definitely
loud and big.
All right!
Yeah!
Cliff's moving in on it.
He's therming up and down the tree line now.
Whatever it is it's behind this slash pile in some
really big thorns.
I wish I was there.
This is amazing.
Bigfoots or not, man, this is what bigfooting can be all about
when you're not around.
Well, they're not dumb.
They know where we can go and can't go.
Maybe we should just keep moving and see if it harasses us
on the way out.
Yeah. Let's do it.
Matt: Nothing has happened for a few hours now, and we could see
that the sun is starting to come up.
That means we're out of our window of having an encounter
with these nocturnal animals.
After re-creating Mary's dramatic dash-cam footage and
investigating the surrounding area, we realized we needed more
information to determine if there are really some bigfoots
in this part of Georgia, and the only way to get that information
is to talk with the local people.
So we decided to head up the road to the Bavarian-inspired
town of Helen, Georgia, to meet with local witnesses and see
what we could learn from them.
To help us with this, we called on the Georgia chapter
of the BFRO.
They were able to round up several local witnesses for us
to meet with at a town-hall meeting.
Good morning, folks.
My name is Matt Moneymaker.
The head of what's called the Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization, the BFRO, and we called this meeting today to
hopefully talk to some witnesses.
So, I guess the first question to ask is does anybody here
have a sighting?
Anybody here have witness or have any information?
It was fairly dark.
I had my headlights on it, and it just froze in this stride,
and didn't move until the head, which was straight, came round
and looked right at my car.
I knew what it was.
I...
I saw the creature.
It had hair on its face, and it smelled like raw sewage.
All of a sudden, this thing started marching straight at us,
and it starts this tremendous growl... spit flying,
teeth showing.
It's so massive and such a barrel chest that when it
growled, it was kind of like a lion growl, and it came from
deep within.
I knew right then what it was telling us, and it was
time to leave.
I actually saw one up close, within 15 feet of me.
I just happened to look up, and there it was, right there.
Have I these pictures that my husband took.
They were out duck hunting.
When were these photographs taken?
About a month ago.
So it's recent.
We've had some strange things happen at the house.
We've had what I described to people as a giant standing
outside my house, hitting it with a small tree.
Wow.
It freaked me out... chills, I mean, just up and down
your spine.
After listening to all of the witnesses, we plotted their
sightings on a map of the area.
While all of the stories were intriguing, three in particular
struck a chord with us... Janet's, John's, and Darla's.
These are the stories we wanted to check out more.
Meeting with the witnesses and hearing what they had to say
provides one more piece of the puzzle to us to figure out the
patterns of behavior of these animals here in Georgia.
As a team, the first place we wanted to go is where Janet had
seen one cross the road.
It was the closest place for us to get to, so that's where we
wanted to go.
This is the spot?
This is it, on the road, though.
Around Thanksgiving day?
It was Thanksgiving day.
I was driving home, and I think because it was Thanksgiving,
there was nobody else on the road at all.
And I was probably doing 55, normal, and coming over that
rise, and I saw the largest thing I'd ever seen.
[Growls]
The first thing that popped
into my head was, "Bear? No.
Human? No.
It's way too huge, too big."
And by then, the creature had stepped up into the middle
of the road...
just sort of frozen, like a statue, and then the head did
this slow turn and stared at my car.
And it was probably the scariest moment of my life, just waiting
to see if it was gonna come for the car or go somewhere else.
[Growls]
Then it went somewhere else.
[Chuckles]
If I had been a minute faster or
a minute slower, I would never have seen him.
I'm just gonna run down there, where you pointed where
it crossed, and I'm gonna stand there for a size comparison
for you.
Cliff: It's a perfect opportunity to do a reconstruction using our
own Sasquatch, Bobo.
We put Bobo in the position where the Sasquatch
crossed the road.
Janet told us about where she was when she saw the creature.
Using those two locations and a pole, we were able to get an
estimate of the height of the animal that she was looking at.
Hmm.
Can he raise his hand?
Even higher than that?
That's it, maybe that.
Right in there?
That's perfect. Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna run down there and take that measurement.
9'8" tall.
Wow. 9'8"?
Sort of what I thought.
[Laughs]
I really don't know what to tell you.
I think I know what to tell you, and I think it was a
Sasquatch, personally.
I think he was far too big to be anything else, and that's a
place where they could easily live in without being found.
It is a preserve.
I think you saw the real thing.
I love the fact that it froze in mid-step and just looked
straight ahead and slowly turned to look at you.
That is a very bigfooty thing to do, so I'm with you.
I think that's a Sasquatch based on that behavior and the size.
After going to Janet's sighting, as a team, we decided
to break up and get in smaller groups to cover more ground.
Cliff and Ranae went to Bull Mountain to go look at
those prints of the track photos, and Matt and I went up
the river with John, up to Chattahoochee, where his
sighting was.
- There he is. - Yep. Right there.
Good to see you, bud.
Thanks for coming out.
Been looking forward to coming to this spot.
So it's a little hike, huh?
Just a little bit.
John's sighting is a little more difficult to get to than
the average.
You can't just walk there on a day hike.
You've got to cross the river, that sort of thing... stuff that
would keep the average hiker out of there.
This is as far as I will come by myself.
How much do you figure it weighed?
I'd say 800, 900 pounds.
Bobo: Wow.
He wasn't a real expressive guy.
He was pretty monotone, even-keeled, but when he'd talk
about it, you could tell he was really feeling it.
Did you say he had rocks also?
Yes.
How big were they?
Bigger than a bowling ball.
Damn!
And it wasn't like they were, you know, just bouncing down
the side of the hill.
They were actually coming through the trees.
Dang!
How freaked out were you on that?
Pretty freaked out.
People say there's no hard evidence for Sasquatches, but,
you know, this is some pretty compelling stuff.
In this case, truly a picture is worth a thousand words.
Darla came to the town-hall meeting in Helen
with the photographs.
I have these pictures that my husband took.
She showed us the photographs and said that her husband had
taken them a few weeks prior to the meeting.
The first thing I noticed about Jeff's footprint photographs was
how crisp the toes were, which, to me, indicates that they were
very, very fresh.
The second thing I noticed was the width and, most importantly,
the lack of instep on the Sasquatch footprint.
Sasquatches have large, flat feet.
We have an instep. They do not.
That's something I looked for.
Are the tracks still there?
No, they're not still there, unfortunately.
They were gone within a few days.
But it's important to still go there, because where a Sasquatch
goes once, it very often goes more than once.
Perhaps there's other tracks around.
Footprints and footprint casts are kind of my thing... it's
what I'm most interested in, so I want to go out there to see if
we can shed some more light on those footprint photographs.
This was about the spot.
- Right here? - Yes.
We were walking in from this area, came up, saw the prints,
and didn't really think much about it.
We started going up the trail, and you could see more, more,
and more prints.
What caught my attention was they would go maybe 30 feet...
Uh-huh.
...and they would stop, turn around, come back seven or eight
steps, and then they would turn and go back up and maybe go 30
more feet, 40 more feet, and do that, and by the time we got to
that wood line, they had done it, you know,
three or four times.
Okay.
If you're coming from this way, and it's walking back and
forth, it appear as though it's looking down on you guys,
sizing you up.
When I first saw the track, I didn't think anything about it.
Once I saw, walking up this way, the back-and-forth motion and
the shape of the foot...
Yeah.
...I got to thinking a little bit more about it.
Normally, I'm not scared.
You know, I can go out in the woods in the night.
Doesn't bother me.
But we kept our guns loaded until we got back to the truck.
Something is out here.
We were walking along this trail, looking for a better spot
to fish.
This is the place where it happened.
- This is it right here? - This is it right here.
My buddy and I came up to the end of this road, and we were
discussing how we were gonna get back down in the river to head
further upstream when, all of a sudden, we heard a loud thud hit
the ground behind us.
We turned around and looked, and right there was a log that was
about this big around, about the size of a car tire, and I just
happened to look up.
He was standing right there.
[Roars]
Just right there?
Right there, and it was too close for comfort, just
standing, looking down at me.
And you didn't come back for a while, I bet.
I didn't come back for years.
The incident that John had, on one side, it sounded
credible, but on the other side, there was elements that didn't
add up, and I wanted to question him about that and try and see,
"Is this guy making it up as he goes along?"
What color was it, the creature?
Black.
His forehead had no hair.
No hair on the forehead?
On the forehead, right in here.
Okay.
The mouth, he was just sitting there, and it looked...
Like a person's mouth?
Similar to a person's mouth.
His description of the face wasn't entirely consistent with
what I've heard before, so I was intentionally kind of leading
him, suggesting other characteristics that are kind of
the opposite of what their face looks like.
Okay, what did the eyes look like?
Like big, wide eye sockets, or?
Yes.
He agreed, said, "Yeah, big, wide eye sockets," not
necessarily sunken in, and that's directly the opposite.
Its nose, it was flat.
Okay, what was the color of the skin?
Was it the same as the forehead?
It was the same.
Well, that's not what they look like either.
Their nose has black skin on it, like a black skin on a
dog's nose.
I still don't know.
There's some things about this story that still make no sense
at all and just completely flies in the face of what I know
reality to be.
The jury's still out in my mind.
I don't know if I can completely accept that one.
So, this is my regular sort of walking stride, then circle
back like the prints did.
Using my trackway as a gauge, Jeff was able to approximate the
position of the Sasquatch's step length, which is left foot to
right foot.
We estimate it at probably about 3½ feet, which would indicate
that the stride from left foot to left foot would be about
seven feet.
Am I leaving prints at all?
Hardly at all.
Hardly at all, huh?
Cliff was able to do the distance of that step.
Awkwardly, yes, but it was possible.
Only thing that couldn't be re-created
was the depth of the soil.
All you can see is where your toes are digging in.
Cliff: Jeff noticed that the footprints he stumbled upon
impressed about a half an inch into the soil, whereas his
footprints barely penetrated at all.
What that could tell me is that the creature was a lot heavier
than Jeff.
I really don't know what to say, Jeff.
I know it was cold, slightly different soil.
Jeff told us that that evening, the soil was frozen.
It was 28 degrees.
The following day, it topped off at 41, so it
could have warmed up.
The initial tracks were made.
He comes by a little bit later, and then the ground has
solidified again.
That's my explanation.
I'm willing to say it.
I think, based on the context, the size, the fact that you say
that these things were flatfooted consistently, all up
and down the trail, and the distance between them, I think
we're looking at Sasquatch footprints.
Sasquatches often frequent the same areas.
Let's take a little while and look around if you have
the time, please.
All right. Let's go, boys.
After doing our reconstruction, I wanted to look
around the area, 'cause I know where Sasquatches go once, they
usually go more than once.
It's interesting to see it is a well-used trail,
most definitely.
Yeah, there's horse prints and stuff all up and down here.
Hike tracks.
There's a dog there.
Bicycle.
I'm just seeing hiking boots.
Bike tire there.
What are you seeing over there, Cliff?
Can see that, whatever that is.
That looks like toes.
Off to the side of the trail, near a bend, one particular area
caught my eye because it had a lot less leaf litter than the
rest of the area surrounding there.
- Watch where you step. - I am.
And, sure enough, there they were... two fantastic Sasquatch
footprints, even showing toes.
We have a pretty thick heel.
There's no instep right here, and, you know,
these look like toes.
Cliff pauses, I look.
There's a track that, from 10 feet, you can see
is a footprint.
Not a hiker's print, a footprint... a large footprint.
This might just be the real deal here.
Mary's video brought us out here and I still think it's the
strongest piece of evidence available for northern Georgia.
The area has a huge, long history of Sasquatch encounters,
but I'm ecstatic about our find.
Those tracks are beautiful.
They show a living foot.
We have two right feet in a row.
There's differences between them.
This was the best track find of my entire bigfooting career.
- You see how deep that is? - Yeah.
That's what I saw.
Jeff, I'm blown away.
We're looking at footprints that might have been left by the same
creature that left the footprints you saw.
This is the most compelling evidence that I've had so far.
I'm a little dumbfounded to actually find a track.
I'm like, "Come on. Really?
Is this happening?
Did people know we're out here looking for bigfoot and run
around barefoot, leaving some tracks for us to find?"
I didn't know really what to say, but you could see the
obvious outline of a heel, the outside, and five large,
distinct toes.
There are thousands and thousands of eyewitness accounts
of people seeing Sasquatches, yet only a few hundred footprint
accounts that have been documented with either
photographs or casts.
This is extremely rare, what we're looking at here.
So I just hit the lottery is what you're telling me?
Yes. We hit the lottery.
Absolutely.
We hit the lottery.
If this is that rare, I mean, we've got to call Moneymaker.
We got to call Bobo, too.
Put them on speakerphone.
I want to hear what they say.
Okay.
So, yeah, he didn't want you guys coming here
taking his fish.
Or his deer.
He just didn't want you back here at all.
[Cellphone rings]
- They understand that among humans... - Hello?
Hey, we're gonna put you on speakerphone.
Matt, Bobo, you guys there?
Yeah, we're here with our witness at the spot... John at
the fishing spot where they saw the big nine-footer.
Howdy. What's up?
Um...
Go ahead and tell them.
Gentlemen, we have prints.
They found prints.
You guys found the same tracks or you found new tracks?
I think these prints are about a month old or so.
I think these are probably left by the same creature that left
the footprints that Jeff found.
Bobo: Wow. They matched the photos, huh?
You know what, Jeff was here.
He said these are the same size, the same shape
as the ones he saw.
Wait, wait, Cliff, I got to ask... can you see toes?
Yes, you can see toes.
We found two.
Wow!
We have two prints.
They're both of the right foot.
We have a very faint but definite toes on both.
Wow! That's awesome!
You're in hog heaven, huh, Cliff?
In the ground, in person, these are the best prints I've
seen in my life.
I'm really excited for Cliff.
He's one of my best bros, and I just know how excited he is.
I know I'm gonna have trouble sleeping tonight.
Cliff's got to be going out of his gourd right now
just with excitement.
So, Ranae, what do you think now?
Do you believe they exist?
Here's what I will say to you guys... I'm having a really
difficult time finding an explanation for this.
I really am at a loss for words.
Ranae was saying she has no explanation because, yeah, then
she has to admit, "They're real.
I'm wrong."
I mean, that's rare to find prints with toes.
Yeah, there's no visible arch.
These are looking really good, Bobo.
I'm pretty stoked, man.
God, I wish I was there, dude!
Like, God!
We're coming right now.
We're on our way.
I got to see this.
All right, bye.
Cliff: You know what?
The heel is a little obscured on this one.
Let's measure from the tip of the toe to the tip of the toe.
It doesn't matter as long as we measure from the same spot
on each foot.
There you go.
Oh, that is seven feet on the nose.
You know, Jeff said the step was 3½ feet.
We're looking at right foot to right foot, it's seven feet.
I think we're looking at the same animal's footprints here.
Whoo-hoo!
- See how thick it is? - Yeah.
Starting to set up already.
Prints are very, very temporary.
Case in point, Jeff's prints were gone when we got there.
It had been about 3½ weeks.
By preserving these particular prints in plaster, these are now
gonna be shared with, you know,
potentially dozens of scientists.
No way. Let's see it!
Oh, man!
Cliff!
I know. I know.
Check them out.
Very well done!
Awesome.
There are elements of this that are significant that you
don't normally see, which is since you have two of the same
foot, do you see movement of the toes, and that completely
eliminates it being a rigid cardboard cutout.
I got to be honest.
When we were out here, looking for evidence, I didn't expect us
to find anything, and here we are.
No pun intended, but these prints are very impressive.
[Laughter]
Matt: These tracks were found on a
trail not very far from a dirt road.
And, of course, then you have Janet's sighting, a road
crossing, and Mary Scott's, a road crossing.
So, we're starting to see a definite pattern forming, and
that tells us a lot about these creatures here in Georgia.
Now, using the knowledge we've gained from the locals and our
years of experience, we think we've found the best place to
look for bigfoots here.
This is ground zero.
If they're going to be anywhere in north Georgia, they're going
to be here.
This is a perfect situation for us to use the rooftop
thermal imagers.
We can put them on top of our vehicle, cruise slowly down the
road, and just look to the left and right.
We got two rooftops. We got handhelds.
We need some people to run the handhelds.
Well, he's the one with the network.
That's right, and I know people everywhere.
[Laughs]
All right.
Let's get cracking.
Okay, it's looking great.
It's in focus.
We are ready to get a 'squatch.
We've come to Georgia with one goal in mind... to see if
there are bigfoots here.
Everything we've done so far has led us to this location.
This is the area where Cliff found the tracks, along a road
that goes right through a thick section of the
Chattahoochee National Forest.
This is the perfect place to use our vehicle-mounted
thermal cameras.
The smaller Georgia trees and the scant underbrush means
our thermals will see further into the forest than it would in
other places.
Hopefully, that will help us get a Sasquatch on film.
But we didn't want to do this alone, so we called
in the cavalry.
Oh, yeah.
It's the Georgia chapter of the BFRO.
We even had Georgia from Georgia show up to help out on this one.
Here's the plan for tonight.
We're all gonna have radios.
We can talk to each other.
We're gonna make sure also there's a handheld thermal in
each of the vehicles.
You know what we're looking for.
We're looking for a 'squatch.
They're not gonna be standing out in the open.
They're gonna be behind a tree, leaning out and looking,
trying to check us out.
Let's hit it.
All right. Let's do it.
We're good to go.
What we're about to do has never been done before.
Nowhere have this many cars been used in a caravan
of thermal imaging.
Wagons ho.
Okay, folks.
Let's see if we can find ourselves a 'squatch
in these woods.
Like old times, Bobo.
It is, dude.
How many nights do you think you and I
have done this together?
A lot.
[Chuckling]
Yeah.
When you plot all the sightings in northern Georgia,
you see a connection with the Chattahoochee National Forest.
That's where we think the bigfoots spend
a lot of their time.
It's a great place to do our thermal caravan here because
there's not too much underbrush, so the thermal imagers are able
to see into the woods a lot further than they can
in most areas.
You know, I'm really liking this search...
reminding me of home.
Its seems the Pacific Northwest up here.
We're finally in some big timber.
It's looking good.
It's feeling 'squatchy.
Matt: We'll be approaching the Appalachian Trail and the
headwaters of the Chattahoochee River.
There's been a lot of encounters reported and investigated up and
down these roads, so we're definitely in a good spot.
All right, folks, is anybody seeing anything, any animals,
anything at all?
This is what I call "'squatching."
Ahh.
[Chuckles]
Headwaters are always good.
Come over here and check this out.
Oh, my god!
Georgia, I'm trying to find it on my thermal.
Is it 1:00, 2:00? Where is it?
It's definitely 3:00 outside of the Delta car.
It's fading, though.
You guys got to come fast.
Hold on, I'll be right there.
Tell them I'm coming out with a handheld therm.
Keep your eyes on it, Georgia.
I caught it briefly.
I couldn't tell the size, if I was only seeing a partial animal
or what, but I caught it briefly.
Whatever it was, it snuck into the woods.
I want to see if I can flush it out.
Get it, Bobs.
I don't know what it was.
It's not gonna come back in view.
We need to get the handhelds and come down here and see what we
can stir up.
Let's suit up and hit it, you guys.
Let's go.
Somebody saw a large figure moving through the woods.
We're gonna let the volunteers head back home.
We're gonna get our backpacks on and head in on foot.
All right, you guys.
Cliff, you want to come up with me this way, then Matt and Ranae
can go to the right?
- We'll go left. - For sure.
All right. Let's go, guys.
We're still pretty close to the water.
We might not be able to hear you, but go for it.
Okay, I'm gonna do three, so expect the high-pitched,
shrieky ones.
Copy that.
[Shrieking]
Ask him if he did it.
All right, we didn't hear a thing.
Did you guys do them?
Sure did.
I can't believe we didn't hear that.
Matt's gonna go ahead and fire one out.
Okay, copy that.
We'll listen.
[Exhales deeply]
[Inhales deeply]
[Distant howl]
Did they... ask if they just did a howl.
Did you guys just do a howl?
No, we did not do a howl.
Did you hear one?
Yeah.
Matt thinks he just heard a howl.
From what direction, please?
I couldn't tell which direction it was coming from.
It was on the edge of hearing, but it was definitely
there, and it was echoing through the valley.
Okay, copy that.
Let us know what you think it is.
I definitely heard something out there.
You're not messing with me, are you, Matt?
No, I'm not.
Okay.
It was like a man, like a big man going, "ra-a-a-h!"
It was faintly echoing through the canyon.
That's why I thought at first Bobo did it without announcing
it... but he didn't.
I stood down there a while, looking to see if I could pick
something up, but it appeared to be moving away, and that seems
to be what happened.
But we had a greater appreciation for what's going on
in north Georgia with Sasquatches, and it was a good
expedition for us.
We came here to investigate the first dash-cam video footage
ever recorded and to ask the question, "Are there bigfoots
here in northern Georgia?"
[Crunch]
Holy [bleep]
Did you throw something?
No, did you?
Our search has led us to believe the footage is real, and
it's led us to multiple eyewitnesses and some of the
best footprints we've seen in the last 25 years of searching.
Do I think there are bigfoots here in northern Georgia?
Yes.
[Growls]
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