The Harrowing Hunt For Bigfoot

what is that I'm going to go on record this is a bad idea come may need to go to the hospital now we're heading into the belly of the Beast so right now we're driving up to Willow Creek California the Bigfoot capital of the world we're going to catch ourselves a Squatch wait till you see where we're staying all right so this is Willow Creek the Bigfoot capital of the world it's a beautiful town and uh this is where we're staying what do you think is this a joke this is the one chance we get

to stay someplace nice all we do is sleep in haunted places and dirty old hospitals we can't stay one place nice once but how how often do you get to say you were a part of History which is what we're about to be we're about to etch ourselves in the stone of Bigfoot lore you excited you could etch yourself sir what it was supposed to be fun this week on buzfeed insolve we seek out the ever elusive Bigfoot and tomorrow morning search for him ourselves we've got our ridiculous Bigfoot beards ready to go we've got

a lot to cover so let's get into it and let's uh want me and you talk some foot I'm excited this is the maybe the only time I believe in the thing that you're talking about really Bigfoot's you know meat and Bone I'm not the biggest believer in Bigfoot why would you be it's it's plausible and um grounded in reality so it's a lot more plausible than all your Spooky Little specters well those have evidence so anyway sure they do let's talk fo it okay the first accounts of big strong hay people date from at

least the 15th century in cassus a mountain region between Asia and Europe different cultures have different versions or perhaps relatives of this creature in the Himalayas it's the yeti in Australia it's the yahoi in Indonesia it's the eugogo and for America primarily the Pacific Northwest it's Bigfoot or SAS watchat in fact Bigfoot sightings have been reported in almost every US state this corroborates the belief that there is more than one Bigfoot that it's not a singular creature but a species I don't think foot's walking around Illinois who are these people in in Wisconson saying yeah

there's a Bigfoot there there may very well be a hot dog vendor in Chicago who is a Bigfoot excuse me yeah you heard me do you imagine Bigfoot as someone who walks around in disguises well some people believe that he's just like this super natural being or he or she or whatever it may be and it's just one of them a solo act that's dumb it's not Supernatural it's natural like Sting it's like Sting Sting's a solo act Sting's not Supernatural though if if you stab Sting with a knife sting will bleed you're probably right

the hunt for bigfoot became a global phenomenon and inadvertedly turned Willow Creek into arguably the number one destination for squatchers and Bigfoot enthusiasts worldwide there's places like Bigfoot books the Bigfoot steakhous murals and even a Bigfoot Burger how often do people actually put down a Bigfoot burger by themselves imagine it's nap time after one but it's nap time for me after yeah so you got two one3 patties and on top of that when when you get done with the burger after we put all the veggies and everything on it weighs about a pound and a

half we'll try our best oh I'm not going to try my best I'm going to finish that then okay I'm finishing it you've said it I'm going to eat that burger I'm going to stay in that haunted house all night yeah whatever this is the heaviest sandwich I've ever embraced that's the biggest bite you got it was a nibble I've done it my organs are starting to shut down I'll be dead in 5 minutes I've done it you see it I did it I wonder if the guy will be proud of us I think I

may need to go to the hospital before we go any further it's worth mentioning that most primatologists do not believe the existence of a Bigfoot or Sasquatch is likely that being said let's get into the beginning of the Bigfoot phenomenon in the modern era in 1958 Gerald crew discovered and casted large Footprints near his bulldozer in Bluff Creek Del Nordy County The Humble times wrote about the story and editor Andrew gonoi wrote the creature's name as it would be known from that moment on Bigfoot I like that he was just sort of riffin at the

time and everyone just went with it well could you imagine being the guy who coined the phrase Bigfoot yeah just staring at that cast and thinking hm that's a big I know that's however in 2003 the two sons of a man named Ray L Wallace came forward to admit that their father had created the footprints using a pair of carved wooden feet their father Ray Wallace was reportedly a big prankster here's a quote from his son Michael quote this wasn't a well-planned plot or anything it's weird because it was just a joke but then it

took on such a life of its own that even now we can't stop it and quote ain't that like like a couple of funny Brothers destroying their father's Legacy it's been about uh what handful of decades since our father uh duped the world let's burn it all down they couldn't live with the guilt though with the existence of plenty of other Bigfoot evidence this does not deter Bigfoot Believers so uh this is actually the local Museum in Willow Creek it's the Willow Creek China flat Museum there's a lot of interesting Bigfoot artifacts in there that

I think you will find particularly interesting cuz you're such a big believer you can see the big statue probably one of your great-grandfathers back in the day I'm not a Bigfoot that's a albis m right there I'm a human being [Music] okay first encounter our first S I say story that I ever heard was search and rescue came down from Oregon said they were looking for a little boy that had been lost in the woods 4 years old didn't find him the first night but the second day they found him sitting alongside the road and

when they picked him up all he could talk about was the big hairy man that had brought picked him up brought him down and sat him down along the road what so yeah and you know I don't think a little kid is going to talk about you know a hairy man and I mean there's thousands of encounters all these people cannot be telling a story what interactions have you seen with Bigfoot like have you seen tracks have you seen him himself I've not seen one and I don't want to thank you very much is that

cuz you're scared of Bigfoot uh well I think you just want to believe it's out there but you don't really want to see it I would agree with that yeah I would love to see it lucky for us we're staying near Six Rivers Forest arguably the most famous Bigfoot forest in the world why this Forest is so famous I'll explain later but all you need to know is that come tomorrow morning we'll be there so maybe we may run into the infamous creature himself morning time's here it's time to go catch us a foot you

ready yeah a big foot this is the original area that he was noticed in before they actually started even knowing anything about a Bigfoot you know he's real elusive I've heard a lot of local lore around here people that go logging up there and things get thrown at them they hear things a couple of people have seen them you know off in the distance and uh but they never quite get the footage of them if you can see over there that's actually the original cage what I think is hilarious is that's not going to hold

a foot what madees you say that these things are all muscle no that could hold a foot you think so yeah I just did a little wiggle maybe Bigfoot could pick up on energy don't make Bigfoot believe in your little ghostly energies I never said big foot is meat and Bone Ryan I would just say he could pick up on my energy I'm a chill he'll pick you up all right and then he'd be like they'll pick you up and crack you in two that's a guy I want to share a cold one with is

what he'd say to me I don't think that's how Bigfoot rolls okay well should we get this going yeah as we attempt to find this legendary creature We join the Legion of current Bigfoot Hunters which range from average people to Major television shows it's a practice taken very seriously in schania County quote the Sasquatch Yeti Bigfoot or giant Hairy Ape are declared to be endangered species of schania County and there is hereby created a Sasquatch Refuge end [Music] quote I think we're ready to get this going let's gear up actually what is that so so

I don't get shot that's going to scare it away it's not going to scare it away it's going to make me look more festive and I won't get shot so there's that that's an added bonus have fun getting shot I'm not going to help if we do run into a Squatch the Squatch is going to see you and just bolt in the opposite direction or you could be like wow what a colorful vest I don't think that's laugh what you want now but squatches actually are known to smash things over the head to kill them

so you think you honestly think we're going to encounter a Squatch the Squatch is going to attack you and your life is going to be saved because you're wearing a helmet I mean it's going to bring a rock down I'm not going to say that's 100% we're going to get it on film we're going to say thank God Ryan had his helmet I think we're ready to rock and roll baby look like an idiot according to first-person accounts Bigfoot skin color ranges from Deep black charcoal dark brown reddish brown or gray with the palms of

the hands and the soles of the feet much lighter the average height is reportedly 7' 10 so not that much taller than you I'm well I'm 6'4 so that's significantly taller I mean relative to other normal people if I see people taller than me I get concerned about them because I think they're going to die young and the maximum weight is estimated to be over 1,000 lb n leave Bigfoot alone oh I wasn't that shaming Bigfoot I was just mentioning that this is a creature of enormous strength what about the little ones I I there's

no information on the little ones okay they are also thought to be mostly silent though they have been credited with howls runs screams and growls doesn't surprise me that much like an ape what do you seem to know a lot about growls I've seen some episodes of Television where noted survivalist speaks of an encounter with a with a foot and he hears it in the woods and it makes a a howling noise that sort of like [Laughter] a uh so other interesting tidbits come from the Bigfoot field researchers organization which claims Bigfoot are orderly and

often stack rocks neatly they also claim Bigfoot have legendary strength and that they quote take pleasure in using their strength check out this wood oh [ __ ] it's a salamander oh [ __ ] it's alive dude yeah does it bite it's a little uh it's a little noot or a salamander he's just hanging out his name is Cedric he struck me as a Cedric when I first saw him after he destroyed his apartment look at his beady little eyes I know it looks like you it does the strength of Bigfoot was on full display

many years ago on the icy Road an area a short drive away from where we are now when the icy Road was being constructed from north of the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation crew members would arrive in the morning to find that 500lb tires had been tossed around bulldozers were turned over and giant Footprints were all around the site yeah what if we try calling it you call it here let me see that [ __ ] all right do it do your little [Laughter] call hope it's any constellation you look like an idiot let's go over

some of the recent evidence in 2006 Jeffrey Meldrum an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University published a book called Sasquatch Legend meets science Meldrum is also an expert on foot morphology and the movement of monkeys apes and hominids in that book he wrote quote the evidence that exists fully justifies the investigation and the pursuit of this question end quote in the 1990s Meldrum was shown cast of Bigfoot foot prints that were 14 in long with some suggesting running motion and others actually showing skin whirls mildrum felt the running Footsteps in particular

would be hard to fake quote unless you had some device some cable loaded flexible toes end quote I think it's time for a little Brew break seems like a fitting spot now we're breaking out the the bait this is going to attract I told you we have a different kind of vibe that's for foot that's for Mr and Mrs foot sharing a cold cold one right there that's for you if you're out here I'm not going to do his stupid mating call but I think you understand that one I'm not doing that but I think

you know what this is huh waft it if one actually walked out right now this would be the greatest thing ever captured on camera if we lured out a big foot with a beer here I'll tell you what I'll take my helmet off so you can see my face small foot take off helmet you crush I'm exposing my Cranium to you it's very small but if you aim right you could crush his tiny little [Music] head you're a coward he said that but I agree with him he meant it more though so hit him Dr

Wolf Henner ferenbach a retired zoologist Who formerly worked at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center believes in Bigfoot and has done analysis on over 700 Footprints it's thought that Bigfoot's big toe is aligned with the other toes similar to human foot alignment he believes Bigfoot's foot is approximately 15.6 in long and that the creature weighs up to 2,000 lb Dr farach even told the New York Times in 2003 quote I've gotten close enough to smell him what he's gotten close enough what do you mean he well I'll let you know in a second here but

yeah it's an interesting thing to say tell me more by the way Bigfoot is believed to smell horrible with some comparing it to the odor of smma a sebaceous secretion in the folds of the skin especially under a man's forkin lovely you don't have to describe that well that's what he smells like if you are wondering one of the more promising developments came in the form of a carcass claimed to be of Bigfoot in 2008 two researchers from Atlanta purchased a frozen Bigfoot carcass from Georgia Bigfoot tour company owner Rick Dyer and his friend Matthew

whiten but the carcass turned out to be a rubber gorilla suit how much did they pay for this there is conflicting Reports online but at the very least hundreds of thousands enough to be embarrassed about what the hell uh-oh it's just a table big foot little table yeah where he does a little light reading maybe that's where he writes sonnets oh Jesus Christ everything's fine oh my God look at that cave up there I know a [ __ ] oh should we do this okay I'm going to go on record this is a bad idea

please don't don't die if we do find a bear up here we just going to fall and die oh my god dude I I'm pretty scared I don't want to [ __ ] look at here oh [Music] Jesus hey girl you what I'm that's what you do you call out for the well if there isn't a [ __ ] can squashing here there's definitely a snake of some sort that's going to bite me on the wiener so I think I want to get out of here there have also been attempts at DNA analysis for bigfoot

retired zoologist Dr Wolf farach has been unable to identify Bigfoot DNA but as of 2006 they were at least 15 samples that he had been unable to identify as any other animal in 2012 a veterinarian researcher claimed to have sequenced sasquatch DNA claiming that Sasquatch was descended from human females who had made it with unknown hominine males nah what do you have this guy's inhaling too many cat [ __ ] fumes oh my God in 2014 a team of researchers led by an Oxford professor of human genetics conducted genetic analysis of reported Sasquatch hair samples

unfortunately the samples belong to a range of known animals such as dogs bears and humans what are we going to actually do if we find one it's like all right we found you I mean I wouldn't approach it I would try get some footage of it but what if it approached us then what do we do we die right that's the part where we die you know this is all Jolly right now but could you imagine what this is going to be like at night well this is are they nocturnal we'll find out there really

is no studies on whether or not Bigfoot is nocturnal or not there's not a lot of sightings ofite but there are some but they're definitely in the minority holy [ __ ] it is dark as [ __ ] out here oh I'm not catching anything on thermal there you are holy [ __ ] dude this is [ __ ] scary now we're heading into the belly of the Beast [ __ ] me dude we're Garners if we find this guy that's not scaring you right now shut stupid mouth it is only appropriate that we Sav

the best piece of evidence for last and although it happened in 1967 it is my belief that this is the most convincing piece of Bigfoot evidence in existence in 1967 Roger Patterson an amateur Bigfoot hunter along with Bob gimlin filmed a home movie in six Rivers National Forest the forest were currently in what they captured on camera is the only footage of Bigfoot that has not been completely [Music] debunked it's enough to convince me I mean it doesn't look like a person in a costume the way it moves it's a very old piece of footage

it is a very old piece of footage but so is Die Hard still good what what I'm saying just cuz something's old doesn't mean it's bad or that's a completely different train of thought what the [ __ ] is going on Dr Jeffrey Meldrum the expert on foot morphology and the movement of monkeys Apes in hominid believes you can see Bigfoot's muscle movements in the film he believes the ankles in particular are key indicators that this is not a man in a costume Bob gimlin regrets shooting the film believing that Patterson benefited from it more

than he did in fact it actually tore their friendship apart they didn't make up until Roger Patterson was on his deathbed either way both of them believe what they saw and so do many around the world this footage would become the most famous piece of cryptological evidence of all time a feat that we are aspiring to right now big F okay I don't believe in him come crush Ryan's head it's not going to happen he's not real he's not real please God nothing nothing nothing nothing please please we have to listen too I don't think

the squatches are biting tonight that's good that's good they means we live to see tomorrow all right I'm leaving I'm getting I'm going bye-bye bye-bye Bigfoot the existence of Bigfoot still firmly rests in two camps Believers and Skeptics the mindset of Skeptics could be summed up by the thoughts of University of Florida Anthropologist David J dling quote even if you have a million pieces of evidence if all the evidence is inconclusive you can't count it all up to make something conclusive end quote whereas the mindset of Believers is generally that it's unscientific to Discount the

plethora of evidence over the years there have been casts of footprints possible recorded calls unidentifiable hairs and first-person accounts but in the end until there is indisputable evidence it really comes down to what you believe in is Bigfoot real the answer will remain unsolved man I can't wait to shave this stupid Bigfoot beard off that's pretty good you look like a man I would never talk to under any circumstances what are you talking about come on oh God you like it no let's go find some ghosts [Music]