[narrator] Last season on Expedition bigfoot...
[man] We're going big.
[narrator] The team investigated
the rugged mountain forests of northern California.
[man 2] We are most definitely in the best spot.
[narrator] They spent weeks scouring the landscape...
Holy [bleep]. Did you hear that?
[man] It sounds like a warning.
[woman] It's like a horror movie in here.
[man] This is one of the weirdest places I've been.
[narrator] ...and discovered shocking evidence.
-[man] Look, look, look. -Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[woman] I just heard something really big run past me.
What the [bleep] is that?
[man] That thing just stood up.
Dude!
[narrator] Then through a web of giant fir trees and dense undergrowth...
[man] Look down below me.
...the team uncovered two massive nests.
[man] Hey, guys, we've got some hair over here.
[narrator] They had hairs found nearby analyzed.
[Bryce] The lab results are back.
They're somewhat shocking.
They were actually able to determine
that it was a subspecies of wolf
known as the Alexander Archipelago wolf,
which only lives in one place,
southeastern Alaska.
So, to me, it really leaves us no other option, guys.
We're going to Alaska.
[boat horn blasts]
[Bryce] We're here.
[Mireya] Oh, my God.
[Bryce speaking]
The last expedition we had a very surprising find.
It was from a hair sample
that we collected in northern California.
And it belonged to a very rare wolf species
that is only found in southeastern Alaska.
But the highest concentration of this animal
lives on a particular island,
and that island is Prince of Wales.
By the laws of probability alone,
this is where we should be looking.
Sometimes in science, the answers are that obvious.
We're gonna be meeting a gentleman at that dock right there.
So, here's the thing.
Prince of Wales Island
is the third largest island in the United Sates.
It's bigger than the state of Delaware.
So, Mireya and I are here talking to locals
on a fact-finding mission to narrow our target.
And I caught wind of a story
that took place a few weeks ago...
Something alarming happened here.
And I spoke to about 10 people
who were involved in the incident.
Unfortunately, none of them wanted to go in front of the cameras.
But I was able to get in contact with one gentleman
who told me he'd go on record
as long as we hid his identity.
It's up here.
We've been told that there was a troubling incident that took place here
that shook up the whole island.
There were town meetings about it,
and it had people pretty scared.
And if what they're saying is true,
this could be the start of something huge.
-How's it goin'? I'm Bryce. -Nice to meet you.
-It's nice to meet you. -Hi, I'm Mireya.
Thanks for meeting us out here.
[Bryce] Where exactly are we? What is this?
-[logger] We're about 30 miles from the nearest town. -Okay.
[logger] No roads, so it's not like people can just easily come out here.
We understand there was an incident that took place here?
Yeah. I'm a logger, and, uh, two weeks ago,
we were all working out here, there was at least 20 guys
and, uh, we just started noticing things were moved.
Really?
We'd find things just gone,
and then we'd go looking for them,
and find them down in the edge of the woods.
Do you think a bear could have taken the stuff?
No. If it would've been a bear,
there'd be some kind of signs or tracks or something.
-Were there any kind of tracks at all? -Nothin'.
That's what was really weird about it.
And it happened a few times,
it just wasn't comfortable.
And then shortly after that happened,
that's when the sounds started.
What kind of sounds?
Like an animal that we've never heard before in distress.
The closest I can come to it is a woman getting attacked.
Wow.
When you're hearing something like that come out of the forest,
and you know there's no women up here, what do you do?
What do you think it was making those noises?
We know the animals that are in the area,
what they sound like,
and it was nothing like anything we'd ever heard before.
It's hard to explain or to describe.
-It made our skin crawl. -Yeah.
Just being here now,
-it makes me nervous just thinking about it. -Mm.
And the screams that you were hearing,
did it sound like they were coming from really close to this area?
Well, the first night when we heard 'em,
it was coming from down in the woods, a little ways.
And then every night, they just got a little closer,
a little louder,
to the point where, uh, it was just, uh,
scary and helpless all at the same time,
because somethin' didn't want us here.
And this just started happening a couple weeks ago?
A little over a couple of weeks ago.
It was about two weeks ago was when everybody
finally just had enough and had to get out of here.
That's when people started leaving.
[Bryce] And that must have been pretty severe
for you guys to actually stop your work and leave this site.
I mean, we felt like sitting ducks out here.
Just didn't feel safe.
Did anybody mention the word bigfoot?
We knew what it was, and people disappear out here.
These things come and take 'em.
That's why a lot of people don't like to talk about it.
Is that something that's commonly reported?
That people are disappearing in this area?
That's what I've heard.
[Bryce] The other witnesses I spoke to about this event
had very similar stories.
And the fact that these people were willing to give up months of work,
tells me this was real,
and we could be facing a very serious threat.
Let me ask you this. If they're not here anymore,
where do you think they are now?
I think they're back up the mountain.
-Have you ever been up there? -No.
That's their territory.
The old guys say that's where they are,
that's where they live.
If I was you, I would stay as far away as possible.
[Bryce] After that testimony, we went back and got our gear,
and the whole team is now on the way back
to begin an expedition on Prince of Wales Island.
[Russell speaking]
Alaska is the most untouched,
wildest, untamed area I've ever seen.
And this feels like the most target-rich environment
for bigfoot sightings ever.
Yeah, this is gonna be some challenging territory,
but it's the right location according to our witness.
So many people are corroborating the same story.
This isn't just stories from the past,
but these things are happening now, currently.
And when you have this many elements that align,
now's the time to strike.
[narrator] Based on the last sighting from just weeks prior,
the team is targeting the area surrounding a remote mountain,
eight miles from the work site.
[Russell] We're almost there.
[narrator] This 60,000 square foot area will be their target zone
during their investigation over the next seven weeks.
[Ronny] Hearing the story of this mass sighting doesn't surprise me.
Alaska's filled with these stories
of bigfoot-like creatures from the tribes.
There's a lot of strange stuff up here as well, not just bigfoot.
Native American legends and stories of this area
talk about bigfoot being this supernatural being.
Not only that, the different reports of bigfoot up here
are that they are more aggressive, more hostile.
It's a concern, so we need to be on high alert
because it just adds another level of danger to our expedition.
[Bryce] We should be coming up to it soon.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Wow.
[Russell] Looking at the terrain of this mountain
is highly intimidating.
It's gray in color because of all the rocks that cover the surface.
So, for lack of a better term, we refer to this as Grey Mountain.
[Bryce] We're gonna touch down in that lake, right there.
-[engine drones] -[Mireya] Wow!
It's gonna be really dense when we get down there.
This is the world's largest temperate rainforest.
As a scientist, this place is an absolute playground
when it comes to biodiversity.
It has one of the highest amount of animals and plants here
that are found nowhere else.
People actually refer to this place
as the Galapagos of the north.
We know that there's a very heavy predator population here.
There's also very healthy prey population.
So we know that this area can sustain a very large mammal.
-[Bryce] Are you ready? -[Russell] Let's do it.
[Ronny] I'm looking down on this place
and all I can think about is Skull Island,
expecting to run into something like King Kong.
And to get on the ground, to finally feel
what this place looks like is gonna be incredible.
[Bryce] All right, here we go.
[Bryce speaking]
[narrator] The small alpine lake is situated
two miles from the base of Grey Mountain,
where the team believes Bigfoot may be hiding.
With limited roads,
this is the closest access they have to their target.
[Mireya] This feels very, very foreign.
[narrator] Ronny and Mireya will set up their first base camp near the shore
and explore the mountainside closest to the work site.
What a great little spot.
[narrator] Russell's plan is to investigate
the opposite side of the mountain.
[Mireya] The location that we have selected for our base camp
lies between the work site and the base of the mountain,
which we're referring to as Grey Mountain,
where all the activity took place.
That means that if a creature is moving
through and between these areas,
we will be able to be in a centralized location and pick up on it.
But because we are so limited on the data points that we have,
we've got a lot of ground to cover.
All right, be safe.
-Be careful. -Good luck.
[narrator] Bryce will oversee operations from outside the target zone,
collecting and analyzing data
while the field team ventures into the Alaskan wilderness.
[Bryce] The forests of Oregon, California and Washington
are nothing compared to the forests of Alaska.
Around here, the mountains are higher,
the lakes and streams are colder,
and the wildlife is even more deadly.
In Alaska, everything has to fight for survival.
This is gonna be our toughest expedition yet.
[Russell] I can't express how excited I am to be here in Alaska.
Alaska is that final frontier,
that wildest of all wild countries,
but it's also very dangerous.
It's unforgiving.
Alaska doesn't care who you are.
This place will chew you up and spit you out.
Be careful, this is a different world in here.
[Mireya] So, Ronny, I'm thinking that we should go
high ground, higher elevation, because otherwise
the mammals are gonna coming down from there.
All of the bigfoot sightings that people have reported
have been along the shoreline.
Everything seems to be by the water.
[Mireya] When you're looking to make a new discovery,
there is no better place than an island setting.
Everything is contained in a much higher density and concentration.
What makes it challenging is so many places to go,
which means that we're having to cast a much wider net.
Here they are.
-[Ronny] Oh, the drone team's here. -Great.
[Mireya] So, we brought in some experts so that we can determine
what the best place is to start our investigation.
When it comes to bigfoot, eyewitness accounts
report a really strong, pungent, strange odor.
-Hey there, guys. -[drone operator] Hey.
[Mireya] But today, for the first time,
we're gonna be able to pinpoint
that specific scent.
So, can you explain to us how this works?
Yeah, we've brought some large drones that allow us
to fly above the canopy.
And we can scan using a laser
looking for different types of gases.
We can pick up organic gases that are natural
to humans, animals, uh, anything.
[narrator] The team has traveled to this remote island
from a lab in British Columbia,
and they've brought with them a specialized drone
equipped with a sophisticated gas sensor.
Usually deployed to reveal gas leaks in pipelines,
it's capable of detecting even minute traces
of specific compounds.
[Mireya] There she goes.
[Ronny] I can't wait to see what this thing delivers.
[narrator] The smells reported to be associated with bigfoot,
rotting flesh, wet dog,
skunk, excrement,
all contain chemical compounds called thiols
that contain a hydrogen-sulfur bond.
Awesome.
[narrator] The sensor on the drone will be calibrated
to identify these specific chemical compounds.
[Steve] And if we do get any type of hit at all,
we'll be able to know exactly where that is.
[Mireya] Of course many of these smells could occur naturally,
but not in that high concentration
that witness reports would suggest.
So, we'll be looking for high levels of these compounds,
not those that would fall within a normal range.
So, once it picks up on something,
-how will it alert you? -[Steve] You're gonna, you're gonna see
-that graph there. -Right here?
[Steve] Yeah, it's gonna spike and it's gonna make a noise.
How would I distinguish between just regular, like, organic matter
-and then something with a large spike? -If it's just something small,
you're just gonna hear one or two little beep-beeps.
But if it starts making lots of noise...
-Okay, then I know I'm on to something. -...you're gonna know
-that you're on to something very big. -Okay.
[Mireya] Let's see what's out there.
[Russell speaking]
[narrator] Now two miles from Mireya and Ronny's position,
Russell has discovered a river flowing due east towards the ocean.
[Russell] Down here to the left,
I've got a waterway.
I can see what comes to the water's edge on the upside
and if there's anything on this side.
In the springtime when the snows melts,
the animals are coming down off the mountain looking for food and water.
Now, if bigfoot lives on the mountain,
as out eyewitnesses suggested,
then that means that these rivers
are gonna be their hunting grounds.
You know how they say everything's bigger in Texas?
Uh, I think it's bigger in Alaska.
In Alaska, caution has to be the forefront in your mind out here.
There's the threat of bears, wolves, this terrain.
The swamp, the pits.
The voids underground.
The slick rocks.
You're talking hours away from a hospital.
You have to think that next step ahead.
Am I putting myself in a spot I can't get out of?
This is insane.
Is that a...
-That's it? -[Steve] Yeah, there's something there, yeah.
Three spikes.
That was a decent spike.
See if you get any more.
Are you picking up anything?
[beeping]
-Oh, there, right there again. -[Mireya] No.
[Steve] Those were larger than just a small spike
with a little bit of organics from vegetation.
Something significant.
Yes, there's something out there emitting hydrogen sulfite right now.
How far is that from here?
[Steve] 800 meters.
Then I'd like to actually go over there now.
[Ronny] Yeah.
[narrator] The drone has located several targets
where gasses that could be given off by
the foul smell of a bigfoot have been detected.
The first is 800 meters from their base camp.
Mireya will maneuver through the dense forest to investigate the targets,
while Ronny keeps an eye from above.
-Awesome. -All right, great.
[Mireya] While this technology is very helpful and advanced,
it's not an exact science.
And so, really the only way to know what it is that it's targeting
is to get boots on the ground and go see it.
All right, here we go.
[Russell] It's starting to get kinda rainy.
I'm gonna try to find a place
where we can get some rest.
[narrator] Two and a half miles east of Ronny and Mireya,
and with a storm system moving in,
Russell must quickly find shelter.
[Russell] Hey, check this out.
We clear some of that stuff out of there and sleep right in here.
Covered a lot of distance just now.
Just shut it down for a few hours
and see if I can get back out here tonight.
Here we go.
I'm so tired.
[rustling]
[rustling continues]
That is close.
Come with me.
Oh, that smell.
What in the hell is that?
Look.
Do you see that?
Come on.
[breathing heavily]
Come on.
[Russell] Do you hear it?
Look at that.
It came right through there.
Do you see that?
Something's broken off those branches.
Let's go.
Oh! [shushing]
Stop, stop, stop.
Which way did it go?
It's quiet.
Do you hear anything?
Shut your light.
I'm not getting anything.
I had to count on what I was hearing.
And that sound faded away and out-distanced me
to where I couldn't follow those sounds anymore.
I can't tell which way it went.
There's something out there ahead of us.
It sounded bipedal.
Literally sounded like something running.
I felt like I was right on its heels,
but whatever this thing is, it's moving much faster
than I can move in this forest.
What was that?
I wanna go back to where we were.
At least we had something there.
Let's look that over.
There's something hanging from the branches.
A chunk of skin.
I need to know what it is.
It was just very out of place.
Just really weird.
Mireya, we're still getting hits.
There is definitely something there.
You know, whatever's there seems to be constant.
It's not moving.
We'll just keep hovering there, Jordan.
[narrator] Two and a half miles from Russell's position,
Mireya is approaching the first of two targets
where a gas-detecting drone has identified compounds
that give off smells commonly associated with bigfoot.
[Mireya] So dense.
So hard to see anything.
But I am starting to smell something foul.
Hold on a second.
Oh, wow.
[Ronny] What is it?
[Mireya] Oh, my God.
I just found a pile of bones right in front of me.
[Ronny over comms] No way.
[Mireya] A couple skulls.
And a few spare bits.
[Ronny] Holy [bleep].
Those bones are probably what's making this thing go off.
Looks like maybe deer.
[Ronny] Deer? That's good.
Deer is bigfoot's main food source.
So this could actually be a clue.
A pile of bones is exactly what we found above Lake Fear.
[narrator] During last year's Washington Investigation,
the team made a shocking discovery.
-[Mireya] Oh, my gosh. -[Russell] What the...
[narrator] A massive horde of animal bones.
Right now, we're literally sitting at a dinner table.
I cannot believe that we just landed,
and immediately, we've discovered
what looks like a potential kill site.
Looks like it's been here a while, so I'm gonna move to the next spot.
[Ronny] Copy that.
We're continuing west right now.
That's about 200 meters.
-[Mireya] Straight this way? -[Ronny] Yeah.
Okay, we're getting several hits in that same vicinity.
Are you able to pick up anything with your handheld?
[Mireya] I'm about to start using the handheld now.
Copy that.
[narrator] Mireya has been equipped with a handheld form
of the laser-guided technology mounted on the drone.
[Mireya whispers] Should be right here.
[Ronny] What do you got?
[Mireya] I'm not getting anything out here.
Hold on a second.
Do you smell that?
[beeping]
[Mireya] Oh, wow.
This thing's going off.
-[beeping] -Jeez, look at it.
Ronny, this thing is spiking off the charts.
-Whoa, look at that. -Whoa.
[Steve] Whatever we're seeing there, that's abnormal.
[Ronny] Yeah, this is something big
because, uh, this thing is just going crazy right now.
[beeping]
[Steve] Whoa.
[Ronny] Stay put, I'm gonna head to your position.
[Steve] Whatever we're seeing is constant.
There's something out there.
[beeping]
[Ronny] Mireya, hang tight.
Wait.
[beeping slows down]
[Mireya whispers] It's gradually going down.
No, no, no, no, no.
The gas readings are dissipating.
-[Ronny] No way. -That's wild.
It's gone.
Those gasses dissipated quickly.
It's possible that whatever was giving off that scent was right here just now,
but has moved somewhere else in the forest.
-Hey. -[Ronny] Hey.
So, what do you think?
[Mireya] So, something out here was triggering both
the drone in the air and then the handheld,
but it must still be around here.
So, I say that we track around this area,
and just see if we can see what it was that was giving off that signal.
[Ronny] Okay.
Are you smelling that?
Yeah.
It's strong.
I feel like I had it over there, and it's like, kind of...
I feel like the smell's moving around.
[Mireya speaking]
[animal call]
[Ronny] What was that?
-[Mireya] Honestly, it sounded like an animal in distress. -[Ronny] Yeah.
[Mireya] It was coming from over by the water.
[animal call]
-[Ronny] What the [bleep]? -[Mireya] What?
[branch breaking]
[animal call]
What the hell was that?
[animal call]
What the [bleep]?
That's not a wolf.
That sounded like a, like a person yelling or something.
Well, the first sound, it sounded like an animal in distress...
-[Ronny] Yeah. -...but that had a more human...
-[Ronny] Yeah. -...like, tone to it.
[Ronny] Yeah.
When we hear that blood-curdling scream,
it's hard for us to ignore that.
And it reminded me exactly of what Bryce told us
where this construction site was abandoned.
[logger] We started hearing sounds during the night.
Closest I could come to is a woman getting attacked.
[screaming]
[Mireya] What the hell?
That sounded like it was from the lake.
[Ronny] Are you still smelling it?
[Mireya] Yeah, I am.
[Ronny] Frick.
[Ronny] These bigfoot have pushed these loggers out of this area,
and now we're here, in their home turf, even closer to the mountain.
They could be even more dangerous
because we are right in their backyard.
[Mireya] Let's go down to the lake.
[Russell] Yeah, we came right up through here.
[narrator] Two and a half miles east,
Russell is returning to the location where
what appeared to be an animal skin was hanging from a tree.
[Russell] Okay, it was right up...
Where is it? Wait, wait, wait, hold it.
We were right here.
It was right there, man.
I'm sure I'm standing in the same spot.
I'm standing right in front of this log,
I'm looking at the same tree,
and up here there's nothing.
Whatever was hanging is now gone.
I need to look on your camera.
That's what, about 20 feet up?
How would it get up there?
A bear couldn't have got up there
and not broken off those branches on the way.
I don't know if this thing is leading us away
from what it left behind,
but if this thing that we were chasing came back,
and took that off the branch, we've been out-maneuvered.
Something is thinking ten steps ahead of us.
I think there's more here than what I'm seeing tonight.
Do you feel like it's watching us right now?
'Cause I do.
[Ronny] Hey, morning.
[Mireya] Hey.
Last night, we covered a lot of area around the lake
before the drone team had to fly back.
But rain means soft ground,
and that means possible prints left behind.
So, we're gonna scour this entire area
and look for that physical evidence.
Problem is, is that we spotted a lot of bear tracks around here coming in.
[Ronny] I know.
There's, uh, fiddlehead.
Zach, are those food source for the bears as they're coming out of hibernation?
Yeah, absolutely. Um, the bears will browse on that new growth,
but it's all over the place, it's not just the fiddleheads.
So we're safe here?
-Yeah, this is safe. -[Ronny] Okay.
For the very first time of any of our expeditions,
we have armed bear guards with us.
We've been in areas that have had incredibly large bear populations,
but Alaska is different. The bears are bigger.
They're wilder.
And they're not used to humans.
And that makes them completely unpredictable
and much more dangerous.
They're hungry. They're just waking up, you know.
They're coming out of dens, and now's a very active time for these bears.
It can be fatal very, very quickly.
Having these armed guards does change the feel of the expedition.
And even though they will be watching from behind the scenes,
there is a constant present walking reminder that you're in danger.
But at the end of the day, our mission is to document
a previously undocumented species.
And the only way to do that is to take that risk.
[Bryce] This island holds a lot of secrets.
The community of Prince of Wales is very close-knit,
so getting information hasn't been easy.
So I'm gonna go to one of the only places
where people might be willing to talk about their bigfoot encounters.
The local watering hole.
-Hey, how's it going, man? -Hey, how you doing?
-What can I get for you? -My name is Bryce.
Jason.
Hey, man, this might seem odd,
but I'm looking for people who might have some stories
or reports of, uh, bigfoot.
You know, ask around here, I'm sure you'll get a lot of stories.
Appreciate it.
Hey, how's it going, sorry to interrupt.
I'm researching the, the topic of... of bigfoot.
Bigfoot. Bigfoot.
I was wondering if you guys have ever heard or seen any stories like that?
-Yes. -Yeah.
I've seen something.
I've heard quite a bit of stories around the island.
Yeah, you hear stories, occasionally.
Everybody you know has got a bigfoot story here.
Yeah.
I have to admit, I was pretty startled
that almost everyone in that bar had a bigfoot story to tell.
Something was throwing huge rocks into the lake.
I looked just in time to see-- catch this rock landing at my feet.
You know, it could have hit me over the head with a rock if it wanted to,
-but I think it was probably more, like... -[Bryce] Yeah.
"Hey, I'm here, and this is my area."
And many of these stories not only have taken place in and around our target zone,
but the follow the pattern of bigfoot behavior that we've experienced
on our expeditions.
[woman] I hear this like this loud "woosh."
A friend of mine could hear them.
What, what kind of noises were they making?
-Vocalizing. -Hmm.
What do you think that was?
My only explanation would be that that was most likely bigfoot.
[Bryce] But then there was these two gentlemen
who told me about this bigfoot behavior
that we've never experienced before.
You know, I've, I've spent enough time in the woods,
ever since I was a kid.
-And I don't get spooked, you know? -Mmm-hmm.
But, there's, sometimes,
there's things that just aren't quite...
Right.
There is a, there is a tree, that's, that's,
stuffed in the ground upside down out there.
The roots are right up upside down,
and there's no way that a logger, helicopter, anything,
would've put it right there.
-So it had been uprooted, literally, and... -Turned upside down.
-...turned upside down and stuffed back down... -Stuffed in the ground.
-...in the ground. -And there's no machine marks on 'em.
There's nothing, you know?
You think those are markers of a sacred place?
Definitely.
Expedition after expedition, we've encountered tree manipulations
and tree structures.
But we're in Alaska now.
Everything is different here.
What if these upside down trees
these guys were talking about
is the Alaskan version of a tree structure?
Either way, this is definitely something worth looking into.
Would you be willing to share with me this location?
Sure.
Had you guys ever gone up that way?
No. I don't go there at all.
Interesting.
[Mireya] This is about where I heard the scream.
So why don't we split up?
[cameraman speaking]
Hold on a second.
Oh, wow, look at this.
Ronny! I think I've got something here!
-[Mireya] Hey. -[Ronny] How's it going?
[Mireya] Check this out.
Something must have gone past here.
And as it was moving through, it left behind...
...some hair.
[Mireya] These plants here are called devil's club.
And it covers the entire area.
The spikes on them are incredibly sharp.
People have lost eyes inadvertently walking into them.
But these new dangers here in Alaska
are providing us with new evidence
that we may not be able to find anywhere else.
And it is incredibly useful
because it's a bit of a DNA trap.
I mean, what's really interesting, Ronny, is that...
these are a lot lighter.
-Look at how white that is. -[Ronny] Yeah.
You know, there's reports, right,
when it comes to bigfoot in certain areas,
that they are black, more dark.
Northwest, more reddish-brown.
But they've also seen white ones.
-White bigfoot? -White bigfoot.
Like a yeti?
Yeah, like the yeti in the Himalayas, for example.
[narrator] The yeti is a legendary white-haired bipedal giant
that has been reported in the snow-covered mountains of the Himalayas
for thousands of years.
Eyewitness accounts describe a towering presence
with a face of a monster
and a terrifying scream that can be heard for miles.
So, to me, it's almost like the different regions
have different species.
I mean, animals can be in the same species.
I mean, look at humans, right?
There's all sorts of different hair color.
So many animals really blend in to their environment.
So, for example, there are primates that live in the cloud forest
that are completely all white.
So with all the snow in Alaska,
who's to say that's not happening with bigfoot?
You know, the fact that we have this water source.
And we have these strange hairs
being caught on this devil's club.
I mean, this could be their spot that they're coming to
to hunt, to fish.
And then you came across those deer bones last night.
And then we heard those screams.
What if we're in their hunting grounds?
Hmm, that's interesting.
Predators don't like it when something comes between them and their prey.
And I think just like those loggers running for their lives,
we're encroaching on their hunting grounds.
And it's not a coincidence that we both heard that scream in the night.
But one thing that I've learned
is when something is trying to push you away,
that means that you're on the right track.
I mean, this area feels like this is the spot.
[Mireya speaking]
[Ronny speaking]
This place is just as scary in the daytime as it is in the nighttime.
[narrator] Two miles east of base camp,
Russell is investigating the area where last night,
he found what appeared to be
an animal skin hanging from a branch.
What the hell was this thing?
Whoa, check it out, look at this, look at this!
Look at that. That's hair.
[Russell] Six feet up on the trunk of this tree, hair samples.
If there's any DNA on this, this could be amazing.
What's gonna be out here that's white?
I wanna collect that and take it with us.
And the big question is, is that...
whatever was hanging there?
Or is that what put it up there?
Look at this.
Something stepped right here. That's a big track.
This looks like a drag mark.
And that moss has been pushed down.
That's obvious as it gets.
Something from this area stepped through
and it was dragging something in that direction.
Step, step, drag.
That defies all logic.
From what it looked like, what we were chasing
started dragging that thing across the forest floor.
Already in such a short amount of time that we've been in Alaska,
things are starting to bust wide open.
Now, the chase is on.
This is where it gets fun.
It's headed this direction.
Whatever it is, it's time to follow it.
[Mireya over comms] Hey, Ronny, I've got the night goggles on.
[Ronny] Copy that.
[narrator] On the edge of the lake near base camp,
Ronny and Mireya are surveying a possible bigfoot hunting ground,
using an advanced surveillance technology.
So...
You can tell right now it's basically midnight.
But because of how far north Alaska is,
the sun stays out much longer.
There's a lot of ambient light.
So for the first time,
we're deploying military grade third-generation night vision,
which is perfect for these conditions.
Looks like the sun is out.
So it really gives me some visibility.
Something clearly is moving through this area,
whatever left those hairs.
It's very likely that whatever it is
was actually moving towards the water to feed.
[Ronny] This is their food source,
this is their fishing ground, their hunting ground.
If I'm in it, this is a threat.
With the moonlight, I'm very visible right now.
If there is a bigfoot here...
I want them to see me.
I want to bring them out.
[over comms] I'm in position.
Everything is clear around you.
When you're in pursuit of a rare or elusive animal,
you don't wanna push so hard that you either drive the animal away,
or you cause it to react aggressively.
Animals that are territorial,
they will fight for that territory,
basically to the death.
[breathing heavily]
So this is constantly...
[howling]
Just heard a little howl.
[Mireya] Something just howled
from the opposite side of you, where you're standing.
Recognize that sound?
I think that's one of two things.
Either we just heard a wolf, or...
[howling]
That's twice.
You think it was something else?
I do.
[Ronny speaking]
What the hell is that?
I'm making my way over to the shoreline.
[Mireya] Careful, Ronny.
I'm gonna remain in position
because I want to be able to observe from here
and not scare anything off that might be there.
So I'm just scanning the shoreline here.
I'm not picking up anything.
Hey, Ronny, I'm gonna use the thermal to see if I get a heat signature...
...across from where you're standing.
[Ronny] Copy that.
So...
I'm trying to stay close to the water,
but I'm also trying to keep an eye on this tree line.
Hey, Ronny, I can see you and your cameraman, but nothing else.
[rustling]
What was that?
[Mireya] Wait, hold on a second.
Oh, my God.
Ronny, I'm seeing a heat signature in the water to your right.
[Ronny] No way.
[Mireya] Just looks like a really big...
figure
standing in the water.
[Ronny] Holy [bleep].