[josh] on this episode of expedition x:
My team and I launch our biggest investigation yet
as we uncover shocking new reports
of a terrifying creature prowling the american midwest.
[man] ...Iridescent, orangish-red eyes.
Six-and-a-half, seven feet off the ground.
Looking at me.
Is this vicious beast to blame for a recent killing spree?
-Oh, my god! -[gasps]
that is horrendous.
[jessica] that whole chunk's missing.
Is it a rabid dog, a massive wolf or an unknown predator?
I think it's a werewolf.
And this time, I'm joining the hunt.
[animal howling]
[whispers] definitely sounds like an animal.
Holy [bleep]. Look at this.
-Look at this! -Oh, that's huge!
Be really careful where you're standing.
We got fresh prints here.
[phil] something was [bleep] right there.
Something is out there.
[jessica] oh, my god! Oh, my god, there it is. You see that?
-Whoa! Whoa! -Right there. Right there.
And we're on a hunt for the truth behind...
[jessica] holy [bleep] it's moving in the brush.
...An american werewolf.
My name is josh gates.
In my travels, I've experienced strange things,
that defy logic and made me question everything.
Oh, my god!
Now I've put together a team
to investigate the stranger side of the unknown.
Let's go.
Phil torres is a scientist
who hunts for rational explanations.
Jessica chobot's paranormal research
has made her a true believer.
Phil, do you see that? I just saw something run across.
Together, we're searching for answers...
What is that?
...To the world's most extraordinary mysteries.
This is expedition x.
All right, phil, jess.
I hope you've got your pitchforks ready, your silver bullets on hand.
Because this case is gonna get a little hairy.
-Werewolves? -Werewolves?
Hang with me here, hang with me.
I want to tell you a story about a guy named danny morgan.
He's from spring prairie, wisconsin,
and he's driving home one night on this lonely road
and suddenly he sees something terrifying coming out of the woods.
He slows down, manages to snap a picture with his phone -
a picture that has set the internet ablaze.
Behold a real-life werewolf.
-I have seen this photo before. -And?
[jessica] I mean, it's super creepy.
[phil] it's super creepy but it's also super blurry.
[jessica] yeah.
[phil] it does look like a canine if you look at the rear legs
but it's bipedal, it's standing upright.
Is this thing legit?
[josh] that's what we're here to find out.
I guess it could be something like a large dog.
Or a wolf that reared up, maybe 'cause it was scared of the car,
and at the right time, he took a photo of it.
And then, voila, it looks kind of like a werewolf.
Maybe. Maybe not.
If this was just a one-off sighting, right,
we would dismiss it, fine.
But locals claim that a creature matching this description
has been terrorizing this area for decades.
Elkhorn, wisconsin.
Newspaper reporter linda godfrey
follows up on a bizarre report by a woman
who had been driving home late one evening on bray road
a rural street that cuts through miles of cornfields.
She claims to spot what she describes as a large wolf-like creature
running on two legs at incredible speed.
Little does godfrey know that the small piece she writes
would empower an avalanche of eyewitnesses
to come forward with accounts of their own sightings
of this mysterious monster.
Faster than you can say, "howl at the moon,"
the legend of the beast of bray road is born.
In the decades that follow,
sightings of the creature continue with shocking regularity.
And every eyewitness description is practically identical -
a huge terrifying beast with canine-like features,
dark matted fur,
bright glowing eyes,
moving at remarkable speed,
sometimes on all fours,
sometimes upright on its hind legs.
Then in 2018,
danny morgan's tantalizing photograph
becomes what believers are calling "the smoking gun".
Since releasing his photograph,
danny morgan is no longer talking to the press,
leaving skeptics to suggest his story is less than authentic.
But sightings of the beast have sharply increased in frequency.
Just last week, a deliveryman claimed he saw the creature
coming out of the woods in a nearby town.
And only days ago,
another man encountered the beast on his farm,
and says it is responsible for a heinous bloodbath.
Are all of these credible reports
simply cases of mistaken identity?
Or is it possible there is an animal unknown to science
stalking the midwest?
I know this sounds crazy but there is a real volume of sightings here.
This isn't some ancient bit of folklore.
People have been regularly reporting this
for the last 30 years.
So, now, it's a humble brag,
but I've been following this story for a decent amount of time.
And the county animal control officer
that patrolled that area
actually collected all of these eyewitness reports in a file folder
that was just labelled "werewolf".
And that's the point.
These eyewitnesses are reporting their sightings as werewolf sightings.
Phil, I can smell the skepticism wafting off you.
I mean, werewolves don't exist!
-[josh] what is it? -I don't know what that is.
-Aha! -But there are a lot of known predators in wisconsin,
like bears, like wolves.
And in the last 20 years, a lot of the forest got replaced by urban sprawl.
So predators are coming out of the woodwork
and humans are interacting with them in ways they didn't expect.
So if they see a wolf on their street or on the road,
they're gonna be scared of it, say it's a monster.
I mean, these aren't brand new farmers that just started a farm yesterday.
These are people that have lived in the area for years.
So they would know the difference between what is a wolf
versus what is something that they can't explain.
She's right. There are a lot of locals
who've been really scared by whatever this is
and who claim that it is something other, something unknown.
So what do you say? Are you ready to get to the bottom
of the legend of the beast of bray road?
-Absolutely. -Yeah, I want to know what that is.
All right, good. Okay.
For this case, I am gonna be sending you out there with some backup.
A real heavy hitter in the field.
I'm talking about somebody who's been investigating
legends around the world for years.
Talented, a whizz with technology,
he's a pleasure to work with.
Very handsome.
Humble.
-Me, I'm coming with you. -Oh, that's great!
-It'll be fun. -Yes!
Look, I really do love this story, this is right up my alley.
I love legends like this,
especially one that's right here in the usa.
I mean, I'm with you, right? A werewolf in the midwest?
But we have this photo.
There's been an uptick in sightings.
Something is killing animals out there.
There is a real story here and I want to find out what it is.
-Right, let's go do this. -Yeah.
One thing. When we get to wisconsin, I get to drive the jeep.
-Shotgun! -I'll take back seat.
-Yes. Yes, you will. -All right.
The next morning, phil and jess and I
hop on a flight to milwaukee, wisconsin.
From there, it's just a short hour-long drive southwest
to the town of elkhorn
and the alleged hunting ground of the beast.
Nothing like a little weekend getaway looking for a monster.
Exactly. I actually love monster stories.
They're, like, some of my favorite cases.
Because some people might say, "this sounds ridiculous,"
you know, a werewolf in wisconsin.
But those are my favorite stories
because whether or not you believe in the creature,
you have to believe in the mystery, right?
Yeah, people are seeing something out here they can't explain
and now we're out here hunting for a beast.
I mean, it didn't happen that long ago.
So we're essentially at the birthplace of a new urban myth.
Which to me is super cool.
Totally. I mean, there are people out here, genuinely terrified,
having encounters they can't explain.
Whether it's a werewolf misidentification, folklore, whatever,
that's what we got to figure out.
I think there's all sorts of possibilities out here
which is why what I'm after here is evidence.
What can we tangibly find and document and photograph
that could get us towards some sort of answer?
[josh] werewolves are staples of european folklore.
But there are also actual sightings reported around the world.
There were multiple reports in scotland
in the 1950s and '60s of a half-man, half-wolf.
In 1988, security officers near wittlich, germany
spot a large wolf-like creature standing on. Its hind legs.
2016, locals in the town of hull in northern England
have multiple sightings of a similar beast,
feasting on local dogs.
And then there's right here,
ground zero for the american werewolf.
Welcome to elkhorn, wisconsin.
Look at this. This is adorable.
It is a very cute town.
[josh] also known as america's christmas card town--
[phil] okay.
[josh] ...Because of the many festive paintings
of the charming downtown area
that have been turned into christmas cards.
Oh, that is so sweet!
[josh] this enchanting farming community
in the heart of walworth county,
boasts a population of just over 10,000 residents,
and quite possibly one terrifying beast.
Sightings of the cryptid have been reported all over the county,
with the highest concentration of encounters taking place
around bray road.
So if we have any chance of finding a creature
that's managed to elude identification for decades,
we have to start with its last known location
and speak to the man who saw it.
[josh] I think this is our guy right here.
-[jessica] yep. -[phil] there he is.
[josh] just a few miles outside of town,
we've arranged a meeting with lee hampel,
a retired math teacher who's been living in this area
since 2007.
Recently, while driving, he had a chilling encounter
with a mysterious creature just outside his farm
which is located, you've guessed it, right off bray road.
I understand you've got quite a story.
Well, I do. I do.
It was 10:30 at night and I drove down the road.
Here are two iridescent orangish-red eyes
probably about 150 feet away, right next to the road.
It's standing looking at me.
I mean, blink of an eye, it's 20 feet out in the field, instantaneously.
It was gone.
You can't imagine how fast it moved.
In that moment,
were you thinking, "I just saw the beast of bray road"?
Absolutely, yes. Yeah, I did.
I called my brother, 11:00 at night.
And I said, "I got to tell somebody
because I just saw what I think is the beast of bray road.
Were there any other physical characteristics that stood out?
-Did you see fur, anything? -Color?
No, I could not see any fur, I could not see any color.
My assumption is whatever it was was very, very dark
or black because there was no shape that I could see
other than these iridescent orangish-red eyes,
that were six-and-a-half, seven feet off the ground.
Looking at me.
-So it was kind of formless? -Right.
Were you able to tell where it was headed?
-It was heading directly west. -What's in the west?
-Is there any area there? -It just was a cornfield that had been harvested.
[jessica] mm-hm.
What would you say to someone who says,
"oh, man, you must've just seen a deer or a coyote out there"?
You're wrong, 'cause I know what I saw.
And I've seen deer and coyote before, many times,
and that was not a deer or a coyote.
Went back the next day and I found these very interesting tracks.
They were five-toed, seven-pad tracks.
And no animals in these parts have these tracks.
And did you take any photos of the tracks?
-I have photos of the tracks. -Let's see.
Yeah.
Right there.
[phil] so point out the five toes to me.
[lee] okay. Here's one, two, three, four, five.
It's canid because you can see the claw right there.
There's the center pad, which no canid has.
And there's the heel pad.
And this is about three-and-a-half by three inches.
So it's a very large track, much larger than coyotes.
-[josh] right. -And what I saw made those tracks.
[phil] a typical canine has four clawed toes and a heel pad.
The imprint lee recorded has an additional toe
and an extra heel pad,
which is not consistent with a coyote or a wolf.
There are some large dog breeds that do have five toes,
most commonly the great pyrenees.
But lee's next piece of evidence
suggests we're not dealing with a domesticated animal.
I also have photos of mutilated deer.
-It's taken down deer? -Absolutely. Yes.
I have a really good photo of that. Here it is.
-Right here. -Oh. Look at that.
-Right there. Right there. -Wow.
[jessica] that whole chunk's missing
that's a whole quarter. And look, that's not chewed.
That's just ripped off.
-That front quarter was totally carried away? -Yes, it was. Yes.
To take the whole front quarter away,
it would have to be a pretty sizeable animal to drag that out.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
[phil] this deer was attacked by an extremely powerful predator.
The state of wisconsin is home to a number of animals
capable of taking it down, including bears and cougars.
The most obvious suspects are gray wolves
with a large population in the northern part of the state,
but sightings this far south are extremely rare.
In your opinion, based on these tracks,
would you say it's a four-legged creature or a two-legged creature?
No, I'd say two-legged creature, definitely bipedal.
Because the tracks are 48 inches apart.
[phil] if this is accurate, the animal that made these tracks
had a very long stride - about four feet.
By comparison, the stride of a wolf is only about 28-30 inches apart.
Okay, so you know the area.
If we're going out looking for this thing, where would you send us?
It's called the beast of bray road for a reason.
I'd send you down bray road.
-Got it. -All right.
[jessica] lee is definitely convinced he witnessed the fabled beast.
At this stage, it's impossible to say for sure
what he actually did encounter.
But the mysterious footprint and mutilated deer carcass
suggest that a very large, very strong,
and very fast predator is prowling the area.
And if there is such a thing as a favorable time to go hunting for a werewolf,
well, let's just say tonight is the night.
-Is it a full moon today? -It is a full moon.
-It is a full moon!
Oh, well, now it's gonna happen for sure. Okay.
I mean, you know.
If you're gonna go looking for a werewolf,
you may as well do it during a full moon.
-Okay, this is it, bray road. -[phil] wow.
-Bray road, right here. -Oh, this is it.
[jessica in sing-song voice] take a left.
[josh] all right.
Heading into werewolf country.
[josh] my team and I are investigating the truth
behind one of the most famous cryptids in america.
It's been reported along this rural wisconsin road for decades.
The beast of bray road.
Heading into werewolf country.
-Okay, this is it, bray road. -[phil] wow.
-[josh] look at this. -[jessica] ooh!
[josh] beginning just a mile and a half from downtown elkhorn,
bray road is a four-mile long country road
that cuts through about 30 square miles of farmland and forest.
We'll recon the area until nightfall.
Nearly every sighting along this road
takes place under cover of darkness,
something we plan to take advantage of.
I do like how much visibility you have.
I mean, it's pretty flat.
You can see for quite a distance.
[josh] well, right now we can.
I don't know what you'd see out in these fields in the dark, though.
[phil] I think that eyeshine reflecting
is gonna be one of the best things we can be looking for out here.
-Totally. -Just shining a flashlight everywhere.
If the animal, whatever's out here,
has the tapetum lucidum, it's gonna reflect back.
-So shining a bright light-- -what did you call it?
The tapetum lucidum.
Oh, my god. How do you put up with that?
You guys need to read more books, all right?
[phil] the, say it with me,
the tapetum lucidum is a reflective membrane
behind the retina of many nocturnal and carnivorous animals
that make it look like their eyes can glow in the dark.
-That's a harry potter spell, isn't it? -[jessica laughs]
tapetum lucidum!
Oh, that's awesome.
That's from hogwarts, I remember that.
That's not the kind of book I was talking about, josh.
-Sorry. -They're still great, nonetheless.
Tapetum lucidum?
Lee said that the tapetum lucidum... [sniggers]
-tapetum... -Lucidum!
...Glows red on this thing.
But that's where it can be tricky.
It can seem like it is glowing,
even if your headlights are tangentially hitting
that animal's face, it will still pop.
Six-foot eyeshine at night, though?
[josh] that's weird.
I don't know, having grown up in the midwest
and driven down many of these roads,
I immediately know when there's an animal looking at the car
versus when there is something with glowing red eyes,
that's six-foot tall, staring at me.
[josh] the full moon soon takes center stage in the sky,
and our active investigation can begin.
[whispers] man, it is so dark.
So dark.
[phil] okay, so we should be coming up to where
lee had his encounter.
[josh] step one is to retrace our eyewitness's recent sighting.
[phil] okay, this is the spot. Here we go.
Okay, so his story is
that he couldn't quite tell the shape of it, right?
-And of course he could see the eyes? -[jessica] yes.
And he said the creature was how far away?
-A hundred and fifty feet. -Yeah.
What can you even see at 150 feet?
[josh] totally. Does the story even add up?
Let's find out. Let's recreate it and see what we can see.
A simple visibility test should give us an idea
of how much detail an eyewitness can really make out
when spotting an animal in the darkness off the road.
So what, we need to have somebody go out there?
-Yes. Phil? -Phil?
-I'll be the werewolf. Right. -[josh] get out of the car.
Good luck out there. Take a walkie and I'll call you.
You got it.
Going to 150 feet.
All right, I'm in position.
Okay, great. We will back out onto the road
and see if we see you.
Try to look very werewolfy.
[phil] I'll do my best.
[josh] okay, phil, headed your way.
We are at about 150 feet.
[phil] gonna take off.
-Oh, yes! -[jessica] you can see him moving!
You can see him moving.
You can't tell exactly what it is,
like, I'm not even sure I could tell that was a person.
-No. -But you see a shape.
You see a shape and that's about all you get.
[josh] okay, that was super interesting.
So from 150 feet, we can see you.
Could you see, like, all my features?
-No. -No, no details.
Just kind of the fact that there was a shape there and then it started moving.
[josh] based on what we just witnessed,
it's very possible that a number of reports in the area
could be misidentifications.
But at the same time, there's no good explanation
for glowing red eyes, seven feet off the ground,
the strange tracks our witness found.
Oh, and that eviscerated deer doesn't exactly give me the warm and fuzzies.
Tell you what, 50 yards out, it is dense forest.
So it makes sense that there would be an animal here,
it would run there into the woods.
So why don't we do this?
You guys have a bunch of trap cams, right?
-Yeah. -Let's go into this part of the woods
and see if we can find a good place to set up some trail cameras.
Maybe whatever lee saw is still cruising around back there.
So while you guys are doing that,
I'd like to keep driving up and down bray road.
I mean, maybe we'll get lucky, something crosses the road.
But if anything else, I could get at least hopefully an idea
of what animals are around here.
Totally. We'll stay in touch by walkie.
But we'll meet back here near this intersection
and see what we get.
-Okay, perfect. Yeah. -Okay, let's do it.
-Jess, the wheel is yours. Let's go. -Thank you, sir.
Okay, let's do it. You ready?
Yeah, got walkie, flashlight, cam traps. We're good.
-We're good, okay. -Be careful out there, you guys.
All right.
Okay, let's go.
Okay.
Into the woods.
-Boy, it's dense, isn't it? -It is really dense.
So we got to try to find a game trail or some way into this
because it just looks like thorn city right now.
[phil] yeah, it really does.
-Got a little trail. -You got a way in there, phil?
[phil] yeah, just right here.
[phil] game trails are not only a good way to get through the thick brush,
but also a good way to track down larger predators.
These beaten-down paths are most likely the places
where large animals hunt for smaller prey.
This is definitely used by deer and who knows what?
Wow, this is corn here.
You come here during the day and it's, like,
"oh, this is so cute. Beautiful farms, beautiful country."
you come here at night and it's, like,
"oh, something's out to kill me."
driving down this road,
I can't stop thinking about several reports in this area,
claiming that the beast targeted people in their vehicles.
One eyewitness reported that it lunged at his car
with outstretched claws,
and that it chased him for a quarter mile.
So with those guys out there on foot,
if it does come after them, there's no outrunning it.
Okay, we're in the corn.
[josh] the game trail we've been following leads out of the forest
and opens up into another cornfield.
-[phil] a lot of corn and a lot of woods out here. -Yeah.
-Looks like a little opening right there. -Yeah.
Oops, stop. Freeze, freeze, freeze!
Look, look! We've got a track.
[phil] whoa, check it out! Tons of animal tracks.
Let's all walk real easy around here.
-Check the mud. I think we'll find a lot of prints. -Me too.
[josh] lots of little stuff.
[phil] a lot of little stuff.
A lot of deer, racoon.
-Phil? -Yeah?
Get over here.
-What do you see? -Holy [bleep]. Look at this.
Oh, that's huge!
-Oh, look at this. -Another one right here?
-Another one? Okay. -Another one.
Be really, really careful where you're standing.
We got fresh prints here.
Holy [bleep]. Look at this.
Oh, look at this.
Okay, be really, really careful where you're standing.
We got fresh prints here.
[phil] try and avoid the mud. Let's stay on the corn.
-Big, big toe prints, right? -Yeah.
One, two, three, four. Maybe five.
Five?
On this - one, two, three, four, five.
No question, five toes.
Is there a pad back there? No.
It kind of looks like they have the middle pad and the back pad on both.
[josh] kind of like the print lee showed us.
[phil] fairly fresh, though. Ground's still wet and soft.
This is incredible.
[phil] at first glance, this print appears to be very similar
to the one lee captured in his field.
They both have five toes, look canine,
but too big to be a domestic dog.
From the size and shape, I'd have to say wolf,
but wolves only have four toes.
So it's hard to say what we're dealing with here.
Let's get the scale bar in there.
Look here. So from the bottom of the pad,
to the tip of the claw.
That's almost six inches on that.
That's unbelievable.
And across, we're five-and-a-half inches.
[phil] the paw size of the average dog
measures around two inches by three-and-a-half inches long.
This print is over twice that size.
-It's huge. -Huge.
[josh] as we document this print...
Okay, got it.
...Jess continues to patrol bray road...
Got a nice werewolf moon tonight.
...Looking for anything that might explain
what so many eyewitnesses have seen out here,
on nights just like this.
[jessica] everything's just silhouettes.
Weird lights in the distance.
Empty expanses where...
You know, the corn's been harvested
and there are pockets of woods, really thick woods
where all sorts of animals are hiding out in.
I mean, werewolves are supposed to be people that transform into monsters.
I mean, could it be one of these farmers?
I mean, it's spooky out here.
Nothing there.
Oh.
What's that? Something's glowing.
Right there, do you see?
[whispers] what is that?
What is it?
Is that a kitten?
That was a cat.
The tiny beast of bray road.
Which is kind of adorable.
[phil] right, josh, I got something good tonight.
-What do you got? -So it's a little bit of tech.
I think it's gonna help us really document this thing.
I'm intrigued.
-So... -Whoa, ipad pro!
-Oh, yeah. -Phil, turns out I'm paying you too much.
What have you got?
So this thing literally has a lidar laser scanner built into it.
Which means we can take a 3d scan of this print
and we will be able to look at it from different angles,
we can take it to experts.
It's basically a way of preserving this evidence
in a digital way forever.
Hell, yeah, this is awesome. All right, let's see it work.
All right, lasers, do your thing.
So I'm gonna get real low so we get all that.
[josh] that is so cool.
Lidar, which stands for light detection and ranging,
is a remote sensing method,
that takes millions of individual laser scans per minute
and pieces them together to create a comprehensive 3d image.
-I think we got it. -Okay, let's check it out.
First up, let's see what we got.
-Oh, yeah. -Insane. Insane.
-Look at that. -That is so crazy.
Look at the detail there. That's incredible.
[phil] it's more clear than we could see with our naked eye.
And you can see the pad really, really well now.
Really well, and we can see one, two, three, four--
-maybe five. -Maybe five.
-It could be a black bear. -Bears do have five toes.
If we take the size and the width of this,
this to me says more wolf than it does dog or coyote.
Dog is usually pretty narrow,
this thing is really wide and way too big to be a coyote.
But with that is an extra toe and pad.
I can't be sure what really left this track.
[josh] this is a big animal.
Yeah, absolutely.
-All right, so we've got a potential culprit. -We've got suspect number one.
-And we've got a great scan. -Yeah.
[josh] it looks like the tracks head toward those woods.
So let's get in here and see what we find.
Before we go any further, we place a motion-activated trail camera
on a tree facing this clearing.
If whatever made this track comes back through here...
Okay, trap cam is set.
...We'll be able to capture a photo of it.
[phil] no joking here.
It is really thick right here.
-Can you get through? -Looks like it opens up up ahead.
[josh] yeah?
[phil] okay, this is easier.
It looks way creepier in here.
More dead branches hanging down everywhere.
Look at that.
[josh] hold on. Hold on, stop. Sh! Sh!
-Did you hear something? -No, my spidey sense just went off.
All the hairs on my neck just stood up, I don't know why.
Whoa.
I can't see anything.
[leaves rustling]
I think this is a good spot to set up some cameras.
-For sure. Let's get a couple up in here. All right. -Yeah.
[josh] we're going to set a few more trail cameras at either end of the clearing.
If the so-called beast of bray road comes through here looking for a meal...
-I'm gonna go down the other end here, phil. -Copy.
...We'll have another opportunity to get a photo of it.
All right.
Ready to roll.
-So let's just keep on keeping on. -Okay, okay.
[rustling in undergrowth]
-what was that? -I don't know.
[warbling]
[whispering] definitely sounds like an animal.
Definitely sounds like an animal.
It's somewhere over there.
[whispers] go around this way.
[whispers] I don't hear anything.
-Nothing. -I mean, whatever that was,
it either took off or it's not moving.
Yeah, I say we head in that direction of the sound.
Maybe we get lucky... Or unlucky.
[exhales]
all right, so we're coming up on some more woods here.
I just want to...
Check this out.
I'll slow down right here.
Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
Did you see that? Look at that.
Right, come over here. Come over here.
-Where is it? -Right over here. Right over here.
Follow my finger.
What is that?
What the [bleep] is that?
[bleep] what is that?
Shh! Stop, don't move. It's coming right at me.
Oh! [bleep] it's moving.
Where did it go?
I don't see it anymore.
The eyes definitely had an orange tint to them.
Our night vision cameras utilize image intensifier tubes
which convert all colors to green-scale images.
Let's call josh and phil.
While these eyes glow white when seen on infrared,
the eyes I saw were definitely glowing orange.
[jessica] josh, you got me?
-What's up, jess? -Holy [bleep]!
I just saw something weird in the wood.
What did she see?
-What do you mean? -Huge eyes, glowing,
looking right at me, bright orange color.
And then, pouf! It took off right after it started staring at me.
-You have it on camera? -Yeah, we've got it on camera.
We're not... We're not far from bray road. Where are you?
I'm about a quarter mile from where we split up.
We are not far from there. We just heard something big in the woods.
-Let's meet each other on the road. -I'm on my way.
Where is she? See her?
Is that them?
-It's got to be them. -We see you! We're coming to you!
[jessica] all right, here they are. I see them.
Hey! You okay?
Yeah, I'm okay. Oh, my god, I'm freaking out, though.
-What's happened? -I saw red eyes over there in the woods. Huge.
-So where are we talking about? -Right-hand side.
Looked in, saw the eyeshine.
Totally orange. Ran into the car and called you guys.
[josh] can we see it?
-It was right there in the woods. -Is that it?
-Yep. -What? Look at that!
-[josh] those are eyes? -[jessica] those are eyes.
[phil] I mean, that is, like, nightmare fuel. What is that?
-[jess] yeah. -[josh] just glowing out there.
[phil] that is a monster.
-You sure that's an animal? -Positive.
-[all gasp] -right there. Right there.
-[phil] get out of here! Wow! -[jessica] yeah.
[josh] oop, and it's gone.
Whatever that is is still in there.
-I say we go down there and get in the woods. -All right, let's go.
-Let's kill the lights, come on. -All right.
-Right here? Okay. -Yeah, right up in here.
So, step one, prints.
Any sign of whatever this was, look around
it turned and it went off this way, right?
[jessica] it turned and took off this way.
Let's see where it went.
[phil] this makes me nervous, you guys.
This is the perfect place for a predator to lie in wait before it pounces.
[josh] stay frosty 'cause it could be anywhere.
[jessica] why do I get the feeling we're being watched?
While we continue to investigate the true identity
of an alleged werewolf in southern wisconsin,
a similar mystery has recently been solved.
In 2018, a strange wolf-like creature
was shot outside of denton, montana,
and it set the internet ablaze.
Some said it was a mythical monster, a real-life werewolf.
After all, the animal had large, wolf-like features, a wolf-like head,
but its ears were too big
and its teeth, legs and body seemed too short to be a wolf.
Representatives from montana fish, wildlife and parks
went on record to say, "we have no idea what this is
until we get a dna report back."
so dna of the animal was compared to thousands of samples from other canids.
And the result?
Well, it was a gray wolf.
So, okay, why the strange appearance?
Well, even animals within the same species can present differently.
Or inherit genetic traits or even mutations
that can make them look, well, weird.
So case closed on the montana werewolf.
But as for the one in southern wisconsin,
well, the jury is definitely still out.
[josh whispers] stay frosty, 'cause it could be anywhere.
[jessica] why do I get the feeling we're being watched?
[josh] we've been hunting the beast of bray road all night
and jess managed to get eyes on something lurking in the shadows.
What the [bleep] is that?
Or should I say, it had eyes on her
before it took off in this direction?
[phil exhales heavily] seen anything?
I don't see any--
[jessica] I'm looking for tufts of hair and stuff
but I'm not seeing anything either.
-Looks like it opens up a little bit in here. -Yeah.
Okay, let's go in here, we'll fan out a little bit.
Just stay within eyesight of each other.
-It definitely opens up. -Yeah.
-Careful, prickly bush. -Yeah.
[phil] all right, I'm gonna take out the thermal.
[josh] for sure. Let's see what we can see.
[phil] the vegetation in these woods is extremely thick
and even with flashlights, we can't see far into them.
Using the thermal cameras will allow us to see
not only if the animal jess spotted is still here,
but also if it's crouched in a bush waiting to ambush us.
[josh] if it's a mammal, if it's warm-blooded,
we're gonna see it in these woods for sure.
Oh, yeah. That thing is gonna glow.
-Okay, let's keep following the direction it went. -All right.
Phil, are you seeing anything on there?
[phil] not picking up anything yet.
[jessica] am I nuts? Is there something back there?
Right down here. Do you see that?
-[josh] phil, get over here. Come here. -[jessica] do you see that?
[josh whispers] back here.
[jessica] right over there. You got anything?
[phil] got a hot spot. Go, straight ahead.
-[josh] can you see it? -[jessica] it was right here.
Look at this. Right... Right here.
-Glowing. -Look at this on the thermal.
[jessica] that's right. I knew I saw something.
[josh] these leaves are all moved. Look at this, it's all disturbed there.
Something was [bleep] right there!
[phil] a warm body will transfer heat to whatever it touches.
As soon as the body moves off the surface,
the heat will quickly start to dissipate.
The fact that this log is lighting up like a christmas tree
means that a warm-blooded animal was just here.
I'm gonna do a quick scan around, see if I pick up anything.
Wait a whole bunch, it must be right here.
[whispers] whatever that is, it's got to be...
Okay, okay.
Okay, real slow. Real slow. Let's go.
Very, very cautiously. Let's walk over there 'cause that could be anything.
[josh] we've been tracking an unknown and potentially dangerous animal
through terrain it's far more familiar with than we are.
Large predators can be territorial,
and if we come face to face with one,
who knows how it's going to react?
Yes, got something. Right here.
Stop moving.
Right back there. It's hiding behind those branches.
[jessica] yeah, I see it.
[phil] what the hell is over there?
[bleep] it's moving!
I lost it.
[jessica] where is it? [bleep]
[josh] next time on expedition x...
It sounded like a [bleep].
...The shocking conclusion of our hunt for the beast of bray road.
Phil, you see it?
We talk to new terrified eyewitnesses...
It looked right at me and I couldn't move.
...And hunt for the creature's home...
In a remote wilderness.
[jessica gasps] what the [bleep]
look at this blood on here.
That looks like a pretty fresh kill.
Can we chase down the legendary monster of the midwest...
[bleep]
I got a heat signature. It's big.
Yeah, I see it. I see something moving in the brush.
[jessica over radio] get over here now!
...And finally unmask the american werewolf?
[grunting and groaning]
[jessica] phil, where are you?
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