[josh] tonight, a creature is reported
to be terrorizing a small midwest town.
It sounded like it just ripped the [bleep] tree down.
The shocking conclusion
of our hunt for the beast of bray road.
Phil, do you see it?
We talk to new terrified witnesses...
It looked right at me and I couldn't move.
[growling]
...And hunt for the animal's lair...
[howling]
...In remote wilderness.
[jessica gasps] what the [bleep]? What-- what--
[phil whispering] look at this blood on here.
That looks like a pretty fresh kill.
[josh] can we chase down
the legendary monster of the midwest?
-[phil] holy... [bleep] -[david] let's get out.
Oh, [bleep]!
I got a heat signature. It's big.
[jessica] yeah, I see it. I see something moving.
It's moving in the brush.
Phil, get over here now.
[josh] and finally, unmask the american werewolf.
Oh, god, it's so close.
What the [bleep] is that?
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.
[phil speaking]
[josh] 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...
[phil] what is that?
...To the world's most extraordinary mysteries.
This is expedition x.
The beast of bray road
is one of the most fascinating cryptids in the country.
It has been spotted
in and around elkhorn, wisconsin, for over 30 years.
Eyewitnesses describe seeing
a huge terrifying beast
with razor sharp fangs, red glowing eyes
and wolf-like features,
capable of moving at incredible speed
on its hind legs.
Were you thinking, "I just saw the beast of bray road?"
absolutely. Yes.
[josh] so far in our investigation,
we've spoken to local eyewitness, lee hampel,
a retired math teacher who just found
evidence of a fresh kill.
-Oh, look at that. Wow. -Right there.
[jessica] that whole chunk's missing.
[josh] with a full moon looming overhead,
we discover large and mysterious tracks.
Look at that. That's incredible.
We've got a potential culprit.
We got suspect number one.
[josh] while patrolling the road,
jess spots something lurking in the shadows.
[jessica] oh, my god. Oh, my god.
Did you see that? Look at that.
[josh] now it's well past midnight.
Phil, jess and I are tracking the creature
about a half mile into the woods off of bray road.
Something was [bleep] right there.
[josh] and our thermal camera
just got a hit.
[phil] right back there.
[whispering] he's hiding behind those branches.
[jessica whispering] yeah. I see it.
[phil] it's big.
[jessica] yeah, and it looks upright.
It's just [bleep] moved. It's moving! It's moving.
I lost it!
[jessica] where is it? [bleep]
let's try and get closer.
We're either gonna get face-to-face with it,
or it's gonna bolt out of that road.
[phil] okay. I mean, it's gotta be right in there,
right on the other side of these two big ones.
Yeah. Push in there, really careful.
[all clamoring]
[josh] stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
What the [bleep] is that?
Don't move, don't move, don't move.
What the hell was that?
It sounded like it just ripped the [bleep] tree down,
it's got to be right there.
Not seeing it anymore.
I got nothing.
That might have been it just taking off.
[jessica] I think it took off.
[phil] let's go forward. Come on, let's go.
[josh] phil, you see it?
[phil] not seeing it.
[jessica exhales]
[sighs]
[phil] back on bray road.
[josh] back on the road.
[phil] gone.
[jessica] I mean, it could have taken off anywhere.
-[josh] where the hell did it go? -[jessica sighs]
okay. I mean,
I'd keep the thermal on the edge of the tree line
and let's start walking.
The beast of bray road strikes again.
Way continue to search the road
and the surrounding area for the next few hours.
[jessica] oh, we were so close.
[josh] but whatever that mysterious animal was,
it's gone.
We checked the motion-activated trail cams
that we set up earlier along the game trail,
but unfortunately, nothing has triggered them.
As day breaks,
we do one final patrol along bray road.
And just when we think all hope is lost,
we see it.
Wait a minute.
-Oh, my world. -Oh!
[josh] hold on a second!
Pulling over...
That's the beast of bray road.
-[phil laughs] wow. -[jessica] that's awesome.
-It's huge, it's ripped. -Oh, yeah.
-[phil] and chains. -[josh] and chains.
Now, I don't know if this means
that he's been captured, or if he's just into that.
It looks a little bit like he's just wearing that.
[jessica] yeah, no. That's a fashion choice.
[josh] that's his look.
-[phil] it's a vibe. -[josh] it is a vibe, yeah.
I love that somebody on bray road carved this
-and put it in their lawn. -[jessica] yeah. That's super cool.
[josh] look, we got some killer evidence.
I mean, I think at the very least
we can say definitively
something large is lurking around bray road.
No question.
The size of the footprint we saw was giant.
And the hit we got on the thermal,
that had to be something big.
[jessica] yeah. And I don't know what was looking at me,
but that thing was huge and terrifying.
Okay, so let's talk next steps.
I'd like to take the scans,
the photos we have of the prints we found,
I'd like to take the thermal footage.
I want to get all that back to hq
and start to get it analyzed.
The size of that print,
we're talking something bigger than a dog,
probably bigger than a coyote.
Could even be a wolf.
I really want to dig into that.
Could this thing just be a big wolf?
Just, the other thing I think we haven't
explored enough is the genesis of this whole thing.
What do we really know about those first sightings?
-Yeah. -And, of course, any other recent eye witnesses.
So you're saying, jess should probably follow up with the people here and
I should probably try to have a conversation with the wolf?
Well, we should stick to our strengths.
[jessica chuckles]
[josh] as I head back to hq to analyze our evidence,
jess is busy chasing down new eye witnesses and experts
to help gain new insight
into the creature behind the legend.
Meanwhile, phil's headed to the shalom wildlife zoo,
a large wildlife sanctuary in southern wisconsin.
If the tracks we found in the cornfield do belong to a massive wolf,
we need evidence to support that.
And that means getting up close and personal
to some of north america's most famous predators.
Hey.
Hey, phil. How's it going?
[phil] david fechter is a wildlife biologist from the university of wisconsin.
He's been studying wolves for over 15 years
and has recently been tracking wolf populations
throughout the northern states.
You know, we're here looking at the beast of bray road.
One of the theories out there is
that it could be a misidentified wolf.
-Mmm-hmm. -So I wanna check out some wolves.
Well, you came to the right place.
[phil] in addition to some big bad wolves,
this sanctuary is home to 75 species
and more than 750 animals,
including a number of apex predators,
like pumas and grizzly bears.
Now what do you know
about the beast of bray road?
Well, it's kind of a wolf-man, or a man-wolf.
It's a creature that nobody really knows for sure.
But it definitely makes its way into the wisconsin lore?
No doubt about it.
[wolves growling]
oh, my gosh!
Oh, those are beautiful.
That would be our gray wolves.
[phil] wow!
[wolves growling]
[jessica] while phil chases his tail on his wolf theory,
I've managed to score a meeting
with the news reporter linda godfrey,
the journalist who first broke the story of the beast of bray road
back in 1991.
And she's literally written the book on the subject.
She's investigated every single report
and eye witness sighting for the last three decades.
If there's one person to talk to about this...
It's her.
So what got you involved with reporting on the beast of bray road?
I was pretty new as a reporter
and I had
a meeting with the county animal control officer.
He opened up his desk drawer, pulled out a file folder
that was marked "werewolf."
now when you've got a county official...
Uh-huh.
...With a manila file folder marked "werewolves," that's news.
Oh, yeah.
I remember being completely shocked when I first read about that.
Right, exactly.
He handed me this file that had people's names, addresses...
What they, had said in the way of their remarks.
And they, were describing something that looked like a wolf
or a german shepherd
running on its hind legs only.
So that rules out just about every other animal.
So what has been the earliest recorded encounter
of the beast of bray road that you've come across?
Well, I think the first really solid one happened in 1936.
Mmm-hmm.
Where, um, a night watchmen found
a strange creature digging with long claws
into some sort of burial mound.
Whoa.
So this has been going on for a long time?
Oh, yes.
[jessica] linda has uncovered hundreds of documented sightings
that stretch as far back as 85 years.
And many of these incidents occurred well beyond bray road.
Some as far as 40 miles away.
Not only does this add 55 years of incidents to this legend,
it also suggests the beast has a wider range
than we thought,
venturing well beyond bray road.
Hi, girl. How are you?
Are these full-grown?
Uh, no, they're only half-grown. They're six months old.
So they, will double in size when they, get to be adults.
But wolves can get up to 200 pounds.
Two hundred pounds?
Yeah.
So how many wolves are there in wisconsin?
Well, there's thousands of them at this time.
-Really? -Yep.
They moved in from minnesota
through to eau c.
They're at the point now where they're...
You know, they're basically expanding their territory.
So with this idea of the beast of bray road,
I can't help but wonder is if people are seeing
a really big wolf in southern wisconsin.
In the southern part of wisconsin,
what do we have? A lot of farmland.
Cornfields, hayfields.
That is the favorite food of all the white-tailed deer.
There's a huge population of white-tailed deer down here.
So who eats white-tailed deer?
These guys.
Oh, yeah.
So, for somebody that's telling me I saw a wolf down here, I'd say,
"ah, I believe you."
so there's an experiment I want to do.
We saw paw prints on bray road.
And they, were big and they certainly looked like they could be canines.
So one thing I would love to do, get a really clean paw print
that then we can photograph, document,
compare to what we saw on bray road.
So...
Can I go in there?
Ooh.
[laughing]
you can tell me no.
[david] we'll give it a try.
But they're gonna look... Go for your private area.
Okay.
And they, got 2,000 pounds of biting pressure.
Well, I didn't bring a cup in my backpack today.
So...
I hate to see you leave with a higher-toned voice.
Yeah.
I didn't bring a cup.
But I did bring a specialized footprint mold kit
that will allow us to compare a verified wolf print
to the lidar scan of the print we made in the field.
But getting this print isn't going to be easy.
And maybe not even safe.
All right.
[phil] here we go.
Hi. Hi, guys.
Oh, hey, buddy. Hey, buddy.
Hey, guys.
[david] you wanna try to set that down?
[phil] actually, maybe
if you can set it down, it might be easier for me.
[david] all right, come on.
[wolves growling]
[wolves whimpering]
oh, yes, come on.
Close.
Hey. Uh...
Oh, [bleep].
[wolves growling]
oh, [bleep].
[phil grunting]
[david] just watch your face or they will take your nose or your ears.
Okay.
[wolves growling]
I think it's time to exit.
Time to get out of here?
Yeah.
If you say it's time to get out, let's get out.
All right, let's move, let's move.
We'll have to wait for them to settle down
before we can try again to get a clean print.
Hopefully, jess is having more luck.
After investigating all of these reports, what do you think it is?
It could be something that is injured
and cannot walk in a regular way.
It could be some type of...
Uh, an adapted
wolf species, to walk and run on its hind legs.
But there are other people who think that it's a spirit.
So you think there's a possibility that it is something natural
-but... -Mmm-hmm.
...You know, not to shut the door on paranormal.
That's a great way to put it.
If linda thinks the beast
could be some kind of adapted wolf species,
we also have to consider hybrid wolves. Wolves bred with dogs
by people who often sell them as pets.
But wolf dogs rarely loose wild wolf behavior,
which makes them unpredictable and often difficult to handle.
Wolf dog attacks have been reported for decades.
For example, back in 2020,
a 2-year-old lost her arm to one.
With illegal hybrid breeding an issue in many states,
I wonder if the strange five-toed tracks we found
could be the result of some kind of mutation.
[linda] this is really the drawing that I made
that most people agreed looked exactly like what they saw.
When have you ever seen a dog
hold its prey by its palms upright?
Never.
Linda has one more enticing piece of information.
She tells me about a brand-new eyewitness
who contacted her only days ago
after having what linda believes
was an encounter with the beast.
She also agrees to share her investigation files
including a detailed map of hundreds of
credible sightings of the creature.
Okay, let's try this one more time, one more time. Ready?
[david] oh, not a nose print.
[phil] a paw print, that's it. That's it. That's it.
We got her.
-Now let's get out of here. -Get you out.
[phil] I don't wanna press our luck.
That is a beauty!
Now the one that we saw on bray road was 5 inches
both wide and long.
Know what, let me measure this right now.
Let's see what we've got here.
This is coming in at... About three and three quarters wide.
And about... 5 inches long.
These aren't full-grown.
So how much bigger do you think the track will get?
I would say it would go at least 30% bigger on an adult wolf.
So if that's the case, then
with that track that I saw out there,
at that size, how big of a wolf are we talking about?
I would say probably 120 pound animal.
It would definitely be a-- an adult, several years old.
Okay.
Well, thank you. That was an amazing experience
to get up close with these wolves
and to leave with all my body parts intact.
Thankfully, I was able to get
a perfect print from the wolf.
I'll send photos back to josh
as a point of comparison for the lidar scan
of the print we found near bray road.
When I reconnect with jess,
seems she hit the jackpot by acquiring linda's
personal files.
How many stories are we talking about?
I mean, we're talking hundreds.
This runs deep.
[phil] and we've arranged a meeting with
the eyewitness that linda believes
is one of the most credible in the area.
-Hi! -Hi.
[phil] hi, sophia.
[jessica] sophia bierman,
a bookkeeper and minnesota native,
moved to wisconsin in 2010.
And not long after, she began having
a series of strange encounters on her property.
[phil] so, tell us about your first encounter.
It was in... July.
-Okay. -And it was 1:30 in the morning
and it was dark out, and I let my dog out.
And I came out that door,
and I was standing here.
All of the sudden, I see this thing.
It moving along the lot line over there.
I couldn't believe what I saw.
It has fur and the hair was long.
And this thing was muscular up here in the chest.
And its arms were down to its knees.
And the knees were bent like a canine.
Based upon the physical description
that you think you saw that night--
not think. Listen. I know what I saw,
and as long as I live, I will never forget it.
And it was walking upright the whole time?
The whole time.
Obviously, a bear or something could stand up
for a little bit of time, but not--
not that entire lane. And, also, why would it?
Walked straight up. It never went down on four feet.
My dog was petrified, too.
If I hadn't have seen it with my own two eyes,
I would have never believed something like this either,
but I did.
I did.
[jessica] sophia is absolutely convinced of what she saw.
And it wasn't an isolated incident.
It happened again, just recently.
I found a footprint over here.
My bearded irises, something stepped right in it,
and it was huge.
I mean, you've got a window here,
were you able to see anything?
Well, that's my daughter's bedroom window,
and she would come running up to me and say,
"mommy, there's a monster in the bushes."
then I'd come and find this.
Out here.
That's when I went and got my phone and took a picture of it immediately.
-Can we see it? -You sure can.
Awesome, thank you.
Whoa! That's crazy.
[josh] phil and jess are talking to an eye witness
who had a close encounter
of the wolfman kind.
[sophia] it was huge.
[phil] that's crazy!
That is really big.
Like you can see, it starts there.
-Heel and toes. -[jessica] mmm-hmm.
[phil] from the photo, you can make out a heel pad and toes.
But because of the dark soil and the angle of the photo,
it's difficult to make out any more details.
But the overall size
does appear similar to the print we found near bray road.
I know what I saw and I know what people are going to think
but I know this thing is real,
and it's out there.
[jessica] sophia's sightings at her residence
are consistent with reports of the creature near bray road,
which means
the beast has a wider range than we originally thought.
At this point, we check in with josh
to see what's he learnt from all the evidence
that we've gathered
and to find out what came back after lab analysis.
Hey! Mulder, scully.
How's it going? You staying warm out there?
No! It's freezing!
You're looking nice and warm, though, back in your office.
Oh, yeah, we've got the heat turned up,
a little fire going, there's zero werewolves here.
It's-- it's perfect.
Lovely.
I don't mean to rub it in. Listen I'm not
slacking over here. I've been hard at work.
Analyzing the evidence that we collected together.
Okay, what you got?
Let's start with the print that we found in the field
that we did the lidar scan of.
I had a colleague analyze the lidar data,
we were able to enhance the print.
And, structurally,
it does not appear to be a bear print.
We got a 95% chance that this is canine.
That's the good news, but... The weird news is
the enhanced view of it also shows what looks pretty
clearly like a fifth toe.
Hang on. So,
if we're talking about the potential of this being a wolf,
under normal circumstances,
we would not see a fifth toe pad there.
Maybe there are some dog breeds that can present it,
but even so, it rarely shows in the actual print.
Exactly, so the question is, could it be some sort of a...
Of a hybrid.
Could it be a one-off? Could it just be a...
Genetic mutation. The answer is...
We don't know what it is.
-Hmm. -Huh!
Were you able to glean anything from the video we got off the side of the road?
We sent it to a video-processing lab here.
They did every forensic test they could under the sun on that footage.
The sad truth is there is not enough metadata
to really brighten enough to actually
see the silhouette of whatever the animal is.
Jess, I told you to get more metadata.
So, we know it's an animal,
we know it's something nocturnal.
It seems like it's something on the ground.
But as to what it is, we have no idea.
Okay, so, like, where does that leave us?
So, I started to get really interested by the files
that you sent me from linda,
and I think I'm on to something there, which is that, you know,
a lot of the sightings that she logged
aren't actually from bray road.
We know there's a high concentration
of deer and prey animals
out in that area that are feeding off those corn fields.
So it may be that whatever animal is there, whatever people are seeing
is just using bray road as a hunting ground,
and it actually lives somewhere else.
Which makes sense. If we know anything about large predators,
it's that they will go a long distance away from their den
to get to a high density of easy prey,
and bray road's got it.
Right. So I cross-referenced satellite data from that area
with all of linda's reports, and it turns out that there is
a really, really interesting old-growth forest less than 10 miles from bray road.
And it's only about 15 miles from sophia's house, your other eye witness.
And this is a totally wild place, like, untouched by human.
And it is right in the middle of all these sightings.
It sounds like a perfect place for the den of a large predator.
Bingo. So I would get out there
and start investigating that area.
Awesome. Well, you certainly didn't disappoint.
I got your back, jess.
Oh, one more thing.
There aren't any roads that lead into this
overgrown forest,
so I've arranged for something to speed up
your investigation.
You're gonna love it. Just buckle up.
Huh. All right.
[jessica shrieking]
this is awesome.
How cool is this?
[jessica] oh, my god.
[phil] animal dens are often located close to a water source and this forest
lies on the edge of this massive fresh water lake.
And wolves are known to return
to their den every few days depending on the season.
So that means we might encounter this mysterious predator tonight.
[phil] josh hooked us up with a high-speed hovercraft
designed to travel on a cushion of air
over land and water
that will help us gain access to
the shore from extremely shallow water.
Okay, so look at this.
This is old-growth forest.
Wolves can travel 30, 40 miles in a single day.
So conceivably, anything that living here could end up in sophia's backyard.
-And bray road. -[jessica] yeah.
No, we're well within that range.
I'm trying to pull us in right here.
[jessica] thank you.
You good? All right, which way?
-Let's head into the woods. -All right.
[phil] we'll be on the hunt for any signs of a den,
which could be a cave, an overhang, or dug into the ground.
This is some dense forest.
[jessica] mmm-hmm.
[phil] and it's huge. So I say we split up
and try to cover more ground.
One thing I think we need to remember,
wolves generally travel in packs.
There could be more than one.
Wolf monster?
Just be alert, jess.
[phil] for me, the most reasonable explanation for the beast of bray road
is a wolf.
So, I'm looking for scat,
fur, tracks, or anything else
that could confirm that wolves are living and hunting in these woods.
I wanna take out the thermal and see if I pick up anything.
[whispering] yeah, I'm not seeing anything right here.
I say we try to move up there a little bit more.
I kinda don't wanna find it,
because I'm a little scared.
But what are my options?
Uh, record it and run.
Try not to get eaten.
[phil shushing]
something big is breaking branches right down there.
You hear that? You hear that?
Come on.
I just got a hit.
Look, look, look, look, look.
Right there, right there.
It's a mouse.
But I'm hearing bigger footsteps than just a mouse over there.
Maybe it's reacting to something over there.
[branch snaps loudly]
[phil] big branch just broke down there.
Whatever that was, it had to be huge.
But it sounds like
it came from down where jess is at.
I hear-- [shushes]
I hear something walking.
Phil, you copy?
Hey, jess.
Oh, my god.
I hear something really close to me.
Oh, my god. It's right there.
It's like super close.
Oh, god, it's so close.
Okay, uh, I'm a little scared.
I'm gonna walk in the direction of the sound.
Hey, jess.
Stay as quiet as you can. Go as slow as you can.
Give me time to catch up.
Okay.
Holy [bleep]!
I hear it. I hear it.
Something is close.
Oh, yeah, I see it. I see something moving.
Holy [bleep]!
There's something moving.
It's moving in the brush.
Phil, get over here now.
[phil] we gotta go.
[jessica on radio] phil, get over here, now!
[phil] whoa!
[groaning]
[jessica yelling] phil, where are you?
[phil gasps] holy [bleep]!
I hear it, I hear it.
Something is close.
Oh, yeah, I see it. I see something moving.
Holy [bleep].
I see something moving.
It's moving in the brush.
-[comm beeps] -phil, get over here now.
[phil] we gotta go.
[jessica over radio] phil, get over here now!
[bleep]
[groans]
phil, are you there?
[panting] all right.
Jess, heading your way.
What happened?
I heard footsteps and branches breaking
right over here in this area.
There's all those dead trees.
But as I walked over, I heard it take off.
Could you make out what it was at all?
No.
Okay.
Well, it could have been a deer.
It could have been an elk.
Either way, it scared me.
Like, I'm a little nervous being out here.
Yeah.
Well, we gotta get a closer look.
So now that we're together,
I think we should head that way.
Slowly.
As quietly as we can.
[jessica] all right. Come on.
[eerie music playing]
yeah, you seeing or hearing anything?
[jessica] mmm-mmm.
[phil] you hear that?
-It can't be far. -Mmm-mmm.
[suspenseful music playing]
[jessica gasps] what the [bleep]?
-Oh, my god! -What?
[jessica gasps]
that looks like a pretty fresh kill.
-That looks like... -[jessica] a leg?
Like a scapula.
Femur.
Leg.
Oh, my god!
Look at this blood on here.
Ew! Gross.
[phil] that is...
[jessica exclaims]
oh, yeah, that's still fresh.
Oh, my god! [bleep]
-oh, my god! -What?
-Look at that. -[jessica gasps]
oh...
[phil grunts]
[jessica] oh, that makes me feel bad.
[phil] that is horrendous.
Aww, poor bambi.
[phil] at least we know this was a deer.
Oh, my god.
Ooh!
So, listen,
there's still some meat on here.
I feel like there's a pretty good chance
that whatever is eating this
may wanna come back for some of these scraps.
But...
Us being here,
that's kinda interfering
with whatever that animal wants to do.
So I think we gotta back off a little bit.
We know that there's something out here.
Yes.
Why don't we use the thermal drone,
so we can scan over the top
and see what might come back?
[phil] we bagged some of the remains to send for lab analysis,
but leave most of the carcass intact
to see if its killer will come back for seconds.
We can back off,
-fly the drone to here... -Mmm-hmm.
...Start flying around, see what we get.
-Perfect. -Okay.
Should we head back up that way?
Yeah, let's go back up this way.
[phil] on the ground, our visibility is extremely limited.
This drone, equipped with thermal imaging,
will give us a bird's-eye view
of any movement along the ridgeline
where that deer carcass is splayed out.
I'm kinda thinking,
you should go halfway between where we are right now
and the bones,
so that if I find something on the thermal drone,
you can get eyes on it.
You want me to go into the woods by myself,
where there is a wolf or some sort of beast...
-So that I could get eyes on it? -Yeah.
While you're here safely flying the drone.
Well, one of us has to go into the forest,
and the other has to fly the drone.
And I'm pretty sure I'm the only one
who knows how to fly a drone.
I could totally fly the drone, but you know what?
I'm a bad... [bleep], so I'll do it.
[suspenseful music playing]
[drone beeping]
[motor whirring]
[dramatic music playing]
phil, you copy?
Yeah, I copy.
Okay. I'm in place and I can hear the drone.
[phil over radio] okay, I got both you and evan, jess.
I'm gonna head towards the bones
and start doing a scan in that direction.
Okay. Let me know if anything's coming my way.
I'll keep my eyes peeled.
[beeps]
not getting any unusual heat signatures out there.
[grass rustling]
it is so creepy out here.
Yeah, let's put jess in the middle of the forest
at night by herself.
She can outrun a wolfman.
[ominous music playing]
[bleep]
evan, look at this.
[jessica] look. Scratches.
That's like 8 feet up on that tree.
Nothing on four legs could have done that.
[phil] after nearly an hour
of running surveillance overhead,
I haven't spotted anything.
Come on.
I'm starting to think that this thing is long gone.
Whoa.
Hang on.
That's not jess.
What is that? [bleep]
-[radio beeps] -jess, I just got something.
It's about 100 yards north-northeast of where you are.
It's big.
[jessica] okay, I'm running towards it.
[pants]
all right, jess. Can you see it?
No, I can't see anything.
[suspenseful music playing]
jess, it's right there.
The beast of bray road is consistently described
by witnesses as some type of large canine
with the ability to run on its hind legs.
Which is also the primary reason
skeptics dismiss the story.
But there are examples of other
four-legged predators,
that exhibit bipedal behavior.
For two million years, a strange animal known as
the thylacine, sometimes called the tasmanian wolf
or tasmanian tiger,
roamed tasmania and mainland australia.
It could open its jaws to nearly 120 degrees.
And while it did walk on all fours, it was a quadruped,
it could also stand up on its hind legs
and bound like a kangaroo.
The thylacine officially went extinct only 85 years ago.
But sightings of these creatures
are still being reported in the tasmanian wilderness.
[josh] on the hunt for the beast of bray road.
[phil] that's not jess.
What is that?
[josh] phil and jess pick up a large heat signature
on the thermal drone.
[jessica] okay, I'm running towards it.
[phil whispers] oh, my god.
[bleep]
[repeating] where'd it go?
I lost it.
[jessica panting]
all right, jess, can you see it?
No, I can't see anything.
Okay, keep scanning, keep scanning.
[phil] it's right there.
[jessica breathing heavily]
phil, I'm not seeing anything.
All right, I'm gonna try to find it again.
Got it, got it. Oh, I got it, got it.
Jess, just saw it again.
It's back towards where you were before.
Ahh, [bleep].
Okay, I'm headed back.
Holy...
[bleeping]
it's moving fast.
[whispering] where'd this thing go?
God, it was fast.
[jessica] okay, I'm back where I was.
Where is it now?
Lost it again.
You're not seeing it?
Dude, I'm not seeing anything.
[phil] come on.
The thermal easily
picks up this thing when it's in the open.
But the dense tree cover is
making it nearly impossible to track.
[whispers] come on.
[bleeps] damn it.
It's right here.
Right here.
Come on.
Show yourself again.
[rustling]
[animal snorts]
[whispering] did you hear that?
Okay, I lost it again, jess. You seeing it?
No, I'm not seeing anything
but I'm hearing some weird stuff.
I'm not exactly comfortable being out here by myself.
I say, sit tight for a second.
I'm gonna land the drone back here,
and I'll run out and meet you where you are.
Okay, well, make it quick, please.
[phil] at one point, that animal
actually looked like it was walking on two legs,
but when jess got close, it started running away
on four legs,
which matches our reports describing
the beast of bray road.
Unfortunately, the resolution of the thermal camera
is too low to determine if it was a wolf
or something else.
[jessica] are you seeing any tracks?
Nah, not seeing anything.
What is it?
[phil whispers] jess.
Holy [bleep]!
We got fur.
-[jessica gasps] -[phil] yes!
[jessica] no way.
[phil] look.
[jessica] check that out.
Oh, yeah!
Like... That could be
from what just ran through here.
Oh, I would think that's definitely
what ran through here.
Look, there's some more up here.
-Where? -Right here.
-Little strands, right up here. -Oh, yeah!
You see it?
[phil] that's like five feet.
That's pretty high up.
Yeah, it is.
Bag that sucker.
[whispers] oh, my gosh!
-We still have camera traps on bray road. -Mmm.
We have some bone,
and they have toothmarks in it.
Now we have this hair.
So there's still a lot of evidence
that we have to examine.
[josh] having investigated this case
in the field with my team,
and after seeing those footprints,
massive eyes,
and thermal footage
of a creature in the brush
with my own two eyes,
there's no doubt that people are witnessing
something large here.
After collecting the motion-activated trail cameras
we set up in the woods along bray road,
we found they had been triggered multiple times.
The culprit?
Deer.
While it's not a 7-foot werewolf,
it does provide evidence
that this region supports enough wild game
to sustain a large predator.
[phil whispers] look at this blood on here.
Ew, gross.
[phil] that is horrendous.
[josh] in addition,
deer carcasses found near bray road
and in the old-growth forest
as well as those claw marks
clearly suggest a predatory presence here.
Analysis on the bone fragments
collected in the forest
show signs of toothmarks
that are more consistent with that of a wolf
than a bear.
In fact, dna tests
performed on the first samples the team collected
match that of a grey wolf.
Do you see it?
[phil whispers] that's pretty high up.
Yeah, it is.
[josh] adult grey wolves,
while less than three feet tall at the shoulder,
can stretch up much higher on their hind legs
and have been clocked at speeds of nearly
40 miles an hour.
However, there is no evidence
that they have adapted to run
on their hind legs.
And this behavior has never been documented.
With additional analysis
of the footprint we found earlier,
indicating a canine,
the most logical conclusion here
is that the beast of bray road
is no werewolf,
but an actual wolf.
And since the wolf population here
isn't very large,
they would strike passing witnesses
as something unusual.
There are those who would disagree.
Those who insist they saw something towering,
something with glowing eyes,
something monstrous,
lurking on the edges of bray road,
under a full moon.
Perhaps, they're right.
But by the light of day,
the true beasts here
may simply be those
that live in our imagination.
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