1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:05,618 - ♪ 2 00:00:09,288 --> 00:00:12,691 - MALE NARRATOR: Every state has one, 3 00:00:12,792 --> 00:00:15,594 a bloodcurdling boogie man. 4 00:00:15,694 --> 00:00:19,298 - He has hooves for his feet, large wings. 5 00:00:19,398 --> 00:00:22,168 - He has hairy devilish hands. 6 00:00:22,268 --> 00:00:25,471 - This is a four-legged monstrosity. 7 00:00:26,472 --> 00:00:28,240 - NARRATOR: But which local legend brings 8 00:00:28,340 --> 00:00:30,376 the biggest fright? 9 00:00:30,476 --> 00:00:32,511 - Mothman. We're talking about a figure 10 00:00:32,611 --> 00:00:35,314 that's seven feet tall, glowing red eyes. 11 00:00:35,414 --> 00:00:37,216 - Light on it, he scared the hell out of me 12 00:00:37,316 --> 00:00:38,784 my whole life. 13 00:00:38,884 --> 00:00:43,022 - The black-eyed children, once you invite them in 14 00:00:43,122 --> 00:00:44,390 all hell breaks loose. 15 00:00:44,490 --> 00:00:46,625 - ♪ 16 00:00:46,725 --> 00:00:49,462 - NARRATOR: We're taking you from coast-to-coast 17 00:00:49,562 --> 00:00:53,065 to meet the scariest monsters in the US. 18 00:00:53,165 --> 00:00:55,935 - He's huge, um, and he's fast, 19 00:00:56,035 --> 00:00:58,170 and he's dangerous. 20 00:00:58,270 --> 00:01:00,973 - By all accounts, this creature should have 21 00:01:01,073 --> 00:01:03,576 come out of Dr. Frankenstein's lab. 22 00:01:05,411 --> 00:01:07,980 - NARRATOR: From a sinister sea creature... 23 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,149 - That's what's causing these drowning 24 00:01:10,249 --> 00:01:12,718 - NARRATOR:...to a horrifying home invader. 25 00:01:12,818 --> 00:01:15,354 - You would hear the sound of chains rattling 26 00:01:15,454 --> 00:01:18,157 to the sound of knocks on the walls. 27 00:01:18,257 --> 00:01:20,493 - NARRATOR: From a legendary swamp monster. 28 00:01:20,593 --> 00:01:22,928 - ♪ 29 00:01:23,028 --> 00:01:24,396 - MALE: There you are. 30 00:01:24,497 --> 00:01:27,299 - NARRATOR: To a cunning cannibal. 31 00:01:27,399 --> 00:01:29,401 - It needs to eat, it needs to feed. 32 00:01:30,703 --> 00:01:32,938 - NARRATOR: We've narrowed it down to 10. 33 00:01:33,038 --> 00:01:35,975 But only one can reign supreme. 34 00:01:36,075 --> 00:01:39,345 Will your state monster make the cut? 35 00:01:39,445 --> 00:01:42,281 - It's the scariest, most terrifying, 36 00:01:42,381 --> 00:01:45,718 deadliest monster I hope you never encounter. 37 00:01:46,819 --> 00:01:50,156 - NARRATOR: Join us if you dare, as we count down 38 00:01:50,256 --> 00:01:53,058 the most haunting, bloodthirsty, 39 00:01:53,159 --> 00:01:56,495 and wicked monsters America has ever seen. 40 00:01:57,129 --> 00:01:58,831 - ♪ 41 00:01:59,632 --> 00:02:11,243 - ♪ 42 00:02:18,184 --> 00:02:22,588 - ♪ 43 00:02:22,688 --> 00:02:25,624 - NARRATOR: The United States of America, 44 00:02:25,724 --> 00:02:30,763 home to amber waves of grain and purple mountains majesty. 45 00:02:30,863 --> 00:02:32,998 - ♪ 46 00:02:35,768 --> 00:02:38,337 - NARRATOR: But lurking in the shadows of this 47 00:02:38,437 --> 00:02:41,273 picturesque landscape are the beasts of our 48 00:02:41,373 --> 00:02:43,275 collective nightmares. 49 00:02:44,276 --> 00:02:46,946 - Scary narratives kind of follow us around. 50 00:02:47,046 --> 00:02:50,316 Accounts of ghosts, of monsters. 51 00:02:50,416 --> 00:02:52,017 - There's new ones coming all the time. 52 00:02:52,117 --> 00:02:55,254 Stories that we've not yet found the evidence for. 53 00:02:55,354 --> 00:02:56,922 Maybe we never will. 54 00:02:57,022 --> 00:03:00,759 - If we take these stories at their word, you know, 55 00:03:00,859 --> 00:03:03,996 we're dealing with something much more bizarre 56 00:03:04,096 --> 00:03:06,732 than we could ever imagine. 57 00:03:06,832 --> 00:03:10,002 - NARRATOR: But which mysterious being sends the biggest shivers 58 00:03:10,102 --> 00:03:12,638 down your spine? 59 00:03:12,738 --> 00:03:16,141 Our journey to find the scariest monster starts along the 60 00:03:16,242 --> 00:03:19,612 sprawling plains of the Lonestar state, 61 00:03:19,712 --> 00:03:22,982 where we find number 10 on our list, 62 00:03:23,082 --> 00:03:27,152 a four-legged vampire that's striking fear in the South. 63 00:03:27,253 --> 00:03:29,355 It's the Texas chupacabra. 64 00:03:32,591 --> 00:03:36,528 - The chupcabra's name means the goat sucker. 65 00:03:36,629 --> 00:03:39,865 - The chupacabra does have an unsettling appearance, 66 00:03:39,965 --> 00:03:44,570 almost as though it's a hybrid of an alligator and a wolf. 67 00:03:44,670 --> 00:03:48,507 - It has very sharp teeth, really sharp point ears, 68 00:03:48,607 --> 00:03:51,644 but at the same time, reptile-like feet. 69 00:03:51,744 --> 00:03:54,747 - This is a four-legged monstrosity, 70 00:03:54,847 --> 00:04:00,786 a wild animal trying to survive, out there devouring livestock, 71 00:04:00,886 --> 00:04:05,324 draining the blood from them with two bites on its neck. 72 00:04:07,293 --> 00:04:11,797 - I mean, it sucks your blood. That's typical vampire behavior. 73 00:04:11,897 --> 00:04:15,734 - ♪ 74 00:04:16,935 --> 00:04:18,904 - NARRATOR: The first recorded sightings of this 75 00:04:19,004 --> 00:04:22,941 ferocious beast were in the early 1990s when farmers began 76 00:04:23,042 --> 00:04:26,745 noticing dead livestock and a strange creature roaming 77 00:04:26,845 --> 00:04:28,747 closely nearby. 78 00:04:28,847 --> 00:04:30,749 - FEMALE: You never expect something like this 79 00:04:30,849 --> 00:04:32,618 to happen down here, but... - FEMALE: For Jeannie Torres, 80 00:04:32,718 --> 00:04:35,888 it was a frightening discovery. 16 of her chickens found dead 81 00:04:35,988 --> 00:04:38,657 inside their coop. At first she thought it might 82 00:04:38,757 --> 00:04:41,493 have been a dog that managed to get to her birds, 83 00:04:41,593 --> 00:04:44,997 but after examining them, she says she's convinced it was 84 00:04:45,097 --> 00:04:47,499 the work of the chupacabra 85 00:04:47,599 --> 00:04:50,169 You see, each chicken has a puncture wound. 86 00:04:50,269 --> 00:04:53,939 And legend has it that's the trademark of the chupacabra. 87 00:04:54,039 --> 00:05:00,579 - ♪ 88 00:05:00,679 --> 00:05:05,984 - The chupacabra is one of the more recent animals or monsters 89 00:05:06,085 --> 00:05:11,123 in the field of the supernatural only dating back a few decades. 90 00:05:11,223 --> 00:05:14,827 - The original description was something bipedal with 91 00:05:14,927 --> 00:05:19,932 a large, kinda, elongated skull, more humanoid in appearance. 92 00:05:21,834 --> 00:05:27,940 - Spikes running down its back, glowing red eyes, sharp teeth. 93 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,676 - Three to four feet tall and kinda large, 94 00:05:30,776 --> 00:05:35,180 almond-shaped eyes. So more alien-like. 95 00:05:36,348 --> 00:05:40,719 - I think most cryptids are based in our primal fears 96 00:05:40,819 --> 00:05:42,821 and then they evolve and evolve with stories. 97 00:05:45,524 --> 00:05:49,428 - A cryptid is basically an unhuman figure. 98 00:05:49,528 --> 00:05:52,631 Of course, many of these cryptids can take human form 99 00:05:52,731 --> 00:05:54,433 or can posses human in nature 100 00:05:54,533 --> 00:05:57,436 But it's basically this idea of a monster. 101 00:05:57,536 --> 00:05:59,405 And it has a narrative or a legend that attaches 102 00:05:59,505 --> 00:06:00,706 itself to it. 103 00:06:00,806 --> 00:06:04,510 - Like the Bible, a lot of these legends are told 104 00:06:04,610 --> 00:06:08,614 as motif with lessons. Valuable life lessons, 105 00:06:08,714 --> 00:06:13,719 whether ironic, humorous, or, frankly, quite frightening. 106 00:06:15,687 --> 00:06:20,159 - Supernatural creatures give us a way to put a face, 107 00:06:20,259 --> 00:06:25,130 and a body, and a name to things that go bump in the night, 108 00:06:25,230 --> 00:06:29,435 things that make us feel afraid or, uh, make us 109 00:06:29,535 --> 00:06:33,105 feel uncomfortable in ways that we can't quite put a finger on. 110 00:06:34,373 --> 00:06:36,675 - NARRATOR: But those that have experienced the chupacabra 111 00:06:36,775 --> 00:06:41,380 for themselves have come to know a different truth. 112 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,949 - You can't rule out a story because you think 113 00:06:44,049 --> 00:06:47,419 it's too weird, because when you're dealing with the weird, 114 00:06:47,519 --> 00:06:50,589 what is too weird? Where is that line? 115 00:06:51,623 --> 00:06:53,859 - The African mountain gorilla was considered 116 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:58,664 a cryptocreature mythology until about 1905 when the 117 00:06:58,764 --> 00:07:02,768 mountain gorillas were finally documented by scientists 118 00:07:02,868 --> 00:07:05,003 and everyone could see they really existed. 119 00:07:05,103 --> 00:07:07,639 They were not a myth. 120 00:07:08,674 --> 00:07:12,077 - There's always this evolving relationship 121 00:07:12,177 --> 00:07:14,880 with the world around us where we think we figured it out 122 00:07:14,980 --> 00:07:18,951 and then something happens that completely rearranges 123 00:07:19,051 --> 00:07:21,153 our understanding all over again. 124 00:07:22,254 --> 00:07:24,756 - NARRATOR: Skeptics claim the chupacabra is merely 125 00:07:24,857 --> 00:07:27,826 a mangy dog or a rabid coyote. 126 00:07:27,926 --> 00:07:31,396 But these Texas golf course workers feel differently 127 00:07:31,497 --> 00:07:35,167 after discovering what some believe to be a dead chupacabra 128 00:07:35,267 --> 00:07:37,669 along a wooded driving range. 129 00:07:37,769 --> 00:07:41,240 - I don't know. That's just weird. Weird animal. 130 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:44,409 It was like a shaved weenie dog with raccoon feet, 131 00:07:44,510 --> 00:07:46,812 a possum tail, and a possum head. 132 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,115 - If you look at the claws on it, and the feet, 133 00:07:50,215 --> 00:07:51,450 nothing like it. 134 00:07:51,550 --> 00:07:53,352 I've never seen anything like it. 135 00:07:53,452 --> 00:07:56,188 I don't know. I don't know what it is. 136 00:07:56,288 --> 00:07:59,658 - Most of the witnesses, they're avid outdoorsmen 137 00:07:59,758 --> 00:08:01,994 and women. They're hunters, 138 00:08:02,094 --> 00:08:04,730 they're trappers, they're hikers. 139 00:08:04,830 --> 00:08:08,166 They know the local wildlife. They're adamant. 140 00:08:08,267 --> 00:08:13,071 They're entirely convinced that this creature is something 141 00:08:13,171 --> 00:08:15,307 not of any known species. 142 00:08:16,575 --> 00:08:19,311 - NARRATOR: And they've got proof. 143 00:08:19,411 --> 00:08:22,414 With the chupacabra being one of the only cryptids ever 144 00:08:22,514 --> 00:08:25,684 successfully capture on camera... 145 00:08:25,784 --> 00:08:29,154 - FEMALE: What is th... oh man! 146 00:08:29,254 --> 00:08:31,256 He's lost! 147 00:08:31,356 --> 00:08:33,792 - The most infamous footage was caught on a dash cam 148 00:08:33,892 --> 00:08:37,896 of a police car where they're following behind what looks 149 00:08:37,996 --> 00:08:42,868 like to be the el chupacabra running down the side of a road. 150 00:08:42,968 --> 00:08:44,603 - FEMALE: I'm seeing it, but I don't believe it. 151 00:08:44,703 --> 00:08:47,239 It's in the daytime. 152 00:08:47,339 --> 00:08:52,044 - We have plenty of eyewitness video evidence, 153 00:08:52,144 --> 00:08:57,282 photographic evidence of these alleged monsters roaming about. 154 00:08:57,382 --> 00:09:02,120 The sightings, the encounters, the capturing of chupacabras 155 00:09:02,220 --> 00:09:05,857 seem to be rising every single year. 156 00:09:05,958 --> 00:09:09,595 Some of the alleged dead chupacabras have tested 157 00:09:09,695 --> 00:09:12,798 to be coyotes or a fox with mange. 158 00:09:12,898 --> 00:09:15,601 But others of these seem to be bigger 159 00:09:15,701 --> 00:09:18,103 than what you would consider a coyote, 160 00:09:18,203 --> 00:09:20,172 and more hideous. 161 00:09:20,272 --> 00:09:23,475 The fangs seem to be long, the claws, 162 00:09:23,575 --> 00:09:28,046 deadly long and sharp, again, placing it in a category 163 00:09:28,146 --> 00:09:31,083 of not just your typical unknown species. 164 00:09:32,985 --> 00:09:35,354 - I wouldn't be surprised if this animalistic creature 165 00:09:35,454 --> 00:09:38,390 had multitudes of itself, if there was offspring, 166 00:09:38,490 --> 00:09:41,760 if there was groups and families and maybe they hunt in packs. 167 00:09:41,860 --> 00:09:44,429 There could be a lot of chupacabras roaming around. 168 00:09:46,832 --> 00:09:48,800 - NARRATOR: The chupacabra has a long history 169 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:51,470 of going after livestock. 170 00:09:51,570 --> 00:09:55,574 Cows, sheep, chickens, 171 00:09:55,674 --> 00:09:58,810 and especially goats. 172 00:09:58,910 --> 00:10:02,080 But what many believers fear is that these bloodthirsty 173 00:10:02,180 --> 00:10:06,118 predators have been working their way up the food chain. 174 00:10:06,218 --> 00:10:08,286 - ♪ 175 00:10:08,387 --> 00:10:13,659 - In 2020, a cab driver was killed and found 176 00:10:13,759 --> 00:10:16,528 reportedly without any blood in him. 177 00:10:16,628 --> 00:10:20,766 And reports were circulating that it was a chupacabra attack. 178 00:10:20,866 --> 00:10:22,734 - That's very scary to think about. 179 00:10:22,834 --> 00:10:25,504 I would not be surprised if these chupcabras 180 00:10:25,604 --> 00:10:27,839 start feasting on human beings. 181 00:10:27,939 --> 00:10:31,843 - Because it's relatively diminutive that you might 182 00:10:31,943 --> 00:10:34,913 be thinking, I could probably out wrestle this thing. 183 00:10:35,013 --> 00:10:36,548 - ♪ 184 00:10:36,648 --> 00:10:38,050 - NARRATOR: But our next creatures prove 185 00:10:38,150 --> 00:10:40,318 that size doesn't matter when you're dealing 186 00:10:40,419 --> 00:10:43,021 with the supernatural. We're traveling to one 187 00:10:43,121 --> 00:10:47,959 of America's smallest states, where some even smaller monsters 188 00:10:48,060 --> 00:10:51,129 are bringing the biggest fright yet. 189 00:10:51,229 --> 00:10:53,165 And if that's not enough to leave you battening 190 00:10:53,265 --> 00:10:56,868 down the hatches, stick around. Because the monster 191 00:10:56,968 --> 00:11:00,572 at the top of our list is so terrifying people are 192 00:11:00,672 --> 00:11:04,176 already building up defenses against it. 193 00:11:04,276 --> 00:11:06,278 - Still has the prisoner partition, it has the 194 00:11:06,378 --> 00:11:09,381 plastic seats in the back, it has steel door panels 195 00:11:09,481 --> 00:11:12,117 and window bars, and we've also added the canine 196 00:11:12,217 --> 00:11:15,087 window bars in the back window which are super rare. 197 00:11:15,187 --> 00:11:17,589 He could break out of a regular car door if he wanted to. 198 00:11:17,689 --> 00:11:20,158 - ♪ 199 00:11:21,526 --> 00:11:23,395 - ♪ 200 00:11:23,495 --> 00:11:25,931 - NARRATOR: We're tracking down the top 10 giants, 201 00:11:26,031 --> 00:11:31,036 ghosts, and ghouls that keep Americans up at night. 202 00:11:31,136 --> 00:11:34,973 But sometimes the scariest monsters aren't the ones 203 00:11:35,073 --> 00:11:38,276 with mangled faces or razor-sharp claws. 204 00:11:38,376 --> 00:11:41,713 They're the ones that appear innocent and sweet 205 00:11:41,813 --> 00:11:44,015 until the moment they attack. 206 00:11:45,317 --> 00:11:48,019 That's the case with our next state monster, 207 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:50,388 who comes in at number nine on our list. 208 00:11:51,723 --> 00:11:57,162 Beware the haunting gaze of the Vermont black-eyed children. 209 00:11:58,296 --> 00:12:02,801 - So, black-eyed children. Ooh, that one's a creepy one. 210 00:12:02,901 --> 00:12:07,873 - In the late 1990s, people started reporting 211 00:12:07,973 --> 00:12:13,245 sightings and encounters of unusual children. 212 00:12:13,345 --> 00:12:16,348 - NARRATOR: But unlike the California dark watchers 213 00:12:16,448 --> 00:12:20,952 who attack travelers at random, these roaming terrors take 214 00:12:21,052 --> 00:12:24,322 a more calculated approach with their prey. 215 00:12:24,422 --> 00:12:26,424 - It doesn't matter where you are. 216 00:12:26,525 --> 00:12:29,227 You could be at a stop light, you could be at home, 217 00:12:29,327 --> 00:12:32,297 you could be at school. But wherever you are, 218 00:12:32,397 --> 00:12:35,767 somehow there's these kids that appear. 219 00:12:35,867 --> 00:12:37,435 - NARRATOR: The descriptions are varied, 220 00:12:37,536 --> 00:12:42,541 but some details stay the same. The kids are always pale, 221 00:12:42,641 --> 00:12:47,345 they travel in pairs, and they all have one goal. 222 00:12:47,445 --> 00:12:50,949 - They want in some way to be welcomed or let into 223 00:12:51,049 --> 00:12:52,984 whatever your location is. 224 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,824 - Now, this hearkens somewhat back to, almost, 225 00:12:58,924 --> 00:13:02,294 vampire lore or demonic lore in that they seem 226 00:13:02,394 --> 00:13:06,431 to be asking permission to come in the person's home. 227 00:13:06,531 --> 00:13:09,501 - You go open the door, Dracula would stand there 228 00:13:09,601 --> 00:13:11,303 until you say come in. 229 00:13:11,403 --> 00:13:13,371 - ♪ 230 00:13:13,471 --> 00:13:19,044 - The black-eyed children possess that same quality. 231 00:13:19,144 --> 00:13:23,515 You have to invite them in. And then once you invite 232 00:13:23,615 --> 00:13:25,383 them in, all hell breaks loose. 233 00:13:26,618 --> 00:13:28,620 - NARRATOR: Imagine your quiet night at home 234 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:32,691 is interrupted by a series of knocks at the front door. 235 00:13:32,791 --> 00:13:34,459 The knocks come in threes... 236 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:35,927 - ♪ 237 00:13:36,027 --> 00:13:37,829 - NARRATOR:...a mocking of the Holy trinity. 238 00:13:37,929 --> 00:13:42,100 And they don't let up until someone answers. 239 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,437 - They ask the people to let them in. 240 00:13:45,537 --> 00:13:47,138 Please, let me in. 241 00:13:47,239 --> 00:13:49,140 - And they get more and more aggressive, apparently, 242 00:13:49,241 --> 00:13:51,176 the more that you say no to them. 243 00:13:52,811 --> 00:13:55,447 - NARRATOR: That's exactly what happened to an elderly woman 244 00:13:55,547 --> 00:13:59,684 in rural Vermont on a snowy night in the early 1990s. 245 00:14:01,119 --> 00:14:05,156 - They approached her and said, can we use the bathroom? 246 00:14:05,257 --> 00:14:07,726 - Now, of course if you see a couple of children 247 00:14:07,826 --> 00:14:09,928 and they're like, we need help, of course the first thing 248 00:14:10,028 --> 00:14:11,563 that you're gonna think of is, come into my home. 249 00:14:11,663 --> 00:14:14,032 Let me help you in any way that I possibly can. 250 00:14:14,132 --> 00:14:15,667 - NARRATOR: But even before the woman welcomes 251 00:14:15,767 --> 00:14:21,306 the children inside, she can see that something is not right. 252 00:14:22,407 --> 00:14:24,676 - And at that point, she noticed that their eyes 253 00:14:24,776 --> 00:14:27,178 were pitch black. 254 00:14:27,279 --> 00:14:29,681 - NARRATOR: When confronted by the gaze of a grown-up, 255 00:14:29,781 --> 00:14:32,083 these tiny visitors will look away. 256 00:14:32,183 --> 00:14:36,388 But that's just part of their manipulative ploy. 257 00:14:36,488 --> 00:14:39,457 - Once eye contact is made, they're dealing with something 258 00:14:39,557 --> 00:14:43,495 that is just unnatural, that is not quite human. 259 00:14:43,595 --> 00:14:48,233 People report that they sound robotic or unnatural. 260 00:14:48,333 --> 00:14:51,403 They use terms that aren't completely current 261 00:14:51,503 --> 00:14:56,441 with the time, and they just don't seem like normal children. 262 00:14:56,541 --> 00:14:59,144 - NARRATOR: The woman eventually caves and allows the children 263 00:14:59,244 --> 00:15:01,279 into her home. That's when things 264 00:15:01,379 --> 00:15:03,982 start to get really strange. 265 00:15:04,082 --> 00:15:06,618 - She runs to her husband. The husband's nose 266 00:15:06,718 --> 00:15:09,988 is bleeding profusely. The cat was going crazy. 267 00:15:10,088 --> 00:15:12,991 It was angry, it was jumping around. 268 00:15:13,091 --> 00:15:16,928 - NARRATOR: But just as soon as they arrived... 269 00:15:17,028 --> 00:15:20,031 the children are gone. 270 00:15:20,131 --> 00:15:24,002 Still, the terror continues. 271 00:15:24,102 --> 00:15:26,638 - The nose bleeding never really stops. 272 00:15:26,738 --> 00:15:31,676 The woman gets cancer, the cat is found dead 273 00:15:31,776 --> 00:15:35,213 in a pool of its own blood. 274 00:15:36,781 --> 00:15:39,818 - Some people believe that these things are sinister 275 00:15:39,918 --> 00:15:42,487 and they are bringing the misfortune 276 00:15:42,587 --> 00:15:44,389 to those they encounter. 277 00:15:44,489 --> 00:15:47,258 - People have lost pets, they've gotten 278 00:15:47,359 --> 00:15:49,761 really dark diagnosis of sickness. 279 00:15:49,861 --> 00:15:51,496 People have gotten in car accidents 280 00:15:51,596 --> 00:15:53,431 right after seeing them. 281 00:15:53,531 --> 00:15:55,767 - NARRATOR: And the encounters stretch even beyond 282 00:15:55,867 --> 00:15:57,469 the Vermont state border. 283 00:15:57,569 --> 00:16:01,506 - In Abilene, Texas, apparently there was a police officer 284 00:16:01,606 --> 00:16:04,075 that came across these black-eyed children 285 00:16:04,175 --> 00:16:06,411 in the road and they started banging on the car, 286 00:16:06,511 --> 00:16:08,213 and you have to let us in or else. 287 00:16:08,313 --> 00:16:11,616 And of course, like any person, this police officer 288 00:16:11,716 --> 00:16:13,885 was very terrified. He was like, I don't feel safe. 289 00:16:13,985 --> 00:16:16,254 And he drove off. And apparently in his 290 00:16:16,354 --> 00:16:19,758 rear view mirror, those children were nowhere to be seen. 291 00:16:19,858 --> 00:16:21,026 - ♪ 292 00:16:21,126 --> 00:16:23,128 - NARRATOR: Which is why some believe they 293 00:16:23,228 --> 00:16:25,397 aren't children at all. 294 00:16:25,497 --> 00:16:30,301 - Some people believe that they're an alien-human hybrid. 295 00:16:30,402 --> 00:16:32,604 - When you look at the black-eyed children, 296 00:16:32,704 --> 00:16:36,107 if you remove their hair, they look exactly like 297 00:16:36,207 --> 00:16:39,344 the shape-shifting gray aliens 298 00:16:39,444 --> 00:16:42,747 - There's something unearthly about looking 299 00:16:42,847 --> 00:16:46,885 into eyes like that because people report that they 300 00:16:46,985 --> 00:16:48,653 feel like they're staring into a void 301 00:16:48,753 --> 00:16:53,124 or staring into nothingness, or staring into darkness, 302 00:16:53,224 --> 00:16:56,661 darkness in the sense that it feels very negative 303 00:16:56,761 --> 00:17:00,665 and very ominous. So others believe that they're 304 00:17:00,765 --> 00:17:04,536 something from the depths of hell, something demonic 305 00:17:04,636 --> 00:17:09,507 that has manifested on Earth for whatever nefarious reason. 306 00:17:10,508 --> 00:17:13,378 - They are bringing death to people's doors. 307 00:17:13,478 --> 00:17:16,848 Most likely, these are demonic entities that just kinda 308 00:17:16,948 --> 00:17:22,053 skip around history and try to show what they believe 309 00:17:22,153 --> 00:17:25,123 a child would look like during this period. 310 00:17:25,223 --> 00:17:27,258 And a lot of times they're just guessing. 311 00:17:27,358 --> 00:17:30,862 So that's why the appearance is kinda off at all times. 312 00:17:30,962 --> 00:17:34,833 There's some kind of spiritual evil that is personified. 313 00:17:34,933 --> 00:17:38,803 - Maybe it is the devil trying to find his way in. 314 00:17:38,903 --> 00:17:42,640 - So it leaves us with this puzzle that we can't 315 00:17:42,740 --> 00:17:45,743 quite figure out what these children maybe are 316 00:17:45,844 --> 00:17:47,245 supposed to be. 317 00:17:48,546 --> 00:17:50,548 - NARRATOR: One thing is for certain. 318 00:17:50,648 --> 00:17:54,152 You wouldn't want to come face-to-face with them. 319 00:17:54,252 --> 00:17:56,654 - I'd be very scared if I saw them at my door, 320 00:17:56,754 --> 00:17:59,791 these little children with very, very dark eyes. 321 00:17:59,891 --> 00:18:03,695 - So if you find yourself in the Green Mountain state, 322 00:18:03,795 --> 00:18:07,398 how do you protect yourself against the black-eyed children? 323 00:18:07,499 --> 00:18:09,234 - They don't just come into your house. 324 00:18:09,334 --> 00:18:10,869 They don't just do that. 325 00:18:10,969 --> 00:18:12,170 - MALE: They always knock. 326 00:18:12,270 --> 00:18:14,472 - And if the person does not give permission, 327 00:18:14,572 --> 00:18:16,875 the children don't intrude. 328 00:18:16,975 --> 00:18:19,878 - Here's the thing with the black-eyed children. 329 00:18:19,978 --> 00:18:25,316 Their approach usually knocks their victims off-balance. 330 00:18:25,416 --> 00:18:29,554 They're looking at children that are appearing harmless, 331 00:18:29,654 --> 00:18:34,559 helpless, and in need. And then you find out 332 00:18:34,659 --> 00:18:38,163 that they're not harmless. How do you respond? 333 00:18:38,263 --> 00:18:40,131 So that makes them extremely dangerous. 334 00:18:40,231 --> 00:18:41,900 - ♪ 335 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,236 - NARRATOR: As conniving as these creepy children may be, 336 00:18:45,336 --> 00:18:47,906 there's still a chance of avoiding their calls, 337 00:18:48,006 --> 00:18:51,709 if you're savvy enough to say no. 338 00:18:51,809 --> 00:18:54,913 That's not the case for our next state monster, 339 00:18:55,013 --> 00:18:58,983 a terror in the water that you'll never see coming. 340 00:18:59,083 --> 00:19:01,252 - 341 00:19:05,623 --> 00:19:07,025 - ♪ 342 00:19:07,125 --> 00:19:11,229 - NARRATOR: From the highest peaks to the lowest valleys, 343 00:19:11,329 --> 00:19:13,765 we're leaving no stone unturned in our hunt 344 00:19:13,865 --> 00:19:16,668 for the scariest monsters in America. 345 00:19:16,768 --> 00:19:20,004 We've traveled to the plains of Texas and the porches 346 00:19:20,104 --> 00:19:22,540 of homes in suburban Vermont. 347 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,312 Up next, we're headed to the fresh lakes of Oklahoma, 348 00:19:27,412 --> 00:19:31,583 where we're diving in to find number eight on our list, 349 00:19:31,683 --> 00:19:33,818 an eight-armed anomaly that wreaks havoc 350 00:19:33,918 --> 00:19:38,856 on unsuspecting swimmers. It's the Oklahoma Octopus. 351 00:19:38,957 --> 00:19:42,393 - ♪ 352 00:19:42,493 --> 00:19:47,966 - The Oklahoma Octopus is an octopus or a creature 353 00:19:48,066 --> 00:19:53,438 that resembles an octopus that is the size of a horse, 354 00:19:53,538 --> 00:19:59,811 that is 200 pounds, with eight long octopus legs 355 00:19:59,911 --> 00:20:02,080 that is extremely strong. 356 00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:08,119 - So the origin of where this octopus suddenly appeared 357 00:20:08,219 --> 00:20:11,256 were these three lakes. Lake Oologah, 358 00:20:11,356 --> 00:20:15,426 Lake Tenkiller, and Lake Thunderbird. 359 00:20:16,928 --> 00:20:22,600 - It's the octopus hunter. I've just returned 360 00:20:22,700 --> 00:20:26,471 from leading a tour group on a tour of the lair 361 00:20:26,571 --> 00:20:28,439 of the Oklahoma Octopus. 362 00:20:28,539 --> 00:20:32,543 I've been called a madman, a lunatic, 363 00:20:32,644 --> 00:20:37,582 Captain Ahab chasing his morbid Moby Dick, 364 00:20:37,682 --> 00:20:40,618 except it's an octopus and not a whale. 365 00:20:40,718 --> 00:20:43,421 Oklahoma truly is a unique space. 366 00:20:45,990 --> 00:20:51,362 You know, I don't remember the first time I heard 367 00:20:51,462 --> 00:20:53,731 of the Oklahoma Octopus. 368 00:20:57,168 --> 00:20:59,404 But I know it's real. 369 00:20:59,504 --> 00:21:02,206 I've heard numbers, the death toll 370 00:21:02,307 --> 00:21:07,111 from drownings unexplained has risen 138%. 371 00:21:08,846 --> 00:21:14,118 I'll hunt it, track it, capture it, 372 00:21:14,218 --> 00:21:16,754 not to kill it, but for science. 373 00:21:17,822 --> 00:21:21,526 - The Oklahoma Octopus, like the Loch Ness Monster, 374 00:21:21,626 --> 00:21:25,763 very few people see these creatures, 375 00:21:25,863 --> 00:21:29,600 but their existence is always spoken about. 376 00:21:30,835 --> 00:21:33,171 - NARRATOR: But there's one particular encounter that first 377 00:21:33,271 --> 00:21:36,407 put the Oklahoma Octopus on the map. 378 00:21:36,507 --> 00:21:38,643 And it wasn't that long ago. 379 00:21:40,178 --> 00:21:44,816 - 2007, a little boy swims out too far into this lake. 380 00:21:46,117 --> 00:21:49,554 Now they're trying to rescue the little boy 381 00:21:49,654 --> 00:21:54,092 who begins to say, something is pulling me down. 382 00:21:54,192 --> 00:21:58,429 As rescuers, and family members and the like are trying 383 00:21:58,529 --> 00:22:03,568 to get this boy, he, poof... 384 00:22:03,668 --> 00:22:07,672 disappears in the lake, never to be found. 385 00:22:08,906 --> 00:22:11,409 - NARRATOR: Soon, rumors spread about what lurks 386 00:22:11,509 --> 00:22:14,178 beneath the lake's placid waters. 387 00:22:14,278 --> 00:22:17,415 - What ended up spurring these rumors was the amount 388 00:22:17,515 --> 00:22:20,017 of different people, like, the amount of deaths, 389 00:22:20,118 --> 00:22:21,219 the drownings. 390 00:22:21,319 --> 00:22:23,554 Like, what's causing these drownings? 391 00:22:23,654 --> 00:22:26,557 They almost work like how seaweed would work, like, 392 00:22:26,657 --> 00:22:28,393 basically you get your leg caught. 393 00:22:28,493 --> 00:22:30,561 The arm of the octopus is grabbing you 394 00:22:30,661 --> 00:22:32,196 and pulling you down. 395 00:22:32,296 --> 00:22:37,368 - Some survivors have said it was the Oklahoma Octopus. 396 00:22:37,468 --> 00:22:39,470 They've witnesses it, they've seen it. 397 00:22:39,570 --> 00:22:42,407 Some people even went as far as saying they felt it 398 00:22:42,507 --> 00:22:44,842 pulling them under the water, those who were 399 00:22:44,942 --> 00:22:46,444 able to get away. 400 00:22:52,250 --> 00:22:56,687 - NARRATOR: But these sightings aren't just a recent thing. 401 00:22:56,788 --> 00:23:00,458 Hundreds of years ago, tales emerged of a 402 00:23:00,558 --> 00:23:03,728 giant octopus in Oklahoma that terrorized 403 00:23:03,828 --> 00:23:07,465 Indigenous people fishing on the local waterways. 404 00:23:07,565 --> 00:23:11,836 - They have a legend of a similar creature, 405 00:23:11,936 --> 00:23:17,442 same size, same description, red skin, but theirs 406 00:23:17,542 --> 00:23:22,814 is a demonic marine life entity 407 00:23:22,914 --> 00:23:27,518 that will kill you if you came to the lake stream water 408 00:23:27,618 --> 00:23:30,188 to bathe or drink. 409 00:23:30,288 --> 00:23:34,592 - And there have been tales of this giant octopus, 410 00:23:34,692 --> 00:23:37,595 this red leathery octopus with long tentacles 411 00:23:37,695 --> 00:23:43,501 the size of a horse, basically dwelling in these lakes. 412 00:23:43,601 --> 00:23:45,870 - NARRATOR: With so many documented sightings, 413 00:23:45,970 --> 00:23:48,840 the Oklahoma Octopus seems to have some edge 414 00:23:48,940 --> 00:23:51,943 over similar creatures. Like Nebraska's 415 00:23:52,043 --> 00:23:56,581 Walgren Lake Monster and the Lake Worth Monster in Texas. 416 00:23:56,681 --> 00:24:00,084 But there's one detail that still bothers skeptics. 417 00:24:02,653 --> 00:24:04,622 - There is a huge issue there trying to figure out 418 00:24:04,722 --> 00:24:07,625 how exactly something which is a salt water animal 419 00:24:07,725 --> 00:24:09,293 could exist in fresh water. 420 00:24:10,361 --> 00:24:13,197 - There's some people who say, well, you know, 421 00:24:13,297 --> 00:24:17,902 a jellyfish or a catfish, or this, or that put in 422 00:24:18,002 --> 00:24:20,638 a different atmosphere can adapt. 423 00:24:22,073 --> 00:24:24,408 - It's possible for animals and creatures 424 00:24:24,509 --> 00:24:30,381 to adapt to new surroundings. We know this, we've seen this. 425 00:24:30,481 --> 00:24:32,884 What if this actually is something that's 426 00:24:32,984 --> 00:24:35,019 purposefully trying to take you out? 427 00:24:35,119 --> 00:24:37,688 I don't wanna be a part of that number. 428 00:24:37,788 --> 00:24:41,259 - I would say it's demonic. It's possibly taking souls. 429 00:24:43,728 --> 00:24:45,796 - NARRATOR: The Oklahoma Octopus may have you 430 00:24:45,897 --> 00:24:50,167 thinking twice about taking a dip anytime soon. 431 00:24:50,268 --> 00:24:54,772 But deep in the marshes of the southern US, 432 00:24:54,872 --> 00:24:58,409 even dry land can be dangerous when number seven on our list 433 00:24:58,509 --> 00:25:03,381 is lying in wait, ready to attack anyone 434 00:25:03,481 --> 00:25:05,883 whose morals have started to slip. 435 00:25:05,983 --> 00:25:08,352 It's the Louisiana Rougarou. 436 00:25:09,253 --> 00:25:13,624 - The Rougarou is Louisiana's version 437 00:25:13,724 --> 00:25:15,860 of the werewolf. 438 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,231 - It's bipedal, it's torso heavy, 439 00:25:20,331 --> 00:25:24,201 canine head, the dog-like ears, anywhere between 440 00:25:24,302 --> 00:25:28,239 six to nine-feet tall, brown fur or gray fur, 441 00:25:28,339 --> 00:25:31,008 sometimes black. 442 00:25:31,108 --> 00:25:37,148 - Just very tall, upright wolf stalking the swamps at night. 443 00:25:37,248 --> 00:25:42,920 - ♪ 444 00:25:43,020 --> 00:25:47,391 - MALE: In the swamp, there's something standing up 445 00:25:47,491 --> 00:25:49,293 on the bank over there. 446 00:25:50,361 --> 00:25:52,229 - MALE: There you are. 447 00:25:52,330 --> 00:25:55,366 - MALE: Look how tall, bro. 448 00:25:58,169 --> 00:26:02,607 Just wanted to show you all what the Rougarou is. 449 00:26:02,707 --> 00:26:05,676 - This is a type of creature that is seen 450 00:26:05,776 --> 00:26:07,545 as a shape shifter. 451 00:26:07,645 --> 00:26:11,282 - It has the body of a man, um, but the head 452 00:26:11,382 --> 00:26:12,650 of a wolf or a dog. 453 00:26:12,750 --> 00:26:14,619 - NARRATOR: Like their brethren the werewolf, 454 00:26:14,719 --> 00:26:17,054 the Rougarou is able to conceal its identity 455 00:26:17,154 --> 00:26:20,257 as a human during the day. But at night, 456 00:26:20,358 --> 00:26:23,527 this hairy brute transforms into a violent predator 457 00:26:23,628 --> 00:26:25,830 that's only after one thing. 458 00:26:25,930 --> 00:26:27,999 - ♪ 459 00:26:28,099 --> 00:26:30,668 - NARRATOR: The blood of an ill-practicing Christian. 460 00:26:30,768 --> 00:26:33,170 - The Rougarou targets people who aren't 461 00:26:33,270 --> 00:26:34,805 observing Lent correctly. 462 00:26:34,905 --> 00:26:39,310 It's very closely tied to moral behaviors 463 00:26:39,410 --> 00:26:44,015 and to expected social behaviors especially, um, 464 00:26:44,115 --> 00:26:46,951 behaviors related to Catholicism 465 00:26:47,051 --> 00:26:51,222 - In many ways, it can be viewed as a manifestation of shame. 466 00:26:51,322 --> 00:26:53,457 - The main course of action for the Rougarou is 467 00:26:53,557 --> 00:26:54,859 gonna be to attack. 468 00:26:54,959 --> 00:26:57,328 They bite, scratch, attack, or draw blood 469 00:26:57,428 --> 00:26:58,896 from another human. 470 00:27:00,765 --> 00:27:03,167 - NARRATOR: Once infested by this feral beast, 471 00:27:03,267 --> 00:27:07,304 you face a fate more frightening than death, 472 00:27:07,405 --> 00:27:10,241 becoming a Rougarou yourself 473 00:27:10,341 --> 00:27:11,976 - That's not the case for all the cryptids. 474 00:27:12,076 --> 00:27:14,645 But in this particular case, that is a very, very 475 00:27:14,745 --> 00:27:17,048 important part of the Rougarou story 476 00:27:17,148 --> 00:27:20,751 that you are cursed to become a Rougarou. 477 00:27:21,952 --> 00:27:24,021 - NARRATOR: Which means that any number of Rougarou could 478 00:27:24,121 --> 00:27:26,857 be walking amongst us today. 479 00:27:26,957 --> 00:27:30,194 - You have great stories like the story of the young boy 480 00:27:30,294 --> 00:27:32,730 in Louisiana and was being pursued by a dog 481 00:27:32,830 --> 00:27:35,966 and the dog would not stop pursuing this young boy, 482 00:27:36,067 --> 00:27:39,670 and the young boy ends up cutting the dog 483 00:27:39,770 --> 00:27:42,006 on his front leg. 484 00:27:42,106 --> 00:27:45,810 Then, the dog gets away. And later on that day, 485 00:27:45,910 --> 00:27:51,048 the town physician shows up with a cut on his shoulder 486 00:27:51,148 --> 00:27:54,151 that he has bandaged up and saying, hey, what's going on? 487 00:27:54,251 --> 00:27:56,087 What's happening? And so it was a very 488 00:27:56,187 --> 00:27:59,390 strong suspicion that that physician was 489 00:27:59,490 --> 00:28:01,592 the Rougarou himself. 490 00:28:01,692 --> 00:28:04,128 - NARRATOR: Unlike the Michigan Dog Man, 491 00:28:04,228 --> 00:28:07,364 or Wisconsin's Beast of Bray Road, 492 00:28:07,465 --> 00:28:11,936 the Rougarou has roots tracing far behind America's borders. 493 00:28:12,036 --> 00:28:16,140 - It actually has its origins both in name and in behavior 494 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,844 and shape in the French Loupalou, which is 495 00:28:19,944 --> 00:28:22,513 a werewolf from the middle ages. 496 00:28:23,914 --> 00:28:26,016 - NARRATOR: Traveling to America with Louisiana's 497 00:28:26,117 --> 00:28:29,553 first settlers, the French wolf soon got 498 00:28:29,653 --> 00:28:32,056 an American makeover. 499 00:28:33,524 --> 00:28:35,826 - Rougarou kinda sounds almost like a butchered 500 00:28:35,926 --> 00:28:39,096 pronunciation of Loupgarou. 501 00:28:39,196 --> 00:28:41,298 - The Rougarou, we get that from the Cajun accent. 502 00:28:41,398 --> 00:28:43,067 Everything just kinda gets smoother when you 503 00:28:43,167 --> 00:28:46,337 get to Louisiana. When the legend moved 504 00:28:46,437 --> 00:28:49,807 to Louisiana, that kinda ties into witchcraft, 505 00:28:49,907 --> 00:28:52,309 and voodoo, and all of that good stuff 506 00:28:52,409 --> 00:28:53,844 we get out of Louisiana. 507 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,083 - NARRATOR: Now lurking in the Louisiana bayou, 508 00:28:59,183 --> 00:29:03,020 this monstrous creature is as murky as the swamp itself. 509 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:08,526 - So you have gators, large spiders, frogs, 510 00:29:08,626 --> 00:29:13,130 just feels like everything is alive in that place. 511 00:29:13,230 --> 00:29:16,133 - If you set a foot wrong, you could disappear. 512 00:29:16,233 --> 00:29:19,336 And so the Rougarou is an embodiment of that wildness 513 00:29:19,436 --> 00:29:22,606 and that unpredictability of the Louisiana landscape. 514 00:29:24,308 --> 00:29:26,544 - NARRATOR: Over the years, the Rougarou survives 515 00:29:26,644 --> 00:29:30,080 by keeping a low profile, which is why is is one of 516 00:29:30,181 --> 00:29:32,283 the lesser-known cryptids on record. 517 00:29:34,251 --> 00:29:37,555 - You're a human by day, you're a Rougarou by night, 518 00:29:37,655 --> 00:29:40,257 so if somebody is attacked by a Rougarou, it's likely 519 00:29:40,357 --> 00:29:42,660 somebody you go to school with, somebody you work with, 520 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,929 somebody you're seeing on the daily. 521 00:29:48,132 --> 00:29:51,268 - It's a curse that's placed on someone, you know? 522 00:29:51,368 --> 00:29:54,438 Deep inside the Rougarou is a person that's trying 523 00:29:54,538 --> 00:29:57,508 to be freed from this curse. 524 00:29:57,608 --> 00:30:01,545 - NARRATOR: And there is one possible way out. 525 00:30:01,645 --> 00:30:03,547 - So even though they are this very dangerous creature, 526 00:30:03,647 --> 00:30:06,417 there's still a chance of redemption or of reversing this 527 00:30:06,517 --> 00:30:10,487 curse and bringing them back into society and civilization. 528 00:30:12,156 --> 00:30:15,192 - One of the versions of the legend is that a person 529 00:30:15,292 --> 00:30:18,128 will be cursed with the Rougarou, 530 00:30:18,229 --> 00:30:20,798 and then after 101 days, they can pass it on 531 00:30:20,898 --> 00:30:22,266 to another person. 532 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:25,502 - NARRATOR: Should you stumble onto the path of one of 533 00:30:25,603 --> 00:30:30,307 these desperate hunters, forget the crucifix 534 00:30:30,407 --> 00:30:34,478 and silver bullets. Your best defense here 535 00:30:34,578 --> 00:30:36,280 is a piggy bank. 536 00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:38,616 - One of the more popular ways to ward off a Rougarou 537 00:30:38,716 --> 00:30:41,685 is with the usage of 13 pennies. 538 00:30:41,785 --> 00:30:44,722 - So if you take 13 pennies in front of your door, 539 00:30:44,822 --> 00:30:47,858 Rougarou, when he comes out at night, he's gonna look 540 00:30:47,958 --> 00:30:50,060 and he's gonna count. 541 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,264 - The lore says that once a human turns into a Rougarou, 542 00:30:53,364 --> 00:30:55,399 they forget how to count past 12. 543 00:30:55,499 --> 00:30:58,435 They'll continuously count to 12, and then back to 12, 544 00:30:58,535 --> 00:31:00,771 and then back to 12 until the sun comes up 545 00:31:00,871 --> 00:31:05,142 and then they're heading back home, turning into human form. 546 00:31:05,242 --> 00:31:08,145 - The Rougarou is obsessed with counting. 547 00:31:08,245 --> 00:31:11,582 But he is not very good at it. 548 00:31:11,682 --> 00:31:15,719 So math is your friend if a Rougarou is around. 549 00:31:17,655 --> 00:31:20,391 - NARRATOR: Even monsters have their quirks. 550 00:31:20,491 --> 00:31:24,461 But don't let that fool you. The Rougarou is still one 551 00:31:24,561 --> 00:31:27,831 of the most dangerous threats out there. 552 00:31:27,932 --> 00:31:31,101 - I think the Rougarou is personally one of 553 00:31:31,201 --> 00:31:33,604 the scariest things out there. Not necessarily because of 554 00:31:33,704 --> 00:31:36,440 what it is, but the possibility that any one of us 555 00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:39,109 can become the Rougarou. 556 00:31:39,209 --> 00:31:43,113 - He's huge, um, and he's fast, and he's dangerous. 557 00:31:43,213 --> 00:31:46,050 It's funny that he can't count all that well, 558 00:31:46,150 --> 00:31:49,019 but you know, we all have days like that. 559 00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:51,488 - I would say just make sure if you're in France 560 00:31:51,588 --> 00:31:55,960 or Louisiana, to keep 13 objects handy just in case. 561 00:31:56,060 --> 00:31:57,528 - NARRATOR: But pennies won't 562 00:31:57,628 --> 00:32:00,664 help you when it comes to our next paranormal terror. 563 00:32:00,764 --> 00:32:02,199 - ♪ 564 00:32:02,299 --> 00:32:05,302 - NARRATOR: Because this next monster's so old 565 00:32:05,402 --> 00:32:09,173 it was haunting well before America even had a currency. 566 00:32:09,273 --> 00:32:11,942 And still, its hold on this country grows 567 00:32:12,042 --> 00:32:14,011 stronger every day 568 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,017 - NARRATOR: It's a state that is known for suburban sprawl 569 00:32:20,117 --> 00:32:23,954 and sandy shorelines. But its hunting ground is a 570 00:32:24,054 --> 00:32:26,690 huge swampy wasteland. 571 00:32:26,790 --> 00:32:29,426 Coming in at number six on our scariest monster 572 00:32:29,526 --> 00:32:33,564 countdown is the ghoul of the Garden State. 573 00:32:33,664 --> 00:32:35,499 Meet the Jersey Devil. 574 00:32:35,599 --> 00:32:41,271 - ♪ 575 00:32:41,372 --> 00:32:44,775 - Deep in the pine barons of southern New Jersey, 576 00:32:44,875 --> 00:32:50,247 in a forest where not much grows outside of pine trees 577 00:32:50,347 --> 00:32:53,751 lurks the infamous Jersey Devil. 578 00:32:53,851 --> 00:32:58,355 - The Jersey Devil was a kind of mix of different creatures. 579 00:32:58,455 --> 00:33:01,358 It's got bat-like wings, it's got a horse-like head, 580 00:33:01,458 --> 00:33:04,995 it's got horse-like hooves, it's got a devil tail, 581 00:33:05,095 --> 00:33:07,097 a tail with, uh, the kind of point at the end. 582 00:33:07,197 --> 00:33:08,932 And it's also upright. 583 00:33:09,033 --> 00:33:12,603 - One of the most unique aspects of the Jersey Devil is its 584 00:33:12,703 --> 00:33:14,505 connection with humans. 585 00:33:14,605 --> 00:33:16,640 Not only its interaction with them, 586 00:33:16,740 --> 00:33:21,678 but seemingly coming from the body of a human. 587 00:33:23,213 --> 00:33:26,750 By all accounts, this creature should have come out 588 00:33:26,850 --> 00:33:28,786 of Dr. Frankenstein's lab. 589 00:33:34,324 --> 00:33:36,427 - NARRATOR: When the Jersey Devil first appeared, 590 00:33:36,527 --> 00:33:39,630 New Jersey was a colony, not a state. 591 00:33:39,730 --> 00:33:43,067 - The Jersey Devil is one of the oldest legends 592 00:33:43,167 --> 00:33:46,770 in the United States, at least. It's from 1735, 593 00:33:46,870 --> 00:33:50,340 a full 40 years before the United States became a country. 594 00:33:51,975 --> 00:33:54,244 - It's been around for a long time. 595 00:33:54,344 --> 00:33:57,848 And all of it just spurred from literally 596 00:33:57,948 --> 00:34:00,884 a birth gone wrong. 597 00:34:00,984 --> 00:34:04,822 Mother Leeds, she was 50 years old 598 00:34:04,922 --> 00:34:06,924 and she's expecting her 13th kid. 599 00:34:07,024 --> 00:34:09,326 Unlucky number 13. 600 00:34:09,426 --> 00:34:12,563 - Mother Leeds lived out in the pine barons 601 00:34:12,663 --> 00:34:16,133 and had 12 children to care for. 602 00:34:16,233 --> 00:34:19,603 So when she became pregnant with her 13th child, 603 00:34:19,703 --> 00:34:21,638 she muttered that she would rather have 604 00:34:21,738 --> 00:34:25,676 the devil as a child than another mouth to feed. 605 00:34:26,877 --> 00:34:30,380 - NARRATOR: But be careful what you wish for... 606 00:34:30,481 --> 00:34:33,817 because Mother Leeds soon gave birth to an offspring 607 00:34:33,917 --> 00:34:38,355 that would make Rosemary's baby look like an angel. 608 00:34:38,455 --> 00:34:41,291 - So once the child came out, they said that originally 609 00:34:41,391 --> 00:34:43,927 the child was perfectly fine. There was nothing wrong. 610 00:34:44,027 --> 00:34:46,430 But then, all of a sudden, it started to get hooves, 611 00:34:46,530 --> 00:34:50,767 it got wings, and it basically turned 612 00:34:50,868 --> 00:34:53,370 into this demonic creature. 613 00:34:54,805 --> 00:34:58,742 - The creature devoured its entire family and then 614 00:34:58,842 --> 00:35:03,280 flew out of the chimney into the pine barons area 615 00:35:03,380 --> 00:35:06,383 where it has been terrorizing people ever since. 616 00:35:08,785 --> 00:35:11,855 - So the pine barons is a million acres of woodland. 617 00:35:11,955 --> 00:35:14,791 It's extremely dense, there's a lot of animals 618 00:35:14,892 --> 00:35:18,162 in there, dangerous animals. It has, sort of, 619 00:35:18,262 --> 00:35:21,465 a reputation for being a scary place. 620 00:35:21,565 --> 00:35:24,735 I know the Native Americans were a little bit afraid 621 00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:28,472 of the pine barons, of that section of the forest. 622 00:35:28,572 --> 00:35:31,775 Early American often, if people were discovered 623 00:35:31,875 --> 00:35:35,746 as witches or witch doctors, they would ostracize them out 624 00:35:35,846 --> 00:35:39,349 into the pine barons, so there's definitely sort of 625 00:35:39,449 --> 00:35:42,719 a reputation for witchcraft and spooky things 626 00:35:42,819 --> 00:35:44,421 going on out there. 627 00:35:44,521 --> 00:35:47,324 - NARRATOR: Over the years, the Jersey Devil has been known 628 00:35:47,424 --> 00:35:50,761 to attack trolleys and kill countless livestock, 629 00:35:50,861 --> 00:35:54,665 even now, nearly three centuries since his birth, 630 00:35:54,765 --> 00:35:58,502 the menacing monster continues to make his presence known. 631 00:35:58,602 --> 00:36:02,239 - There are more sightings today of the Jersey Devil 632 00:36:02,339 --> 00:36:05,509 than nearly at any time in history. 633 00:36:05,609 --> 00:36:09,346 - The thing is for that creature to have lived for so long, 634 00:36:09,446 --> 00:36:13,684 it's obviously something that's not of this world. 635 00:36:13,784 --> 00:36:16,820 It's some different type of creature, because so many 636 00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,389 people have reported seeing it and some people have 637 00:36:19,489 --> 00:36:20,991 captured it on camera. 638 00:36:21,091 --> 00:36:22,960 - ♪ 639 00:36:27,164 --> 00:36:34,271 - ♪ 640 00:36:34,371 --> 00:36:35,939 - NARRATOR: One of the most recent sightings 641 00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:39,810 of the Jersey Devil came in 2017. 642 00:36:39,910 --> 00:36:43,513 A father and his sons driving through the pine barons say 643 00:36:43,614 --> 00:36:46,783 they saw a strange creature through the trees. 644 00:36:46,883 --> 00:36:49,720 - They have some photographs of it, which clearly shows 645 00:36:49,820 --> 00:36:54,424 something out in the field. And from where it was standing 646 00:36:54,524 --> 00:36:58,061 to how tall it was would suggest something between 647 00:36:58,161 --> 00:36:59,596 five and seven feet tall. 648 00:36:59,696 --> 00:37:02,266 It's a little blurry so you can't quite make out what 649 00:37:02,366 --> 00:37:04,701 it is, but it doesn't look like a human. 650 00:37:07,404 --> 00:37:08,905 - NARRATOR: Though these men were able to run off 651 00:37:09,006 --> 00:37:13,443 without a scratch, not all are so lucky. 652 00:37:13,543 --> 00:37:17,447 Only time will tell how much longer this horrific beast 653 00:37:17,547 --> 00:37:20,450 will torment the residents of New Jersey. 654 00:37:20,550 --> 00:37:22,853 - The amazing thing about something like the Jersey Devil 655 00:37:22,953 --> 00:37:25,489 is how it has outlasted the many changes 656 00:37:25,589 --> 00:37:27,724 our culture has taken. 657 00:37:27,824 --> 00:37:30,894 - The Jersey Devil belongs on the Mount Rushmore 658 00:37:30,994 --> 00:37:36,400 of creatures of America because it has a long lifespan. 659 00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:39,636 A lot of legends come and go, they're forgotten about. 660 00:37:39,736 --> 00:37:43,774 But the Jersey Devil has broke out of that confine 661 00:37:43,874 --> 00:37:47,778 where it's one of the best-known legends in America. 662 00:37:47,878 --> 00:37:49,946 - NARRATOR: This reputation doesn't seem to bother 663 00:37:50,047 --> 00:37:52,616 the locals one bit. 664 00:37:52,716 --> 00:37:57,688 - Obviously the New Jersey NHL team, known as the Devils, 665 00:37:57,788 --> 00:38:02,125 many communities in New Jersey will have museums set up 666 00:38:02,225 --> 00:38:04,194 for the Jersey Devil. 667 00:38:04,294 --> 00:38:07,464 - I believe it is technically even their state demon. 668 00:38:10,867 --> 00:38:13,637 - NARRATOR: But no amount of pop culture appeal can change 669 00:38:13,737 --> 00:38:15,939 the fact that coming face to snout with 670 00:38:16,039 --> 00:38:20,243 the real Jersey Devil is a living nightmare. 671 00:38:20,344 --> 00:38:22,779 - Those gigantic wings in your face, 672 00:38:22,879 --> 00:38:26,783 the hooves chasing you down the darkened trail in the woods, 673 00:38:26,883 --> 00:38:28,819 something I would not want to encounter. 674 00:38:30,887 --> 00:38:33,523 - NARRATOR: Still, there's some comfort in the fact 675 00:38:33,623 --> 00:38:36,893 that the Jersey Devil is grounded in one place. 676 00:38:36,993 --> 00:38:40,931 But 700 miles away in a small Tennessee town, 677 00:38:41,031 --> 00:38:43,934 residents are haunted by an even greater menace, 678 00:38:44,034 --> 00:38:46,970 one that can appear out of thin air. 679 00:38:48,605 --> 00:38:50,941 And if this cunning shapeshifter doesn't keep you 680 00:38:51,041 --> 00:38:54,077 on the straight and narrow, we've got another 681 00:38:54,177 --> 00:38:57,514 waiting in the wings who's wails alone are enough 682 00:38:57,614 --> 00:39:00,617 to scare even the most fervent of sinners. 683 00:39:02,519 --> 00:39:04,788 We're only halfway through our quest for the 684 00:39:04,888 --> 00:39:08,392 scariest monster in America. And already we've come 685 00:39:08,492 --> 00:39:10,761 face-to-face with the blood-sucking chupacabra 686 00:39:10,861 --> 00:39:15,999 in Texas, and the ominous black-eyed children in Vermont. 687 00:39:16,099 --> 00:39:18,935 We've uncovered the enormous octopus that strangles 688 00:39:19,035 --> 00:39:23,073 swimmers in Oklahoma, and the shape-shifting Rougarou 689 00:39:23,173 --> 00:39:26,610 who feasts on the blood of sinners in Louisiana. 690 00:39:26,710 --> 00:39:29,446 And who could forget the oldest beast of them all, 691 00:39:29,546 --> 00:39:30,981 the New Jersey Devil? 692 00:39:31,081 --> 00:39:33,016 - ♪ 693 00:39:33,116 --> 00:39:36,520 - NARRATOR: But our top five monsters are still to come, 694 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:39,523 and each one is more frightening than the last. 695 00:39:41,691 --> 00:39:45,629 Up next, we're traveling to the land of rolling hills 696 00:39:45,729 --> 00:39:49,566 where the fear-inducing lady of number five on our lists 697 00:39:49,666 --> 00:39:53,637 is known to some spirits far beyond any element on earth. 698 00:39:53,737 --> 00:39:55,939 It's the Tennessee Bell witch. 699 00:39:56,039 --> 00:40:01,745 - ♪ 700 00:40:01,845 --> 00:40:03,747 - Hearing about the Bell Witch, I thought the Bell Witch 701 00:40:03,847 --> 00:40:06,550 was an actual witch, when it turns out that it's actually 702 00:40:06,650 --> 00:40:09,119 some sort of supernatural being. 703 00:40:09,219 --> 00:40:11,621 - We see it manifest in a number of different ways. 704 00:40:11,721 --> 00:40:15,492 Scary animal configurations, large birds, 705 00:40:15,592 --> 00:40:17,727 a ghost girl in the woods. 706 00:40:20,130 --> 00:40:23,567 We're told that it has hands, at least, because several people 707 00:40:23,667 --> 00:40:26,503 report shaking its hands. One person describes, like, 708 00:40:26,603 --> 00:40:28,939 a demure, sort of soft female hand, 709 00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:31,842 another person describes a hairy devilish hand. 710 00:40:35,779 --> 00:40:39,716 - This entity could imitate and use the same voice 711 00:40:39,816 --> 00:40:44,087 and completely repeat everything that you had said. 712 00:40:44,187 --> 00:40:45,822 Whether it was a prayer, it would repeat your prayer 713 00:40:45,922 --> 00:40:47,991 to you, if you sang a song, it would completely sing 714 00:40:48,091 --> 00:40:50,994 that song back to you word for word. 715 00:40:54,064 --> 00:40:56,900 A lot of people were very bothered by that because first 716 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,536 they're thinking, what is this? Is this a demon? 717 00:40:59,636 --> 00:41:01,271 Why is this messing with us? 718 00:41:02,372 --> 00:41:06,877 - The Bell Witch is extremely scary. 719 00:41:08,311 --> 00:41:13,950 Because there is dimensional entities that are walking 720 00:41:14,050 --> 00:41:20,190 among us and apparently able to affect your physical 721 00:41:20,290 --> 00:41:24,327 surrounding if not just your physical being. 722 00:41:24,427 --> 00:41:29,833 So it's not far-fetched to me that these things happen. 723 00:41:35,772 --> 00:41:39,042 The story of the Bell Witch actually takes place 724 00:41:39,142 --> 00:41:42,746 in the mid to late 1800s in Tennessee. 725 00:41:42,846 --> 00:41:47,751 A witch was terrorizing the Bell family on their farm. 726 00:41:47,851 --> 00:41:49,386 - We used to talk about it 727 00:41:49,486 --> 00:41:51,021 some especially around Halloween. 728 00:41:51,121 --> 00:41:53,957 And since I'm a descendant of the Bell family, 729 00:41:54,057 --> 00:41:56,826 I was always asking my grandmother, I was saying, hey, 730 00:41:56,927 --> 00:41:58,728 what do you know about the Bell Witch? 731 00:42:04,901 --> 00:42:07,938 - The most common version of the story that I've heard is 732 00:42:08,038 --> 00:42:10,273 that the Bell family, John, and his wife, 733 00:42:10,373 --> 00:42:14,678 and his kids moved into the area, got some land, 734 00:42:14,778 --> 00:42:17,247 and in the same area, Kate Batts lived 735 00:42:17,347 --> 00:42:18,915 with her husband, Frederick. 736 00:42:20,283 --> 00:42:23,486 - NARRATOR: But after Frederick is injured in a farming accident 737 00:42:23,587 --> 00:42:26,489 he struggles to support his family. 738 00:42:26,590 --> 00:42:30,293 That's when he's forced to make a land trade with the Bells. 739 00:42:31,995 --> 00:42:35,865 - Kate Batts, feeling that her husband was taken advantage of, 740 00:42:35,966 --> 00:42:38,134 swore to have revenge on the Bell family. 741 00:42:38,234 --> 00:42:40,770 - 742 00:42:40,870 --> 00:42:46,876 - It was said that Kate then initiates a seance and ritual 743 00:42:46,977 --> 00:42:52,916 to curse the Bell family and their farm as she was 744 00:42:53,016 --> 00:42:57,787 alleged to be an occultist demonic witch. 745 00:42:59,756 --> 00:43:01,524 - NARRATOR: In the years since, there have been 746 00:43:01,625 --> 00:43:04,027 strange happenings up at the Bell farm. 747 00:43:05,195 --> 00:43:09,432 - Around 1817, John Bell is walking the property and he 748 00:43:09,532 --> 00:43:14,804 sees what he believes to be a dog with a rabbit head. 749 00:43:14,904 --> 00:43:17,674 - Obviously, he was really freaked out and he unloaded 750 00:43:17,774 --> 00:43:20,243 on it with his gun. And supposedly when he went 751 00:43:20,343 --> 00:43:22,612 to go check on the animal that he had just shot, 752 00:43:22,712 --> 00:43:24,347 it disappeared. 753 00:43:25,548 --> 00:43:30,086 - Right after this, uh, John's daughter, Betsy sees a 754 00:43:30,186 --> 00:43:32,989 girl swinging from a branch in the woods. 755 00:43:33,089 --> 00:43:36,493 And, uh, then realizes that that girl is not actually there. 756 00:43:36,593 --> 00:43:41,998 - ♪ 757 00:43:42,098 --> 00:43:45,468 - NARRATOR: Over time, the incidents only get stranger. 758 00:43:47,037 --> 00:43:49,005 - They would see a girl in a green dress, 759 00:43:49,105 --> 00:43:52,509 or they would see a bird, or even, apparently there 760 00:43:52,609 --> 00:43:55,378 was a dog, there was a large black dog that would follow 761 00:43:55,478 --> 00:43:58,081 one of their servants to their houses every morning. 762 00:43:58,882 --> 00:44:00,250 - NARRATOR: Convinced these 763 00:44:00,350 --> 00:44:03,119 beings had been conjured up by their occultist neighbor, 764 00:44:03,219 --> 00:44:05,388 the Bells began referring to the presence 765 00:44:05,488 --> 00:44:08,825 as Kate Batts' old witch. 766 00:44:08,925 --> 00:44:13,530 Today, the spirit is better known as the Bell Witch. 767 00:44:13,630 --> 00:44:15,765 - Usually when it comes to witches, we think of them 768 00:44:15,865 --> 00:44:18,001 as shape shifters that turn into different animals 769 00:44:18,101 --> 00:44:20,537 so that they can move around freely without being caught 770 00:44:20,637 --> 00:44:22,472 doing any sort of actions. 771 00:44:22,572 --> 00:44:25,375 - Really we would describe this now as a poltergeist. 772 00:44:25,475 --> 00:44:29,145 There's knocking on the walls, bed sheets pulled off of people 773 00:44:32,415 --> 00:44:34,050 - They started hearing what sounded like what they 774 00:44:34,150 --> 00:44:36,152 described as rats knawing on the floor boards, 775 00:44:36,252 --> 00:44:38,188 maybe even knawing on the bed posts. 776 00:44:39,522 --> 00:44:42,992 - This eventually escalated into the children waking up 777 00:44:43,093 --> 00:44:45,595 with bruising, and scratches, and bleeding. 778 00:44:45,695 --> 00:44:49,566 And one of the girls was even tied to the bed by her hair 779 00:44:49,666 --> 00:44:51,101 and beaten in the middle of the night. 780 00:44:53,002 --> 00:44:55,038 - Word of mouth is huge. As people would travel 781 00:44:55,138 --> 00:44:57,440 they would go, hey, did you hear about the Bell family? 782 00:44:57,540 --> 00:44:59,743 They've got this weird spirit going on, they're trying 783 00:44:59,843 --> 00:45:01,177 to figure out what's happening. 784 00:45:01,277 --> 00:45:03,179 So people from all around the region were coming in 785 00:45:03,279 --> 00:45:04,981 to see what was going on. Of course, it spread 786 00:45:05,081 --> 00:45:07,117 like wildfire because a lot of people that are born there 787 00:45:07,217 --> 00:45:10,920 were having experiences The spirit would talk to them, 788 00:45:11,020 --> 00:45:12,922 it would sing to them, and then they would go out 789 00:45:13,022 --> 00:45:14,791 and say, hey, this really happened. 790 00:45:17,227 --> 00:45:22,465 - NARRATOR: In 1843, Kate Batts dies and the town has high hopes 791 00:45:22,565 --> 00:45:24,467 that the curse will go with her. 792 00:45:26,035 --> 00:45:30,140 But nearly 200 years later, the Bell Witch still has 793 00:45:30,240 --> 00:45:33,309 a hold on this small Tennessee town. 794 00:45:33,409 --> 00:45:35,278 - When you get around a monster or a creature, 795 00:45:35,378 --> 00:45:39,783 that shrieks a certain nerve. It tends to outlast generations. 796 00:45:39,883 --> 00:45:41,918 - It said over the several year period 797 00:45:42,018 --> 00:45:44,220 we're talking about hundreds if not thousands of people 798 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,890 who pass through the town with the hopes of, 799 00:45:46,990 --> 00:45:50,827 uh, experiencing the Bell Witch. 800 00:45:50,927 --> 00:45:53,997 - I think people are so entranced by the world 801 00:45:54,097 --> 00:45:56,933 of cryptids, this adventure of who are these people, 802 00:45:57,033 --> 00:46:00,370 who are these monsters, who are these ghosts? 803 00:46:00,470 --> 00:46:02,639 - And when I was a kid, I learned about the 804 00:46:02,739 --> 00:46:05,241 Bell Witch house where you can actually go and visit. 805 00:46:05,341 --> 00:46:07,210 So not only is her spirit present in the house, 806 00:46:07,310 --> 00:46:10,079 it's also present outside of the house. 807 00:46:10,180 --> 00:46:13,349 - A lot of people came to explore the Bell house, 808 00:46:13,449 --> 00:46:16,019 including Andrew Jackson at one point. 809 00:46:16,119 --> 00:46:19,255 And what's really cool about this is they could hear 810 00:46:19,355 --> 00:46:22,725 the witch's voice from the woods. 811 00:46:22,826 --> 00:46:26,763 There's a cave on the property that's still open to this day. 812 00:46:26,863 --> 00:46:28,965 You can go for tours. 813 00:46:29,065 --> 00:46:31,601 - People say that she might be hiding out there. 814 00:46:33,403 --> 00:46:35,905 When it comes to the Bell Witch, it almost worked in, 815 00:46:36,005 --> 00:46:39,275 like, the same way with demons or with spirits. 816 00:46:39,375 --> 00:46:42,011 They feed on your fear, whether it's an actual witch 817 00:46:42,111 --> 00:46:44,914 or a poltergeist, something was there and something 818 00:46:45,014 --> 00:46:47,083 was affecting these people 819 00:46:47,183 --> 00:46:48,518 The question is, who she decides 820 00:46:48,618 --> 00:46:50,920 to show herself to next. 821 00:46:51,020 --> 00:46:53,556 For me, being a descendant, I'm a little scared. 822 00:46:53,656 --> 00:46:55,291 My anxiety goes up. 823 00:46:56,626 --> 00:46:59,429 - NARRATOR: But what's an attack on an entire family 824 00:46:59,529 --> 00:47:02,632 when this next beast sends shock waves of fear 825 00:47:02,732 --> 00:47:05,802 across an entire town... 826 00:47:05,902 --> 00:47:09,205 - NARRATOR:...that continues to spread across the entire nation? 827 00:47:11,241 --> 00:47:14,310 And later, we're bringing you the most horrific 828 00:47:14,410 --> 00:47:18,014 monster of all, a beast whose name alone 829 00:47:18,114 --> 00:47:20,984 brings fear from coast to coast. 830 00:47:21,084 --> 00:47:24,220 - He is scary. Like, very scary. 831 00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:28,191 Mostly because I think it's the most likely to be real. 832 00:47:28,291 --> 00:47:34,664 - ♪ 833 00:47:39,435 --> 00:47:42,071 - NARRATOR: Some monsters go right for the kill. 834 00:47:42,171 --> 00:47:47,577 Others hold back and allow deadly events to take a toll. 835 00:47:47,677 --> 00:47:50,580 That's what haunts residents in West Virginia, 836 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,516 who've laid eyes on the monster coming in at number four 837 00:47:53,616 --> 00:47:54,951 on our list. 838 00:47:56,152 --> 00:47:58,888 Some say he has the power to kill without lifting 839 00:47:58,988 --> 00:48:01,124 a finger. Watch out for the 840 00:48:01,224 --> 00:48:03,326 West Virginia moth man. 841 00:48:04,928 --> 00:48:07,997 - So the West Virginia moth man is probably one of the most 842 00:48:08,097 --> 00:48:10,633 popular cryptids out there. 843 00:48:10,733 --> 00:48:13,369 - When you look at moth man and you hear about what he 844 00:48:13,469 --> 00:48:15,872 looks like, it almost sounds like he's a villain 845 00:48:15,972 --> 00:48:18,308 in a comic book story. 846 00:48:18,408 --> 00:48:21,811 - Now, we're talking about a figure around seven feet tall, 847 00:48:21,911 --> 00:48:25,014 glowing red eyes, a 10-foot wingspan. 848 00:48:25,114 --> 00:48:29,485 Now, this is not a normal creature by any account. 849 00:48:29,585 --> 00:48:30,820 - NARRATOR: The story of 850 00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:34,157 the moth man emerges from the most unassuming of towns, 851 00:48:34,257 --> 00:48:37,327 Point Pleasant, West Virginia. 852 00:48:37,427 --> 00:48:39,929 - Point Pleasant is a very small town. 853 00:48:40,029 --> 00:48:43,232 It's really kinda centered on one main strip. 854 00:48:43,333 --> 00:48:47,270 Everybody knows everybody, kinda feel to the town. 855 00:48:47,370 --> 00:48:51,174 - And like a lot of rural towns, you don't have to go far 856 00:48:51,274 --> 00:48:54,143 outside of the outskirts of the city limits 857 00:48:54,243 --> 00:48:57,046 when things get wild and primitive. 858 00:48:58,214 --> 00:49:02,218 - NARRATOR: On November 15th, 1966, a group of friends 859 00:49:02,318 --> 00:49:05,154 drives out to a former munitions depot. 860 00:49:05,254 --> 00:49:08,358 That's when they see something bizarre. 861 00:49:08,458 --> 00:49:12,996 - At first glance, it looked like a tall, skinny human. 862 00:49:13,096 --> 00:49:16,165 but it didn't have a head on its shoulders 863 00:49:16,265 --> 00:49:19,302 - More of just a lump that came up out of the chest 864 00:49:19,402 --> 00:49:24,107 where the eyes were set, and these massive wings. 865 00:49:24,207 --> 00:49:25,708 - At first they didn't know what they were looking at 866 00:49:25,808 --> 00:49:27,543 and they picked up speed. What they didn't expect 867 00:49:27,643 --> 00:49:32,215 was this thing was gonna chase them and follow them. 868 00:49:32,315 --> 00:49:34,717 This creature took off and kept pace with their car, 869 00:49:34,817 --> 00:49:36,419 going about 100 miles per hour. 870 00:49:36,519 --> 00:49:39,155 They said that they could hear, basically, his wings 871 00:49:39,255 --> 00:49:41,691 hitting the side of the car as they were being 872 00:49:41,791 --> 00:49:42,959 chased by him. 873 00:49:43,059 --> 00:49:45,495 And as soon as they were able to get away, 874 00:49:45,595 --> 00:49:47,630 there was, like, that moment of debate whether or not 875 00:49:47,730 --> 00:49:51,768 to tell the police or anybody in town, oh, we saw this. 876 00:49:52,902 --> 00:49:55,772 - NARRATOR: The witnesses tell their unlikely story 877 00:49:55,872 --> 00:49:58,908 that they were chased by a massive man-sized bird 878 00:49:59,008 --> 00:50:01,377 with red eyes. 879 00:50:01,477 --> 00:50:04,914 - Soon, dozens of people reported encountering 880 00:50:05,014 --> 00:50:09,218 this mysterious monster or apparition. 881 00:50:09,318 --> 00:50:12,188 When you have a car full of young people reporting it, 882 00:50:12,288 --> 00:50:14,724 that's one thing. But then, when you have other 883 00:50:14,824 --> 00:50:18,594 area people that had a solid reputation saying, 884 00:50:18,694 --> 00:50:21,531 oh, this this is real and it's out there, 885 00:50:21,631 --> 00:50:23,366 then it goes to a different level. 886 00:50:24,834 --> 00:50:27,203 - NARRATOR: With all those sightings, the moth man 887 00:50:27,303 --> 00:50:30,006 become a huge local news story. 888 00:50:30,106 --> 00:50:34,544 And soon, a national one, too. 889 00:50:34,644 --> 00:50:38,381 - Once it picked up traction, news reports started appearing 890 00:50:38,481 --> 00:50:41,584 about different sightings. People started fearing it. 891 00:50:41,684 --> 00:50:44,220 - So many people pointed to how the red eyes 892 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,255 seemed to be hypnotizing them or putting them 893 00:50:46,355 --> 00:50:49,192 in some trance-like state. So the moth man definitely was 894 00:50:49,292 --> 00:50:51,360 a terrifying figure. 895 00:50:51,461 --> 00:50:54,263 - NARRATOR: The moth man fills people with fear, 896 00:50:54,363 --> 00:50:59,235 but also questions. What is this strange creature 897 00:50:59,335 --> 00:51:02,271 and where did it come from? 898 00:51:02,371 --> 00:51:06,275 - Some believed it was an escaped medical experiment 899 00:51:06,375 --> 00:51:09,812 Others believed it was not of this dimension 900 00:51:09,912 --> 00:51:13,149 or that it was a demon or demonic-like creature. 901 00:51:14,584 --> 00:51:16,686 - NARRATOR: Whatever its origin, the moth man 902 00:51:16,786 --> 00:51:21,057 is soon as common as coal in West Virginia. 903 00:51:21,157 --> 00:51:25,428 Still, it's not the only strange thing around. 904 00:51:25,528 --> 00:51:29,232 - There's UFO sightings all over West Virginia at the time 905 00:51:29,332 --> 00:51:33,202 And it all kinda culminates in 1967. 906 00:51:33,302 --> 00:51:36,139 - People were seeing weird lights in the sky, 907 00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,275 darting about, changing in size, shape, and color. 908 00:51:40,376 --> 00:51:42,378 - NARRATOR: A little more than a year after that 909 00:51:42,478 --> 00:51:45,615 first sighting, on December 15th, 1967, 910 00:51:45,715 --> 00:51:48,151 commuters are traveling along this bridge that 911 00:51:48,251 --> 00:51:50,987 borders West Virginia and Ohio when the legend 912 00:51:51,087 --> 00:51:54,290 of the moth man flies to new heights. 913 00:51:54,390 --> 00:51:58,594 - All of a sudden, people started reporting that 914 00:51:58,694 --> 00:52:02,198 they saw moth man flying back and forth across the river. 915 00:52:02,298 --> 00:52:04,700 And nobody knew why. Nobody knew why he was doing 916 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:07,503 that, but then a couple seconds later, 917 00:52:07,603 --> 00:52:10,139 that's when they realized why. 918 00:52:10,239 --> 00:52:12,742 - NARRATOR: Witnesses watch in sheer horror 919 00:52:12,842 --> 00:52:16,145 as the bridge falls apart. 920 00:52:16,245 --> 00:52:18,414 - 46 people lost their lives in the collapse 921 00:52:18,514 --> 00:52:21,350 of Silver Bridge. Others were injured. 922 00:52:21,450 --> 00:52:23,186 Two of the missing were never found. 923 00:52:23,286 --> 00:52:25,888 And it has become an integral part of 924 00:52:25,988 --> 00:52:27,356 the moth man legend. 925 00:52:27,456 --> 00:52:30,359 - It was at that moment where people basically were like, 926 00:52:30,459 --> 00:52:34,163 okay, maybe he's a harbinger of death or an omen. 927 00:52:34,263 --> 00:52:36,966 So we're gonna see him whenever tragedy 928 00:52:37,066 --> 00:52:39,468 is about to happen. 929 00:52:39,569 --> 00:52:41,504 - NARRATOR: Others claim the moth man is actually 930 00:52:41,604 --> 00:52:44,240 a would-be savior, trying to alert people 931 00:52:44,340 --> 00:52:46,809 to the danger ahead. 932 00:52:46,909 --> 00:52:49,245 - There's a lot of debate whether or not moth man 933 00:52:49,345 --> 00:52:54,817 is the harbinger of doom or a warning to something. 934 00:52:54,917 --> 00:52:59,155 - It's possible that moth man came, gave his predictions, 935 00:52:59,255 --> 00:53:01,524 tried to save people from the bridge collapse, 936 00:53:01,624 --> 00:53:04,827 and then just disappeared 'cause his work was done. 937 00:53:04,927 --> 00:53:07,029 - NARRATOR: For years, moth man stays out of 938 00:53:07,129 --> 00:53:11,767 the public eye until decades later when word of a huge 939 00:53:11,867 --> 00:53:16,205 man-sized bird with dark red eyes began circulating 940 00:53:16,305 --> 00:53:19,242 way beyond West Virginia. 941 00:53:19,342 --> 00:53:22,545 - Over the years, the moth man, its habitat 942 00:53:22,645 --> 00:53:25,281 seems to have grown. Where it started out 943 00:53:25,381 --> 00:53:28,084 as Point Pleasant on the outskirts of the town, 944 00:53:28,184 --> 00:53:31,320 now it covers a vast region. 945 00:53:31,420 --> 00:53:34,757 - Interestingly enough, the sightings have kind of 946 00:53:34,857 --> 00:53:39,128 moved in a northward pattern since 1967. 947 00:53:39,228 --> 00:53:41,364 - NARRATOR: Each one of these sightings shares something 948 00:53:41,464 --> 00:53:45,401 in common with that infamous bridge collapse. 949 00:53:45,501 --> 00:53:47,303 They all come just before some of the 950 00:53:47,403 --> 00:53:50,606 world's biggest disasters. 951 00:53:50,706 --> 00:53:53,776 - There are stories that the moth man appeared before 952 00:53:53,876 --> 00:53:56,846 the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl. 953 00:53:56,946 --> 00:54:01,684 - Another supposed sighting is right before 9/11 happened. 954 00:54:01,784 --> 00:54:03,686 - There as rumors and conspiracies, 955 00:54:03,786 --> 00:54:07,590 and at that point, it wasn't more of the fear of him, 956 00:54:07,690 --> 00:54:11,060 it was more of, like, oh, he's giving us warning. 957 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,664 - NARRATOR: New moth man sightings continue to this day, 958 00:54:14,764 --> 00:54:18,267 and they show no signs of stopping. 959 00:54:18,367 --> 00:54:21,137 - Many legends have faded throughout history. 960 00:54:21,237 --> 00:54:24,573 If people are not interested in them, they don't start 961 00:54:24,674 --> 00:54:27,310 passing them down from generation to generation, 962 00:54:27,410 --> 00:54:29,312 they disappear, they fade. 963 00:54:29,412 --> 00:54:31,547 The moth man is the exact opposite. 964 00:54:31,647 --> 00:54:34,450 It has only gained steam over the years. 965 00:54:34,550 --> 00:54:37,620 Also, the story reached Hollywood to the point where 966 00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:40,089 we ended up having a movie with Richard Gere in it. 967 00:54:42,325 --> 00:54:44,694 - NARRATOR: So, how fearful would you be 968 00:54:44,794 --> 00:54:47,763 to spot the moth man overhead? 969 00:54:47,863 --> 00:54:50,566 - As a kid, I remembered I did live in fear of moth man 970 00:54:50,666 --> 00:54:55,471 and it did spur my fear of bridges at the same time, too. 971 00:54:55,571 --> 00:54:59,542 - So if moth man visits your town, the going theory 972 00:54:59,642 --> 00:55:01,577 is that it's the harbinger of doom. 973 00:55:01,677 --> 00:55:04,613 Maybe he's bringing a disaster with him, 974 00:55:04,714 --> 00:55:07,016 or maybe he's warning of it. But either way, 975 00:55:07,116 --> 00:55:08,617 a disaster's coming. 976 00:55:09,752 --> 00:55:11,454 - NARRATOR: Catching sight of the moth man is usually 977 00:55:11,554 --> 00:55:14,924 just the beginning of a nightmare. 978 00:55:15,024 --> 00:55:17,460 But our next ominous creature has racked up quite 979 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,696 a haunting past of her own. 980 00:55:20,796 --> 00:55:23,399 One that she's more than willing to make you pay 981 00:55:23,499 --> 00:55:25,101 to help her forget. 982 00:55:28,771 --> 00:55:32,441 - NARRATOR: Our countdown of American's 10 scariest monsters 983 00:55:32,541 --> 00:55:34,877 has brought us face-to-face with beasts of all 984 00:55:34,977 --> 00:55:37,947 shapes and sizes. But there are only 985 00:55:38,047 --> 00:55:41,951 three monsters left, and they're the top of the heap 986 00:55:42,051 --> 00:55:45,454 for a reason. They're the most frightening, 987 00:55:45,554 --> 00:55:48,791 fear-inducing creates the country has to offer, 988 00:55:48,891 --> 00:55:52,161 even if that's not how some may seem on the surface. 989 00:55:55,698 --> 00:55:57,833 - NARRATOR: It might surprise you to learn that some 990 00:55:57,933 --> 00:55:59,969 describe this next supernatural being as 991 00:56:00,069 --> 00:56:03,572 the most beautiful woman they've ever seen. 992 00:56:03,672 --> 00:56:05,708 When they hear her wailing in the dark, 993 00:56:05,808 --> 00:56:08,043 they are tempted to run and help. 994 00:56:08,144 --> 00:56:10,146 But should you find yourself in this scenario 995 00:56:10,246 --> 00:56:13,282 while visiting Arizona, you may be under the spell 996 00:56:13,382 --> 00:56:15,117 of number three on our list. 997 00:56:16,919 --> 00:56:19,355 In which case, the only place you should be running 998 00:56:19,455 --> 00:56:22,925 is far away. 999 00:56:23,025 --> 00:56:25,127 Look out for La Llorona. 1000 00:56:26,295 --> 00:56:28,497 - La Llorona means the wailing woman 1001 00:56:28,597 --> 00:56:30,566 or the weeping woman 1002 00:56:30,666 --> 00:56:33,769 - The way that I heard the legend of La Llarona told 1003 00:56:33,869 --> 00:56:36,872 for the very first time when I was a kid is that 1004 00:56:36,972 --> 00:56:39,608 centuries ago, there was the most beautiful woman 1005 00:56:39,708 --> 00:56:43,012 in the world and her name was Maria. 1006 00:56:43,112 --> 00:56:45,014 - ♪ 1007 00:56:45,114 --> 00:56:48,050 - She fell in love with a man, she was seduced 1008 00:56:48,150 --> 00:56:50,853 and became his mistress, and had children with him, 1009 00:56:50,953 --> 00:56:54,023 and they were very happy for awhile. 1010 00:56:54,123 --> 00:56:57,493 - Then, tragedy struck, either through the man 1011 00:56:57,593 --> 00:57:01,130 leaving her for another woman or mental illness 1012 00:57:01,230 --> 00:57:04,767 where she snapped, went psychotic, lost her mind. 1013 00:57:07,770 --> 00:57:13,843 - She was so enraged, and desperate, and furious, 1014 00:57:13,943 --> 00:57:17,313 and jealous, that she drowned the children 1015 00:57:17,413 --> 00:57:18,781 that she had had with him. 1016 00:57:18,881 --> 00:57:21,150 - ♪ 1017 00:57:23,219 --> 00:57:24,487 - ♪ 1018 00:57:24,587 --> 00:57:29,992 - And as punishment for this murder, 1019 00:57:30,092 --> 00:57:33,829 she has been condemned to wander the night, 1020 00:57:33,929 --> 00:57:36,832 looking for her lost children. 1021 00:57:36,932 --> 00:57:40,736 - And so the legend goes that every night when it's 1022 00:57:40,836 --> 00:57:44,607 dark and foggy near a body of water, La Llarona appears 1023 00:57:44,707 --> 00:57:47,943 as this ghostly apparition that is crying. 1024 00:57:48,043 --> 00:57:49,845 - ♪ 1025 00:57:49,945 --> 00:57:51,914 - NARRATOR: To this day, there are countless sightings 1026 00:57:52,014 --> 00:57:55,684 of the weeping woman by the lake. 1027 00:57:55,784 --> 00:57:58,787 - She does appear very consistently, 1028 00:57:58,888 --> 00:58:00,756 ether it's near a lake or a river, 1029 00:58:00,856 --> 00:58:02,892 or whether it's in these more intimate spaces, 1030 00:58:02,992 --> 00:58:04,426 like behind people in their cars. 1031 00:58:04,527 --> 00:58:07,730 There are stories of teenagers waking up 1032 00:58:07,830 --> 00:58:09,832 and seeing La Llarona standing at the foot 1033 00:58:09,932 --> 00:58:13,769 of their bed, weeping. And so this idea that she, 1034 00:58:13,869 --> 00:58:15,638 she could be anywhere, that she could even 1035 00:58:15,738 --> 00:58:20,242 be in your home speaks to how powerful she is. 1036 00:58:22,077 --> 00:58:26,515 - La Llarona's normally spotted at night, but not always, 1037 00:58:26,615 --> 00:58:30,052 dressed in a gown, a nice flowing, 1038 00:58:30,152 --> 00:58:32,821 usually white gown. 1039 00:58:32,922 --> 00:58:35,124 - She's wearing this kind of wedding dress, 1040 00:58:35,224 --> 00:58:38,460 white and tattered, and she's often wearing a veil, 1041 00:58:38,561 --> 00:58:42,932 a white veil, and she has very, very long dark hair as well. 1042 00:58:43,032 --> 00:58:46,602 - Some people say that she is soaking wet because she 1043 00:58:46,702 --> 00:58:48,837 came out of that water. They say that she can 1044 00:58:48,938 --> 00:58:53,042 be beautiful or she can be scary-looking, like, old. 1045 00:58:53,142 --> 00:58:54,944 - So she really is quite chameleonic 1046 00:58:55,044 --> 00:58:57,212 and resourceful in that way. 1047 00:58:59,014 --> 00:59:01,417 - NARRATOR: Some say that her appearance changes 1048 00:59:01,517 --> 00:59:04,186 to suit each intended target. 1049 00:59:04,286 --> 00:59:06,188 - When she appears to men, she's seen as a 1050 00:59:06,288 --> 00:59:10,326 very sexy woman, a very, very romanticized version 1051 00:59:10,426 --> 00:59:11,827 of this woman. 1052 00:59:11,927 --> 00:59:15,130 - And most often, La Llorona is approaching people she wants 1053 00:59:15,230 --> 00:59:17,900 to offer moral guidance. 1054 00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:23,772 - So if one were to meet La Llorona after, say, 1055 00:59:23,872 --> 00:59:26,208 a night of drinking, or out of the road 1056 00:59:26,308 --> 00:59:29,311 when you should be at home, should you survive, 1057 00:59:29,411 --> 00:59:35,384 it's a very starling message that says, you know, 1058 00:59:35,484 --> 00:59:36,986 get your act together. 1059 00:59:38,387 --> 00:59:40,856 - Ideally, though, turn from their wicked ways. 1060 00:59:40,956 --> 00:59:42,758 If not, they'll pay the price. 1061 00:59:42,858 --> 00:59:45,260 They could die. They could just go insane 1062 00:59:45,361 --> 00:59:48,998 or just be mentally unstable for the rest of their life. 1063 00:59:49,098 --> 00:59:51,133 - NARRATOR: Witnesses say La Llorona also 1064 00:59:51,233 --> 00:59:53,869 targets children, still grieving over 1065 00:59:53,969 --> 00:59:56,205 the loss of her own. 1066 00:59:56,305 --> 00:59:59,208 - La Llorona might be the best babysitter 1067 00:59:59,308 --> 01:00:03,679 you could ask for. Parents use her as a way 1068 01:00:03,779 --> 01:00:06,348 to not only discipline their children, 1069 01:00:06,448 --> 01:00:10,352 but to keep them in line. That if you do not get home 1070 01:00:10,452 --> 01:00:14,123 when I ask, La Llorona will come looking for you. 1071 01:00:14,223 --> 01:00:16,258 - It's a mom thing, I think, too. 1072 01:00:16,358 --> 01:00:18,961 Mom's are scary. She's got that going on, too. 1073 01:00:19,061 --> 01:00:23,298 - ♪ 1074 01:00:23,399 --> 01:00:25,534 - NARRATOR: If reports are any indication, 1075 01:00:25,634 --> 01:00:29,271 La Llorona has no shortage of targets. 1076 01:00:29,371 --> 01:00:33,676 - We have well over 100 years of sightings of her. 1077 01:00:33,776 --> 01:00:36,512 She is alive. She is along the river. 1078 01:00:36,612 --> 01:00:40,282 She really is there. She's there. 1079 01:00:40,382 --> 01:00:42,918 - People believe in La Llorona and they always have, 1080 01:00:43,018 --> 01:00:44,953 and people always will. 1081 01:00:45,054 --> 01:00:49,692 But I've never seen any indication that this legend 1082 01:00:49,792 --> 01:00:51,927 is waning in its strength and popularity 1083 01:00:52,027 --> 01:00:54,997 and I'm sure it never will. 1084 01:00:55,097 --> 01:00:57,132 - NARRATOR: While people may have different ideas 1085 01:00:57,232 --> 01:01:00,569 of what La Llorona looks like, almost everyone can 1086 01:01:00,669 --> 01:01:05,274 agree on one thing. She's terrifying. 1087 01:01:05,374 --> 01:01:07,710 - Even though I may not be a male or a kid, 1088 01:01:07,810 --> 01:01:09,845 that does scare me a lot. Like, I wouldn't wanna 1089 01:01:09,945 --> 01:01:11,513 see her, I wouldn't wanna hear her. 1090 01:01:13,515 --> 01:01:16,485 - I would just be leary of her because encounters 1091 01:01:16,585 --> 01:01:20,189 with her don't tend to go well, and if you encounter her, 1092 01:01:20,289 --> 01:01:23,025 you probably shouldn't be doing what you're doing. 1093 01:01:26,528 --> 01:01:29,498 - NARRATOR: La Llorona may hold the southwest captive 1094 01:01:29,598 --> 01:01:31,667 with her frigid stare, 1095 01:01:31,767 --> 01:01:36,371 but in the tundra of Minnesota, there's an even colder monster. 1096 01:01:36,472 --> 01:01:39,875 - ♪ 1097 01:01:39,975 --> 01:01:41,643 - NARRATOR: Who's got an insatiable appetite 1098 01:01:41,744 --> 01:01:45,514 for only one thing, human flesh. 1099 01:01:45,614 --> 01:01:51,153 - ♪ 1100 01:01:55,624 --> 01:01:58,060 - ♪ 1101 01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:59,628 - NARRATOR: We're nearing the top of our 1102 01:01:59,728 --> 01:02:02,464 scariest monsters in America list, 1103 01:02:02,564 --> 01:02:06,468 and traveling way up north to track down our next beast. 1104 01:02:06,568 --> 01:02:09,505 Coming in at number two is a creature so vicious, 1105 01:02:09,605 --> 01:02:13,575 it's known to kill anyone that falls under its influence. 1106 01:02:13,675 --> 01:02:15,844 It's the Minnesota Wendigo. 1107 01:02:17,112 --> 01:02:20,048 - ♪ 1108 01:02:20,149 --> 01:02:23,819 - The Wendigo is the perfect emobodiment 1109 01:02:23,919 --> 01:02:28,223 of the harshness of the northern winters. 1110 01:02:28,323 --> 01:02:33,796 the subarctic, freezing temperatures, lack of food, 1111 01:02:33,896 --> 01:02:37,933 crippling wind, and snow, and ice. 1112 01:02:38,033 --> 01:02:41,236 - It shows up in time of famine during the winter, 1113 01:02:41,336 --> 01:02:44,873 when food is scare, people are at their weakest 1114 01:02:44,973 --> 01:02:48,076 mentally and physically. And that's when the Wendigo 1115 01:02:48,177 --> 01:02:52,281 will show up as this elemental creature of the winter, 1116 01:02:52,381 --> 01:02:54,383 of the cold. 1117 01:02:54,483 --> 01:02:57,119 - Many times it's seen as, like, this very tall being 1118 01:02:57,219 --> 01:03:00,289 with antlers, its teeth are super sharp. 1119 01:03:00,389 --> 01:03:03,625 I've also heard a lot of people say that he has no lips 1120 01:03:03,725 --> 01:03:06,528 because he's chewed them off because he's so hungry. 1121 01:03:06,628 --> 01:03:07,963 Oh my goodness. 1122 01:03:08,063 --> 01:03:10,732 - NARRATOR: And this skeleton on legs has some 1123 01:03:10,833 --> 01:03:12,568 surprising superpowers. 1124 01:03:14,369 --> 01:03:19,208 - He is supernaturally fast. He runs with the speed 1125 01:03:19,308 --> 01:03:21,276 of the wind. 1126 01:03:21,376 --> 01:03:24,746 - He has superhuman strength, can uproot trees, 1127 01:03:24,847 --> 01:03:27,583 can throw cars, things of that nature. 1128 01:03:27,683 --> 01:03:31,453 - NARRATOR: The Wendigo also has super strong senses. 1129 01:03:31,553 --> 01:03:33,322 - They're gonna hear you coming a mile away, 1130 01:03:33,422 --> 01:03:35,891 they'll smell you before you even know they're there. 1131 01:03:37,492 --> 01:03:39,528 - NARRATOR: The Wendigo uses these tools to secure 1132 01:03:39,628 --> 01:03:42,364 its next meal. 1133 01:03:42,464 --> 01:03:45,367 But you won't find this beast munching on car bumpers, 1134 01:03:45,467 --> 01:03:49,004 like South Carolina's lizard man. 1135 01:03:49,104 --> 01:03:51,106 It takes something far more sinister to sate 1136 01:03:51,206 --> 01:03:53,442 the Wendigo's appetite. 1137 01:03:56,278 --> 01:03:59,047 - What sets the Wendigo apart from nearly every other 1138 01:03:59,147 --> 01:04:02,484 monster is that while other monsters may have 1139 01:04:02,584 --> 01:04:06,788 sinister motives and plans, the Wendigo has one goal 1140 01:04:06,889 --> 01:04:11,059 and one goal only, devour human flesh. 1141 01:04:12,261 --> 01:04:15,230 - It needs to eat, it needs to feed. 1142 01:04:15,330 --> 01:04:18,967 - Eat flesh, eat flesh, consume, consume, consume. 1143 01:04:19,067 --> 01:04:21,937 - It's not actively in the background going about 1144 01:04:22,037 --> 01:04:25,841 its own business. We are its business. 1145 01:04:25,941 --> 01:04:27,542 And it's looking for us. 1146 01:04:27,643 --> 01:04:33,215 - ♪ 1147 01:04:33,315 --> 01:04:35,984 - NARRATOR: This taste for human flesh draws comparisons 1148 01:04:36,084 --> 01:04:39,454 to another well-known monster. 1149 01:04:39,554 --> 01:04:41,757 - A lot of people make the comparison between 1150 01:04:41,857 --> 01:04:44,059 zombies and Wendigo. 1151 01:04:44,159 --> 01:04:47,429 And although maybe by appearance they seem 1152 01:04:47,529 --> 01:04:50,299 semi-similar, skeletal and gaunt, 1153 01:04:50,399 --> 01:04:52,634 but where zombies are thought to be mindless 1154 01:04:52,734 --> 01:04:55,504 creatures of the undead, the Wendigo is thought 1155 01:04:55,604 --> 01:04:57,973 to be very intelligent. 1156 01:04:58,073 --> 01:05:01,310 - So they're cunning as well as ravenous. 1157 01:05:05,314 --> 01:05:07,783 - MALE: Possible Wendigo caught on camera. 1158 01:05:07,883 --> 01:05:10,185 - ♪ 1159 01:05:10,285 --> 01:05:12,621 - He's basically, like, the best hunter you 1160 01:05:12,721 --> 01:05:14,056 could ever think of. He has thought of it all 1161 01:05:14,156 --> 01:05:17,459 and he knows exactly how to get to his prey. 1162 01:05:18,794 --> 01:05:22,331 - NARRATOR: Along with its size, strength, and speed, 1163 01:05:22,431 --> 01:05:26,768 the Wendigo has another weapon, its brain. 1164 01:05:26,868 --> 01:05:31,873 This beast can play some pretty clever mind games. 1165 01:05:31,974 --> 01:05:35,677 - One of the beliefs is that the Wendigo has the ability 1166 01:05:35,777 --> 01:05:39,147 to mimic human voices. 1167 01:05:39,247 --> 01:05:42,684 - If you hear a friend's voice but you know that they are 1168 01:05:42,784 --> 01:05:46,688 either further away from you or they're not with you at all, 1169 01:05:46,788 --> 01:05:49,491 you do not listen to that voice, you do not listen to it. 1170 01:05:49,591 --> 01:05:52,427 It's a lure. It's trying to bait you 1171 01:05:52,527 --> 01:05:54,830 to come to it so that it can eat you. 1172 01:05:54,930 --> 01:05:58,667 - ♪ 1173 01:05:58,767 --> 01:06:00,602 - NARRATOR: So if you're out wandering in the 1174 01:06:00,702 --> 01:06:04,506 snow-covered woods, how do you know if there's a Wendigo 1175 01:06:04,606 --> 01:06:09,077 on your trail? Just follow your nose. 1176 01:06:09,177 --> 01:06:12,147 - The Wendigo, it has a very putrid smell. 1177 01:06:12,247 --> 01:06:16,151 Many people have equated it to rotting flesh. 1178 01:06:16,251 --> 01:06:19,221 - There's another sign the Wendigo is nearby. 1179 01:06:19,321 --> 01:06:22,224 Even in the bitter cold, you'll feel the temperature 1180 01:06:22,324 --> 01:06:25,727 take a sharp and sudden drop. 1181 01:06:25,827 --> 01:06:28,030 - He has a heart made of ice. 1182 01:06:28,130 --> 01:06:32,968 And you know he's around because often he'll bring 1183 01:06:33,068 --> 01:06:36,371 winter storms or cold with him. 1184 01:06:36,471 --> 01:06:39,408 - NARRATOR: But perhaps the most difficult sign to ignore 1185 01:06:39,508 --> 01:06:42,411 is the piercing shriek of a Wendigo just before 1186 01:06:42,511 --> 01:06:45,313 he attacks. 1187 01:06:45,414 --> 01:06:48,650 - Hearing the Wendigo scream, someone you know is 1188 01:06:48,750 --> 01:06:52,054 going to die very shortly. 1189 01:06:52,154 --> 01:06:53,855 - NARRATOR: If you do find yourself facing off 1190 01:06:53,955 --> 01:06:57,592 against a Wendigo, what next? 1191 01:06:57,692 --> 01:07:00,996 Step one, panic. 1192 01:07:01,096 --> 01:07:05,100 Step two, look for something sharp. 1193 01:07:05,200 --> 01:07:07,135 - You need some way to take out his heart, 1194 01:07:07,235 --> 01:07:10,105 because that is the source of its possession. 1195 01:07:10,205 --> 01:07:13,241 And because in many tellings, the Wendigo's heart 1196 01:07:13,341 --> 01:07:15,377 is made of ice. 1197 01:07:15,477 --> 01:07:17,479 - The most common way to defend yourself against 1198 01:07:17,579 --> 01:07:21,149 a Wendigo, if you're able to is to cut out their heart 1199 01:07:21,249 --> 01:07:23,118 and melt it over a fire. 1200 01:07:25,554 --> 01:07:28,156 However, if this thing is real, I don't think anyone 1201 01:07:28,256 --> 01:07:30,258 is getting close enough to it to do that before 1202 01:07:30,358 --> 01:07:31,927 it tears you apart. 1203 01:07:32,027 --> 01:07:35,197 - ♪ 1204 01:07:35,297 --> 01:07:37,399 - To kill a Wendigo, I mean, good luck. 1205 01:07:40,202 --> 01:07:41,503 - NARRATOR: To all who know him, 1206 01:07:41,603 --> 01:07:43,538 the Wendigo is the kind of creature you never 1207 01:07:43,638 --> 01:07:48,009 want to meet on a cold winter's day or night. 1208 01:07:48,110 --> 01:07:50,946 - He eats humans. So in a sense, if I were 1209 01:07:51,046 --> 01:07:52,848 to come face-to-face with a Wendigo, 1210 01:07:52,948 --> 01:07:55,317 nobody would see me right after that because I'm gone. 1211 01:07:55,417 --> 01:07:57,252 I'm dinner, basically. 1212 01:07:58,320 --> 01:08:01,590 - The Wendigo, there's nothing like it ever. 1213 01:08:01,690 --> 01:08:04,493 It's the scariest, most terrifying, 1214 01:08:04,593 --> 01:08:07,896 deadliest monster I hope you never encounter. 1215 01:08:08,897 --> 01:08:10,899 - But there's still one slot in our top 10 1216 01:08:10,999 --> 01:08:13,435 scariest monsters countdown. 1217 01:08:13,535 --> 01:08:16,338 And we've saved the worst for last. 1218 01:08:17,439 --> 01:08:21,109 Up next is a cryptid that needs no introduction. 1219 01:08:21,209 --> 01:08:24,312 It's a monster as American as apple pie, 1220 01:08:24,412 --> 01:08:26,615 but a whole lot deadlier. 1221 01:08:26,715 --> 01:08:30,452 - ♪ 1222 01:08:34,789 --> 01:08:36,825 - NARRATOR: We've used our map of monsters to find 1223 01:08:36,925 --> 01:08:39,961 the scariest creatures around. 1224 01:08:40,061 --> 01:08:41,796 From the Louisiana bayou... 1225 01:08:41,897 --> 01:08:45,600 - ♪ 1226 01:08:45,700 --> 01:08:51,506 - NARRATOR:...to small town West Virginia, 1227 01:08:51,606 --> 01:08:54,376 the icy plains of Minnesota... 1228 01:08:54,476 --> 01:08:57,679 - ♪ 1229 01:08:57,779 --> 01:09:00,682 - NARRATOR:...to the New Jersey pine barons. 1230 01:09:04,252 --> 01:09:06,054 Now we're going to the home turf of 1231 01:09:06,154 --> 01:09:09,391 the scariest monster of all. 1232 01:09:09,491 --> 01:09:12,861 Coming in at number one on our top 10 countdown, 1233 01:09:12,961 --> 01:09:16,364 it's the biggest, baddest, beast of them all. 1234 01:09:17,732 --> 01:09:21,503 Watch out for the Washington Bigfoot. 1235 01:09:23,538 --> 01:09:25,607 - If cryptozoology had a poster child, 1236 01:09:25,707 --> 01:09:28,109 that poster child would definitely be Bigfoot 1237 01:09:28,210 --> 01:09:30,445 or Sasquatch. 1238 01:09:30,545 --> 01:09:35,283 - Bigfoot is a large humanoid creature, 1239 01:09:35,383 --> 01:09:38,787 and he inhabits wooded areas. 1240 01:09:40,021 --> 01:09:42,857 - We have accounts of these creatures being very large, 1241 01:09:42,958 --> 01:09:47,495 very muscular and bulky. These are apex predators 1242 01:09:47,596 --> 01:09:50,098 when it comes down to it. The king of the forest, 1243 01:09:50,198 --> 01:09:55,537 if you will, because they are the largest thing out there. 1244 01:09:55,637 --> 01:09:57,672 - A lot of people equate his appearance to maybe that 1245 01:09:57,772 --> 01:10:00,642 of a gorilla, maybe that of a bear. 1246 01:10:00,742 --> 01:10:03,745 It makes you question, am I in danger? 1247 01:10:08,383 --> 01:10:10,151 - NARRATOR: Tales of these towering creatures 1248 01:10:10,252 --> 01:10:12,754 go all the way back to Indigenous people 1249 01:10:12,854 --> 01:10:15,290 who believe that Bigfoot stands as a reminder 1250 01:10:15,390 --> 01:10:18,059 of the untamed beast within us all. 1251 01:10:19,728 --> 01:10:23,732 - Most of the more respected theories about 1252 01:10:23,832 --> 01:10:27,435 where Bigfoot came from is that it's practically 1253 01:10:27,535 --> 01:10:30,805 a missing link, if you will, a part of our chain 1254 01:10:30,905 --> 01:10:34,309 of evolution that has been hidden. 1255 01:10:37,078 --> 01:10:39,414 - NARRATOR: Over the years, increased sightings 1256 01:10:39,514 --> 01:10:44,319 of these savage creators have led to rising panic. 1257 01:10:44,419 --> 01:10:47,022 - There were all kinds of accounts in cities 1258 01:10:47,122 --> 01:10:51,026 and towns across America where they were encountering 1259 01:10:51,126 --> 01:10:56,298 giant hairy men, covers in hair from top to bottom. 1260 01:10:56,398 --> 01:10:58,767 They named them wild men of the woods. 1261 01:10:58,867 --> 01:11:01,469 And when they started seeing thee creatures, 1262 01:11:01,569 --> 01:11:03,672 they took it in a little different manner that 1263 01:11:03,772 --> 01:11:05,974 they're fearful, they're something that 1264 01:11:06,074 --> 01:11:08,576 should be hunted. 1265 01:11:08,677 --> 01:11:11,680 They have a very long gait, they're very quick 1266 01:11:11,780 --> 01:11:14,883 when they want to be, very strong. 1267 01:11:14,983 --> 01:11:17,352 And I think for a lot of people, that's the fear 1268 01:11:17,452 --> 01:11:18,787 of encountering them. 1269 01:11:18,887 --> 01:11:22,924 - ♪ 1270 01:11:23,024 --> 01:11:24,826 - There are violent reports. 1271 01:11:24,926 --> 01:11:28,963 For example, 1924 up near Mount St. Helens, 1272 01:11:29,064 --> 01:11:33,335 these gold miners were setting up their mine 1273 01:11:33,435 --> 01:11:36,171 and they are surrounded by ape men, 1274 01:11:36,271 --> 01:11:39,007 which throw rocks at the cabin, 1275 01:11:39,107 --> 01:11:41,476 punching the walls of the cabin, trying to get in, 1276 01:11:41,576 --> 01:11:43,645 trying to break the door down. They're shooting 1277 01:11:43,745 --> 01:11:47,582 at them with rifles up until daybreak when they go away. 1278 01:11:47,682 --> 01:11:50,185 When they come out of the cabin, 1279 01:11:50,285 --> 01:11:54,556 they find long footprints on the ground 1280 01:11:54,656 --> 01:11:56,558 all surrounding the cabin. 1281 01:11:59,027 --> 01:12:02,364 - NARRATOR: But it wasn't until the 1950s that one 1282 01:12:02,464 --> 01:12:06,167 close encounter gave the beast a new name. 1283 01:12:06,267 --> 01:12:12,374 - 1958, a man named Jerry Crew and his logging crew 1284 01:12:12,474 --> 01:12:14,743 all began to experience some strange things. 1285 01:12:14,843 --> 01:12:18,246 They wake up in the morning and find their oil canisters, 1286 01:12:18,346 --> 01:12:22,550 and I mean, 45-gallon oil drums tossed into the creek below. 1287 01:12:22,650 --> 01:12:25,687 And a couple people report seeing a large 1288 01:12:25,787 --> 01:12:28,590 humanoid-like creature. They're finding large, 1289 01:12:28,690 --> 01:12:30,558 human-like footprints. 1290 01:12:30,658 --> 01:12:32,727 A journalist named Andrew Gonzoli comes up 1291 01:12:32,827 --> 01:12:36,765 with the term Bigfoot and that catches fire. 1292 01:12:36,865 --> 01:12:43,505 - ♪ 1293 01:12:43,605 --> 01:12:46,908 - There are different beliefs as to what Bigfoot is. 1294 01:12:47,008 --> 01:12:49,677 Some believe that Bigfoot is, perhaps, 1295 01:12:49,778 --> 01:12:51,980 an interdimensional being that comes in and out 1296 01:12:52,080 --> 01:12:55,417 of our reality at will. 1297 01:12:55,517 --> 01:12:57,519 - NARRATOR: It's this supernatural ability that 1298 01:12:57,619 --> 01:13:00,088 might help explain why sightings of Bigfoot 1299 01:13:00,188 --> 01:13:04,092 now stretch way beyond the Pacific northwest. 1300 01:13:04,192 --> 01:13:08,196 - You have the east coast variety, often called pine apes. 1301 01:13:08,296 --> 01:13:12,333 You have, down in the south in the swamps in Louisiana, 1302 01:13:12,434 --> 01:13:16,671 actually, it's called, uh, the skunk ape. 1303 01:13:16,771 --> 01:13:19,474 - A lot of the time people feel like they're feeling watched. 1304 01:13:19,574 --> 01:13:21,709 And I think all of us as human beings can feel 1305 01:13:21,810 --> 01:13:24,045 kind of off when we feel like somebody is staring 1306 01:13:24,145 --> 01:13:27,081 at us unwarranted. People say, I didn't see him, 1307 01:13:27,182 --> 01:13:29,284 but I felt him. I know he was interested. 1308 01:13:29,384 --> 01:13:31,853 I know he was watching. 1309 01:13:31,953 --> 01:13:33,755 - I believe that Bigfoot is something we should 1310 01:13:33,855 --> 01:13:36,825 be cautious of. It is not uncommon to find 1311 01:13:36,925 --> 01:13:40,595 deer out in the woods that have had their livers ripped out. 1312 01:13:44,299 --> 01:13:47,101 - NARRATOR: One boy from east Tennessee actually came 1313 01:13:47,202 --> 01:13:50,772 face-to-face with this colossal creature. 1314 01:13:50,872 --> 01:13:54,976 Though it was nearly 15 years ago, his dad, 1315 01:13:55,076 --> 01:13:59,147 Matt Seeber will remember the day forever. 1316 01:13:59,247 --> 01:14:01,783 - As a lot of young kids do in the summertime, 1317 01:14:01,883 --> 01:14:05,119 they play video games all night and they sleep all day. 1318 01:14:05,220 --> 01:14:07,355 So he was doing a chore for me in the middle 1319 01:14:07,455 --> 01:14:09,357 of the night. And as he was doing that, 1320 01:14:09,457 --> 01:14:12,694 a Sasquatch, a Bigfoot approached him. 1321 01:14:13,895 --> 01:14:16,865 - NARRATOR: The 15-year-old stood there, stunned 1322 01:14:16,965 --> 01:14:21,536 as he considered this creature's frightening reputation. 1323 01:14:21,636 --> 01:14:22,871 - It is very possible 1324 01:14:22,971 --> 01:14:24,873 that they could have a violent streak. 1325 01:14:24,973 --> 01:14:27,342 I've heard some stories of some pretty chilling experiences 1326 01:14:27,442 --> 01:14:29,244 where some violence took place. 1327 01:14:29,344 --> 01:14:31,779 Uh, people were actually killed. 1328 01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:35,717 - You have to remember, you're on their turf. 1329 01:14:35,817 --> 01:14:39,387 - NARRATOR: Luckily, Matt says his son was able to slip away 1330 01:14:39,487 --> 01:14:44,292 without injury, but the encounter left a lasting mark. 1331 01:14:44,392 --> 01:14:46,661 - My son, who's now in his 30s, uh, 1332 01:14:46,761 --> 01:14:50,031 does not go outside at night. It is truly messed 1333 01:14:50,131 --> 01:14:51,866 with his mind. He's afraid of the dark, 1334 01:14:51,966 --> 01:14:54,035 basically, and he's a grown man. 1335 01:14:57,372 --> 01:14:59,641 - NARRATOR: It's incidents like these that have led 1336 01:14:59,741 --> 01:15:02,810 one man from east Tennessee to take action. 1337 01:15:02,911 --> 01:15:04,812 - So this is the only Bigfoot patrol car 1338 01:15:04,913 --> 01:15:08,750 in the country It's a 2005 lifted 1339 01:15:08,850 --> 01:15:11,185 Ford Crown Victoria. Um, it's a police interceptor. 1340 01:15:11,286 --> 01:15:14,756 It's a retired Missouri State Trooper car. 1341 01:15:14,856 --> 01:15:18,026 - Nate's modified this cruiser with everything you'd need 1342 01:15:18,126 --> 01:15:21,429 to take the world's most dangerous passenger. 1343 01:15:21,529 --> 01:15:23,398 - It still has the prison partition 1344 01:15:23,498 --> 01:15:25,400 it has the plastic seats in the back, 1345 01:15:25,500 --> 01:15:27,902 it has steel door panels and window bars. 1346 01:15:28,002 --> 01:15:31,306 We also added the K9 window bars in the back window, 1347 01:15:31,406 --> 01:15:33,541 which are super rare. Took me about three years 1348 01:15:33,641 --> 01:15:35,810 to finally get my hands on them. 1349 01:15:35,910 --> 01:15:37,512 He could break out of a regular car door 1350 01:15:37,612 --> 01:15:39,280 if he wanted to. 1351 01:15:40,315 --> 01:15:42,850 - NARRATOR: Even with his Bigfoot-proof vehicle, 1352 01:15:42,951 --> 01:15:45,753 Nate's hoping he'll never have to make a Sasquatch 1353 01:15:45,853 --> 01:15:47,322 citizen's arrest. 1354 01:15:47,422 --> 01:15:50,592 - I don't feel like it's a smart idea to mess with a 1355 01:15:50,692 --> 01:15:52,961 creature that's at least twice my height 1356 01:15:53,061 --> 01:15:54,729 and probably three times my weight. 1357 01:15:54,829 --> 01:15:56,464 I'm not a tiny guy, but that scares 1358 01:15:56,564 --> 01:15:58,366 the crap outta me. 1359 01:15:58,466 --> 01:16:04,806 - ♪ 1360 01:16:04,906 --> 01:16:06,841 - This is a creature at the top of the food chain 1361 01:16:06,941 --> 01:16:10,812 that can take you down as easily as a grizzly would. 1362 01:16:10,912 --> 01:16:15,917 I think that they are very powerful creatures 1363 01:16:16,017 --> 01:16:20,254 that deserve to be respected and approached with 1364 01:16:20,355 --> 01:16:21,356 a great deal of caution. 1365 01:16:21,456 --> 01:16:24,092 - ♪ 1366 01:16:24,192 --> 01:16:27,362 - NARRATOR: Fear and fascination of this furry beast continue 1367 01:16:27,462 --> 01:16:30,064 to fuel Bigfoot's cultural appeal. 1368 01:16:30,164 --> 01:16:32,467 He's now the headliner at festivals all 1369 01:16:32,567 --> 01:16:34,369 around the country. 1370 01:16:34,469 --> 01:16:38,039 - I think this festival has a lot of draw to it because, 1371 01:16:38,139 --> 01:16:41,909 um, Bigfoot's really mysterious and interesting. 1372 01:16:42,010 --> 01:16:44,746 - The dimensions are the pictures of the foot 1373 01:16:44,846 --> 01:16:48,316 at that point, uh, convinces me there is 1374 01:16:48,416 --> 01:16:50,018 something out there. 1375 01:16:50,118 --> 01:16:51,686 - At an event like this, you get to be around 1376 01:16:51,786 --> 01:16:55,423 like-minded people, of course, and sharing stories, 1377 01:16:55,523 --> 01:16:56,858 different techniques. 1378 01:16:56,958 --> 01:16:58,793 - And we get to listen to other people and their tips. 1379 01:16:58,893 --> 01:17:01,329 And we can share what we do, you know, 1380 01:17:01,429 --> 01:17:03,064 and learn a lot that way. 1381 01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,902 - NARRATOR: But is it enough to prepare any one of these 1382 01:17:08,002 --> 01:17:11,139 people for encountering Bigfoot in the wild? 1383 01:17:11,239 --> 01:17:13,374 - Very often, these people who see these creatures are just 1384 01:17:13,474 --> 01:17:16,010 going about their business They're walking their dogs, 1385 01:17:16,110 --> 01:17:18,780 they're on their way home from work or going to work. 1386 01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,783 They're out visiting family members 1387 01:17:21,883 --> 01:17:25,153 - He is often spotted at a distance. 1388 01:17:25,253 --> 01:17:30,091 Eyewitness reports suggest that he makes various noises, 1389 01:17:30,191 --> 01:17:33,161 like knocking, sometimes whistling. 1390 01:17:33,261 --> 01:17:36,831 - 1391 01:17:36,931 --> 01:17:38,332 - MALE: Hear that? 1392 01:17:41,335 --> 01:17:43,037 - MALE: I think I heard a knock that time, too. 1393 01:17:43,137 --> 01:17:45,873 - Sometime a screech or a scream can be heard 1394 01:17:45,973 --> 01:17:47,275 off in the woods. 1395 01:17:47,375 --> 01:17:51,879 - 1396 01:17:55,083 --> 01:17:56,984 - MALE: I think it's time to go. 1397 01:18:01,723 --> 01:18:05,393 - Sometimes people who see Bigfoot also see 1398 01:18:05,493 --> 01:18:08,196 these balls of light... - FEMALE: Okay, I found it. 1399 01:18:08,296 --> 01:18:11,199 - ...that are near that area right before, or after, 1400 01:18:11,299 --> 01:18:13,935 or during their Bigfoot sighting. 1401 01:18:14,035 --> 01:18:15,870 - FEMALE: This is interesting. Can you see? See that? 1402 01:18:20,341 --> 01:18:22,944 - The balls of light that people are seeing, 1403 01:18:23,044 --> 01:18:24,812 they are sometimes different colors. 1404 01:18:24,912 --> 01:18:27,215 There's the green ones that are, they look very much 1405 01:18:27,315 --> 01:18:29,817 like the same color green that's in a traffic light. 1406 01:18:29,917 --> 01:18:33,121 And it happens so frequently that the locals there 1407 01:18:33,221 --> 01:18:36,557 had developed a saying of, when the green lights appear, 1408 01:18:36,657 --> 01:18:38,226 Bigfoot is near. 1409 01:18:39,994 --> 01:18:42,363 - NARRATOR: North Dakota resident, Jen Crews has yet 1410 01:18:42,463 --> 01:18:45,500 to see Bigfoot up close, but she's determined 1411 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:49,804 to face her fear, which is why she put together a team 1412 01:18:49,904 --> 01:18:52,607 known as the She Squatchers to track down 1413 01:18:52,707 --> 01:18:55,109 this elusive cryptid. 1414 01:18:55,977 --> 01:18:57,078 - I thought, well, I'll give this a try. 1415 01:18:57,178 --> 01:18:59,313 I'll find some ladies to go out with me. 1416 01:18:59,413 --> 01:19:02,450 We found a place where somebody had had 1417 01:19:02,550 --> 01:19:05,920 a recent encounter. And it was fairly close 1418 01:19:06,020 --> 01:19:09,757 to where I lived on the Cast Lake Indian Reservation. 1419 01:19:09,857 --> 01:19:12,260 A Native man had been fishing in his canoe 1420 01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:14,962 and there was a large Sasquatch that was about 1421 01:19:15,062 --> 01:19:17,632 knee-deep in the shallows of the water that was 1422 01:19:17,732 --> 01:19:21,035 aggressively moving towards him as he was coming into shore. 1423 01:19:22,637 --> 01:19:25,106 - NARRATOR: One night, Jen and her team prowled 1424 01:19:25,206 --> 01:19:27,942 the woods near that lake, tempting the beast 1425 01:19:28,042 --> 01:19:30,511 to make a repeat appearance. 1426 01:19:31,579 --> 01:19:34,415 - When we were driving along this little road, 1427 01:19:34,515 --> 01:19:36,951 I started feeling this interesting sensation that 1428 01:19:37,051 --> 01:19:39,854 I had never felt before. And so we stopped the car, 1429 01:19:39,954 --> 01:19:43,925 we got out. It was so dark that we couldn't 1430 01:19:44,025 --> 01:19:46,227 see anything. And so I had my equipment 1431 01:19:46,327 --> 01:19:49,063 in hand already, and one of the girls handed me 1432 01:19:49,163 --> 01:19:53,134 this thermal camera. Now I'm pointing it out 1433 01:19:53,234 --> 01:19:55,069 in front of the car. And on the left side 1434 01:19:55,169 --> 01:19:57,104 of the road, right where the tree line is, 1435 01:19:57,205 --> 01:19:59,040 maybe about 50 feet in front of the car, 1436 01:19:59,140 --> 01:20:02,009 there was somebody standing there. 1437 01:20:02,109 --> 01:20:04,178 So when I first saw it, I thought it was one 1438 01:20:04,278 --> 01:20:07,014 of my team members, because it looked like a person. 1439 01:20:07,114 --> 01:20:08,983 It was a humanoid shape. 1440 01:20:09,083 --> 01:20:12,086 - NARRATOR: Jen says she soon took a closer look 1441 01:20:12,186 --> 01:20:15,223 and realized it wasn't one of her teammates. 1442 01:20:15,323 --> 01:20:19,193 In fact, it wasn't human at all. 1443 01:20:19,293 --> 01:20:23,631 - It had more of a conal-shaped head, very thick trapezius, 1444 01:20:23,731 --> 01:20:27,068 almost like it had no neck whatsoever and wide shoulders. 1445 01:20:27,168 --> 01:20:30,004 So I put the camera down and I looked just to see 1446 01:20:30,104 --> 01:20:33,407 if I could see it with my eyes, and I didn't. 1447 01:20:33,507 --> 01:20:36,143 But then I put the camera back up and it's gone. 1448 01:20:39,046 --> 01:20:42,149 - NARRATOR: Some say Jen was lucky she walked away 1449 01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:46,153 without a scratch. Next time might be different. 1450 01:20:47,588 --> 01:20:50,191 If we really think about, like, the food web, right, 1451 01:20:50,291 --> 01:20:52,560 he's clearly bigger than us and stronger than us, 1452 01:20:52,660 --> 01:20:55,730 then we would be next in line. 1453 01:20:55,830 --> 01:20:58,399 - Bigfoot is scary, like, very scary, 1454 01:20:58,499 --> 01:21:01,869 mostly because I think it's the most likely to be real 1455 01:21:01,969 --> 01:21:04,906 of all the ones that I've looked into. 1456 01:21:05,006 --> 01:21:06,807 I mean, you're talking about something that could 1457 01:21:06,908 --> 01:21:09,310 sneak up on you completely silently 1458 01:21:09,410 --> 01:21:14,382 and just watch you. That is so terrifying. 1459 01:21:16,150 --> 01:21:18,286 - NARRATOR: What's most terrifying of all is that 1460 01:21:18,386 --> 01:21:23,224 nobody has ever been able to catch Bigfoot. 1461 01:21:23,324 --> 01:21:28,396 At least not anyone who's lived to tell the tale. 1462 01:21:28,496 --> 01:21:30,364 - We don't know what happened to these people 1463 01:21:30,464 --> 01:21:33,334 if Bigfoot has gotten them, if Bigfoot has eaten them. 1464 01:21:33,434 --> 01:21:35,403 It's crazy. 1465 01:21:35,503 --> 01:21:37,505 - NARRATOR: But even if a trip to Washington isn't 1466 01:21:37,605 --> 01:21:41,709 on your bucket list, America's scariest monsters 1467 01:21:41,809 --> 01:21:44,612 are closer than you think. 1468 01:21:44,712 --> 01:21:46,080 - MALE: What the hell is that? 1469 01:21:47,615 --> 01:21:48,749 - MALE: That ain't right. 1470 01:21:50,217 --> 01:21:52,420 - MALE: Get in the house! Get in the house! 1471 01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:54,522 - You know, no matter who you are, no matter where 1472 01:21:54,622 --> 01:21:57,391 you are, at any point in time you could experience something 1473 01:21:57,491 --> 01:21:59,927 that is far outside the realm of what we consider 1474 01:22:00,027 --> 01:22:01,595 to be . 1475 01:22:01,696 --> 01:22:05,967 - ♪ 1476 01:22:06,067 --> 01:22:09,136 - MALE: Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. 1477 01:22:11,505 --> 01:22:14,208 - That not knowing, that wanting to know 1478 01:22:14,308 --> 01:22:17,345 propels people forward. 1479 01:22:17,445 --> 01:22:19,981 You want to be scared. You want to go 1480 01:22:20,081 --> 01:22:23,517 and experience that monster that can't be found 1481 01:22:23,617 --> 01:22:25,152 anywhere else. 1482 01:22:25,252 --> 01:22:28,122 - It's the last bit of mystery left in the world. 1483 01:22:28,222 --> 01:22:31,125 Things that are nocturnal and run around at night, 1484 01:22:31,225 --> 01:22:33,694 I mean, what is that, if not a monster? 1485 01:22:35,830 --> 01:22:46,540 - ♪ 1486 01:23:55,609 --> 01:23:58,512 - ♪