WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:00.160 Hi. 2 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.080 I'm doctor Maria Meyer, anthropologists, primatologist, wildlife correspondent and part 3 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:08.880 of the team on Expedition Bigfoot. I've spent my entire 4 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:13.519 life exploring the planet's wildest, most remote places in search 5 00:00:13.560 --> 00:00:17.280 of the extraordinary. And now I'm inviting you to join me. 6 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:22.960 Introducing the Explorer Society, a global community of curious minds, 7 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.760 truth seekers, and adventures where we dive into the unknown, 8 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:31.160 from elusive creatures like Bigfoot, to the frontiers of science, 9 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:35.679 nature and unexplained phenomena. 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Joint Explorer Society 16 00:01:01.880 --> 00:01:03.840 at Maria Mayor dot com. 17 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:04.920 And now, what are your reporting? 18 00:01:05.719 --> 00:01:07.400 I got a screen going on here. 19 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:08.680 Something just gise my dog. 20 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:09.959 Something killed your dog? 21 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:11.159 My dog? 22 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:13.159 We're flying through the or over the tree. I don't 23 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.239 know how it did it? Okay, damn it. I'm really confused. 24 00:01:18.439 --> 00:01:20.319 All I saw was my dog coming over the fence 25 00:01:20.319 --> 00:01:21.000 and they was dead. 26 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:23.159 And once you hit the grill, I didn't see any cars. 27 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:42.000 All I saw was my dog coming over the fence. One. 28 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:45.159 What are you reportting? We got some wonder or something 29 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:47.560 crawling around out here? 30 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:55.719 Did you see what it was? 31 00:01:55.719 --> 00:01:55.799 Was? 32 00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:58.040 It was seeing enough. I'm out here looking through the 33 00:01:58.079 --> 00:01:58.680 window now and I. 34 00:01:58.680 --> 00:02:07.680 Don't see anything. I don't want to go, Hello, hit 35 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.039 the boddy out here? What quent on out there? That's 36 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.759 thought of a mention about Tech nine? I don't know. 37 00:02:13.039 --> 00:02:14.000 Easy annount there. 38 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:14.759 Yeah, I'm. 39 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:18.280 Before we get into this story, I want to make 40 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:21.240 a few things clear. What you're about to hear comes 41 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:25.120 from someone who calls himself Marcus. He claims to be 42 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.879 part of a highly secretive military unit, one that doesn't 43 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:33.199 officially exist. According to him, this unit handles cases that 44 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:37.719 no other agency will touch. We're talking about cryptids, UFOs, 45 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:41.560 and other unexplained phenomena, things that most people would consider 46 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:45.800 pure fiction or conspiracy theories. Some of what they describe 47 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:48.520 is unbelievable. Some of it sounds like it could be 48 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:51.759 ripped straight from a horror movie. Whether you believe any 49 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.520 of it is completely up to you. There's no way 50 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:59.240 to independently verify these claims, no names, no dates, no 51 00:02:59.319 --> 00:03:01.960 way to check the unit's existence. This kind of thing 52 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.159 lives in the shadows, way off the books. You can 53 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:08.520 decide for yourself what's real and what's not. But here's 54 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:12.759 your warning. This story contains graphic descriptions of violence, death, 55 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.960 and disturbing events. It includes scenes of brutality that are 56 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.479 not suitable for all listeners. If you're sensitive to that 57 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.800 kind of content, or if you've got kids around, now's 58 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:26.240 the time to hit pause or skip to something else. 59 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.080 Listener discretion is strongly advised. What follows is his account, 60 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:34.599 in his own words, a first hand story from someone 61 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.719 who says they've seen the worst of what's hiding in 62 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.879 the dark and live to talk about it. I've been 63 00:03:40.879 --> 00:03:44.360 listening to your podcast for years, and honestly, you seem 64 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:46.400 like one of the few people who might actually take 65 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:49.319 this seriously. I can't tell you my name or which 66 00:03:49.400 --> 00:03:52.639 unit I'm part of. This stuff is way above top secret. 67 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.120 You once asked your listeners to send in their real 68 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:59.759 stories about weird stuff well, here's mine. I work for 69 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.520 a military unit that officially doesn't exist. We handle the 70 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:07.240 stuff too weird, too dangerous, or too embarrassing for normal 71 00:04:07.280 --> 00:04:10.759 military or police to deal with. There's maybe a dozen 72 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:13.840 units like ours across the country. We get called in 73 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:17.040 when park rangers find tracks they can't explain, or when 74 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:19.879 local cops run into something they know they're not equipped for. 75 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:23.120 We're the cleanup crew for things the government doesn't want 76 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:27.800 getting out. Look most cryptid and UFO stories, yeah, they're 77 00:04:27.800 --> 00:04:31.920 fake about ninety percent, or hoaxes or people misidentifying animals 78 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:35.279 or aircraft. But the other ten percent, that's where we 79 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:38.680 come in. I've been doing this for eight years. I've 80 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:42.120 seen things that make you question everything. Creatures that science 81 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.920 says can't exist, tech that's decades ahead of what we've got, 82 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:50.240 and people who've turned into something else Entirely, officially, we're 83 00:04:50.279 --> 00:04:54.360 just cleaning up weird wildlife situations or prankster hoaxes. But 84 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.279 we've got the body counts, the photos and the evidence 85 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:59.600 to prove there's a whole other world out there that 86 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:03.800 regularly folks never see. Let me start with the sasquatch cases, 87 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:07.240 because those are probably the easiest to wrap your head around. 88 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.279 Most bigfoot sightings are garbage. It's always a bear or 89 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:14.399 some guy in a costume. But there are real ones 90 00:05:14.439 --> 00:05:17.879 out there, and they are nothing like what the fans imagine. 91 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:22.120 They're not some peaceful forest giants. These things are predators. 92 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.480 My first real encounter happened three years ago in Olympic 93 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:28.920 National Forest in Washington. A family of four had gone 94 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:33.720 missing while camping, mom, dad, and two kids. We found 95 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:37.360 their campsite and it was a mess. Huge footprints in 96 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:40.600 the mud too big and deep to be human. Tent 97 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:44.079 torn to ribbons, picnic table flipped and thrown like a toy, 98 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:48.639 the camp chairs twisted like pretzels. You'd need a car 99 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:51.759 compactor to do that kind of damage. It wasn't about 100 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.480 stealing or survival. It was a display, a message. There 101 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.680 was blood everywhere, a thirty yard radius of violence to 102 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:04.759 assume everyone had been seriously hurt or killed, but no bodies. 103 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:08.040 Search and Rescue spent a week combing the forest and 104 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:11.759 found nothing, not one shred of the people. They did 105 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:15.199 find blood splattered on trees twelve feet up. That means 106 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.279 whatever did this could reach far higher than any known animal. 107 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:22.319 There were drag marks, something big, pulling heavy loads over 108 00:06:22.399 --> 00:06:25.399 terrain that would wear out most hikers. That's when we 109 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.680 got called in. The footprints were eighteen inches long. Creature 110 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.680 weighed over six hundred pounds and moved like something that 111 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.879 wasn't human or animal. But the worst part was how 112 00:06:35.879 --> 00:06:40.279 it acted. This wasn't random or animal like. It was calculated. 113 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.360 It took the food, including canned goods, stuff you'd need 114 00:06:44.399 --> 00:06:48.360 tools for. It left expensive gear like tents and flashlights, 115 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:54.560 untouched phones, radios, GPS units, all smashed beyond repair. It 116 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.439 knew what to destroy and what wasn't important. We followed 117 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.240 its trail for two days through thick forest, and it 118 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:04.759 wasn't stumbling around. It was taking game trails and creek 119 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:08.839 beds to stay hidden. We'd find little stops, places it 120 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:12.079 had rested and eaten. By day three we were close 121 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:16.879 fresh tracks in the mud, snapped branches, bent trees. Then 122 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.079 we found the family. I won't go into detail, but 123 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:23.439 it was clear they'd been kept alive and tortured, bitten, 124 00:07:23.959 --> 00:07:28.360 crushed bones, snapped like twigs. One of the kids tried 125 00:07:28.360 --> 00:07:31.319 to fight back. The parents were probably killed first so 126 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.959 it could control the others. It wasn't about food. It 127 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.279 was control strategy. It picked them off, one by one 128 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:41.279 in the order that made the most sense to keep 129 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:45.199 the others from resisting. We camped nearby, figuring it would 130 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:45.680 come back. 131 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:46.759 It did. 132 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:51.120 On night three, we saw it. Nine feet tall, dark 133 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:56.160 brown hair, built like a tank, huge hands, arms swinging low. 134 00:07:56.879 --> 00:08:01.959 Not a clumsy beast. It moved like it was trained, quiet, careful, 135 00:08:02.600 --> 00:08:05.759 using cover, sniffing the air like it had a radar 136 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.279 build into its skull. It moved from tree to tree, 137 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:14.519 staying hidden, listening for sounds, watching for movement. Its eyes 138 00:08:14.600 --> 00:08:17.439 glowed in the dark like a predator. It knew we 139 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.480 were nearby, It knew someone had been in its space. 140 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:25.160 Then it started making these low, rumbling sounds, calls that 141 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:29.199 echoed for miles, and then from all around us we 142 00:08:29.279 --> 00:08:34.240 heard other calls, three maybe more. They weren't just noises, 143 00:08:34.720 --> 00:08:38.960 they were communicating. The replies came from perfect angles, like 144 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.200 they were trying to surround us. This wasn't one monster, 145 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:47.600 It was a group, a family hunting together. Within an hour, 146 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:51.879 two more showed up. One was a bit smaller, probably female. 147 00:08:51.960 --> 00:08:55.799 The other was a younger one, still huge. They coordinated 148 00:08:55.840 --> 00:08:59.879 their movement flanked us signaled each other, not just grunts, 149 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:05.480 hand signals too, gestures, real communication. When they picked up 150 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.080 our scent, they fanned out and started sweeping the area. 151 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.200 One would search, the others would cover. They rotated like 152 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:16.240 a trained unit. They tracked us like pros. We tried 153 00:09:16.279 --> 00:09:19.879 masking our trail, but they found us anyway, sniffed out 154 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:24.000 where we'd stepped, examined twigs and rocks we'd disturbed. It 155 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:26.840 was like watching a Special Forces team run a searchhop. 156 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.519 And then came the real scare. They didn't just follow us, 157 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:34.200 they predicted where we'd go. They used the terrain to 158 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:37.639 trap us. We realized too late that we were boxed 159 00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:40.960 in the next morning, when we tried to leave, it 160 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:44.679 was already too late. The big one cut us off, howled, 161 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:49.519 and the others closed in. We were outflanked, surrounded. I 162 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:52.919 fought actual enemies in other countries, but nothing prepared me 163 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.960 for this. These things were fast, quiet, and strong enough 164 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.720 to rip a tree in half. The big one, the 165 00:09:59.720 --> 00:10:05.360 outl was the scariest, nine feet tall, huge reach, but 166 00:10:05.399 --> 00:10:08.720 the others were just as dangerous. The female darted through 167 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.440 underbrush and logs like a panther. The kid was learning fast, 168 00:10:12.679 --> 00:10:16.360 mimicking them, getting bolder. They threw rocks hard enough to 169 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:21.120 crack trees. They didn't just charge, They used tactics. One 170 00:10:21.120 --> 00:10:24.240 would distract us while the others moved. If we focused 171 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:28.759 on one, the others came from the side. They were smart, adaptable. 172 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:32.799 Each move they made was calculated. When one move didn't work, 173 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.200 they changed it up fast. At one point, the alpha 174 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.960 nearly got me. Came through a creek bed I didn't 175 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:43.559 even realize was there. I saw it too late. If 176 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:46.480 my teammate hadn't put three bullets in its chest, I'd 177 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.639 be dead, even dying. They kept fighting. It took everything 178 00:10:50.679 --> 00:10:54.240 we had to stop them. These weren't animals. They were 179 00:10:54.240 --> 00:10:59.240 something else, something smart and built for combat. Their bodies 180 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.759 were taken to a blight. I never saw the autopsy report, 181 00:11:03.399 --> 00:11:08.639 official story. Bear attack family was never found. Area closed 182 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:13.279 to campers, everything else scrubbed. Six months later, we had 183 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:16.879 a new case in northern California, a rogue sasquatch, this 184 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:22.080 time alone, acting off. It had killed two people, not 185 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:27.200 for food. It was pushing boundaries, testing us. Livestock were 186 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.679 being tortured, horses ripped apart, sheep hung from trees. It 187 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.279 wasn't eating them, it was sending a message. Local law 188 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.440 blamed cougars or wild dogs, but no way. The wounds 189 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:46.440 were surgical, deep bones cracked like twigs, teeth like industrial tools. Man. 190 00:11:46.919 --> 00:11:50.120 The scariest part wasn't even the creature itself. It was 191 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.559 how smart it was, like it knew how to avoid 192 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:56.519 being seen, and it only attacked when the weather would 193 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.440 hide its scent and muffle any noise. It picked spots 194 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:02.960 where no one could help, but made sure someone would 195 00:12:03.000 --> 00:12:06.919 find the mess soon after. Wildlife officials set up cameras, 196 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:10.480 and yeah, they caught something walking on two legs, but 197 00:12:10.519 --> 00:12:13.519 it was always too blurry to say for sure. It 198 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:15.759 was like the thing knew where the cameras were and 199 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:19.080 would either sneak past them or just straight up break them. 200 00:12:19.320 --> 00:12:23.080 And not like an animal smashing stuff randomly. It was surgical. 201 00:12:23.759 --> 00:12:26.320 If the cameras were in trees, it'd climb up and 202 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.440 pull them apart. If they were hidden in fake rocks 203 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:32.279 or logs, it found them like it had a built 204 00:12:32.320 --> 00:12:36.480 in detector, like it could sense the electronics. Somehow, this 205 00:12:36.519 --> 00:12:39.840 thing understood our tech and was working against it. That 206 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.159 part creeped us out. We spent two weeks chasing it 207 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:47.159 through the coastal mountains, and the terrain was brutal, probably 208 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.480 some of the toughest landscape in North America. Unlike the 209 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:53.919 group we saw up in Washington, this one acted totally different, 210 00:12:54.559 --> 00:13:00.559 mentally unstable, way more dangerous, totally unpredictable. Moved the way 211 00:13:00.600 --> 00:13:05.240 animals normally do, no real logic. Instead of following paths 212 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.000 near water or food sources, it just went wherever. Sometimes 213 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.960 it would double back for miles. Sometimes it would scale 214 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:14.559 cliffs or cross rivers where it should have been swept away. 215 00:13:15.399 --> 00:13:18.360 Either it had insane physical strength or it just didn't 216 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:21.399 care if it lived or died. The signs pointed to 217 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:24.679 it having lived out there for years, maybe even decades. 218 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:28.440 The caves showed where like someone had been using them forever. 219 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:33.000 Sleeping spots were smoothed out. Food storage was a thing too. 220 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:38.000 It had systems, preservation methods that weren't simple hoarding. But 221 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:42.440 lately it was spiraling. Kills were being left untouched to rot. 222 00:13:42.960 --> 00:13:46.639 It wasn't eating. Tree markings turned into this frantic mess, 223 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.320 claw marks all over in patterns that didn't even seem territorial, 224 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:55.360 just chaotic. Some of the worst areas were like rage 225 00:13:55.360 --> 00:13:58.960 filled war zones, whole clearings with every tree snapped in, 226 00:13:59.000 --> 00:14:03.080 every rock move. Nothing useful about it, just pure destruction. 227 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:06.679 When we finally cornered it in a steep ravine, we 228 00:14:06.720 --> 00:14:09.279 knew this wasn't going to be like the others. The 229 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.960 Washington group used tactics. This one. It just screamed and charged, 230 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:19.559 no planning, no hesitation, just fury. It ran right at us, 231 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:24.399 completely ignoring the bullets tearing through it pure rage and muscle. 232 00:14:25.159 --> 00:14:28.200 The fight didn't last long, but it was brutal. It 233 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:31.360 hit our perimeter and kept coming until it literally bled out. 234 00:14:32.159 --> 00:14:34.639 It took so much firepower to stop it, and it 235 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:39.440 still didn't die fast. It was terrifying. The public story. 236 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:43.639 Rabid bear, that's what they went with, but its body 237 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.679 went to the same lab as the other specimens from Washington. 238 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.759 Since then, we've responded to at least eight more incidents 239 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:54.519 across the Pacific Northwest and the Rockies, and it's becoming 240 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.320 clear these things are more common than anyone wants to admit. 241 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:03.039 They live in small groups with their own territories, hunting strategies, 242 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.879 and some kind of hierarchy. They communicate in ways We're 243 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:10.480 only starting to figure out long distance sounds that seem 244 00:15:10.559 --> 00:15:14.840 to carry information about danger, food and more. They know 245 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.679 how to stay hidden. They know humans are bad news. 246 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:23.639 They adapt fast. Trail cams they avoid them or destroy them, 247 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:27.879 motion sensors they walk around them. They're evolving right under 248 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:31.399 our noses. We've tracked at least twenty attacks on humans 249 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:34.960 in five years. Each time it takes more people and 250 00:15:35.039 --> 00:15:38.600 more gear to deal with them. They're learning, getting better, 251 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:42.639 and that's just Sasquatch. Believe it or not. That's the 252 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:46.039 easy part of the job because they're physical. You can 253 00:15:46.080 --> 00:15:50.759 see them, fight them, understand their biology. But the UFO stuff, 254 00:15:51.080 --> 00:15:53.759 that's on a whole other level. I didn't go on 255 00:15:53.799 --> 00:15:57.080 the Nevada crash recovery, but my buddy Jake did. Said 256 00:15:57.120 --> 00:15:59.679 it started with a weird phone call at three am. 257 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.440 No name, no rank, just a voice, some coordinates and 258 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:08.799 orders to move and stay tuned for more Sasquatch ott 259 00:16:08.799 --> 00:16:16.039 to see. We'll be right back. After these messages. The 260 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.919 team flew out in an unmarked plane, no flight path logged, 261 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:24.200 no idea on the bird, totally black. They flew over 262 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:27.799 desert so empty it looked like another planet. No towns, 263 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:32.320 no roads. The area wasn't even on normal maps. When 264 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:36.000 they landed, it wasn't a wreck, no crater, just a 265 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:39.480 metal craft sitting there like it had been gently set down, 266 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.039 thirty feet across, smooth like glass, no engines, no windows, 267 00:16:45.679 --> 00:16:49.080 just seams you could barely see. Radar had tracked the 268 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:51.840 thing coming in from space at high speed, but there 269 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:55.399 was no heat damage, no burn marks. It was cold 270 00:16:55.440 --> 00:16:59.559 to the touch. Material was light, but tougher than titanium. 271 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.639 Radar didn't bounce off it. It disappeared. They tried to 272 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:08.200 cut into it, tools couldn't scratch it. No welds, no bolts. 273 00:17:08.920 --> 00:17:11.160 It looked like it was made in one solid piece, 274 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:15.200 like it had been grown, not built. When they finally 275 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:20.160 got inside, the inside was wrong, bigger than the outside 276 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.640 should allow, like it bent space, Rooms that didn't line up, 277 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:28.640 geometry that made people feel sick. It hurt your brain 278 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:33.640 to walk through it. The tech inside insane. No screens, 279 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:38.240 no buttons, just surfaces that lit up when touched. Energy 280 00:17:38.279 --> 00:17:42.079 systems that didn't have wires or moving parts, Storage systems 281 00:17:42.079 --> 00:17:45.599 that could hold more information than one hundred supercomputers. The 282 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.680 ship didn't work like anything on Earth. Three beings were inside. 283 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:54.359 Two were dead. The third was alive. Tall, skinny, bluish 284 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:59.759 gray skin that shimmered, long fingers, huge black eyes, no mouth, 285 00:17:59.720 --> 00:18:03.359 move movement. It didn't speak, but it knew what was happening. 286 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.000 It looked at them like they were the weird ones. 287 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:10.000 They kept it alive for six hours. During that time, 288 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:13.680 it sent out signals, not with gear, with its body, 289 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.440 like it was a living transmitter, sending signals upward towards space, 290 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:22.720 right up until it died. And when it died, its 291 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:27.839 body just melted, not like decay, like it was designed 292 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:33.240 to delete itself. They couldn't get samples, no DNA, nothing usable. 293 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.480 The craziest part was the data they pulled from the ship. 294 00:18:37.039 --> 00:18:42.359 Records of human abductions going back decades, detailed medical records, scans, 295 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:47.000 genetic data. They knew things about us we didn't. Psychological 296 00:18:47.000 --> 00:18:51.599 evaluations more detailed than anything in human files, and the surgeries. 297 00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:57.839 Some people were returned, changed genetically, others got implants, tracking 298 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:01.559 devices that sent out signals to space. Some had changes 299 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:06.599 that would affect their kids. Long term breeding experiments unbelievable, 300 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.599 But Jake saw it with his own eyes. He's been 301 00:19:09.640 --> 00:19:14.240 on six more recoveries every time, same thing, ships drop in, 302 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.920 no warning, same black ops team goes out, same cover stories. 303 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.880 He's got burns on his hands from alien tech, radiation 304 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:26.000 damage that put him in the hospital, scars all over. 305 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:30.920 He took pictures secret ones of the ships, the aliens, 306 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:35.920 the tech, but they wiped his phone remotely. Luckily he 307 00:19:35.960 --> 00:19:39.519 saved a few to an offline drive. Still it messed 308 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:43.640 him up. He can't sleep, paranoid all the time, thinks 309 00:19:43.640 --> 00:19:50.279 his electronics watch him. Others on the team same thing, nightmares, anxiety, 310 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:56.640 mental breakdowns. Two had to be reassigned. One disappeared. Jake says, 311 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:59.799 We're not just dealing with aliens watching us. They're here, 312 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:06.200 studying us, living among us. They look human. Almost one 313 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:09.599 was fluent in English, knew our culture, passed as a 314 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:13.400 regular guy. That's what terrifies him the most. They could 315 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:17.160 be anywhere, the worst of it. We haven't even touched 316 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:20.160 the hybrid cases yet. The first time Jake told me 317 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:23.240 about them, I didn't believe him, thought maybe he was 318 00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:26.680 cracking under the pressure. But then I saw one that 319 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:31.599 changed everything. It happened after a crash in Utah, similar 320 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:35.640 to the Nevada one. No ID no markings, nothing on 321 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:39.119 radar until it was already in the atmosphere. The object 322 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:41.559 went down in a canyon and the recovery team got 323 00:20:41.599 --> 00:20:45.119 there just before sunrise. When they found the craft, it 324 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:50.160 was similar to the others, seamless, triangle shaped, smooth like ceramic, 325 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.200 still warm. But what was different was who or what 326 00:20:55.079 --> 00:21:02.079 was inside. Three bodies, two dead, one alive, and almost human. 327 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:04.720 I mean, if you passed this guy on the street, 328 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.839 you just think he had weird bone structure or maybe 329 00:21:07.880 --> 00:21:11.880 some kind of condition. But when you looked longer, something 330 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.400 was off, just off enough to give you chills. His 331 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:19.359 face was proportion right, eyes, a little too big, skin 332 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:22.279 that looked normal at first but shimmered slightly in the light. 333 00:21:23.039 --> 00:21:27.559 He was wearing clothes human style, even had a fake ID. 334 00:21:28.039 --> 00:21:30.880 That's when we knew it wasn't just an alien craft. 335 00:21:31.079 --> 00:21:34.480 We were looking at something designed to blend in, something 336 00:21:34.519 --> 00:21:38.799 made to pass. Medical scan showed everything inside was nearly human, 337 00:21:39.279 --> 00:21:45.359 but not quite different. Organs, redundant systems, his DNA ninety 338 00:21:45.359 --> 00:21:49.559 eight percent human, the other two percent we have no idea. 339 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:56.519 He didn't talk, just sat there, watching, calm focused. The 340 00:21:56.559 --> 00:21:59.400 tech team couldn't get a read on him. Every monitor 341 00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:04.319 went haywatch emp burst happened in short intervals. Lights flickered, 342 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.720 machines crashed. We had to move him to a Faraday 343 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:10.960 cage just to keep the instruments running. Over the next 344 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.119 few hours, he didn't resist, didn't ask questions, just studied 345 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.519 us like a researcher surrounded by lab rats. He was alert, 346 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:23.039 not scared, like he knew he was going back home eventually. 347 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:28.480 Then he died, no warning, no cause, just dropped like 348 00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:32.039 a switch had been flipped. Within minutes, his body started 349 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:35.480 breaking down like he was built with a failsafe, a 350 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.599 way to erase himself. But the worst part was what 351 00:22:38.720 --> 00:22:43.559 we found later surveillance footage from nearby towns, security cams, 352 00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:47.920 atm feeds, traffic lights. That face showed up in three 353 00:22:47.920 --> 00:22:52.559 different places over the past year. Same guy, same weird shimmer, 354 00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:56.599 same expressionless stare. He had been living among us for 355 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:00.240 months and it wasn't just him. Since then, and we've 356 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:04.799 idd at least six others, different regions, different covers, but 357 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.400 all of them too perfect, too smooth. People with no 358 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:13.200 medical records, no school history, no social security, just dropped 359 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:17.160 into the world like they'd always been there. They show up, observe, 360 00:23:17.839 --> 00:23:22.480 then vanish. Sometimes their apartments are found empty. Sometimes it's 361 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:25.480 like they never existed. One guy had a job at 362 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.799 a shipping company for two years, never took sick days, 363 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:34.200 never talked much, always paid in cash. One day, gone, 364 00:23:34.519 --> 00:23:38.200 vanished into thin air. These aren't just aliens in disguise. 365 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:42.440 These are lab grown hybrids with a mission. They study us, 366 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:47.839 record us, and from what we can tell, they're not alone. 367 00:23:47.880 --> 00:23:53.079 Every time one vanishes, strange signals follow directed skyward. The 368 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:58.559 theory they're sending intel back home, behavioral logs, medical data, 369 00:23:59.039 --> 00:24:03.000 maybe even planed. And the dog Man case that was 370 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:06.319 just one of many cryptid stories. There are creatures out 371 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:10.240 there that don't fit any mold, not sasquatch, not alien, 372 00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.039 just something else. I'm talking about stuff that seems to 373 00:24:15.079 --> 00:24:18.400 live somewhere between known animals and something way more disturbing, 374 00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:21.920 like the dog Man thing up in Michigan. One of 375 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.160 our sister units dealt with that last year. I wasn't 376 00:24:25.160 --> 00:24:28.319 there for that one, but Tom was. He's one of 377 00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:31.640 the most seasoned guys we've got, been through the roughest ops, 378 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:35.400 and he came back from Michigan visibly shaken. That almost 379 00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:39.559 never happens. It started when a farmer Bill found his 380 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:43.599 prize bull dead, not just dead, ripped apart in ways 381 00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:48.400 that made no sense. Massive wounds, bone shattered, muscle torn 382 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:51.880 like paper. But nothing matched up with bears or mountain 383 00:24:51.920 --> 00:24:55.440 lions or anything in the books. And this bull was massive, 384 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:59.319 over two thousand pounds, mean as hell, could hold its 385 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.599 own against any anything out there. Whatever did this killed 386 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:07.160 it fast and clean. It gets worse. The bull wasn't 387 00:25:07.200 --> 00:25:10.200 even found where it was killed. Something dragged that two 388 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:13.279 thousand pound beast a quarter mile and it wasn't a 389 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:16.480 tractor or vehicle. There were teeth marks in the hide 390 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:19.759 like it had been dragged by its neck. That strength 391 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:22.480 were not equipped to measure. They tried to write it 392 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:25.720 off wolves maybe, but wolves haven't been in that part 393 00:25:25.759 --> 00:25:30.039 of Michigan for fifty years. State wildlife folks admitted quietly 394 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:32.920 they had no idea what they were dealing with. That's 395 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.319 when Tom's unit got called in. Within a week, two 396 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:40.200 more livestock attacks happened. This time the farmer had trail 397 00:25:40.279 --> 00:25:44.960 cams what they caught. That's when people started panicking. The 398 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:46.960 thing in the footage looked like it had stepped out 399 00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:49.720 of a horror movie. Stood on two legs like a 400 00:25:49.759 --> 00:25:53.240 person covered in dark fur with a wolf like head. 401 00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:57.759