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Love to 18 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,359 hear your stories, so definitely get in touch with me. 19 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,159 The forests of the world have always carried stories, long 20 00:02:30,199 --> 00:02:34,599 before satellites drifted overhead and highways cut through the mountain ranges. 21 00:02:35,159 --> 00:02:37,879 People stood at the edges of dark timber and wondered 22 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:41,400 what might be staring back at them from somewhere beyond 23 00:02:41,479 --> 00:02:47,080 the trees. Most of those stories were warnings, not simply 24 00:02:47,159 --> 00:02:51,919 warnings about predators or dangerous terrain, but warnings about places 25 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,199 where people disappeared, where strange cries echoed through the night, 26 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:02,360 and where something that looked almost human was sometimes seen 27 00:03:02,479 --> 00:03:07,240 moving through the wilderness after dark. Maybe that's the reason 28 00:03:07,319 --> 00:03:10,879 stories like these still affect us now. Even in our 29 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:15,879 modern lives. Most people eventually experience a moment outdoors when 30 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:21,479 the wilderness stops suddenly feeling familiar. The same trail that 31 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:26,439 felt beautiful in daylight begins to feel different once evening settles. 32 00:03:26,439 --> 00:03:32,120 In shadows deepen on the trees, small sounds carry much farther. 33 00:03:33,319 --> 00:03:35,680 A movement in the brush that would have been ignored 34 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:41,280 an hour earlier suddenly pulls your full attention, and, somewhere 35 00:03:41,439 --> 00:03:46,439 deep beneath all the routines and distractions of modern life, 36 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:52,439 something ancient quietly wakes up. It's not always outright panic 37 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:57,319 people feel in those moments. More often it feels like recognition, 38 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,520 the understanding that for most of human history, human beings 39 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,080 lived very close to the edge of the unknown. Our 40 00:04:06,159 --> 00:04:10,560 ancestors spent thousands of years sleeping beside forests that they 41 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:15,120 did not fully understand, traveling through mountains where people vanished, 42 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:20,000 and passing down stories about the strange things believed to 43 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:25,120 exist beyond the safety of the firelight. Nearly every culture 44 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:30,879 on Earth carries some version of these stories. North America 45 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:35,480 has the Sasquatch traditions, the Himalayas of stories of the Yeddi. 46 00:04:36,399 --> 00:04:40,439 China has the yerin the Caucaus mountains speak of the Alma. 47 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:46,079 Wild mountain beings often described as existing somewhere between human 48 00:04:46,319 --> 00:04:50,959 and animal. The names and details changed depending on the 49 00:04:51,079 --> 00:04:55,000 landscape and the culture telling the story, but the emotional 50 00:04:55,079 --> 00:05:00,439 core remains remarkably similar. Across the world, people can continued 51 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,920 describing beings that seemed powerful enough to survive far beyond 52 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:09,800 the reach of ordinary civilization, elusive enough to vanish back 53 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:13,839 into wilderness the moment people tried to pursue them, and 54 00:05:14,079 --> 00:05:19,079 intelligent enough to leave witnesses with the deeply unsaddling feelings 55 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:23,000 that they were not simply observing humanity from a distance, 56 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:28,120 but actively aware of us. According to some of the 57 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,959 oldest and most unsettling traditions. These beings did not always 58 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:38,240 remain hidden. In certain stories, they interacted with human beings 59 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:44,199 in ways that left permanent emotional scars behind. Most bigfoot 60 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:49,240 encounters follow a familiar pattern. A hunter glimpses movement through 61 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:54,519 a heavy timber. A camper hears impossible screams somewhere beyond 62 00:05:54,519 --> 00:05:58,439 the glow of the firelight. A driver crossing a remote 63 00:05:58,519 --> 00:06:03,279 mountain road catches sight of a massive figure stepping silently 64 00:06:03,319 --> 00:06:06,800 into the darkness before the headlights can fully illuminate it. 65 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,199 In most cases, the witnesses experience only a fragment of 66 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:15,519 the encounter before the thing disappears back into the wilderness 67 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,959 and leaves the person standing there trying to process what 68 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:24,199 they just saw. But there's another category of story that 69 00:06:24,279 --> 00:06:29,360 feels very different from an ordinary sighting. These are the 70 00:06:29,399 --> 00:06:32,319 stories where the encounter does not end with a glimpse 71 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:38,079 from a distance. These are stories where the being comes closer, 72 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:46,079 stories where people claim they were approached, surrounded, pursued, carried away, 73 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:50,040 or pulled into the world of the wild things themselves. 74 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,480 And once the story crosses that line, the emotional weight 75 00:06:55,639 --> 00:07:00,720 changes completely. The question is no longer simply what someone 76 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:06,720 saw standing between the trees, The question becomes far more unsettling, 77 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:13,480 what did the creature want? On the show, we're stepping 78 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,319 into some of the strangest and most disturbing wild man 79 00:07:17,319 --> 00:07:22,600 in Bigfoot traditions ever told. Stories of captivity, stories of 80 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:28,680 wilderness encounters that crossed far beyond an ordinary sighting, stories 81 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:33,720 that survived for generations because they touched something primal in 82 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,839 the people who heard them. Will begin in the remote 83 00:07:37,839 --> 00:07:41,560 wilderness of British Columbia with one of the most famous 84 00:07:41,600 --> 00:07:46,800 Sasquatch abduction stories ever recorded, the account of Albert Ostman, 85 00:07:47,759 --> 00:07:50,240 a prospector who claimed he woke in the middle of 86 00:07:50,279 --> 00:07:54,480 the night to discover that something enormous had already picked 87 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,600 him up and was carrying him through the mountain side 88 00:07:57,639 --> 00:08:02,600 while he remained trapped in his sleep bag. From there, 89 00:08:02,639 --> 00:08:05,360 we'll travel to the Caucus Mountains in the haunting story 90 00:08:05,360 --> 00:08:08,800 of Zana, a woman regarded by villagers as one of 91 00:08:08,839 --> 00:08:12,600 the Alma, the wild mountain people who often compared to 92 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:18,199 Russia's Bigfoot. Her story becomes disturbing for an entirely different reason, 93 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,480 because it forces us to confront what happens when human 94 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,879 beings become the captors instead of the captured. And finally 95 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,959 we'll step into the old Mountain tradition surrounding China's Yerin, 96 00:08:32,799 --> 00:08:36,320 including one of the darkest stories in all wild man folklore, 97 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:40,480 the account of a woman allegedly taken into the wilderness 98 00:08:41,279 --> 00:08:46,159 and forever changed by what happened to her there. These 99 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:49,840 stories can't be proven in a clean and comfortable way 100 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:54,440 modern life usually demands, but they were remembered, and perhaps 101 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:59,159 that matters more than we realize, because stories only survive 102 00:08:59,279 --> 00:09:04,279 for generations when they touch something powerful in the human imagination. 103 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,120 Modern life encourages us to believe that the world has 104 00:09:10,159 --> 00:09:16,080 already been mapped and measured, explained and contained. We surround 105 00:09:16,159 --> 00:09:22,480 ourselves with technology, roads, cities, schedules, and endless information until 106 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,200 it becomes easy to assume there are very few genuine 107 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,840 unknowns left beyond the edges of human understanding. But the 108 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,759 wilderness has a way of humbling that kind of confidence. 109 00:09:35,039 --> 00:09:39,480 There are still forests large enough to swallow people without explanation, 110 00:09:40,519 --> 00:09:44,840 There are still mountain ranges where entire stretches of terrain 111 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,840 remain largely untouched. And there are still places on this 112 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,440 planet where human beings are visitors rather than masters, and 113 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:59,039 stories like these continue to survive because they force us 114 00:09:59,159 --> 00:10:04,840 to confront a deeply uncomfortable possibility. The world may not 115 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:09,559 be as understood as we'd like to pretend. And if 116 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:13,639 even a fragment of these old traditions carries truth within it, 117 00:10:14,639 --> 00:10:17,600 then some of the unknown things waiting beyond the edges 118 00:10:17,639 --> 00:10:24,240 of civilization may not necessarily be harmless. Maybe that's why 119 00:10:24,320 --> 00:10:28,200 stories like these continue to follow us across the generations, 120 00:10:29,360 --> 00:10:33,559 not because they assure us, but because they remind us 121 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,080 that human beings have always lived beside mysteries, capable of 122 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:46,559 reaching back out of the darkness. In nineteen twenty four, 123 00:10:46,759 --> 00:10:50,480 a man named Albert Ausman traveled into one of the 124 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:56,279 wildest regions of British Columbia searching for gold. Even today, 125 00:10:56,360 --> 00:11:01,159 the country around Toba Inlet carries a reputation for isolation. 126 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:06,240 Steep mountains rise sharply out of the deep coastal water. 127 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:11,879 Dense forests blanket the landscape so heavily that from a distance, 128 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,360 the terrain almost looks untouched, as though entire valleys could 129 00:11:16,399 --> 00:11:21,399 disappear beneath the timber without leaving any sign human beings 130 00:11:21,399 --> 00:11:26,240 had ever entered them at all. In the early twentieth century, 131 00:11:26,799 --> 00:11:32,399 the region felt even farther removed from civilization, travel into 132 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,480 that country was not casual. A man heading into the 133 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:41,159 wilderness there understood very clearly that once he left the 134 00:11:41,159 --> 00:11:45,639 towns and saddled areas behind, he was stepping into a 135 00:11:45,759 --> 00:11:52,919 landscape capable of killing him through weather, injury, isolation, or 136 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,600 a single bad decision made far too far from help. 137 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,519 While prospectors still push into places like that because the 138 00:12:02,639 --> 00:12:06,519 possibility of striking gold was enough to make men accept 139 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:12,039 risks that would seem unbelievable to most people now, stories 140 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,200 of fortunes hidden somewhere beyond the next ridge drew people 141 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,519 deep into the mountain country, where maps were unreliable and 142 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:26,440 survival depended largely on experience, preparation, and a little bit 143 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:32,120 of luck. Albert Osman was one of those men. According 144 00:12:32,159 --> 00:12:35,799 to the story he would eventually tell years later, he 145 00:12:35,919 --> 00:12:40,039 traveled into the Tobe Inlet region with the intention of 146 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,840 prospecting in remote territory where very few people ventured regularly. 147 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:50,600 During the journey, he reported hearing stories from local indigenous 148 00:12:50,639 --> 00:12:55,919 people and guides describing large wild beings living in the 149 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:03,320 mountains hare covered giants, wild men, creatures said to move 150 00:13:03,399 --> 00:13:08,799 through the forests high above the inlets and valleys. Like 151 00:13:08,919 --> 00:13:12,600 many men of his time, Osman apparently listened to the 152 00:13:12,639 --> 00:13:18,320 stories without fully believing them. The wilderness had always generated legends, 153 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,840 especially in places where the terrain itself feels large enough 154 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,600 to hide almost anything. A person can dismiss a strange 155 00:13:27,639 --> 00:13:31,879 story fairly easily while standing in daylight among other people. 156 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:36,639 That becomes harder once the forest closes in around you 157 00:13:37,399 --> 00:13:43,120 and the nearest human settlement is many miles away. As 158 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,480 Osman moved deeper into the country, the landscape around him 159 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:54,200 began changing. The signs of ordinary life gradually disappeared behind him, 160 00:13:54,639 --> 00:14:01,240 Trails became rougher, the terrain grew steeper. Stands of cedar 161 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,840 and fur blocked huge sections of sunlight even during the day, 162 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:10,039 and at night the mountains settled into a darkness so 163 00:14:10,279 --> 00:14:14,759 complete that a person could lose all sense of distance 164 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:20,240 after only a short walk away from the camp. Anyone 165 00:14:20,279 --> 00:14:23,799 who spent time alone in the deep olderness knows that 166 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:28,399 there is a psychological adjustment that happens after enough isolation. 167 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:34,679 At first, the forest seems peaceful, and then it begins 168 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:42,000 feeling indifferent, and eventually, especially after dark, it can begin 169 00:14:42,159 --> 00:14:47,960 feeling aware, not literally alive in some supernatural sense, but 170 00:14:49,000 --> 00:14:56,240 intensely present. Every sound matters more. The human mind becomes 171 00:14:56,360 --> 00:15:02,360 hyper alert because it understands instinctively that isolation removes the 172 00:15:02,399 --> 00:15:08,039 illusion of control people usually carry through daily life. A 173 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,200 person alone in the wilderness is suddenly very honest with 174 00:15:12,279 --> 00:15:18,919 themselves about vulnerability. Ostman eventually established a camp and began 175 00:15:19,039 --> 00:15:24,639 prospecting in the area. According to his later account, strange 176 00:15:24,720 --> 00:15:32,320 things began happening almost immediately. Small items around camp seemed disturbed, 177 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:40,879 Supplies appeared moved, food occasionally even went missing. At first, 178 00:15:40,919 --> 00:15:45,519 he may have suspected ordinary wildlife bears were common in 179 00:15:45,559 --> 00:15:50,159 the region, along with smaller scavengers, perfectly capable of slipping 180 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,679 into camp after dark and searching for food. But there 181 00:15:55,759 --> 00:16:01,200 was something about the disturbances that really unsettled him, the 182 00:16:01,279 --> 00:16:05,440 feeling that whatever was approaching the camp did not behave 183 00:16:05,799 --> 00:16:11,159 entirely like an animal. It's difficult to explain that sensation 184 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:16,200 unless you've experienced something similar yourself. Most people who spend 185 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:21,000 enough time outdoors eventually learn the difference between random movement 186 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:26,320 in the woods and movement that feels deliberate. There are 187 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,799 moments when the human nervous system quietly recognizes the tension 188 00:16:31,279 --> 00:16:36,919 before the conscious mind fully catches up. Osman later described 189 00:16:37,039 --> 00:16:41,759 developing the uncomfortable feeling that something had begun watching him, 190 00:16:43,279 --> 00:16:49,960 not merely passing through the area it was watching. Imagine 191 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,279 spending several nights alone in deep wilderness while that feeling 192 00:16:55,600 --> 00:17:00,879 slowly grows stronger. You finish eating lands up toward the 193 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:04,799 tree line, because you could swear something move there just 194 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:08,359 a moment ago. You wake in the middle of the 195 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:12,799 night and listen carefully because the forest suddenly feels much 196 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:18,839 too quiet. 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There was nothing dramatic 251 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:41,680 about the moments. No attack, no sudden confrontation, no monstrous 252 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:46,400 figure crashing into camp beneath the moonlight. Just a man 253 00:21:46,559 --> 00:21:52,160 settling into step sleep in the wilderness. And at some 254 00:21:52,319 --> 00:21:57,880 point during the night he awoke abruptly. But he did 255 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,319 not wake up because of a sound. He woke up 256 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:05,440 because something was wrong with the ground beneath him. For 257 00:22:05,519 --> 00:22:09,359 several confused seconds, his mind struggled to understand what he 258 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:15,119 was feeling. The sensation must have been profoundly disorienting. A 259 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,839 person waking unexpectedly in darkness already experiences a brief moment 260 00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:26,160 where the brain struggles just to orient itself. But Osman 261 00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:31,640 realized almost immediately that he was moving, not rolling over 262 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:37,000 or sliding down the hill. He was moving through the valley, 263 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:41,279 still trapped inside his sleeping bag, he became aware that 264 00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:47,160 something enormous was carrying him through the darkness. Well. That 265 00:22:47,319 --> 00:22:53,200 realization must have struck him like ice water. Somewhere out 266 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:57,440 in the black wilderness beyond his camp, something strong enough 267 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,240 to lift a full drown man and all all of 268 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:04,079 his bedding, had quietly entered camp, picked him up without 269 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:08,319 waking him fully, and walked away with him into the mountains. 270 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,119 At first, according to Ausman's account, confusion overwhelmed everything else. 271 00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:19,079 A person waking suddenly from the deep sleep does not 272 00:23:19,759 --> 00:23:25,960 immediately process impossible information in a calmer, logical way. For 273 00:23:26,039 --> 00:23:30,079 several moments, the human mind tries desperately to force reality 274 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:34,359 back into familiar patterns. He may have believed that he 275 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,240 was dreaming. He may have thought he was somehow sliding 276 00:23:38,279 --> 00:23:41,720 downhill in the darkness, or being dragged by an animal 277 00:23:41,799 --> 00:23:48,119 moving through camp. But the movement continued, steady and purposeful, 278 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:53,200 with heavy footsteps rising and falling beneath him, somewhere outside 279 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:57,359 of the sleeping bag. While as the shot cleared enough 280 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,079 for his mind to catch up, the reality begans seem unavoidable. 281 00:24:02,079 --> 00:24:07,480 Something was physically carrying him through the wilderness. The darkness 282 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,720 around him would have been nearly complete beneath the heavy 283 00:24:10,799 --> 00:24:15,799 forest canopy. Still partially confined inside the sleeping bag, he 284 00:24:15,839 --> 00:24:19,200 could not fully orient himself or see where he was 285 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:24,640 being taken. Every shift in movement beneath him only reinforced 286 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:30,880 the same impossible realization. Something enormously strong had entered the 287 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,799 camp without him fully waking up, lifted him from the ground, 288 00:24:34,839 --> 00:24:39,440 and was now carrying him deeper into these mountains. The 289 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:45,160 thing moved with remarkable steadiness through the terrain, branches scraped overhead, 290 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:50,359 while the carrier occasionally shifted beneath him, crossing uneven ground 291 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:55,640 or descending steep sections of the forests. Osman later suggested 292 00:24:55,680 --> 00:25:00,039 he could feel tremendous strength in the movement itself, the 293 00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:06,359 smooth confidence of something completely comfortable navigating rugged wilderness in 294 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:12,599 total darkness. According to Osman, he was transported a significant 295 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:17,079 distance through a remote country while trapped in darkness, with 296 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:21,119 no understanding of where he was being taken or even why. 297 00:25:22,519 --> 00:25:25,319 As the night stretched on, the mind likely would have 298 00:25:25,359 --> 00:25:32,039 begun moving beyond simple disbelief survival depends on observation. The 299 00:25:32,079 --> 00:25:37,759 brain searches desperately for patterns, details, anything that might help 300 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:44,440 explain what is happening or offer some possibility of escape. Eventually, 301 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:50,240 near dawn, the movement finally stopped. Osman later claimed he 302 00:25:50,319 --> 00:25:54,039 was set down in a remote area deep within the mountains. 303 00:25:55,119 --> 00:25:59,279 As daylight gradually filtered through the trees, he realized he 304 00:25:59,359 --> 00:26:03,920 was no longer anywhere familiar. He'd been carried far beyond 305 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:08,279 the boundaries of his camp into a hidden section of wilderness, 306 00:26:08,319 --> 00:26:13,440 surrounded by steep terrain and dense forest. As the growing 307 00:26:13,599 --> 00:26:17,319 light revealed more of the new area around him, Osman 308 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:21,400 realized he was not alone in the hidden camp. According 309 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:26,079 to his account, several enormous creatures were moving through the 310 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:31,359 area nearby, not a single towering figure, but what appeared 311 00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:36,799 to be an entire family group of sasquatch. Osman later 312 00:26:36,839 --> 00:26:41,680 described an older male, an adult female, and two younger 313 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:46,400 creatures that remained close to the group throughout his captivity. 314 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:51,519 Most encounter reports describe only a fleeting glimpse of a 315 00:26:51,559 --> 00:26:55,680 lone figure crossing a road or disappearing into heavy timber. 316 00:26:56,880 --> 00:27:02,039 Osman instead described something far stranger, a hidden family group 317 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:08,920 living deep in the wilderness, entirely outside of ordinary human life. 318 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:14,119 The old male reportedly dominated the group physically. Osman described 319 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,000 him as enormous, far larger than any man he had 320 00:27:18,039 --> 00:27:24,720 ever encountered, with massive, immense shoulders and powerful arms. The 321 00:27:24,839 --> 00:27:28,880 creature moved with complete confidence through the area, as though 322 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,359 nothing in the surrounding wilderness posed any threat to it 323 00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:37,480 at all. The female was smaller, though still massive by 324 00:27:37,559 --> 00:27:42,400 human standards, and the younger ones reportedly remained close nearby, 325 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,839 watching him constantly. At times, they circled near him, cautiously 326 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:52,680 studying him with the same careful curiosity people might show 327 00:27:52,799 --> 00:27:59,920 towards some unfamiliar animal unexpectedly brought into camp. According to Osman, 328 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,319 the creatures did not immediately attack him once they reached 329 00:28:03,599 --> 00:28:07,680 the hidden camp. He was not killed or violently mauled 330 00:28:08,079 --> 00:28:12,839 after being carried into the mountains. Instead, he remained there 331 00:28:13,039 --> 00:28:17,960 under constant observation while the creatures continued moving around the 332 00:28:18,039 --> 00:28:23,440 hidden camp and surrounding wilderness. Ostman reportedly still possessed a rifle, 333 00:28:23,519 --> 00:28:27,519 but he later admitted he never seriously considered fighting his 334 00:28:27,559 --> 00:28:33,279 way out. The creatures outnumbered him, outweighed him, and moved 335 00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:37,640 through the terrain with total familiarity. Even if he managed 336 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,640 to injure one of them, he remained hopelessly lost in 337 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:45,960 remote wilderness, with no clear understanding of how far he 338 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:49,799 had been carried. During the night, the mountains themselves had 339 00:28:49,839 --> 00:28:54,720 become part of the captivity. During the days that followed, 340 00:28:54,799 --> 00:28:58,519 Osman claimed he observed the family closely while trying to 341 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,720 understand the room teens and behavior of the creatures surrounding him. 342 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,640 The old male appeared dominant within the group, the female 343 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,880 moved with the calmer demeanor, while the younger ones reportedly 344 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:17,599 continued watching him with persistent interest. Through all of it, 345 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:21,200 Osman never fully understood why he had been taken in 346 00:29:21,279 --> 00:29:25,440 the first place. According to his accounts, the creatures showed 347 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:29,880 no immediate intention to kill him, yet they also gave 348 00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:34,680 no indication that he was free to leave. The entire 349 00:29:34,799 --> 00:29:40,480 experience existed somewhere between captivity and observation, as though he 350 00:29:40,559 --> 00:29:44,400 had been pulled temporarily into the hidden world of beings 351 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,039 that lived entirely outside the boundaries of normal human life, 352 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,640 and somewhere beyond the hidden camp surrounding him. On all sides, 353 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:59,240 the wilderness continued stretching endlessly through the mountains, silent and 354 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:05,000 completely indifferent to whether anyone ever found him again. As 355 00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,400 the days passed, and due to the nature of his situation, 356 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,920 Albert reportedly settled into a tense and deeply unnatural routine 357 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:18,440 inside the hidden mountain camp. According to Osman's later account, 358 00:30:18,839 --> 00:30:23,200 the creatures behaved less like enraged animals and more like 359 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:28,920 a family group operating according to a familiar patterns and routines. 360 00:30:30,119 --> 00:30:34,519 The old male appeared to dominate the others physically and socially. 361 00:30:35,559 --> 00:30:41,799 Osman described him as broad, immensely muscular, and completely fearless 362 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:46,000 in his movements through the wilderness. The creature reportedly carried 363 00:30:46,039 --> 00:30:50,319 itself with the confidence of something that had never spent 364 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,799 the moment of its life worrying about predators, weapons, or 365 00:30:54,880 --> 00:31:02,079 competition from anything around it. The female moved differently. While 366 00:31:02,119 --> 00:31:06,240 still enormous by people's standards, she reportedly behaved with a 367 00:31:06,319 --> 00:31:09,720 calmer and less imposing demeanor than the older male, and 368 00:31:09,839 --> 00:31:14,240 Osman observed her attending to the younger creatures and moving 369 00:31:14,279 --> 00:31:19,079 through camp with what sounded less like aggression and more 370 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:23,759 like ordinary routine. According to Osman, the creatures did not 371 00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:28,920 behave like raging animals constantly fighting or posturing around him. 372 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:35,039 The Hidden Camp operated according to routines that felt disturbingly familiar, 373 00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:40,119 despite the impossible nature of the beings surrounding him. The 374 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,960 younger creatures reportedly continued studying him throughout the captivity. At 375 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,960 times they moved close enough for him to observe them carefully, 376 00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:54,920 before retreating again towards the adults. Osman later suggested their 377 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:59,799 behavior reminded him almost of children trying to understand some 378 00:32:00,039 --> 00:32:03,759 strange new thing that had suddenly appeared in their environment. 379 00:32:05,319 --> 00:32:09,880 And all around them, the wilderness remained immense and silent. 380 00:32:11,839 --> 00:32:15,880 The Hidden Camp was surrounded by steep terrain, dense forest, 381 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:22,640 and unfamiliar country stretching endlessly beyond the trees. Osman had 382 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,599 no reliable understanding of where he was, how far he 383 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,920 had been carried during the night, or which direction might 384 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:35,200 eventually lead him back towards civilization. Even if he somehow 385 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,079 slipped away from the creatures themselves, the mountains surrounding him 386 00:32:40,119 --> 00:32:45,160 remained a serious danger. At some point during the captivity, 387 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:50,240 Osman reportedly began studying the creatures as carefully as they 388 00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,240 were studying him. He watched the way they moved through camp, 389 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,119 the sounds they made to one another, and the physical 390 00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:02,160 details that separated them from any ordinary animal he'd ever 391 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:09,240 encountered before. Osman later claimed the creatures communicated using vocalizations, 392 00:33:09,319 --> 00:33:14,799 unlike ordinary human speech. Their voices reportedly ranged from low 393 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,000 murmurs to harsher sounds that echoed through the surrounding forest. 394 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:24,799 He also described a powerful order associated with them, another 395 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:29,680 detail that would later appear repeatedly in sasquatchicken counter reports 396 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:36,400 throughout North America. He observed immense hands, broad feet, powerful jaws, 397 00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:41,000 and dark hair covering most of the creature's bodies, But 398 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:45,400 years later, Osman still spoke about their eyes with unusual 399 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:49,960 intensity because he never escaped the feeling that the being 400 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:55,559 surrounded him were observing him with clear awareness rather than 401 00:33:55,640 --> 00:34:01,440 simple human instinct. Days passed beneath that tent, while morning 402 00:34:01,519 --> 00:34:04,640 light filtered through the heavy timber the cold mountain. Night 403 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:09,480 settled once again across the hidden camp. The creatures continued 404 00:34:09,519 --> 00:34:13,480 moving through their routines, while Albert remained trapped among them 405 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:19,079 in the high wilderness, separated from the outside world by distance, terrain, 406 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:24,280 and the impossible reality surrounding him. Eventually, according to Osman, 407 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:28,159 the opportunity to escape arrived through one of the strangest 408 00:34:28,199 --> 00:34:33,800 details in his entire account, a small tin of snuff tobacco. 409 00:34:35,639 --> 00:34:39,840 According to Osman's account, he carried a small tin of 410 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,679 snuff tobacco among his personal belongings while prospecting in the 411 00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:49,960 mountains during the captivity. The old male reportedly became interested 412 00:34:50,039 --> 00:34:54,639 in it after watching Osman use it. At first, the 413 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:59,599 creature simply observed him. This old male remained physically imposing 414 00:34:59,679 --> 00:35:03,960 even while sitting still. Osman later described the creature as 415 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:09,599 possessing enormous hands and thick fingers capable of tremendous force. 416 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:15,480 Yet the sasquatch reportedly handled the tin very careful curiosity, 417 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:21,280 rather than aggression. That detail actually stayed with Osman for 418 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:25,920 years afterwards. The creature was not behaving like an enraged 419 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,239 predator guarding prey. It was watching, and it was learning, 420 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,039 examining unfamiliar objects and behavior with the same cautious attention 421 00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:41,599 the younger creatures had reportedly shown towards him well. At 422 00:35:41,639 --> 00:35:44,559 some point, Osman allowed the old male to take some 423 00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:48,719 of the snuff, and, according to the story, the creature 424 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,920 imitated the way al Osman used it without understanding what 425 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:59,079 it was, and almost immediately the reaction became violent. The 426 00:35:59,119 --> 00:36:04,440 old male reports recoiled, coughed, and began reacting with obvious distress. 427 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:09,400 As the tobacco hid his system, the Hidden Camp erupted 428 00:36:09,519 --> 00:36:13,679 into confusion. The old male staggered backwards while the other 429 00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:18,639 creatures reacted to his distress. In the middle of that chaos, 430 00:36:18,679 --> 00:36:22,840 Osman realized the creature's attention had shifted away from him 431 00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:27,519 for the first time since the captivity began. It was 432 00:36:27,559 --> 00:36:31,679 the opening he had been waiting for. He grabbed his rifle, 433 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,920 and he fled. The escape itself could not have felt 434 00:36:36,039 --> 00:36:41,280 triumphant in any ordinary sense. Osman was still deep inside 435 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:46,000 unfamiliar mountain wilderness, with no certainty about direction or distance. 436 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,440 The Hidden Camp vanished behind him as he pushed through 437 00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:54,360 heavy forest, moving as quickly as possible through terrain that 438 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:59,719 remained dangerous even without the threat of pursuit, and somewhere 439 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,960 behind behind him in the mountains remained the creatures that 440 00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:07,000 had carried him there. Every sound in the trees would 441 00:37:07,039 --> 00:37:12,199 have mattered, every snap branch behind him, every moments in 442 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,559 movements of somewhere deeper in the timber, because there was 443 00:37:17,559 --> 00:37:20,519 no way for Osman to know whether the creatures had 444 00:37:20,519 --> 00:37:24,000 abandoned the chase or were silently following him through the 445 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:28,679 country that they understood far better than he did. The 446 00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:33,119 mountains around Toba Inlet are unforgiving even under ideal conditions. 447 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:39,800 Steep slopes, dense forests, ravines, rivers, a thick undergrowth condisorient 448 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,880 experienced outdoorsmen quickly. A person moving through that terrain under 449 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:50,199 exhaustion and fear would have faced enormous difficulty simply maintaining 450 00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:55,000 direction well. Eventually, Osman made his way back out of 451 00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:59,000 the wilderness, carrying a story unlike anything most people would 452 00:37:59,039 --> 00:38:06,199 ever claim to experience. For years afterwards, Osman report reportedly 453 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,960 remained reluctant to tell people what had happened to him 454 00:38:10,039 --> 00:38:15,760 in the mountains, and that hesitation feels understandable. Even now, 455 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,639 the story sounds impossible. A man carried away in a 456 00:38:19,639 --> 00:38:23,719 sleeping bag by a family of giant wild beings and 457 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:27,840 held for days inside a hidden mountain camp before escaping 458 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:32,280 through a tin of tobacco sounds less like an ordinary 459 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:37,280 reality and more like something pulled from ancient folklore. But 460 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:41,840 perhaps that is exactly why the story endured because it 461 00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:46,960 does not feel polished. It feels strange in the uneven 462 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,159 way many allegedly true experiences often do. There are awkward 463 00:38:52,199 --> 00:38:57,920 details to it, quiet moments, odd observations, and beneath all 464 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,920 of it remains the un settling possibility that somewhere deep 465 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,679 in the wilderness surrounding Toba Inlet, Albert Osman believed he 466 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,559 briefly stepped into a hidden world existing alongside our humanity, 467 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:17,800 but almost never seen clearly enough to be understood, a 468 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,800 world where the old stories about wild people in the 469 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:26,320 mountains were not legends toled safely beside a fire, but 470 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:51,000 living things waiting out beyond the trees. Long before the 471 00:39:51,039 --> 00:39:55,639 story of Zana became known outside the Caucasus Mountains, people 472 00:39:55,679 --> 00:39:59,239 living in the isolated villages of the region already carried 473 00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:04,280 old traditions about wild beings living high in the remote wilderness. 474 00:40:05,599 --> 00:40:08,519 The mountains themselves feel ancient in a way that is 475 00:40:09,079 --> 00:40:13,679 difficult to describe unless you stood among them. Towering ridges 476 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:19,559 stretch across enormous distances, broken by deep forests, cold rivers, 477 00:40:20,079 --> 00:40:25,199 hidden valleys, and isolated settlements that for centuries remained separate 478 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:29,920 from the outside world. By geography alone. In many of 479 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:34,719 those regions, stories survived because there were few outside influences 480 00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:39,480 powerful enough to erase them, and among those stories were 481 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:45,199 accounts of the Alma. Descriptions varied from village to village, 482 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:50,719 but the central idea remained remarkably consistent. The Alma were 483 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:55,840 said to be wild, human like beings living beyond ordinary civilization, 484 00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,679 powerful creatures covered in hair, and adapt to the harsh 485 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:05,599 mountain wilderness. Some stories described them as dangerous and others 486 00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:10,320 portrayed them as elusive and shy, but throughout the region, 487 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:15,800 the idea persisted that something not entirely human moved through 488 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:20,280 the remote country beyond the villages. Then, sometime during the 489 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:26,280 nineteenth century, villagers near the area of ab Ab Khazia 490 00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:31,000 claimed that they captured one. According to the stories that 491 00:41:31,079 --> 00:41:35,719 spread through the region, hunters or local villagers encountered a 492 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,920 female wild being living in the mountains and eventually managed 493 00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:44,719 to trap her after repeated attempts. Well accounts differ on 494 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:49,559 the exact details, but the descriptions surrounding her remained consistent 495 00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:54,719 enough to leave a lasting impression across generations. She was 496 00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:59,719 enormous by the standards of the local people, strong beyond expectation, 497 00:42:00,599 --> 00:42:05,000 covered in dark hair, unable or unwilling to communicate in 498 00:42:05,199 --> 00:42:08,719 ordinary speech, and according to those who claim to have 499 00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:12,480 seen her, she behaved less like a civilized human being 500 00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:17,119 and more like something caught halfway between humanity and the 501 00:42:17,199 --> 00:42:22,679 untamed wilderness surrounding the villages. The villagers called her Zana. 502 00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,840 What happened afterward is what makes the story so disturbing. 503 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,239 In many wild Man traditions, human beings are portrayed as 504 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:37,440 the vulnerable ones, the frightened ones, the people trying desperately 505 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:42,639 to survive contact with something larger and more powerful than themselves, 506 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,239 but in the Zana story reverses all of that completely. 507 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,519 According to the accounts passed down through the region, Zana 508 00:42:52,599 --> 00:42:57,119 was kept in captivity for years well. At first, villagers 509 00:42:57,159 --> 00:43:01,519 reportedly restrained her because she reacts did violently when approached. 510 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:07,519 Stories described tremendous physical strength and an inability to adapt 511 00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:13,079 to ordinary social behavior. Over time, however, she apparently became 512 00:43:13,599 --> 00:43:17,320 more accustomed to the people surrounding her and was eventually 513 00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:20,960 allowed to move more freely around the settlement, while still 514 00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:27,039 remaining entirely dependent upon the villagers controlling her life. The 515 00:43:27,119 --> 00:43:30,760 details attached to her physical appearance became part of the 516 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:38,039 folklore almost immediately. Witnesses described heavy body hair, immense strength, 517 00:43:38,679 --> 00:43:42,679 broad features, and an apparent tolerance for cold weather that 518 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,719 seemed abnormal even for the harsh mountain climate. Stories claimed 519 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:51,920 she could run across rough terrain with incredible speed and 520 00:43:52,079 --> 00:43:57,079 perform physical labor that exhausted ordinary men. But beneath all 521 00:43:57,079 --> 00:44:02,599 the strange descriptions surrounding her appearing sits something far darker, 522 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:10,079 isolation and captivity, a being reportedly torn out of the 523 00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:14,320 wilderness and forced to exist among people who never fully 524 00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:18,719 regarded her as one of their own. The emotional weight 525 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:21,960 of the story does not come only from the mystery 526 00:44:22,039 --> 00:44:25,960 surrounding what Zana may have been. It comes from the 527 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,800 behavior of the villagers themselves, because, according to the stories, 528 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:34,199 Zana became less a living being in their eyes and 529 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:40,800 more a curiosity to be controlled, observed, and eventually exploited. 530 00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:45,400 Accounts from the region claimed that she never fully learned 531 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:52,199 language in the ordinary sense. She reportedly communicated through sounds, gestures, 532 00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:58,519 and emotional reactions rather than coherent speech. Villagers described her 533 00:44:58,559 --> 00:45:03,519 as powerful but difficult to socialize, capable of carrying out 534 00:45:03,559 --> 00:45:09,480 simple tasks while still seeming emotionally and behaviorally disconnected from 535 00:45:09,559 --> 00:45:15,320 ordinary human life around her, and despite living among people 536 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:21,719 for years, the story suggests she remained fully and fundamentally alone. 537 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,880 The villagers never seemed to fully accept her as one 538 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,039 of their own or truly understand what she was. She 539 00:45:29,199 --> 00:45:36,519 simply existed among them, suspended somewhere between captive curiosity, laborer, 540 00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:44,039 and living reminder of the old wilderness traditions surrounding the Almah. 541 00:45:44,119 --> 00:45:50,000 Over time, the story grew even stranger. According to regional accounts, 542 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,960 Zana eventually gave birth to multiple children, fathered by local men. 543 00:45:56,000 --> 00:46:00,000 The children reportedly survived and were described as far more 544 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:05,079 more physically and socially human than their mother, though stories 545 00:46:05,119 --> 00:46:09,800 surrounding their unusual strength and appearance spread through the surrounding 546 00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:14,599 villages as well. That detail transformed the story from simple 547 00:46:14,639 --> 00:46:18,519 folklore into something people in the region discussed, almost like 548 00:46:19,039 --> 00:46:26,440 living history. Families reportedly claimed direct ancestral connections to Xana's descendants, 549 00:46:27,079 --> 00:46:31,920 and over time the account became deeply embedded in local memory. 550 00:46:32,599 --> 00:46:36,559 But for all the speculations surrounding what Xana may have been, 551 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:42,960 one detail remans impossible to ignore. If the stories are 552 00:46:43,039 --> 00:46:47,639 even partially true, then the most frightening behavior in the 553 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,920 entire account did not come from wild a woman pulled 554 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,360 from the mountains. It came from the people who captured her. 555 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,360 Stories about Zona continued circulation through the Caucasus region long 556 00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:07,519 after her death, passing quietly between villages and families who 557 00:47:07,599 --> 00:47:11,840 regarded the account as part of the old mountain traditions 558 00:47:11,880 --> 00:47:15,119 surrounding the Almah and the wild beings said to live 559 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:21,519 beyond ordinary civilization. Some stories described her sleeping outdoors even 560 00:47:21,599 --> 00:47:27,159 during brutal weather conditions that forced ordinary villagers indoors. Others 561 00:47:27,199 --> 00:47:30,599 claimed she possessed enormous physical endurance and could move through 562 00:47:31,039 --> 00:47:35,559 the mountains with startling speed despite her size. A counse 563 00:47:35,639 --> 00:47:41,400 repeatedly emphasized her apparent resistance to cold, her unusual strength, 564 00:47:41,559 --> 00:47:45,119 and the persistent feeling among the villagers that, no matter 565 00:47:45,159 --> 00:47:49,119 how long she lived among them, she never fully belonged 566 00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:53,880 to the human world surrounding her. That lingering separation became 567 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,159 one of the most haunting aspects of the entire story. 568 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,639 According to regional accounts, Zana existed in a permanent state 569 00:48:01,679 --> 00:48:06,000 between worlds. She was no longer free in the wilderness 570 00:48:06,039 --> 00:48:09,840 where villagers claimed that she had originally lived, but she 571 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:16,119 was also never truly accepted into the civilization that captured her. Instead, 572 00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:20,400 she occupied a strange middle ground that feels deeply unsettling 573 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:24,639 when viewed through the modern lens. The villagers fed her 574 00:48:24,639 --> 00:48:28,599 and used her labor, but the stories rarely described genuine 575 00:48:28,679 --> 00:48:34,400 compassion or acceptance. Instead, Zana reportedly remained something that people 576 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:40,239 around her observed, discussed, and controlled without ever truly understanding. 577 00:48:42,079 --> 00:48:45,360 Because the villages remained isolated from the outside world for 578 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,719 long periods of time, the story survived largely through oral 579 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:55,440 tradition rather than formal historical record. Over generations, the account 580 00:48:55,440 --> 00:48:59,159 became deeply embedded in the memory of the region, passed 581 00:48:59,159 --> 00:49:02,079 down from one generation to the next alongside the older 582 00:49:02,119 --> 00:49:09,000 traditions surrounding the Alma. Years later, stories surrounding Zana's descendants 583 00:49:09,599 --> 00:49:14,199 became part of the fascination as well. Accounts described several 584 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:19,679 children born to her who reportedly displayed unusual physical strength 585 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,679 and striking features that caused people throughout the region to 586 00:49:23,719 --> 00:49:28,599 continue associating the family line with the old Alma traditions. 587 00:49:29,559 --> 00:49:34,119 Some descendants were said to possess exceptional endurance and powerful 588 00:49:34,199 --> 00:49:39,079 builds even generations later, which only strengthened the belief among 589 00:49:39,159 --> 00:49:45,199 many locals that Zana herself had not been entirely human. Eventually, 590 00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:48,639 the story spread far beyond the Caucasus Mountains and became 591 00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:55,000 known internationally through researchers, writers, and explorers interested in wild 592 00:49:55,000 --> 00:50:01,519 man traditions, and alleged relicomminant accounts. In Albert Osmann's story, 593 00:50:01,559 --> 00:50:05,039 the wilderness reached out and took a human being into 594 00:50:05,039 --> 00:50:08,119 the hidden world of the wild things. But in the 595 00:50:08,119 --> 00:50:12,760 story of Zana, human beings reached into the wilderness and 596 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,960 dragged something unknown back out of it, and according to 597 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,800 the old stories, whatever they brought back never truly belonged 598 00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:28,480 among them afterward. If the story of Albert Osman feels 599 00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,800 like a man briefly crossing into the hidden world of 600 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:36,719 wild things deep in the mountains, the traditions surrounding China's 601 00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:41,960 Erin carry a different emotional weight Entirely. The urine has 602 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:47,840 existed in Chinese mountain folklore for many many generations. Witnesses 603 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,559 describe a large human like creature covered in reddish or 604 00:50:51,679 --> 00:50:55,760 dark hair, powerful enough to move through the remote wilderness 605 00:50:55,760 --> 00:50:59,639 with ease, while remaining elusive enough to vanish back into 606 00:50:59,639 --> 00:51:05,280 the dense forest before people could approach them closely. Stories 607 00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,719 surrounding the Urine became especially common in the heavily forested 608 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:14,360 mountain regions of the Hubei Province, where isolated villages and 609 00:51:14,599 --> 00:51:19,440 enormous stretches of rugged terrain allowed old wilderness traditions to 610 00:51:19,519 --> 00:51:26,000 survive across generations. Some stories portrayed the Urine as shy 611 00:51:26,159 --> 00:51:32,119 and elusive, Others described aggressive encounters, and a handful of 612 00:51:32,159 --> 00:51:37,800 stories crossed into territory far darker than ordinary sightings. Among 613 00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:42,159 the strangest were accounts claiming women had occasionally been taken 614 00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:47,000 into remote mountain wilderness by these beings. One story in 615 00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:51,559 particular spread through the region for years. A young woman 616 00:51:51,679 --> 00:51:55,679 living near a remote village disappeared into the mountains under 617 00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:01,559 circumstances that were never fully explained. Efforts failed to locate her, 618 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,239 and over time many people assumed that she had either 619 00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:08,920 died in the wilderness or become lost somewhere deep in 620 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:16,119 the rugged terrain surrounding the area. But eventually she returned, 621 00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:21,920 and when she came back, villagers immediately realized something about 622 00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:28,559 her had changed. People described her as withdrawn, emotionally distant, 623 00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,880 and deeply unwilling to speak about whatever had happened during 624 00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,440 the time she was gone in the mountains. Rumors spread 625 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:41,199 quickly throughout the villages. Some believed she had encountered criminals 626 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:44,480 or become stranded deep in the wilderness for an extended 627 00:52:44,519 --> 00:52:50,440 period of time, and others whispered about the yarn. The 628 00:52:50,519 --> 00:52:56,320 situation became even stranger and the woman became pregnant, and 629 00:52:56,400 --> 00:53:00,760 when the child was born, villagers immediately began whispering about 630 00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:05,679 him as well. People described the boy as possessing unusual 631 00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:11,440 body proportions, extraordinary physical strength for his age, and behavior 632 00:53:11,559 --> 00:53:17,599 many around him considered deeply abnormal. Stories claimed he strongly 633 00:53:17,679 --> 00:53:22,360 resisted wearing clothing and spent unusual amounts of time outdoors 634 00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:27,239 away from other people. Villagers also described him as largely 635 00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:33,239 nonverbal throughout most of his life, despite surviving well into adulthood. 636 00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:37,960 As the boy grew older, rumors surrounding his origin spread 637 00:53:38,079 --> 00:53:42,800 far beyond the local villages. People continued associating the family 638 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:47,079 with the old YearIn traditions, and over time the story 639 00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:50,719 became part of the larger body of Chinese wild man folklore. 640 00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,719 The boy reportedly grew up isolated for much of the 641 00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:59,000 surrounding community, and stories about him spread throughout the villages. 642 00:53:59,039 --> 00:54:03,119 For years, people whispered about the wilderness, and about the 643 00:54:03,159 --> 00:54:07,480 old Yarin traditions, and about whatever may have happened to 644 00:54:07,599 --> 00:54:10,440 his mother during the time she vanished into the mountains. 645 00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:15,679 Underlying all of it was the unsettling feeling that whatever 646 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:19,679 moved through those forests was not always content to remain 647 00:54:19,760 --> 00:54:23,880 hidden deep in the wilderness, far away from human life. 648 00:54:24,599 --> 00:54:28,320 Unlike ordinary encounter stories, where a witness catches only a 649 00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,920 brief glimpse before the creature disappears again, accounts like these 650 00:54:33,039 --> 00:54:38,000 carried a far darker implication. The wilderness itself did not 651 00:54:38,199 --> 00:54:43,519 remain distant. It reached into people's lives, and, according to 652 00:54:43,559 --> 00:54:46,880 the old stories surrounding the Urine, some who entered the 653 00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:54,800 mountains did not always come back unchanged. For thousands of years, 654 00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:58,800 human beings have told stories about what weights beyond the 655 00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:03,760 edges of civilization, not simply monsters hiding in the wilderness, 656 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:09,360 but beings that seem to exist alongside humanity while remaining 657 00:55:09,519 --> 00:55:15,039 separated from it by forests, mountains, distance, and even fear. 658 00:55:16,800 --> 00:55:19,920 The details change depending on the culture telling the story. 659 00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,239 Sasquatch in North America, the Alma in the Caucasus Mountains, 660 00:55:25,840 --> 00:55:29,880 the Yarin in the remote forests of China. Different names 661 00:55:29,920 --> 00:55:34,039 carried across different landscapes, yet all connected by the same 662 00:55:34,159 --> 00:55:39,719 uneasy idea that something powerful and intelligent may still move 663 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,599 through parts of the world where human beings are no 664 00:55:42,679 --> 00:55:47,199 longer fully in control. And perhaps that's why these stories. 665 00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:53,440 Stories like these continue to survive generation after generation, not 666 00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:58,320 because they provide clean answers. Most of them don't. Albert 667 00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,159 Osman Accounts raises more questions than it resolves. A man 668 00:56:02,239 --> 00:56:05,679 disappears into the mountains and returns, claiming he was carried 669 00:56:05,679 --> 00:56:09,239 away by a family of giant wild beings living deep 670 00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:14,440 in hidden wilderness beyond ordinary human reach. The story of 671 00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:19,320 Xana forces a far darker perspective, one where the fear 672 00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:23,199 and cruelty come not from the unknown itself, but from 673 00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:27,159 the people who drag something strange out of the wilderness 674 00:56:27,639 --> 00:56:31,679 and attempted to force it into human life. And the 675 00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:36,159 old year in traditions leave behind an even more unsettling possibility, 676 00:56:37,199 --> 00:56:40,639 the idea that some encounters with the unknown do not 677 00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:46,000 end when a person leaves the mountains instead, they follow 678 00:56:46,039 --> 00:56:54,280 people home. Whether these stories represent misunderstood history, distorted memory, folklore, 679 00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:58,440 or something far stranger, they all circle the same ancient 680 00:56:58,519 --> 00:57:01,639 tension that human beings have carried for as long as 681 00:57:01,639 --> 00:57:07,559 we've lived beside deep wilderness, the fear that we may 682 00:57:07,639 --> 00:57:11,639 not be alone out there. Modern life gives us the 683 00:57:11,679 --> 00:57:15,719 illusion that the world has already been fully explored and explained. 684 00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:20,559 Satellite imagery maps the surface of the planets, Roads cut 685 00:57:20,599 --> 00:57:26,000 through forests that once felt unreachable, Cities glow so brightly 686 00:57:26,039 --> 00:57:30,480 at night that entire generations grow up barely experiencing true 687 00:57:30,559 --> 00:57:36,320 darkness anymore. And yet a vast wilderness still exists. Remote 688 00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:43,039 mountains still exist, places where people vanish still exist, place 689 00:57:43,079 --> 00:57:47,760 where human beings remain visitors rather than masters, still exist. 690 00:57:48,519 --> 00:57:51,000 And that reality alone is enough to keep the old 691 00:57:51,039 --> 00:57:56,000 stories alive. Because once a person stands alone deep enough 692 00:57:56,440 --> 00:58:02,000 in the wilderness, especially after dark, certainty begins feeling much 693 00:58:02,039 --> 00:58:05,920 thinner than it does back home. The forest doesn't care 694 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:10,480 what we believe, the mountains don't care what we explain away, 695 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,280 and somewhere deep beneath all the structure and noise of 696 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,920 modern civilization, there are still a part of the human 697 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:23,920 mind that recognizes the feeling of stepping into territory where 698 00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:29,440 our species no longer feels entirely secure. Maybe that instinct 699 00:58:29,519 --> 00:58:34,280 survived for a reason, or maybe stories like these simply 700 00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:38,719 remind us that mystery has never completely disappeared from the world, 701 00:58:39,679 --> 00:58:43,719 no matter how badly humanity wants to convince itself otherwise. 702 00:58:45,679 --> 00:58:50,360 Either way, the old stories remain. Stories about wild figures 703 00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:55,239 moving silently through dark forests, stories about remote mountains where 704 00:58:55,239 --> 00:58:59,559 people vanish, stories about things that watched from beyond the 705 00:58:59,599 --> 00:59:05,000 trees while the fire slowly burned low. And according to 706 00:59:05,039 --> 00:59:09,440 the story shared across generations, some people who crossed too 707 00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,599 far into the wilderness did not always come back alone. 708 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,119 I hope you enjoyed the journey. Take care of yourself, 709 00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:53,960 all right, everybody. That's going to wrap it up for 710 00:59:54,039 --> 00:59:56,199 us today. So I hope you guys enjoyed the show, 711 00:59:56,239 --> 00:59:58,679 and thank you again so much for all your love 712 00:59:58,719 --> 01:00:02,280 and support. 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