WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.199 I am part of a classified project within the US 2 00:00:11.240 --> 00:00:16.039 military hunting some of the deadliest creatures roaming North America. 3 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.239 I'm one of one hundred and ten soldiers handpicked from 4 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:24.160 the best of the best in special forces. Some are 5 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:27.480 rookies and some are in their second or third reenlistment, 6 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:31.640 and some of us are career Within this company, we 7 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:36.640 have ten teams, each consisting of nine riflemen, one sniper, 8 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.439 and one k nine. Usually two teams are stationed on 9 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:45.240 one base at a time, spread across the country. As 10 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:49.679 a company, we work on several missions each year. Our 11 00:00:49.719 --> 00:00:54.000 primary mission is to seek and eliminate hostels and recover civilians. 12 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:58.000 Most of our assignments are in the continental United States, 13 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.560 but we have worked outside the country on several occasions. 14 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.680 Our company was first formed during President Lyndon B. Johnson's 15 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:10.159 term in office. He had a keen interest in finding 16 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:13.640 and proving the existence of the sort of critters we've 17 00:01:13.680 --> 00:01:18.560 been charged to hunt. Following the Patterson Gemlin film, he 18 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:23.040 issued an executive order to establish a task force as 19 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:26.359 part of Project Blue Book. Before the Air Force shut 20 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:31.040 down that program, we survived and over the years transitioned 21 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:35.319 into the company we are today. We evolved from a 22 00:01:35.359 --> 00:01:39.000 team of scientists and researchers into a team of special 23 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:42.959 forces after research proved that things that go bump in 24 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:46.519 the night are real and they pose a serious threat. 25 00:01:47.120 --> 00:01:50.280 We still have scientists working with our company, but they 26 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.599 are rarely caught in the field. On more than one occasion, 27 00:01:54.719 --> 00:01:57.959 someone on my team has mentioned one of your episodes 28 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:02.920 saying we were there, or I remember that place. One 29 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.840 of the stories took place in British Columbia, and I 30 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.280 believe it was one of our companies on loan to 31 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:12.759 Canada that took part in the operation. Our guys say, 32 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.360 these mounties are spoiled getting to ride horses when we 33 00:02:16.479 --> 00:02:19.879 have to foot it into our destinations more times than not, 34 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:26.120 or drop in by parachute into complete darkness. On several missions, 35 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.520 we captured multiple bigfoots alive, including most of the infants 36 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.879 and toddlers and several females, and once an alpha male 37 00:02:35.120 --> 00:02:38.560 who stood over eleven feet tall. We had to hit 38 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:43.280 him with three rhino tranquilizer darts before he finally keeled over. 39 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:50.280 Even then, he wasn't totally knocked out, just knocked out enough. Unfortunately, 40 00:02:50.520 --> 00:02:54.159 taking him alive cost us two very good soldiers. The 41 00:02:54.199 --> 00:02:57.400 first two darts had no effect on him. Because someone 42 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:00.520 high up in the chain of command wanted him alive. 43 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:04.719 We were not allowed to use deadly force, not even 44 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:09.680 when he started killing our team. He was bound, bagged, 45 00:03:09.680 --> 00:03:12.479 and sent to one of three locations, like all the 46 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:18.120 others we capture from memory. Our teams have eliminated several 47 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.479 dog men over the past twenty years, but we've taken 48 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:25.719 many more bigfoot over two hundred to be exact, which 49 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:31.120 are more abundant by comparison. We were once sent to Texas, 50 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:33.800 and as usual, the brass was eager to keep our 51 00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:36.520 presence on the low down. It was to be a 52 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:39.919 quick in and out operation. We would roll into the 53 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:45.080 area about one hundred, surround the target before three hundred, 54 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:48.319 have the big guy bagged and tagged by five hundred, 55 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:52.960 and be out of the area by sunrise. This creature 56 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.439 was a rogue male who had been slaughtering cattle and 57 00:03:56.520 --> 00:04:00.719 exotic game animals at a large ranch. Once we landed 58 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:05.000 and got to the location, it lit him up. We 59 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:08.120 surrounded him while he was resting, and when we were 60 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.639 in range, the canines were given the command to bart. 61 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:14.240 He popped up like a jack in the box, and 62 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.800 our snipers took him out. Not much of a challenge 63 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.040 but effective and a whole lot of overkill to call 64 00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.120 the entire company in for a job, since we could 65 00:04:24.160 --> 00:04:27.560 have taken him down with one team. You never really 66 00:04:27.639 --> 00:04:30.920 know what or why the brass makes the decisions that 67 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.600 they do. Once he was down, we saw that he 68 00:04:34.680 --> 00:04:38.079 had a broken leg and ribs, probably from being hit 69 00:04:38.160 --> 00:04:41.000 by a truck or a train, or maybe from a 70 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.439 fight with one of his own. We figured that's why 71 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:47.399 he had taken to hunting livestock, since it would be 72 00:04:47.439 --> 00:04:51.519 easy for a creature of his size, even injured. We 73 00:04:51.639 --> 00:04:54.800 dragged him out to the clearing, where the Huey swept 74 00:04:54.839 --> 00:04:57.759 in with a heavy cargo net and scooped him up 75 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.639 and flew him off. Our next orders took us to 76 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:06.399 New Mexico. Apparently an elected official was being harassed by 77 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.680 some kind of creature on his land and the police 78 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:12.720 hadn't been able to help. There was a rumor that 79 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:17.279 it was a gray or white extra terrestrial, which automatically 80 00:05:17.319 --> 00:05:21.360 called for the entire company to be present. The property 81 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:25.680 consisted of a secluded home on twenty acres miles away 82 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:29.360 from any neighbors. We had been recounting the area for 83 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.519 the better part of the evening when just about midnight, 84 00:05:32.720 --> 00:05:35.720 one of the teams spotted it and confirmed that it 85 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.560 was in fact a gray. We were immediately placed on 86 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.720 the highest level of alert. It wasn't the first time 87 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:47.439 we had encountered one, but we had never successfully taken 88 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:51.759 one out. They are elusive and difficult to kill, and 89 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:56.759 like playing with our heads. We surrounded it and closed 90 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.519 the circle to about a two hundred yard perimeter, tightening 91 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.199 it slowly, our green lights and weapons ready. When the 92 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:07.920 guy to your right and the guy to your left moved, 93 00:06:08.319 --> 00:06:12.600 you stood still. Thirty seconds later you moved and they 94 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:16.519 stood still. That way, there was always a stationary set 95 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:22.040 of eyes on alert, watching the surrounding in each other's backs. Now, 96 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.639 our canines could not smell the gray, and it couldn't 97 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.639 pick it up on satellite imagery. But one of the 98 00:06:28.680 --> 00:06:31.879 canines must have walked right up to it without seeing it, 99 00:06:32.199 --> 00:06:35.680 because it burst out, slashing the dog and the handler 100 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.279 and causing significant harm to both. We stepped in and 101 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:43.399 put enough cartridges into it to push it back, but 102 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:47.160 it had an elastic skeletal structure that kept it from 103 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:52.319 being seriously injured. Since the firearms were not achieving the 104 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:57.079 desired results, the soldiers closest drew their k bars and 105 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.240 went hand to hand, eventually containing it and eliminating it. 106 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.199 With enough hands on the creature, we were able to 107 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:10.879 sever its head. There was no blood. Its skin was transparent. 108 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.360 It's a dirty, light gray without any hair at all. 109 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:18.079 The eyes were large and jet black, with no white 110 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:22.240 surrounding the pupils. Its body structure was what stuck with 111 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.079 me the most. It was all cartilage. It was like 112 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:30.240 holding onto a rope and putty mixed together. The arms 113 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.040 and legs were long and gangly, and the head could 114 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:37.519 be smashed flat and then spring back to its original shape. 115 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:39.959 Once it was over, we scooped it up in an 116 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:43.079 oversized heavy duty plastic bag and handed it off to 117 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:47.240 the Huey. Out of all the critters we've seen, that's 118 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:52.120 one monster I never want to encounter again. It's just 119 00:07:52.160 --> 00:07:56.120 a suspicion of mine, but one founded on some experiences. 120 00:07:56.199 --> 00:08:00.279 I'd like to forget that. Unlike Bigfoot, which sees to 121 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:05.240 have evolved naturally, dog Man is part demonic, its ability, 122 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:10.199 its appearance, and its impossibility to be killed. Something's not 123 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:14.079 normal about all that. The last one we dealt with 124 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:18.839 was in twenty eighteen in the up of Michigan. All 125 00:08:18.879 --> 00:08:21.759 the units were called in because the relative of a 126 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:26.120 high ranking military officer had been found torn apart. His 127 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:29.959 guts were ripped out and consumed by something other than 128 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.639 the local predators. We found two more bodies on location 129 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:37.720 once we arrived. They appeared to be a father and 130 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.759 a son deer hunting and must have shot the creature, 131 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.639 which fought back instead of fleeing. The brass's relative was 132 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:49.799 unfortunately in the wrong place at the wrong time. We 133 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:52.600 could never have found this killer on our own, so 134 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:56.799 the boys in IT were calling the shots. The IT 135 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.559 teams got us using satellites. They communicate to us the 136 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:06.679 direction of travel, intercept points, and even potential ambush locations. 137 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.320 The soldiers are remarkable and smarter than most people that 138 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:14.639 I've ever met, and they have protected us from harm 139 00:09:14.720 --> 00:09:18.120 more times than I can count. The dog Man must 140 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:21.200 have realized it was in danger, because when we started 141 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:25.000 tracking it, it attempted to elude us. We had our 142 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:28.919 soldiers spread thinner than ever before, which was dangerous in 143 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.399 the sense that you would be on your own for 144 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:35.080 a few minutes, and if you needed back up. Our 145 00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:37.679 guardian in the sky kept us alert and safe by 146 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:41.919 tracking it, directing us into a funnel formation, and pushing 147 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.639 the beast with the canines. If it attempted to make 148 00:09:45.639 --> 00:09:48.360 a break between our lines, we were directed to close 149 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:53.000 ranks and keep it on track. It kept moving down 150 00:09:53.080 --> 00:09:56.759 our funnel until it reached the highest concentration of our men, 151 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.120 who sprung the trap and unloaded their weapons into it. 152 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:03.360 Now while they gave it hell, most of us arrived, 153 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:07.000 each of us thinking the same thing. There was a 154 00:10:07.039 --> 00:10:10.519 fifty to fifty chance the brass would fill our ears 155 00:10:10.559 --> 00:10:13.720 at the last minute and order us to take it alive. 156 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:18.159 That thing could have taken more than half of us out, 157 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:23.399 even in its seriously injured state. Knowing this, every single 158 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:26.360 one of us unloaded our weapons into it until it 159 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.799 was a bloody pile of fur, teeth and bone. In 160 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:33.960 twenty twenty, we were on the western side of Kentucky. 161 00:10:34.679 --> 00:10:37.240 A young boy came up missing in the land between 162 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.080 the lakes area, and we put a lid on it Quickly. 163 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:43.519 Four of our teams who happened to be at Fort 164 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:46.799 Campbell arrived just in a couple of hours and put 165 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:50.240 enough pressure on the abductor that had abandoned its prize 166 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:53.240 and it fled. And at the same time, there was 167 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:57.000 a sighting near Mammoth Cave. Two teams were flown in 168 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.840 from Florida to deal with them. Fortunately, one of the 169 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.960 teams started to put pressure on the creatures and they 170 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.600 escaped underground. It was useless to us at that point, 171 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:11.519 and since we're not fond of being tunnel rats and 172 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:14.960 there are way too many things that can go wrong underground, 173 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:19.639 we were forced to call the hunt off, but the 174 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:24.840 night wasn't over. We were sent north instead to Posey County, Indiana, 175 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:28.960 in the swampy areas along the Ohio River. The IT 176 00:11:29.399 --> 00:11:33.799 team had lit up nine beasts. This was beginning to 177 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:38.000 seem like a bigfoot jamboree. We got orders to push 178 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:42.320 these animals to central locations along the Western Kentucky Parkway 179 00:11:42.440 --> 00:11:47.480 known as the Peabody Wildlife Area and eliminate them. This 180 00:11:47.600 --> 00:11:50.600 operation took us two days to pull off, and it 181 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:54.960 didn't come together exactly as we anticipated. We ended up 182 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.240 guiding a group from LBL directly to the path of 183 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:02.279 the nine spotted in Indiana and stood back and watched 184 00:12:02.519 --> 00:12:06.840 as they tore into each other like warring gangs. We 185 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:09.559 let them go at it until they were all exhausted, 186 00:12:09.799 --> 00:12:13.320 and the smaller group tried to back out. At that point, 187 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:17.799 we engaged them. When the firing started, the other group fled, 188 00:12:18.320 --> 00:12:21.919 and to our delight, they ran directly into some claymore traps, 189 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:24.879 taking out all but one and giving the team who 190 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:29.039 flew in from the southeast some target practice. One of 191 00:12:29.080 --> 00:12:31.960 the smaller males from the LBO group got away and 192 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.320 fled north across the Ohio River. That resulted in another 193 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.360 three days of us following him until we finally took 194 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:44.200 him out in the Shawnee National Forest. Most of these 195 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:48.559 creatures travel in family groups, and they are harmless, only 196 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:51.799 wanting to be left alone. But we've seen time and 197 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:56.120 time again that young or juvenile males are curious about 198 00:12:56.279 --> 00:13:00.679 children or women and will on occasion take them. We 199 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:04.879 have also encountered other males who kill livestock or humans 200 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:08.559 for consumption when they are injured or no longer able 201 00:13:08.600 --> 00:13:12.840 to hunt. These creatures will battle to the death to 202 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.559 protect their family groups, and when a younger male challenges 203 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.679 and defeats an alpha male, he will kill or run 204 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:23.000 off all the younger males of the troop to eliminate 205 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:28.559 threats and start breeding the females sooner. The most dangerous 206 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:32.320 bigfoots are the groups of rogue males who have banded together. 207 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.519 They travel quickly and constantly, causing tremendous harm to humans 208 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:43.639 and livestock. One group was pursuing hunters in Pennsylvania. They 209 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:47.360 had taken one man, snapped him in half, and shoved 210 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:50.080 him into the fork of a tree twenty feet up 211 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.639 in the air. Fish and Wildlife told the press that 212 00:13:53.679 --> 00:13:57.240 he fell out of his tree stand and speaking of trees, 213 00:13:57.320 --> 00:14:00.720 these creatures spend more time off the ground than people think, 214 00:14:01.240 --> 00:14:06.480 especially during the day. Bigfoot also has some ability to 215 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:10.679 influence people without making them feel threatened. Often when we 216 00:14:10.720 --> 00:14:13.480 talk to children, they tell us Bigfoot just wanted to 217 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:19.000 show them something, or that Bigfoot only wanted to play. Yesterday, 218 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:22.480 we were called to Andrews Air Force Space and told 219 00:14:22.480 --> 00:14:26.279 that our company is being deployed to Europe. I hope 220 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:28.279 it will turn out to be a waste of time 221 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.960 and that we will be sent back home soon. We 222 00:14:32.039 --> 00:14:34.440 have been given leave for the weekend to get our 223 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.000 affairs in order, and while other soldiers are drinking and 224 00:14:38.039 --> 00:14:41.240 spending time with loved ones. I'm sitting in a public 225 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.879 library typing this letter. I'm not sure what will happen 226 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:48.080 in Europe, but I have taken an ode to the 227 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:53.000 Constitution to protect this country from threats, both foreign and domestic. 228 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.399 I believe what this company has been doing for the 229 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:01.039 past fifty some years is exactly that. I'd like to 230 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.480 write more, but the library is closing and they are 231 00:15:03.559 --> 00:15:07.320 running me out. If I return in one piece, maybe 232 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:10.879 I'll share what we encountered in Europe. I've heard some 233 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.320 rumors and know it will be interesting.