Terror in the Woods (2017–…): Season 1, Episode 6 - Bigfoot Showdown/The Catacombs - full transcript

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[ animal growling ]

[ crow caws ]

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[ distant scream ]

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[ animal shrieks ]

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[ wings flutter ]



[ dog growls ]

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[ distant scream ]

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Miller: We packed up portable
voice recorders,

So it's not just
some crazy story.

We've got proof.

[ roars ]

Your heart is pounding.
Your skin is crawling.

I not only heard this,
I felt it.

Feltner: These things
are really screaming,

And it really petrified me.

It's a show of force.

They want us to leave.



[ howling ]

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My name is michael feltner.

My son, jordan,
had "the bigfoot casebook."

In the "casebook,"
it had reports from ohio,

Kentucky, michigan,
pennsylvania,

And I was just like,
"wow, that's cool."

[ items rattling ]

Hopefully tonight's
the night.

Tonight's the night.

My name is mike miller.

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I've always been outdoors,

Always enjoyed hiking
and fishing.

I developed an interest
in bigfoot

When I lived up north in dayton.

On the local news,
there was a report

About a sighting in ohio,

Which I laughed and thought,
"you've got to be kidding me."

Well, you know, you get curious.

Well, I got online, and I
stumbled into the bfro website

And when I clicked on ohio,

I expected to see one
or two stories and that's it,

And so many reports
dropped down,

I about fell out of the chair.

Uncle mike!

Hey, hey.
How you doing?

Good.

Ready?

I'm ready.
Hey, mike.

How you doing, buddy?

[ laughing ]

Miller: Oh, it's going
to be a great night.

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Whoa.
Insurance.

Yeah, me too.

[ laughs ]
so where we going?

Oh! Ah...

I heard of six official
sighting reports

Of bigfoot-sasquatch type
creatures in adams county,

So we started doing
our own investigations.

Miller:
Adams county is very remote.

You can park on the road
and get out a table and chairs

And set it up and have
a party in the road,

And you wouldn't have
to move for anybody.

Yeah.
Let's get going.

Let's do it.

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Feltner: Adams county is
a massive area.

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Real old farms, old barns,

Real tall grass,
and tons and tons forest.

The road going in adams county
is one way in, one way out.

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If you sprained an ankle,
break a leg,

You're not going to
crawl your way out.

If you do this out here,
nobody is going to know it.

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Miller: First stop was, like,
a little, small metal bridge.

This looked very promising.

We decided to stop at that
spot on the bridge

Because there was good echo.

There was a little bit
of a creek right there,

And there was
a nice ridgeline,

And just very dark, spooky place
even in the daytime.

[ chuckles ]

Teenagers.

All right.
Let's go.

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Whew.

We brought lots
of bug spray.

Yeah.

I had a flare gun.

I had night vision,
and I had a machete.

Mike miller has his flashlights,
and he has a handgun with him.

Hopefully we won't
need that tonight.

I decided to bring
a gun that night,

And most night we go out
is because you never know

Who you're going to run into.

There are other wild animals
in the area.

There's bears.
There's mountain lions.

Just to be safe.

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The kind of gear we packed up
is portable voice recorders.

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We also have an amplified
listening device

To maybe hear if anything
is moving around.

Ready?

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[ howls ]

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I did a vocalization.

I did a scream to see
if anything would reply.

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Nothing.

Nothing?
Try again.

[ howls ]

Miller:
We do howls because they howl,

And we're mimicking
what they do.

It's almost like if you go into
the woods into hunt a deer,

And you're using a deer call,

You're talking to the deer,
bringing the deer in.

Bigfoot probably doesn't
care about that.

We do the howl the creature
supposedly does.

A howl is kind of like a lure.

We do howls to bring them in,
bring them closer.

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[ howls ]

Let's see if that
livens things up.

Let me listen.

[ creature growls ]

[ howls ]

[ growling continues ]

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[ howls ]

It hears that,
and it's territorial.

It comes toward you
to see what's going on.

Who's in my yard?

[ creature growls ]

[ static playing ]

[ howling ]

It mimics him.

It sounds just like him,
just a hell of a lot bigger.

[ howling ]

The first sound
we heard was "whoo,"

And it sort of tails off.

[ howling ]

We've heard owls.

We've heard deer.

We've heard about everything
in the woods that makes a noise,

And this is different.

[ howling ]

Do you think we just
heard a real call?

[ chuckles ]

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[ creature growls ]

I was feeling,
at that moment, excited.

At the same time,
a little nervous,

Because, hey, we got company.

I believe the creature
that howled,

It was sort of a warning out to
other members of its kind that

"hey, we got
some visitors."

We just waited to see
if it would happen again.

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Seems like things
are quieting down some.

Let's go closer to where
the call came from.

Yeah. Sure.

It's almost like going fishing.

If they're not biting here,
you're going to move down

To another part of the lake
and try your luck.

Things died down,
and we packed up and moved.

[ laughing ]

Feltner: [ laughing ]
can you believe that?

[ laughing ]
no freaking way.

I want to see more.

I bet you this is
going to be the night

Where we actually see one
for the first time.

Feltner: We feel good.

My son is sleeping, but me
and mike feels real good.

[ engine starts ]

We get our gear going,
and we wanted to try to,

You know, let's see if we can
stir some stuff up.

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[ growling ]

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[ howling ]

[ howling continues ]

Miller: I believe
the creature that howled,

It was sort of
a warning out that,

"hey, we got some visitors."

The drive from the bridge gets
very rugged through the woods.

As we made out way through
the night and the darkness,

The only thing
you could really see

Is what's illuminated
in the headlights,

And it's just trees
and more trees

And pine trees and foliage,

And it's just dark.

The lights don't pierce
the canopy too well,

So you're only seeing
maybe a couple feet in.

Beyond that,
it's just pitch black.

It puts you on edge.

You're apprehensive.

It's hard to tell which,
you know, where you're at.

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Then you come out
at a graveyard.

I'm almost positive that I read
this was one of the places

That they saw
an actual encounter.

You want
to set up here?

Yeah, let's do it.

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You pull right up and, you know,
you see the tombstones,

And then there is one tree

That's in the middle
that's got a big cutout.

It's very creepy,
the creepiest tree I ever seen.

Miller: It's sort of crazy.

It's like a graveyard
in the middle of nowhere.

I'm going to put it on
that tombstone right there.

I don't want to go too far
from jordan,

So I'll set up here.

You go down and do that.

I didn't want to leave too far
because my son was in there,

And he gets kind of
spooked kind of easy,

But we're probably 5, 10 yards
from the vehicle.

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Miller: The graveyard
is 50 yards or less probably,

And it feels somewhat uneasy,

But at the same time
it was reassuring

Because it wasn't
totally enclosed by woods.

There was a little bit
of an opening there,

And it felt you could breathe.

It felt like you weren't
totally boxed in.

[ creature growling ]

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Feltner:
We get our digital recorders.

We got them set.

Miller: We place on the vehicle
facing behind us,

And the other recorder,
we place it on top

Of one of the tombstones.

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We decided to go at night
because we believe

These creatures are active
and moving at night.

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Feltner: I have a wooden
baseball bat I use

Where you'll hit on a tree
and see if they'll knock back.

Primates do that, where they
wood knock back at you.

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So we did that,
see if anything replied.

Nothing replied.

Nothing.

Try it again.

[ knocking in distance ]

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We heard three knocks.

It seemed like it was
about 60, 70 yards,

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And then the sounds just stop.

Miller:
We've heard birds rustling.

We've heard owls, crickets.

It's a very odd feeling
when all noises

When you're hearing
all this racket,

And then everything
just stops.

It's stopping for a reason.

What it means to me when
the sounds of the forest

Stop at night is that
you've got company.

Then nothing happens
for about 25, 30 minutes.

We're in a complete silence...

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...Then there is a sound.

[ shrieking ]

[ shrieking, howling ]

[ howling ]

[ shrieking ]

[ shrieking, howling ]

[ shrieking, howling continues ]

At this point
things died down.

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[ banging in distance ]

We heard something like somebody
was walking in the woods.

Whatever it is,
it's getting closer.

[ banging continues ]

We freaked out.

We definitely got company.

[ banging getting closer ]

Nobody knows where we're at.

The only one that knows where
we're at that night is my wife,

And we hear this whistling.

[ whistling in distance ]

[ whispering ]
what the hell was that?

Miller: And that sound
is like a whistling.

At this point, mike and I
just get really still,

And we listen because we don't
know what means for them.

You know, is that a warning?
Is that aggressive?

Is it just, you know?

But we're on,
like, a high alert.

We know they're coming closer.

[ whistling, trees rustling ]

There is definitely
something here.

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After hearing the whistle,
I felt nervous.

We were being approached.

[ night vision goggles hum ]

The vocalization that
we heard went off again.

[ howling ]

A very distinct,
somewhat aggressive howl.

[ howling ]

Our adrenaline is off the roof.

[ howling ]

I do not believe
it's the same creature.

[ howling ]

[ shrieking ]

[ howling, shrieking ]

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Oh! Ah!

What is it, dad?

Feltner: My son, jordan,
out like a light,

Woke straight up.

Woke up literally out
of a dead sleep,

And it scared us to death.

What is it?
What's going on?

It's nothing.
It's nothing.

It's probably just animals
or something.

The howl to me was aggressive.

If you step in someone's yard
and the dog growls,

That's what it sounded
liked to me.

You know, recorders
can't do that justice.

We heard that
with our own ears.

[ howling ]

Here, here. Hold this.
Hold this.

[ night vision goggles hum ]

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[ howling, shrieking ]

God,
there's more than one.

I feel very uneasy because
at first it seems

Like there's three of us,
and there's one of them,

And when the sounds
are coming to you

Form two different directions,

That means that you're
being surrounded

And there is more than one.

[ howling ]

After the howl, the coyotes
sort of joined in.

[ coyotes howling ]

[ creature howling ]

This thing mimics the coyote.

This thing literally
starts going to,

"wha, wha, wha."

[ creature mimicking coyote ]

Give me that.
Give me that.

[ howling continues ]

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You got to be a primate
to sound out a vowel sound.

That's what blew
my freaking mind

Because there is nothing else
on this planet

That can do that other than
a human being or that.

[ howling ]

Is that thing going?

Yeah.

And then the coyote goes nuts.

[ coyotes howling ]

It sounds like a pack
of coyotes,

And then one actually
sounds like

It's being mangled
or strangled or something.

[ coyote yelping ]

It's like something
has it by the throat.

[ yelping continues ]

It almost sounds like
it's pleading

For it's life
the way it's howling.

[ coyote howling ]

I want to go, dad.
Dad, I want to go now.
I want to go now.

The adrenaline just runs
right through you.

[ howling ]

Your heart is pounding.
Your skin is crawling.

[ coyote yelping ]

You're almost in a trip-out
mode, flipping out.

You're like, you know,
"this is happening.

This is actually happening."

Make it stop, dad. Make it stop.
Make it stop.

It's a show of force.

[ howling ]

They want us to leave.

[ growls ]

[ creature howling ]

[ coyote howling, yelping ]

Make it stop, dad. Make it stop.
Make it stop.

They want us to leave.

[ growls ]

Jordan!
Go back to the car.

Go back to the car.
Go. Go.

[ coyote howling ]

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I've never heard coyote
do that before,

And it was terrifying,
absolutely terrifying.

[ howling continues ]

[ creature howling ]

We're just sort of standing
there in disbelief.

Normally that much stuff
doesn't happen.

I mean, we're shocked.

For some reason,
these things have come in,

Probably because because
no one in that area

Has ever done that to them.

We've stirred them up.

Jordan: Dad!

Jordan, are you okay?

Get out of here now!
Let's go!

Jordan is white as a ghost
and is really shooken up,

And he's ready to leave.

He's had enough.

Dad, come back!

We was all
just full of emotion.

Come back now, please!

[ howling stops ]

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Sounds like it's
quietening down.

Yeah.
I can't hear anything.

I'll have a look.

[ night vision goggles hum ]

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See anything?

No.

Nothing.

When I got back to mike and then
everything seemed to calm down,

We're like, "well, let's call it
a night, you know.

Hopefully we do
have this recorded.

Let's see if we can hear it
and all that.

Let's just roll out of there."

We got what we need.
Let's call it a night.

Yeah.
Let's get out of here.

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Dad, what's happening?

Come on, dad.

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[ howling ]

Hey.
Did you hear that?

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At that point
I'm getting alarmed

Because they are
moving towards us.

[ howling ]

Come on, now! We have to go!
They're coming!

Sounds like it's coming closer.
Come on.

Let's go. Let's go.

Move. Move. Move.

[ howling continues ]

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[ howling ]

[ engine revving ]

[ howling continues ]

And I'm driving as fast
as I could,

And then I put my foot
off the gas,

Try to slow us down
because I'm like,

"oh, god, I don't want
kill us," you know?

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What was that, dad?

I don't know what it was,
but we got a recording of it.

[ laughing ]

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Feltner: When we're driving
down the road,

Our adrenaline is off the roof

Because all this
happened in one night,

And we go farther
down the road.

[ laughing ] hot damn!
I can't believe that.

Look out!

[ tires screech ]

And we stop because
there is a deer.

You okay?

Where the heck
did that deer go?

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What was unusual about this deer
is it didn't look at us

One time, even with the lights
blasting on it and everything.

It never looked at us.

Instead, it's gaze was fixed.

Stay here.

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It was looking straight
into the woods

Like it seen something or knew
these creatures was in there.

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[ whistling in distance ]

[ whistling in distance ]

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[ whistling in distance ]

[ howling ]

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The howls from the cemetery
came from behind us,

Probably half a mile back,

And now where we're at now,
the howls are in front of us.

[ howling ]

Jordan: Dad, how could it be
in front of us?

Just stay close
to the car.

It means things have moved
down the ridgeline

And are following us.

As we move, they are moving.

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[ growling ]

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[ roars ]

[ howling ]

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Jordan: Dad, how could it be
in front of us?

Just stay close
to the car.

These things have moved down the
ridgeline and are following us.

As we move, they are moving.

[ howling ]

[ howling continues ]

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It quit screaming.

It was quiet.

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Mike, come on.
We got to get out of here.

Mike, mike, just stay
with jordan, please.

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I was so excited.

I was excited and scared
at the same time.

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You want to see
something like this

And want to do this
in this field,

But when you have
this experience,

It scares you,
and it scared me.

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[ growling ]

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[ growling continues ]

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I look up, and I see something
standing by a tree.

[ panting ] mike. Mike,
there is something over here.

What is it?

I- I don't know.

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[ growling ]

He saw a shadow, a dark shape.

I just see something
standing by a tree,

But it was not moving.

I could not make out
no features,

But it looked pretty massive.

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I'm in a freeze position,
and just,

I am absolutely freaking out.

[ breathing heavily ]

Dad, I want to go home now.
Please, come on. Let's go.

Mike, stay close to jordan.

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It looks about 6, 7 feet tall,

But it blends in with the tree,
and it's not even moving.

[ howls ]

[ roars ]

This thing howls.

[ howling ]

It startles him, and he back
pedals and almost falls.

I move towards him...

[ howling continues ]

...And he's stunned.

[ breathing heavily ]

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That petrified me.

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I'm literally walking backwards
trying to get to my vehicle,

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And I can't even run.

I can't feel my feet.

It's just like, "man,
I'm trying to get out of here,

But I can't."

Come on, mike.
Get back to the suv now.

I felt like I was
going to pass out.

Come on!

Are you okay?

Are you okay?!
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

You know,
mike is freaking out.

We get back in the vehicle.

Come on. Let's go.

[ howling ]

I've never had that much
adrenaline in my life.

We're not even tired.

We're just so wound up.

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When I seen that mass figure
and when it did that,

Then I knew all knew all along
from the whole time

From the cemetery

That this was
bigfoot-type creatures.

This had to be them.

Jordan: Come on.
Let's go.

[ howling ]

Well, we get in
and we shut the door,

And it's pitch dark,
and we're like,

"is this thing coming
down the hill or not?"

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It was like we were
being played with.

[ howling ]

You know, it's one thing
when something yells at you

Or whatever to
tell you to leave.

This is in a different vein.

It's like you're
being toyed with.

[ roars ]

Jordan: Come on. Let's go.

[ howling ]

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You know, it's one thing
when something yells at you

Or whatever to
tell you to leave.

This is in a different vein.

It's like you're
being toyed with.

We have to go.
We have to go.

Miller: Come on. Come on.
Let's get out of here.

[ engine revving ]

[ growling ]

[ howling ]

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I felt emotional,

Just a roller coaster
of adrenaline,

And I got white as a ghost.

To me, it feels like
that's the same creature...

[ roars ]

...Probably from the cemetery
earlier that night.

My heart is coming
out of my chest,

And I got felt like I was
was sick to my stomach,

And I'm about ready to pass out.

I got to pull over.

I got to stop.

I can't do it.

[ panting ]

Mike.
I got to take a breath, like...

Miller: Hang on.

I don't know what that was.

Come here. Have a seat.

[ panting ]

[ exhales sharply ]

We're farther down.
We feel like we're pretty safe.

[ wheezing ]

Here. Hold on.

Here.

[ wheezing continues ]

[ scream in distance ]

We heard two scream whoops
that's probably 40 to 50 yards.

[ howling ]

- Dad, are they following us?
- Shh, shh, shh.

Miller:
This is more aggressive.

This is more
of a direct aggression.

There is, like,
one then another,

And I'm standing there
in, like, disbelief.

I'm going to try to
scare it, you guys.

You guys stay right here.

[ howling ]

For some reason
these things have come in.

I didn't want them to sort of
have the last word.

[ breathing heavily ]

Jordan. Come here.
Come here.

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It's going to be okay.

You guys stay right here.

[ flashlight clicks ]

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Mike pulls his sidearm
just for peace of mind

Because he thinks
this thing is coming

Right out of the woods at us.

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I hear what sounds like
air escaping a tire,

[ hissing ]

And I move closer
to the woodline

Because I'm wondering
what the hell this is.

What's going on?

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[ hissing continues ]

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And at that point,
I can tell what I'm hearing

Is something drawing air in,
like [inhales deeply]

Filling its lungs.

I've got goose bumps
talking about this,

But way more massive.

I cannot do justice
how powerful this sounded.

[ hissing ]

[ roars ]

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This roar was so deep
and so intense,

I not only heard this,
I felt it.

[ roaring ]

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Like if you've been
to a concert and, you know,

The drums and the base hit you
in the chest, you can feel it.

This did that to me.

At that point
I'm getting alarmed

Because they are
moving towards us.

To me,
it meant only one thing.

It meant get the hell
out of here or else.

I mean, it was
the final warning.

[ gunshot ]

[ howling ]

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You know, we went in
trying to stalk them,

But, you know,
the tables were turned.

They were literally
stalking us out of there.

That was the scariest
moment for me.

At the spot we're at,
if this thing steps out

Of the woodline onto the road,

It's going to be within
handshake distance of us.

[ engine starts ]

Well, when we get
in the vehicle,

I put it in drive
and just floor it.

[ engine revving,
tires screeching ]

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I took the wheel
to the left like this,

And both my wheels
came up on the right.

[ tires screeching ]

Mike almost drives off the cliff

Just because of the pure
adrenaline and panic.

We're in panic mode
at this time.

[ roars ]

[ howling in distance ]

♪♪

We're safe.
We're out of there.

It's been a hell of a night.
Let's go home.

Feltner: I get home.

It's in the middle of the night,
and I wake my wife up.

I told her what happened,
and I start to literally cry

Because I cry because I know
that that night

We just got ran out
by bigfoot-type creatures.

Wow. I mean, we not only
experienced that,

We got part of that recorded,

So it's not just some
crazy story, you know.

We got some proof.

[ howling ]

It changed my life
because I realize

There is more in this world
than you know.

[ roars ]

I just kept playing it
over in my mind,

Realizing how close they were,
how we were followed out,

Especially when that thing,
the last one that roared,

Like king kong, when it sucked
all that air in.

I mean, I'm never going
to forget hearing that.

[ roars ]

And if we wouldn't have left

Or we would have
done something else,

I think that night
would have got tragic.