The Legend Of Bigfoot | Full Movie | Harry Winer | Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida

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THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT
| Documentary | 1975 |

Plot:
A documentary about the legendary creature, Bigfoot, with emphasis on him being the missing link.

Crew:

• Directed by: Harry Winer
• Written by: Harry Stuart Winer, Paula Labrot
• Starring: Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida
• Produced by: Stephen Houston Smith
• Music by: Don Peake
• Cinematography: Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx
• Edited by: Paula Labrot

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Transcript

00:00:00You

00:00:31My name is Ivan Marks.

00:00:34The film you're about to see is authentic.

00:00:38It records the last ten years which has changed my life.

00:00:42I stumbled on something that I could not believe at first,

00:00:46but soon realized it had significance on me and everyone around me,

00:00:51which could not be ignored or underestimated.

00:00:54The Eskimos call the subject of my story Bushman.

00:00:58The Colville Indians of upstate Washington call him Sasquatch.

00:01:03The Hupas of Northern California call him Omar.

00:01:07But right now, let's just call him Bigfoot.

00:01:28The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:01:34The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:01:38The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:01:42The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:01:46The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:01:50The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:01:54The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:01:58The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:02:02The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:02:06The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:02:10The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:02:14The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:02:18The Hupas of Northern California call him Bigfoot.

00:02:22The Hupas of Northern California call him Sasquatch.

00:02:25♪♪

00:02:33This is my country.

00:03:00I've spent all my life in areas like this, as close to the animals as a man can get.

00:03:12I built my home here, Bear Ranch, of course I'm prejudiced, but I think it's just about

00:03:29the prettiest place I've ever seen.

00:03:32Then there's Peggy, she's a rare woman.

00:03:40She's the only woman I know who'd put up with the animals I used to bring home, like those

00:03:44coyote pups, and raised them just like they were her own.

00:04:01Yeah, we've shared more ups and downs than there are in the high Sierras.

00:04:13Those were good days, simple, clear-cut.

00:04:16You see, I'm a tracker, and believe me, I'm the last of the vanishing breed.

00:04:25I know tracks, like the FBI knows fingerprints.

00:04:32I specialized in renegades, killers of livestock and sometimes people.

00:04:41I didn't kill for sport, I went after the right animals so innocent ones might be spared.

00:04:52I learned trapping from my dad's shoulders back in Illinois.

00:05:00Since that time, I've worked for the government, territories, sheriff's office, federal game

00:05:13wardens.

00:05:14When they had a renegade, they knew who to call.

00:05:27There was a time me and the dogs got called up all the way to Kodiak, Alaska.

00:05:32There'd been reports that bear had been killing the cattle.

00:05:35Now I know bear, and the Kodiak happens to be one of the most beautiful on God's earth.

00:05:43Takes a lot of grub to feed him, nine feet tall, up to a ton in weight.

00:05:50No need for him to be killing cattle, though.

00:05:53He's as fine a fisherman as you'll ever see.

00:06:18The ranchers were getting $5,000 bounties on these so-called cow killers, so I moved

00:06:27in to set things straight.

00:06:39I met a rancher who said it ain't Kodiak killing my cattle.

00:06:45I finally found someone I could talk to.

00:06:49He said Bigfoot, straight-faced as could be.

00:06:56He said Bigfoot's been killing my cattle, Bigfoot.

00:07:03I checked the carcass and saw the cow had died naturally.

00:07:08The bears just fed on its remains.

00:07:12Turned out after the grass was waterlogged, not enough protein, cattle died of malnutrition.

00:07:20Kodiak, Bigfoot, people always want their questions answered in such neatly wrapped

00:07:30little packages.

00:07:31Oh, I'd heard about Bigfoot, some abominable snowman who'd wandered across the Bering Strait

00:07:38before the Ice Age.

00:07:42I couldn't believe a grown man would tell me a Bigfoot was killing them.

00:07:47What a bunch of hogwash.

00:08:03I didn't mind at all putting distance between me and those crazies in Alaska.

00:08:08I felt good to be with some sensible folks like Peggy's brother.

00:08:14And Arizona University wanted us to track down a javelina hog for research.

00:08:19It's a small critter, but vicious.

00:08:39Well, I told my brother-in-law about the wild Bigfoot story, Kodiak, but he didn't respond

00:08:48as I'd expected.

00:08:54He said, don't be so quick to make judgments.

00:08:59There's something I want you to see.

00:09:06He took me to what Indians called the land of petrified wood.

00:09:12There, carved in a rock, were drawings of a creature with big hands and big feet, exactly

00:09:21as I'd heard Bigfoot described.

00:09:24The drawings were 700 years old.

00:09:30They told how creatures the Indians called stickmen had come in the night and stolen

00:09:35the Indian children.

00:09:38The Indians abandoned the village in fear.

00:09:54First the ranchers, now my brother-in-law.

00:09:58My head was reeling with Bigfoot.

00:10:06The stories are just so many words, so I soon forgot about them, till I was up tracking

00:10:11a mountain lion, and I found these tracks.

00:10:16They look much like human footprints, but they were 18 inches long, six and a half across

00:10:23the ball of the foot, five and a half at the heel.

00:10:27They were the hugest I'd ever seen.

00:10:31The tracks were so deep they had to have been made by at least a 500-pound animal.

00:10:38And the hair, I couldn't identify it.

00:10:45The toe prints were spread around small rocks and dug into the earth, showing whatever made

00:10:51them could cover pretty rugged country.

00:10:54And the stride was enormous, 52 inches in length.

00:11:00Man's only 30.

00:11:01If they were fakes, somebody would have had to drag a pretty big machine over pretty rough

00:11:07country to make them, and they would have left their own tracks.

00:11:11And I saw where a creature had stumbled.

00:11:15It was a handprint, but no sign of claws.

00:11:23It was so manlike.

00:11:26I was mystified, so I made plaster casts and sent them with the hair to a lab for analysis.

00:11:34Well, I tell you, I was glad to get home.

00:11:40Our pups were growing, and they didn't give us much time to think about everything that

00:11:46had happened.

00:11:53I was cold to chase a renegade bear up north.

00:12:15This time, I wasn't so eager to return to the mountains.

00:12:20Tests had shown the hair samples and tracks couldn't be matched with any known animal.

00:12:27I was uncomfortable.

00:12:32The animals were even acting strange.

00:12:40I soon found out why.

00:12:47I found the bear I was looking for, but not in the condition I expected.

00:12:56Another track, just as I'd seen on the mountain.

00:13:05There, between its teeth, the hair.

00:13:14I was astounded.

00:13:15A 600-pound bear that had stood 8 feet tall, lying by the side of the creek with its neck

00:13:24broken.

00:13:36Now I wanted to find out everything I could about Bigfoot.

00:13:40I advertised for any information or leads.

00:13:45You can't believe the number of stories people had to tell.

00:13:49My friends laughed at them all.

00:13:51Okay, I'd laugh too, but things were different now.

00:13:57I had to figure out what was fact and what was fiction.

00:14:03There were reports of creatures 12 feet tall, 800 pounds, that prowled on 2 feet.

00:14:10Now that's absurd, scientifically impossible.

00:14:14No creature that size or weight could even stand upright.

00:14:19And as for tracks, you can't imagine the number of kids I found running around the woods making

00:14:25plywood fakes.

00:14:28Tales of hunters being ripped apart, campers kidnapped and never heard of again.

00:14:34But four features all the reports shared were the dark hair, the domed head, the large footprints,

00:14:48and the glowing red eyes.

00:15:04Nature's my home.

00:15:06How could some missing link be wandering around up here without me knowing it?

00:15:14Oh, it was good to get back in the mountains and visit a couple of my pets.

00:15:19I tried not to think about Bigfoot, but it was tough to shake.

00:15:26It wasn't two minutes before my friend had vanished in the wood.

00:15:40Well, I set out after him, but I couldn't find him anyplace.

00:16:10I came to a bridge, and there beside it, another track, fresh.

00:16:35My legs were moving before I realized what I was doing.

00:16:40I couldn't believe what I'd seen.

00:16:45I had to get a closer look.

00:17:01Nauseating musky odor made it difficult to breathe, but I had to find out what I'd seen.

00:17:11It was dark. Time was growing short.

00:17:32Bigfoot. I'd seen Bigfoot.

00:17:44What the hell was I doing?

00:17:48I was here alone, without a rifle, without anyone knowing where to find me.

00:18:00With a 500 pound, 8 foot tall, vicious creature.

00:18:07I had to get out of here, get some help.

00:18:15I had to show people what I'd seen.

00:18:18The footprints.

00:18:34It was just the cat.

00:18:38I'd never been so scared in my life.

00:18:42But my friends couldn't laugh now.

00:18:45Wait till they saw the tracks.

00:18:57But the rains came, and washed the tracks away.

00:19:11But now, people's attitudes towards Bigfoot made me mad.

00:19:19I'd seen it.

00:19:22Matter of fact, I felt I'd been singled out to find it.

00:19:39Where do you begin?

00:19:45Jackson Hole, Wyoming. A suspicious set of tracks.

00:19:50I really thought I was on to something.

00:19:53Over 500 on the side of a mountain.

00:19:57The tracks are funny things.

00:19:59The smallest print can melt, freeze, get snowed over.

00:20:03And before you know it, it's gigantic.

00:20:07Here, the supposed Bigfoot was a little old coyote.

00:20:19The redwoods, an endless source of sightings.

00:20:29If this creature were here, where did it hide?

00:20:35I searched in the caves formed by the roots of the ancient trees.

00:20:47And here were perfect shelters.

00:20:50Large, dark, secluded.

00:20:55Hideaways to recover from injuries.

00:21:00Refuge for many forest animals from the elements.

00:21:06Protected privacy when giving birth.

00:21:13Hundreds of tree caves, but no tracks, bones, or unusual droppings.

00:21:23No clues at all. I had to be wasting my time.

00:21:29But there was a statue carved in redwood.

00:21:34Its image was based on hundreds of sightings collected over the years.

00:21:39And it was exactly like the creature I had seen myself.

00:22:05Oregon Coast.

00:22:08Reports of Bigfoot feeding during the run of the night fish.

00:22:15The shore was secluded.

00:22:18Food was plentiful.

00:22:20It seemed a perfect place for the secretive Bigfoot.

00:22:24So I waited.

00:22:26You don't know what it is to wait till you've been a tracker.

00:22:35Finally, a gull came with the first sign of the run.

00:22:41And right behind it, you've never seen so many fishermen.

00:22:52My secluded beach turned into Coney Island.

00:22:56Only way Bigfoot could show up here was wearing swimming trunks.

00:23:04One bum steer after another.

00:23:08How was I supposed to know which lead to follow?

00:23:13I was running out of time.

00:23:15And I was running out of money.

00:23:19As we left, I felt like the waves were laughing at our backs.

00:23:31Then came our hottest tip yet.

00:23:33We couldn't turn it down.

00:23:35Snowbird warned us of an upcoming storm, but I was too excited and ignored it.

00:23:42The area was rich with wildlife.

00:23:45And why not Bigfoot?

00:23:47Plenty of food.

00:23:49Plenty of cover.

00:23:51This time, remote from man.

00:23:58There it was.

00:24:01My efforts had paid off.

00:24:03And this time, I was ready for it.

00:24:09I wasn't ready to find out it was just a bear staying up past its winter bedtime.

00:24:18What was happening to me?

00:24:22Any Boy Scout knows how people's eyes play tricks on them in the woods.

00:24:29I was like a gun-happy hunter that makes a ten-foot grizz out of a charred old tree stump.

00:24:38Even the snowbird was laughing.

00:24:42And why shouldn't it?

00:24:46Here I was, a grown man running around the woods chasing some fairy tale.

00:24:53I felt like a fool.

00:24:59Well, I was out of patience, and I was out of money.

00:25:03So I took a job up in the wilderness around Bossburg, Washington.

00:25:08I had to photograph a cinnamon bear in its natural habitat.

00:25:12You want a bear? Here's a bear.

00:25:16Piece of cake.

00:25:17I always got what I set after.

00:25:20Except Bigfoot.

00:25:25Then I saw it.

00:25:28A deformed version of the track I'd seen so often.

00:25:39There it was.

00:25:41Finally, face-to-face with Bigfoot.

00:25:51Here was the domed head, just as others had described it.

00:25:56The thick, dark fur to protect it from extremes of weather and allow it to pass unnoticed in the night.

00:26:05I saw it, photographed it.

00:26:09But scientists challenged my film.

00:26:14Yet it stood up under every conceivable test.

00:26:19Some reveal rugged terrain as the cause of the skinned heels.

00:26:23Polio as the cause of the limp.

00:26:27But my documented evidence wasn't good enough for the experts.

00:26:34Experts who still asked, how could such a creature survive?

00:26:39Where does it live? Show us its remains.

00:26:42What does it eat?

00:26:44Experts who challenged my word but claimed credit for my film and profited by it on lecture circuits.

00:26:54I didn't care for these people.

00:27:01But I was haunted by their questions.

00:27:08What an experience.

00:27:13Now I had to start finding some answers.

00:27:18The creature's tracks disappeared at the edge of a beaver swamp.

00:27:26The only sign of animal life was the geese migrating north for the summer.

00:27:34I wanted the satisfaction of bringing back unchallengeable proof.

00:27:40Still, where to begin?

00:27:44I found several other creatures had passed through the area, all heading north.

00:27:52Could Bigfoot be a migratory animal?

00:27:59I plotted all the reliable reports.

00:28:08There actually seemed to be a migratory pattern extended over thousands of miles.

00:28:18If this were true, I'd have some means of predicting the creature's movements

00:28:26and a good chance of finding out what it ate.

00:28:32I'd have some means of predicting the creature's movements

00:28:36and a good chance to find some answers to my questions.

00:28:42Bigfoot always stayed in very rocky mountains and isolated terrain.

00:28:50The greatest number of sightings, and the only ones of the Bigfoot young,

00:28:55were in summer, above the Arctic Circle.

00:28:59Could that be where Bigfoot migrated to breed?

00:29:03If I move rapidly, I might find a clue before season's end.

00:29:30Peg and I took our camera and planned to document every step we took.

00:29:36The lava beds, Modoc, California.

00:29:40If Bigfoot were a migratory animal, my theory had to hold up all along the way.

00:29:47A track, centuries old, preserved in the lava.

00:29:51My theory was working.

00:29:54But I wondered how Bigfoot survived the violent eruptions that brought the lava rock.

00:30:02As usual, nature provided me clues.

00:30:08I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:30:12they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:30:19I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:30:25they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:31:48I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:31:54they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:32:00I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:32:06they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:32:12I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:32:18they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:32:24I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:32:30they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:32:36I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:32:43they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:32:50I saw these two little ground squirrels so much in love,

00:32:57they took no notice of me or the dangers around me.

00:33:05These same instincts started up in the wounded squirrel.

00:33:19Nature was reminding me of her basic law, survival.

00:33:35The same will to survive must have somehow kept Bigfoot going

00:33:41throughout all these years.

00:33:47But where did the creature go if it were injured?

00:33:53The caves, Mount Lassen.

00:33:59The Hat Creek Indians believed they were inhabited by an evil ape man.

00:34:05Now I was hot, every step along the way brought me new clues.

00:34:13It was too late in the season to find the creature here now,

00:34:19but I'd soon catch up with him.

00:34:25But I'd soon catch up with him above the Arctic Circle.

00:35:25Peg and I found the people up north different.

00:35:28They encouraged me, took my search seriously.

00:35:34Like the lumberjacks, mountain men, like myself.

00:35:40The first into the midst of the wilderness,

00:35:43which meant first with stories of Bigfoot.

00:35:48Most of their sightings came at the time of year I'd anticipated.

00:35:54But they were sure when Bigfoot passed

00:35:57because strange happenings followed in a nearby valley.

00:36:04Herds of goats come and perform a ritual suicide.

00:36:11Sure enough, the goats were there looking as if they were grazing normally,

00:36:17but actually eating pounds of dirt.

00:36:22With the help of water, the earth turns to cement and they die.

00:36:29Lying in the shadow of Bigfoot, etched in rock 26 feet high,

00:36:36and the wolf, his only known traveling companion.

00:36:42But when on in this valley, Bigfoot passed through,

00:36:45went against all the natural laws of survival.

00:36:50The rock formations, too massive to have been shaped by man,

00:36:55presented another totally unexplainable natural phenomenon.

00:37:06To those who cried,

00:37:08for Bigfoot to exist goes against every bit of scientific data known to man,

00:37:14I now say, how much more there is to know.

00:37:22I dug close to the adventurers who'd left their calling cards at Watson Lake

00:37:27as they crossed into the Yukon,

00:37:29and even closer to those who'd made a similar journey at the turn of the century,

00:37:34who set out after something they didn't know where to find,

00:37:38but knew was out there someplace.

00:37:41With so many pouring into the Yukon during the gold rush,

00:37:45it's no surprise there'd be such a rich source of stories about Bigfoot.

00:38:03For the first time in my life, I understood what made people like that tick.

00:38:09It's more than gold.

00:38:11I guess we all need a frontier to explore.

00:38:15Don't necessarily have to go off into it,

00:38:18just makes you feel kind of good knowing it's there.

00:38:24Thousands of these people came from everywhere.

00:38:30Tent City sprung up where no man had ever even walked.

00:38:36If Bigfoot came here to keep clear of man,

00:38:40its seclusion didn't last for long.

00:38:43Such a rich source of information had to bring new leaves.

00:38:50Sure enough, an old miner's story told how the glaciers of Bigfoot

00:38:56An old miner's story told how the glaciers up there were the burial grounds of the Bigfoot.

00:39:03That would explain why there were no remains.

00:39:07The creatures carried the dead over thousands of miles

00:39:11just to deposit them in crevices that opened up in the spring and fall.

00:39:17Can you imagine?

00:39:27I went there searching for some remains.

00:39:31I did find tracks, so I had to be close.

00:39:35I found bones that told many different stories,

00:39:40but none of Bigfoot.

00:39:45The constant movement of the glaciers could either crush the remains or wash them to the sea.

00:39:54Burial grounds of the Bigfoot.

00:39:58I thought of the people who were the source of these stories.

00:40:03Their friends called them crazy,

00:40:06and some of them might have been.

00:40:09I thought of the people who were the source of these stories.

00:40:13Their friends called them crazy,

00:40:16and some of them might have been.

00:40:19Their friends called them crazy,

00:40:22and some of them might have been.

00:40:24But you wouldn't believe the extremes they went to

00:40:28for their fortunes, romance, and the unexplored.

00:40:50I guess it wasn't so tough to believe Bigfoot could have gone to similar extremes

00:40:57for a far more instinctive, basic drive,

00:41:02as burying his dead.

00:41:12So many questions.

00:41:19Well, I sure understood what drove those miners as they sailed up the river in pursuit of gold,

00:41:26for I'd soon ride the same river in pursuit of Bigfoot.

00:41:35The miners were gone now,

00:41:39but I knew Bigfoot had to still be around.

00:41:43The frequency of current sightings

00:41:46meant he'd somehow survived the diseases the white man brought into the wilds.

00:41:53The tuberculosis, measles,

00:41:59that wiped out whole tribes of Indians and Eskimos.

00:42:17He'd even survived the violence reaching out from the boom towns.

00:42:26Now I understood why Bigfoot steered clear of man.

00:42:31He had to, in order to survive.

00:42:39However vicious the creature might be,

00:42:44I gained a lot of respect for the elusive Bigfoot and its ability to endure.

00:42:51But if we were to find it, we'd have to get to the furthest outpost of civilization.

00:43:02When we ran out of road, we saw the remnants of the old pioneers

00:43:08giving way to the machinery of the new.

00:43:12Thousands were now pouring back up to the new gold rush for the black gold, oil.

00:43:20How much longer could Bigfoot avoid all these people?

00:43:25Where would he go next?

00:43:28I gambled on him heading north.

00:43:34Well, traveling had been tough, so we treated ourselves to the fanciest hotel in town.

00:43:41There, Yukon Frida.

00:43:44Her sketches were based on recent sightings and descriptions of Bigfoot from that very area.

00:43:54As we started our journey up the river, I thought of the statues and drawings I'd seen in Arizona,

00:44:01California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, the Yukon,

00:44:06and now above the Arctic Circle.

00:44:10I'd seen them all.

00:44:13The statues and drawings I'd seen in Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, the Yukon,

00:44:21and now above the Arctic Circle.

00:44:24All of them resembling the very creature I saw myself.

00:44:29They were too similar over too vast an area to be coincidental.

00:44:34But these images weren't good enough for the experts below.

00:44:39I still had a lot of questions to answer.

00:44:44There were no grocery stores up here, so we ate off the land or purchased fish from the Eskimos.

00:44:52I knew I could get my answers from these people, because stories of Bigfoot were as plentiful as the food.

00:45:03One man told of the strange day his mother died.

00:45:07In a cabin like this, family and friends gathered to await the passing of her spirit.

00:45:15That night, they heard a soft scratch at the door.

00:45:18There was Bigfoot, chanting in a strange tongue.

00:45:23Everyone was terrified.

00:45:26The spirit of his mother was speaking through the voice of Bigfoot.

00:45:32They must abandon their homes, which they did.

00:45:37The next day, an ice flow changed the river, and waters now flow where the village once stood.

00:45:47I asked to see this area, hoping for a sign of Bigfoot.

00:45:51The man said, if you wish to see the king of the animals, he breeds in the mating grounds of the Alaskan moose.

00:46:09The moose came, as if a sign, reaffirming the man's words.

00:46:22Up the river by a salmon wheel, a lone Eskimo greeted us with the words, Bigfoot is not here.

00:46:34How did he know what we were after?

00:46:38He told a tale about a trapper who killed a creature in the early 40s, bringing the wrath of Bigfoot down upon his people.

00:46:52He said, one night, I was caught out on the trail with only a few minutes of twilight left.

00:47:02The lights began to shine in the sky.

00:47:06They were bright.

00:47:08Traveling was good.

00:47:10Then, the snow turned red.

00:47:14The north, south, east, and west, rivers of blood flowed across the sky and down into the snows.

00:47:24It seemed to be the last day of the world.

00:47:28Bigfoot was punishing us for bringing its sorrow.

00:47:33But then, the good white light rose from the north.

00:47:38What followed was a battle of a thousand warriors.

00:47:44The white light was the spirit of Bigfoot, left to die by the trapper.

00:47:51It returned in the form of a white raven to protect us from the red wrath of its grieving brothers.

00:48:00If you travel the river, you may see him.

00:48:04And if you do, he will bring you luck.

00:48:30Then, the native gasped, pointing to a bird soaring above us, the legendary white raven.

00:48:49The fisherman said, Bigfoot smiles upon you.

00:48:54You will bring word of him to the people below.

00:49:00My mind was reeling.

00:49:18At the next village, the natives were waiting for us.

00:49:23They heard about the white raven and wanted to show us their secret, sacred figure.

00:49:31Here it was again.

00:49:35They told us how Bigfoot was their friend.

00:49:38Their friend?

00:49:40How did they think such a violent creature could be their friend?

00:49:46They told how Bigfoot always carried the bodies of men killed or lost in the Arctic winter

00:49:53to the edge of the nearest village to be buried by their own kind.

00:49:59When I asked where I could make contact with their friend, they said, in the land of shining eyes.

00:50:08But they warned me not to violate Bigfoot's domain.

00:50:13I reminded them of the white raven.

00:50:16So they taught me a chant to sing on the night of the full moon

00:50:21and promised I would see the glowing eyes of Bigfoot.

00:50:44Well, I wasn't going to have a thing to do with any chanting.

00:50:50So I set up walkie-talkies 300 yards from the tent to monitor any movements on the tundra during the night.

00:50:58At the first sound, I'd have a jump on the creature.

00:51:08Then the wait.

00:51:13The land was lush with vegetation, a perfect feeding ground.

00:51:20Berries, lichen, gnats, bugs, millions of fish.

00:51:26Not just a land of ice and snow.

00:51:32I understood why Bigfoot and so many animals flocked to the Arctic to breed and raise their young.

00:51:45But this land was strangely silent.

00:51:51Where were the animals?

00:51:56My transmitter had been thrown 15 feet.

00:52:03And the tundra held no tracks.

00:52:08Days passed.

00:52:11I felt like a fool.

00:52:14But nothing could stop me.

00:52:20Days passed.

00:52:23I felt like a fool.

00:52:25But now I'd go to any ends to conjure up the creature.

00:52:31Soon Peg saw what she thought were two car lights approaching.

00:52:47I was caught in the darkness, but Peg guided me toward the lights.

00:52:54I was caught in the darkness, but Peg guided me toward the lights.

00:53:00I had to find out what it was.

00:53:06Then we realized they were the shiny eyes.

00:53:14This time I couldn't let Bigfoot escape.

00:53:23I had to find out what it was.

00:53:29This time I couldn't let Bigfoot escape.

00:53:35I had to find out what it was.

00:53:41This time I couldn't let Bigfoot escape.

00:53:48I had to find out what it was.

00:53:56But dawn broke, and it disappeared behind a rainbow.

00:54:03This was too much.

00:54:09I felt like I was coming apart at the seams.

00:54:15Here I was, an experienced mountain man all my life,

00:54:21acting like a fool.

00:54:27Here I was, an experienced mountain man all my life,

00:54:31acting like a spooked tenderfoot.

00:54:35I still had a thousand questions, and so few answers.

00:54:44I couldn't concentrate.

00:54:47My head was spinning with tall tales and folklore.

00:54:52I no longer knew what to believe.

00:54:56I had to get away from the others and be by myself.

00:55:02There were the salmon, back after ten years of living in the sea,

00:55:10to spawn in the exact place of their birth,

00:55:15and then to die.

00:55:19They were the last of their kind.

00:55:24They were the last of their kind.

00:55:29And then to die.

00:55:32They reminded me of those I'd seen at Kodiak,

00:55:36in the days when I was a pure tracker,

00:55:39stuck to nature's signs,

00:55:41and wasn't so confused with all the legends and stories of man.

00:55:54And there were geese,

00:55:56my first clue to Bigfoot's migratory pattern.

00:56:07I began to feel close to nature again.

00:56:12I knew that's where I'd find the answers to my questions.

00:56:20And the caribou,

00:56:21catching velvet off their antlers,

00:56:23released swamp gas from the tundra to glow in the night.

00:56:33Then I saw what must have been the Monarch of the North.

00:56:40And I was terrified.

00:56:42It could crush the likes of me with one swoop.

00:56:45But it was the most magnificent animal I think I've ever seen.

00:56:54He didn't seem to notice me as he made a clearing.

00:57:00He sharpened his horns as if to prepare for combat.

00:57:04I thought he'd come for me now.

00:57:07Instead, he dug a pit,

00:57:11marked it with his scent.

00:57:19This attracted cows from all over the area

00:57:24and seemed to warn other bulls to keep away.

00:57:32The cows declared themselves his

00:57:36by covering themselves with his scent.

00:57:40I'd made it.

00:57:42The mating grounds of the Alaskan moose

00:57:45where no man had ever been before

00:57:48and possibly the breeding grounds of Bigfoot.

00:57:55Some young wolves seemed a little over-eager

00:57:59and found the monarch defending his territory against all intruders

00:58:05while others waited for the right moment to move in.

00:58:15Then he saw me.

00:58:19Luckily, a match for the monarch

00:58:22challenged him for his cows and territory.

00:58:36Those who'd waited now moved in.

00:58:44While the bulls were fighting,

00:58:47nature made sure there'd be a good crop of calves come spring.

00:58:54Finally, the monarch triumphed.

00:58:58Now, too preoccupied to give any notice to me,

00:59:02he gathered his cows,

00:59:05and set out for the Alaskan moose.

00:59:11I thought he'd come for me now.

00:59:15Instead, he dug a pit,

00:59:18marked it with his scent.

00:59:21His cows.

00:59:24End.

00:59:26According to the law of nature,

00:59:29the strongest began to breed.

00:59:35I was deeply moved by what I'd seen,

00:59:38but still, no sign of Bigfoot.

00:59:42The salmon lay dying in the streams,

00:59:45signaling the end of the breeding season.

00:59:49Time was running out, so we took to the air.

00:59:58The Arctic winter could close us in at any moment,

01:00:01so we had to move fast.

01:00:07Why couldn't I find this creature?

01:00:10Was my theory wrong?

01:00:13When I saw the expanse of space below, I laughed.

01:00:18Anything could be out there.

01:00:21They'd found Stone Age men in New Zealand.

01:00:24There were prehistoric fish being pulled out of the Persian Sea.

01:00:27My God, a primitive man walked out of the mountains

01:00:3070 miles from the capital of California.

01:00:34There's so much territory yet to be explored.

01:00:39We found undiscovered wrecks of men

01:00:42who'd tried to break into this wilderness

01:00:45and were never heard of again.

01:00:48But I couldn't think of the risks.

01:00:51Everything I believed in was on the line.

01:01:00Suddenly, the pilot whipped around.

01:01:06There he was, a young Bigfoot,

01:01:09frozen like a tree.

01:01:16We raced back to the river,

01:01:20but he slipped away.

01:01:23Seeing the young Bigfoot confirmed my theory.

01:01:26I could now roughly predict the creature's movements.

01:01:32The crew celebrated the sighting,

01:01:35but it wasn't enough for me.

01:01:38I knew I needed to document Bigfoot's habits.

01:01:43The young Bigfoot's tracks led me from the river

01:01:47to a lush meadow.

01:01:50He'd passed through a herd of grazing muskox.

01:01:54I wondered what Bigfoot fed on.

01:01:58Maybe he ate vegetation too.

01:02:01Or fish.

01:02:03I'd seen him by a river.

01:02:05Of course, he could have been cleaning himself.

01:02:08Or drinking.

01:02:10Of course, he could be a predator.

01:02:13One of these oxen would last him half the winter.

01:02:17Bigfoot's behavior still held many mysteries.

01:02:21But now it was just a matter of time before I solved them.

01:02:36Winter now closed down on us.

01:02:39In earnest.

01:02:41We were forced to move south, just like the animals.

01:02:50The caribou gathered for their migration.

01:03:03They'd be the source of food

01:03:06for all the meat-eating animals that followed.

01:03:15If Bigfoot were a meat-eater, he'd feed on caribou too.

01:03:20If I could prove that he did,

01:03:23I'd have a clue to the place he held in nature.

01:03:27If I could film it,

01:03:29I'd have the kind of documentation the experts demanded.

01:03:34Whatever his habits,

01:03:36I knew the road would be paved with danger.

01:05:05The Caribou

01:05:24I was devastated by the slaughter of the caribou.

01:05:29I kept thinking of Bigfoot and its migration.

01:05:32It had to be protected.

01:05:34It could be wiped out before I had a chance to study it.

01:05:41But how could I get protection for something so few believed existed?

01:05:48I needed that unchallengeable proof I'd first set out for.

01:05:54There was no sign of Bigfoot with the caribou.

01:06:00It must eat vegetation or fish.

01:06:05The perfect place.

01:06:07Beaver Swamp in the spring.

01:06:17I got there early and planned to stay as long as I could.

01:06:22I used every trick I learned over my years as a trapper

01:06:26and carefully covered my scent with ammonia.

01:06:33Beaver Swamp.

01:06:36The geese.

01:06:38If my theory was right, Bigfoot would follow shortly.

01:06:45I searched for the perfect place to set up a blind.

01:06:50Uh-uh.

01:06:53When I found it, I moved in and set up my cameras.

01:07:00Day after day I waited and soon grew jealous of the other animals' freedom.

01:07:08I was stiff, chilled to the bone,

01:07:11but I was determined not to make a move that might warn Bigfoot of my presence.

01:07:20What if he didn't come?

01:07:32Then a movement in the woods.

01:07:36The sun hadn't come up yet.

01:07:38It was hard to make out what I'd seen at first.

01:07:50There he was.

01:07:52Bigfoot.

01:07:54Standing no more than a hundred yards from my blind.

01:07:59I began to shake all over.

01:08:02I could barely keep hold of my camera.

01:08:06He was awesome.

01:08:10Then behind me, another one.

01:08:14Smaller, possibly younger.

01:08:18How many of them were there?

01:08:21Was I surrounded?

01:08:24Was I surrounded?

01:08:27Was I surrounded?

01:08:30Was I surrounded?

01:08:33Was I surrounded?

01:08:37Was I surrounded?

01:08:42They were the most extraordinary creatures I'd ever seen.

01:08:47I now knew why the Eskimos called Bigfoot the king of the animals.

01:08:54The older, larger one was seven feet tall, 450 to 500 pounds.

01:09:01His domed head and long, dark hair, just like the other creatures I'd seen.

01:09:07His odor was overwhelming.

01:09:10The same thick, musky scent that first led me to Bigfoot so long ago.

01:09:17The young one was no more than five and a half feet tall, 250 pounds.

01:09:24If my guess was right, probably on its first trip away from its northern breeding grounds,

01:09:31he'd probably never seen a man before.

01:09:34If he saw me, he could panic and attack.

01:09:40Then I looked around and realized the other animals were carrying on normally.

01:09:48If danger was around, they would have fled.

01:09:58Just as the Eskimos had said, Bigfoot is a benevolent creature.

01:10:08It doesn't even attack or feed on other animals.

01:10:13It seems to eat only vegetation or sometimes fish.

01:10:18Here it was before, pulling up the tender swamp grass with its hands.

01:10:27Remarkable, huge hands that seem capable of grasping, scooping up drinking water,

01:10:34and splashing to rid itself of parasites.

01:10:40I'd done it. Here I was again with Bigfoot.

01:10:47Unchallengeable proof my theory had worked.

01:10:51It is a migratory animal, and I now have the documentation of its habits I needed.

01:11:00Now we can begin to understand the place this creature holds in nature.

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01:11:26A raccoon came out to start his day's hunting.

01:11:30I knew the nocturnal Bigfoot would soon return to the cover of the forest.

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01:12:50I once again said goodbye to this mysterious creature

01:12:55that has somehow outlived its natural role,

01:13:00endured the tests of time,

01:13:05now left to wander the land elusively

01:13:09with a strange will to survive.

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01:13:22Oh, I still have plenty of questions,

01:13:25and I'll continue my search for the answers now.

01:13:29But I assure you, I'll no longer get so caught up

01:13:33in the problems of my research

01:13:36that I'll lose touch with the wonders it reveals.

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The Legend Of Bigfoot | Full Movie | Harry Winer | Ivan Marx, Peggy Marx, Yukon Frida

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