The Cryptid Factor - 11: #011 The Endeavour Issue

Episode Date: July 30, 2013

This week a 3yo finds a 500-year-old gold pendant, a heat wave brings a man back to life, and spooked baboons baffle Netherland zoo. Also, a man finds a fossilized Bigfoot head, David converts a sceptic, a squatch spotted in British Columbia and a very funny eyewitness account.

The Quintet Factor, with Rhys, Derby, and David Fadriar. Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Cryptid Factor, the only podcast we know of about cryptozoology. My name's David. My name's Rhys. I'm Buddins, hi! Yes, in the corner. By the way guys, I couldn't hear that theme tune. What?

I couldn't hear it. I mean, I'm sure you can fix it in post, right? Oh yeah, the list, I think it was recording. It was definitely recording. Sort of the fancy way we've got it set up here. I just want to make sure you haven't changed the theme tune or something. No, you were secretly changing it. Yeah, why?

The Buttons of David show. I'm Buttons, I'm David. We're really cool together. And Rhys is stuck in our way. What a loser. Now as that alternative theme song can tell you, Rhys is over in Los Angeles. Buttons and I are here in New Zealand sort of producing the show back here. And for the next hour, we plan to take you on sort of a journey of the weird and the cryptozoological.

Through a variety of news and segments and storytelling and excitement. Really? Overall? Yeah. What have you been up to, Rhys? I'm just going to... I'm just adjusting. I think listeners should be aware I'm using one of the latest microphones, the Yeti. Which is quite perfect, isn't it, for this job.

I'm just adjusting the gain because your voice is really getting on my nerves there, David. I'm just trying to turn that down. It gets on my nerve too. I've got no buttons to fix that. He's here in the room with me. There's nothing I can do. And I'm just loosening the volume. I'm just turning my own voice up slightly. I like the soothing sounds of my own tones. I can hear your voice going up in my ear.

You guys are starting to sound like... Why do I get excited? People are listening to this show. They never had to put up with this when we're at real radio stations doing real broadcast. When we had the radio station, back when we had people trust us. We often ruined their equipment. I think slowly over time we've been kicked out of how many radio stations now? Three.

And they thought that would be the end of the cryptid factor, but no. No, that's not the end. We discovered the internet, didn't we? We discovered there was another forum where people could listen. It's got no bosses. It's a more do-it-yourself, really. And we've probably discovered through this that we've actually got more listeners than we've ever had before. Yeah, so it's been a little blessing, really, in disguise.

Right, listeners? Here we go. Just pause it there so they can still say yes. Just edit a little pause in there. Because I want all the listeners saying yes! Now... Can we start again now? Was that enough of a pause?

It probably sounds to you like I'm very excited, and it's true. Because guess what? I saw on Sunday. A movie? Was it a movie? I'm guessing you saw something unknown and weird. It was very known. Just give us a clue.

Is it a human? I'll give you a clue. I'll show you. Oh, no. You're holding up a NASA cap at the moment. You win, and you win aboard the Challenger. What is it called? The Space Shuttle? It's the Endeavour.

That is so sucky. The Challenger is the one that you can't visit, because that's the one that is in lots of different pieces. It's become more of a challenge. Put it that way. Since the explosion. I saw the Endeavour. It's absolutely fantastic.

The Space Shuttle. It's at the Science Museum here in Hollywood, and we had to book tickets. It's so popular that you have to queue up for a good half an hour before you get into the huge hangar where you get to see it. It's just phenomenal.

It was a real... I wouldn't say life-changing experience. No, it wasn't. I did walk away with some merchandise. I changed the old bank account slightly. It was amazing to see the star of the Space Shuttle fleet in all its glory,

and to realise that these things are real. It was amazing to see and realise that these things are real, and they have taken mankind up into space. It's their real-life spaceships. It's something more

exciting than a rocket. I can't explain why. I think it's because it's a shuttle. It really is something more similar to something from a science fiction film or Star Wars than a rocket, which is more of an upstanding

sort of thing that... Look, I've had a couple of wines. I've got to tell you. It's bucketless material. We're talking about bucketless material. I did like your comparison between a rocket and a shuttle, and I think they're all

valid points. MBS, love your NASA cap. That is pure rock and roll, man. Pretty cool, huh? That's the classic geeky cap right there. You're going to come back. You're going to wear that in front of us all the time, aren't you? Even when you don't want to wear a cap,

you're going to wear that just to rub it in. That is a good-looking cap. Yeah, man. That's the classic. Well, look, speaking of space, space is pretty weird. Should we get into some weekly world weird news? Weekly world weird news. Crazy, freaky. Watch out.

A lot of weird stuff going on in the past week all around the planet. I thought I'd kick off here and sort of all originated with a really good Twitter account I found called Florida Man. I don't know if you have noticed this, Rhys,

or if you're reading a paper, often say a Florida Man did this. Florida Man did whatever. Basically, they've now got a Twitter account for Florida Man making out that he is just one guy. So here's some of the tweets.

Florida Man steals 20 turtles at gunpoint from man in parking lot. That's Florida. This is next up what Florida Man can do. You can't read out headlines like this and not give the deal. Florida Man tells 9-1-1 girlfriend was kidnapped after she tries to leave him.

Florida Man arrested for swimming naked in Toxic Lake. Florida Man tells police he has a gun so they'll respond to his 9-1-1 call quicker. And my favorite headline of what Florida Man's been up to, Florida Man arrested twice in one week for sex with dogs.

So if you want to follow Florida Man, he's just at Florida Man and honestly, the stuff Florida Man gets up to is outrageous. That's our weekly World Weird News. It's just Florida Man every week. We rename weekly World Weird News into Florida Man News. So I just want to read a little bit more

about this article. Tallahassee police pull Florida Man from Lake Ella and I really just I mainly liked what Florida Man had to say about this. His real name Daryl Majingas he a police officer basically responded

to calls of a naked man in Lake Ella on yesterday afternoon. So basically according to the police report, he refused to exit the lake when they instructed him to do so. Florida Man replied to officers that he wasn't able to exit

because he was naked and he had come and entered the lake fully clothed to swim. His clothing had fallen off. What? It had fallen off. So I like he that was an excuse he'd gone for a swim fully clothed but the clothing had fallen off.

Your clothing can fall off. If you've got loose clothing and you're diving and you must know that how many times have your togs come off buttons when you've jumped in the hotel pool? I know but you're the type that doesn't even tie them up. He doesn't bother does he? Well it's just

I get my togs. I hope they would come off. Speedos I was told were clingy enough so that you didn't have to worry about if you're doing you know like some form of forward roll dive you know that they should

stay on. I mean that's the whole purpose of Speedos. I like undies undies don't often just come off but these did. Oh Leon. The guy what did he have on? I mean did he have underwear? No he reckoned he had he reckoned he had shirts and

he had proper jeans on and a shirt. That's what he said and underwear. It all just came off. It all came off. I mean obviously jeans come off very easily on their own. Well experienced especially when you're swimming. What were you doing summer salts in the water? After being retrieved by emergency

responders he said he had entered the lake to swim and take a bath and had walked most of the way to the platform. He said he knew he shouldn't have entered the lake but was adamant about taking a bath. He said then his clothes fell off and decided to go for more of a swim. So anyway and the other thing that Florida

Man has been up to that I was quite interested in was this Florida Man holding someone at gunpoint and stealing 20 turtles. So they're searching for this guy. He basically held up a guy at gunpoint and stole 20 turtles along with

$500. Apparently You need to feed the turtles. The price is $10 per turtle. So if you're in Florida and you see a guy with 20 turtles he's not legit. He's stolen them off

someone else at gunpoint and Florida Police want to find him. So I just sort of put them out there. How hard can it be to track him down? It can't be too hard. But I mean it's Florida Florida Man's up to all sorts of stuff. Florida Man's arrested for holding a friend's cell phone at

ransom after he vomited in his bathroom. Florida Man arrested for kidnapping a neighbor's dog. He just Florida Man is just crazy. He does sound rather exciting but he's not a patch on California Man, is he? I mean

he's not from the Ice Age he's not a Neanderthal that was thawed out. That was a classic filmmaker from the 90s. That was great. So good. They don't make them like that anymore, do they? Last one from Florida Man Florida Man arrested for sitting on crying baby's

head. God, this guy needs crying already. How many followers has he got? Florida Man, he's got 130,000. Wow. More than me. His Twitter profile is real life stories of the world's worst superhero. So there you go.

That's some stories from Florida Man that I thought I'd bring to you this week. Well, check him out. Let's follow him. Let's follow him till he gets put away. Yeah, Florida Man's pretty amazing. My last bit of news that I've got is an example of an amazing headline and a really

mediocre story. Headline, China's heat wave brings dead man back to life. Oh, that sounds... Sounds... Okay, so China's heat wave brings dead man back to life. The actual story is to paraphrase it. It was

a guy protesting, pretending to be dead under a sheet that was part of the protest. It was so hot he needed a water and steam, woke up. Oh, brilliant. That's pretty good. I've got a lovely story to end on

and keep people's spirits high. A three-year-old boy using a metal detector for the very first time has unearthed a golden pendant estimated to be worth over two and a half million pounds. Three years old, he just is

dead who has been a... who's been a scrounger, what do you call them? Guys that go around with metal detectors. He's been doing it for 50... A knob. A knob. Thank you. He's been doing it for 15 years,

found nothing more than a couple of old pennies. Yeah, a couple of cans. His three-year-old son grabs the metal detector at the age of three, is using it for less than five minutes. The machine starts going mental, they start digging, and just

eight inches deep into the ground they found what they now know to be a 500-year-old gold pendant. Wow. That's cool. That's awesome. How would you feel as the dad though? You'd be like, oh, good on your son? Yep. Yeah, I was just about to look there. I was just about to...

I was... I'm in charge of it. Get off it. I found that. No, I did, dad. No, don't... just get your hands off it. I got it. No, he's mine. He's mine. David, it's his. Put it down. He's got... It's the wife coming in there.

He's going to take it to show and tell the next morning, look what I found. It just goes to show, you know, it is a pretty geeky hobby. It's probably the ultimate... It is. You know, when you think of, you know, stupid things you could do in your spare time

and, you know, and... the lack of friends they must have. But if you persevere, you know, look what can happen, and it's worth it. You know, there's a TV show over here. I can't remember what it's called, but I was watching it the other night, and it's about metal detectors. It's about these

dudes. They call themselves treasure hunters. They're much cooler name than what they are. They're just a knob walking around with a metal detector, right? But the program, it's on discovery or something like, you know, treasure hunters. So obviously I click on it, you know, I go watch it. And

it's just these... these really odd guys who clearly have got nothing going on, but they've spent up the, you know, they've bought these metal detectors, and then they go and find... they compete to find, you know, what they can with their detector in a certain

area of a certain province. And, you know, they come up with a lot of pennies, but they always come up with things that are worth a lot of money, and they find history, you know, and then you start getting into it, go, okay, and then all the statistics about the things that they've found in this. So there is a bit of

history, but I can see why they do it. So what you're saying, what you're saying is you've bought one, you've gone out with your sons. Is that what you're trying to... Is that what you're bringing yourself to say? It doesn't interest me, but what I'm saying is it's from

something that's, you know, we all know is probably the ultimate loser for the past time, has actually become a television show. I know. So go on them. How about that show? And this is... They just go into the river Thames at low tide with a couple of little shovels,

scrape away a little bit, find something they probably just placed there before the camera started rolling, and TV, somebody needs to start a crypto zoological show, I reckon. Oh, yeah. I mean, that hasn't happened yet. All right.

All right. Now, look, I think this is a perfect time to segue into a bit of cryptid news. Obviously, this is a radio show. Well, it's not. It's a podcast. We've seen that for years, a radio show. We're not even on the radio anymore. We're on the internet. Yeah, for the first time

we're not even on the radio. Should be in buzz. So this is a show about cryptidozology. We're not even in the same room. I don't know in this life. It's so strange. So it's a show about cryptidozology, which is the science of hidden animals. So,

you know, some common ones, obviously, big foot, Loch Ness monster, but it goes much, much wider than that. And the sort of next section of the show is sort of going to dive into a bit of that. Yes. We've got a new sting for this, by the way. Hmm.

Very, very good. And it's a buddy good one. Yeah. He recorded that. There's some guy emailed something over, I think. You know, we thought it sounded good. Just someone, someone quite skills

and we just thought, shit, that sounds good. We'll throw that into the mix. Instead of saying cryptid buzz each week, we'll just have it pre-recorded. Okay, you ready for this? Sure, yeah. Yeah, let's do it. Attention, all personnel, it's time for this week's cryptid Blah!

This is cryptid buzz. The part of the show we will bring you the latest cryptid news. Who'd like to kick it off? Rhys? Yeah, I think you've got the, you've got the best. Oh, sorry. You caught me mid, mid-drink. You're doing pretty well with that

bottle of wine over there, Rhys, actually. Yeah. Well, it's, it's to celebrate our, our second international trans what, what ocean is it? I forget. The Trans-Ocean. Trans-Ocean.

Trans-Ocean. Trans-Ocean podcast. Hmm. Trans-Pacific. Second, second podcast when we're not in the same room. Uh, same show, just slightly less connected. Same show, different rooms. That's our motto. Yep.

Still encouraging the same bullshit. Yes. Guess what's happened this week? It's been rather bizarre. Did you hear about the spooked baboons that baffled the Dutch zoo in Emmen? No.

It sounds like a riddle or a joke. It's a joke, guys. This is no joke. News is getting weirder, right? I'm sure when we started doing this five years ago, stuff was weird, but it was nowhere as bizarre as what we're getting these days.

I got to say. It's exciting. We're, soon, this, our weekly world weird news is just going to be the regular news. We're going to be on TV at 6 o'clock, the three of us replacing whoever the anchors are, sorry, wankers are, the normal news.

They'll be thrown out the bag and will be chucked in because this is the sort of stuff that's really happening right now. Staff at the zoo in Netherlands say they are baffled by their baboons who have spent days sitting still huddled together in fear

and hardly eating. The behaviour started on Monday evening and only now are the 112 baboons becoming their normal active selves again. Wow. The zoo still has no idea what spooked the baboons

but it's a good sign that some are now finally eating apples. Biologists would bring By the way, if you're going to be in a news article, have a normal name. I don't care.

I don't care if you're from the Netherlands. Please. I want to say normal. I mean the name I can pronounce. You know and I'm guilty of it. My name when you look at it in its letter form R-H-Y-S

you think what the hell's that? You know and I think it just I don't know. I've talked myself into a circle that I don't want to be in but I'm in the centre of it feeling embarrassed. I'll continue. Right, so depressed baboons.

The zoo last was such hysteria so it's seen it before by the way in 2007. What frightened them? We don't know. It's a mystery. There have been many suggestions. An earthquake escaped snakes, aliens

thunder The other animals here are okay. They have they have lemurs, elephants and kangaroos as neighbours and they show no sign of panic. Eman lies in the north

eastern Netherlands near the German border. That's good. Thank you. Was it Nazis? Was it the Nazis? I don't know what I'm going to take from this article. These people at the zoo have consulted a French baboon expert.

Hang on, sorry. The Dutch are contacting a French baboon expert. I don't think they should hear about this. If you want to get a baboon expert, always get a baboon expert. If you want to talk about the baboon that was the worst French accent I've ever seen.

He said it was like yogi bear. I come on baboon. Let's go get a baboon. I have no hood in America. Does this article have any sort of conclusion? I'm just a stupid mystery at the moment.

At one stage they were depressed and they were eating apples. Now this French baboon expert has been brought in. This French baboon expert had witnessed this similar behaviour

from baboon's hysteria in the wild. It was usually triggered by awareness of a predator. It's just really odd in a zoo for so many baboons to suddenly freak. They just didn't even move for a minute and a half.

They just stayed in their little trees. People just thought what has happened? Something spooked the baboons and no one knows what it was. All I'm saying is obviously it was aliens. Do you know what I like?

You could just faintly hear underneath the creepy music I'm playing there the sound of an American police car going whoo! It's always happening there's always something happening of the murder.

Reese is actually living on the street at the moment. That article has just so many plot points in there. It's like a movie. Do you want to go buttons? Have you got something? Yeah! Reese, that was an incredible bit of news.

My mind's reeling at that. Thank you. I've got... It's been all over the net with these baboons. Which is weird because I hadn't heard about it. I'm sure I was reading the newspapers but maybe in New Zealand the Dutch news hasn't made it

to New Zealand yet. It'll get here. The news that I've got which I'm struggling to make sense of whether or not I actually believe it or not is a man

in the States of Ogden and I'm struggling to find out where Ogden is. Does anybody know where Ogden is? It's not like a well-known place. But Ogden claims to have found

a fossilized bigfoot head. Oh, wow! I've got a photo here so you can make up the mind your own mind. This gentleman who had found it he's obviously a believer in bigfoot

and he's found this rock and he's suggesting that it's definitely a fossilized bigfoot head. It's a rock, clearly it's a rock but obviously fossils become rock. I'm going to show you guys a photo here

and you can tell me whether or not you think that's a fossilized bigfoot head. It's a rock that looks like a face, isn't it? Have a look. Okay. He's just putting it up to the cameras now. Of course I'm in another city

but I can see using the computer. Yes, it looks to me like a large rock and the man holding it, is that Sean Connery? Doesn't it look like Sean Connery? It looks like Sean Connery when he was on Indiana Jones

as MD's dad. Listen, listen, Junior, this is bigfoot. It's not bigfoot. Yes, Junior, it's bigfoot. It's a fossilized version of bigfoot. It's a rock. It's not a rock.

I know about rocks. I was in the rock. No one knows rocks more than I do, Junior. This is bigfoot's head and it's fossilized in the form of a rock. It's a rock, you're right. I'm going to digress.

It's a rock, but it's a fossilized bigfoot head. It looks slightly like it's got some eyes on it. Yes, a bigfoot eye. Wouldn't you say it's your bigfoot eyes? I mean, look, I'll tell you this much, Junior. These are for your eyes only.

This rock. He did it. He did it. He brought it around. He crossed genre. Oh, shit. Right. That's an actual recording. That's an actual recording.

I just played that from the actual recording. The funny thing is the thing I love most about this article about this guy and his it goes on and on this article. I mean, God, it's like an essay. But the journalist who writes about this guy who believes he's found a

fossilized bigfoot head starts off by saying this man Todd May went into his car where he popped the hatchback on his Nissan 300ZX peeling back

an American flag draped across the cargo area of the vehicle and hefted a black piece of luggage that resembled an oversized bowling ball bag lowering it to the asphalt of the parking lot with a clunk. He struggled to pull a noggin-sized seemingly ordinary

rock out of a bag, held it up and turned it over. I love that he drives a Nissan 300ZX If anybody is going to find a fossilized bigfoot head it's Todd May and a 300ZX would you not think?

Did he have an American flag that starts the strikes draped on the back? What a legend. I mean, if you're not going to believe that guy, who are you going to believe? Exactly. Just so you know, David, because I know that you're not a massive car fan

you know, what do you drive? Drive a little car, right? Drive some sort of little car. I'm not sure what it is to be honest. I'm going to show you the car that Todd May was driving just so you can fully appreciate. I suggest you at home

that there's been an interactive podcast have a look up of a 300ZX so you can see what you know, just so the full gamut of the story. Yeah, that's interactive. But let's give them some time to Google it now.

Let's give them some old music. Okay. And don't forget the car, of course, to Google was the what was that? Nissan 300ZX. Nissan 300ZX. Please Google now.

Okay, here you go. Do-do-do-do-do-do-do. Do-do-do-do-do. What? I just showed it to him and he just goes, what did you say? Oh, it's a car, isn't it? Well, that's fair, he's not going to be excited

about a car, they all look the same to him. Yeah, I've got nothing to add to that. But I did like the whole music. Anyway, listeners out there, I'm sure you've Googled it and what a car and what a what a story that was. Yeah. All right, look.

You've done so much good research on cryptozoology this week. Okay, to be fair, I Googled Nissan 300ZX and a big foot story came up. That'll be handy. Look, I'm going to use it.

Oh, there's a cheap one though on eBay going for three and a half grand of 300ZX Reese. I'm going to whizz through a bit of cryptid news here. Okay, here we go. I got some stuff to get through here. All right, now look. First up,

we talked last week about the Squatchit Bigfoot Noise on Kickstarter. That is now up to 60% funding-wise. Are you going to buy one? No, I listened to the

video. I watched it obviously but the listening was the main part of it because you could hear it. It just sounds like your wife, doesn't it? I mean... No. It sounds like my wife.

It just sounds like anybody's wife. Yeah. I think I've got enough of that kind of noise in my house. Well, basically, it's 14 days in. It's got another 17 days to go. Kickstarter is usually...

they do kind of trail off a little bit towards the end. So, hopefully, it makes it for those guys. So, yeah, 60% just sort of do a little update on that. Okay, well, that's good. That's good news for the Squatchit team. Now, this is old and I'm just afraid we might have missed this, that Charlie Sheen went out on Loch Ness looking for

Loch Ness Monster. Oh, yes. Yeah, I don't think we mentioned this but it happened last month and he basically went out on Loch Ness and spent four days. So, it wasn't just a one little cruise. He spent four days looking for Loch Ness Monster. He's dedicated. So, that's what Charlie Sheen's been up to.

Any... Nothing. Saw nothing. But, apparently, he didn't party and he was quite sober and together. So, there you go. Wow, that's just... Good on him. Good on him. Good on Charlie Sheen. Mmm.

Also, in a comedy coming up, a movie where he plays the president of the United States, which I think is kind of awesome. Awesome. A party president? You mean the president of parties? I like that they cast him in that role. Well, look, that's my crypto news for the week. I just sort of

pound through those. Oh, one last, actually, little item that I found. There's a website that lists crime in... I think it's in Ohio. And, basically, it's a list of stuff that people got of police scanners and they basically list it on this website in Ohio.

And, for instance, one thing. A caller reported that a nine-month-old baby was locked in a car. So, police came and got the baby out. And then, just a little bit further down the list, with no other details, 1.57 pm, Maliso Creek, a caller reported that

a man was wearing a Bigfoot costume. Oh, that's good one. It wasn't you, was it? It wasn't me. It was Ohio. It was not here. So, I just really liked that that was listed in the police scanning of the week. Hey.

Didn't you go on local TV recently with your Bigfoot costume? Yeah, I did. Did you do that? Yeah, I did. Tell us what happened. Yeah, yeah, Buttons and I, actually, we both went on You Late, which is sort of a funky youth show over here to talk about the podcast, because obviously we're up on SoundCloud now and iTunes and whatnot, so we thought we'd better talk about it.

And, yeah, I wore a Bigfoot costume that I bought in LA. Which is awesome. Which is totally awesome. Buttons was sitting next to me on the couch. It felt like we'd really made it, you know? Well, we made it apart from... That's awesome. Well, we made it apart

from the extra 33.33 3% of the team. Yeah, would it be fair? We sold it that we'd have Reese on the show. Oh, really? With the teams here. And then we were like, oh, we forgot that he's in Los Angeles. Small problem. Small problem. Yeah, he's here

in spirit. They were gonna not let us on the show, but we just stuck around and basically forced ourselves onto the set. Yeah. And had a good bit of television. The good thing is that Reese is here. There's this one of the hosts there. Here's a massive

skip. Very big skip. David talked to him for a few minutes, proved a couple of really good points. It became like a heated debate. It did. And he came out the other end kind of going, oh, yeah, I could believe that. He did, didn't you? You turned him. You turned him. I had a...

I wasn't going to put up with his bullshit, so I gave him a bit of my bullshit. And in the end, he was converted. So, yeah. Oh, good on you, David. I'm really proud of you. That's awesome. Yes, man. Well done, guys, for sticking up cryptozoology and weirdness

in general and getting on television. Fantastic. Hey, can we try and get that clip? I'd love to see it. Yeah, I'll see if you can clip it up and pop it online. They pop stuff on Facebook. Check it on the website. Hey, now, we haven't whether or not we're going to talk about this now

or maybe I wouldn't support, but there has been new video footage of a Sasquatch spotted in British Columbia. Oh. Oh, yes. Are we going to talk about that now? No, you brought it up. Or is that eye-witness news?

No, yeah, do it now, for sure. Okay, well, new Bigfoot footage from British Columbia has come about and, of course, Rhys, you emailed us about this this week. Yeah. The article that you

had, which isn't covered in my article, made it sound like it was some form of a competition or some form of a send-in your video of weird stuff. Oh, really? Oh, you didn't read it. I read your article that you sent me.

It was really good. Good article. There has been a Sasquatch spot. Now, it's really quite convincing footage. It is quite far away. The camera is notoriously, as they always are, very shaky. But you do

try to... Is that the one they didn't try and zoom in? Did they or did they? No, this is the one where he's on the hilltop, right? And the backpackers, the hikers captured some video

and... It looks good. But once again, it's too far away to really get any sense of whether it's set up or whether it's real. But it does look good. It's good footage. It's clearly...

It's clear. It's either very silhouetted or it is just a dark, massive hair. And there is no backpack on the person's back. It's hard really to tell.

Well, it's generally something that a Sasquatch wouldn't have. Sasquatch could wear a backpack though. They're built like humans. They're bipedal. They can stand up. Surely they could wear a backpack. Are they intelligent enough to

work out how to wear a backpack? Would they put it on backwards? Would they just eat it? Would they... It's interesting. I think we should... One of our experiments once we get into the big footing,

is to drop a backpack in the forest. Up in Sierra Nevada. Up in Alaska. Up in the places where these Sasquatches are seen. Just drop random backpacks around and see if they end up being born by them. It's such a good idea.

We should put a logo on it. It's such a specific experiment. If we wanted to really be cute, we could just put little kids, Thomas the Tank Engine backpacks out in the bush and see if they end up wearing those.

I would love to see some video footage or some sightings. Whether it be grainy footage or shaky of Bigfoot in the distance. When you zoom in, you see Thomas the Tank Engine backpack.

What is it? The gods must be crazy where they have the Coke bottle dropped in. It's exactly the same as that. It'll completely ruin the whole Sasquatch community. They'll all start fighting over the little Thomas the Tank Engine

backpack. They'll end up coming out of the forest. They'll go, nah, over this hiding thing. I want a backpack too. I'm sick of... Big Big Big Big Bigfoot. I'm sick of him having the backpack

all the time. I want my go. Won't it? It's possible. They'll realise that you can carry things in there. The rocks that they like to throw or food or anything in the backpack. I think they're intelligent enough to work out how to use it. I think we start

depositing them in Bigfoot zones. 100s of backpacks. Literally hundreds. This is the place entirely with backpacks. Red backpacks. We

made Thomas the Tank Engine people would be stoked. Imagine the press coverage of that. Bigfoot spotted with Thomas the Tank Engine. All the kids would want one then. By your shares now ladies and gentlemen.

Have you got this video footage to show on the podcast? Are you going to play it? Is that going to work? We'll post it here we go. But here it is here. David what do you make of that? It does look

like it's pretty good footage compared with a lot. As you say it's very clear. It's just very far away. So it leaves a lot to the imagination. It's even further away for me. I can see it on the screen but it's really tiny. This is another interactive part of the show. If you go to YouTube and

type in Sasquatch spotted in remote mountains. Just type in Sasquatch British Columbia. First thing that comes up. I'd like to finish today's show with an eye witness report.

Are you ready? That's the one thing that we can do. Here's this thing. Are you ready? Are you ready? What have you got there? Another eye witness account. Okay guys.

I got this off Crypto Mundo and it's my Sasquatch sighting in the summer of 97. It's from William Ellen Barnes.

He also describes how the Falcon project was born. That of course is the latest project to get an airship or a balloon of some sort to hover above the Bigfoot zones and to use heat recognition systems

to find bodies down below. But listen to this eye witness report from 97. I'll verbalize some of it for you now. Okay. But my

best guess was between 1 or 2 a.m. in the morning when I was awakened by large rocks sliding from the hillside around the corner of the canyon. In ancient riverbeds where gold miners dig hydraulically

you'd always hear gravel rolling down the banks. This night the rocks were a lot bigger and making more noise than usual and where the canyons turn around the corner

it was like an amphitheater and the noise from upstream echoed off the walls towards my camp. It was very dark out and you have to understand this hydraulic area from the 1800s was covered with white quartz

stone. I could see through my knees so I could see through the screen up the canyon about 20 or 22 seconds later I could hear the rocks sliding but about that time I could see a dark figure

coming around the corner. At first I thought it was a bear which was quite common in this area as it was coming down the canyon it seemed like it was kind of wandering down the canyon a little bit to the left a little bit to the right

my car was parked above my tent an odd place to park your car at an angle at an angle and when the creature was between the hood of my car and the tent about 30 feet from the car that's when I realized this was not a bear

way too big and tall when it got to the front of the car it took a B line to my tent I had nowhere to go when it walked up to the tent I do not think I was scared please do not think I was not scared

my heart was beating so hard not fast but hard push push push oh god that's hard when it walked up to the tent do not think I was not scared

I could not hear my pounding but it was pounding in my ears this creature stopped about 3 feet away from me I don't know how long it stood there it seemed like time stood still at first I thought it was leaning over

steering at me it was dark out I could see where the eyes should be the nose and the mouth not clearly but I could see clearly that the figure from the caught stone and gravel in the background the hair seemed

very well manicured oh in other words healthy mmm look at that I thought to myself look at that healthy well manicured here like I said before I don't know how long it stood there I told you that before

but it it turned to my right and what amazed me was how thick it was and not mentally I mean in its massiveness I could see its facial structure

the eyes the nose the nose was more flat than ours and the chin was short it seemed like no neck at all his head and shoulders looked like one piece of his body when it turned sideways I realised it was not bent over looking at me

it had a slight tilt to the body from the waist up I wondered I wondered just a slight tilt it walked a straight line across the creek and up the hill and I do have to say

this hill would be nearly impossible for a human to walk up but this creature walked so fluidly up this hill that it never missed a beat I could see that this creature was made out of the woods yes siry after it disappeared over the hill

I stayed on my knees looking up the hill to see if it was going to come back I guess about 5 minutes passed but hey I'm not counting time this is not a counting time period I finally sat down

in my tent very shook up and I was wondering what just happened to me 1 minute or more possibly 46-47 must have passed as I say I'm not counting time but I sat there

and then all of a sudden I had this calm feeling come all over me realised it was simply curiosity to my amazement I went to sleep shortly after this now I know I hammed that up a bit

certainly but this is a fantastic report and he goes on to say and this is where the the falcon project comes into play I found

over the years that in this field a lot of the researchers thought they knew everything about these creatures I found out that they did not know a lot about them I would call researchers and they would tell me who do you think you are

what makes you think you can track them or film them in the wild and some researchers were jerks and tell me that I knew nothing about these creatures I could see this as true possibly because they knew nothing either

only what they thought they were that's not the piece I'm looking for here's the piece here here's the piece here's the piece that explains the falcon project idea after many

years looking at other researchers from outside the box I realised they were still doing the same thing as they were years before and there was something I remembered from being out in the woods so many years I would hear planes

helicopters, passenger planes come over the woods and most times let's say 90% I would see the aircraft when it was close to straight up from me that's when I realised with thermal imaging if I could see you

you could see me or vice versa I first focused on model gas motor RC planes it was a great idea however to to fast what? sorry this chap's got

very poor writing it was a great idea to fast it was a very good idea to not eat to not eat for a while it could not hover at low airtime and small payload I don't know what he's talking about there I think he's basically saying the RC airplane idea

didn't quite work then I spent time researching RC helicopters the good sight the good sight the good side it could hover the bad side loud low flying time and small payload

I even looked at glider planes again too fast and could not hover so anyway he goes on but you know I think they're onto something here with the fact that if they're up high in the sky

they've got a lot of airtime with a balloon that's why you don't have the engine etc and there's no sound and you can use thermal imaging to look down below and why not

that's what's going to happen comments? my mind's blown by the last 10 minutes what you didn't have the benefit of hearing Reese was that we actually had

he was doing what he does best and was producing the hell out of that segment and whenever you went into storytelling mode he would put this effect that sounded like you're sort of in an auditorium a sort of echo kind of vibe with music under you and then when you just snap out of it and talk as Reese he'd go back into just

normal noise so it was quite an effect oh great buttons you really created they call it the theatre of the mind don't they and you really did that you were doing some next level thank you very much I hope people's minds felt quite

theatre-esque certainly mine has today you guys have put on a pantomime for me it was packed full of information, it was entertaining if you want to find us any input we're on twitter

just at cryptidfactor so get us there we've got a facebook page as well just search for the cryptidfactor thanks for listening we'll be back with more more cryptozoology and weirdness next week

so thanks for tuning in any parting words from over there in Los Angeles well all I want to say is you know hallelujah finally we're here, we're here, we're online and we're together and it's easier than ever

who needs to go into a little radio station and mess with that class what I mean is no David, finally they're getting this airship up the jewel airship if you want to see recently oh yeah, I'm in Portland yeah, you'll be doing some shows

or you'll be searching for treasure on Venus Beach music music music music