unexplained images that captivate and perplex. >> the alien in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured. >> an eerie evening in a junk yard. >> the thing was out here just twirling around up in midair. >> it or she is looking for something. >> and formations that seem to appear out of thin air. >> it's amazing. >> it's very mysterious. we don't know what it is. >> in this episode, film and video that many believe provide evidence of mythical creatures on land, -- >> here's the proof. here's proof that bigfoot exists. >> -- sea, -- >> something just shot across this bay as if a torpedo went through. >> -- and in the sky.

>> a major sighting here. >> it was a massive span. over a mile wide. caught on camera: mysteries and monsters. cameras can capture what the human eye can miss. >> the thing was out here just twirling around up in midair. >> even after watching this video over and over, you may still wonder what you're looking at. >> when we're dealing with a film of a ghost, we're dealing with a kind of illusion. >> that right there just sent chills down my spine. >> july 18th, 2002. oklahoma city, oklahoma. kathy henley and colonel peacock are working the late shift at the yard.

>> it was right around 1:03, i think, in the morning of the 18th. me and colonel were sitting there at our desk. he was filling out his paperwork and going over it. to the left of me, we had a monitor sitting there. while i was talking to him, out the corner of my eye i could see something moving around the lot. >> kathy turns to watch the security camera and can't believe her eyes. >> this thing was out here. and then after it twirled around going through the back end of a car, you could see a ball of light just shoot off. i told colonel, you need to go out and check the lot out. >> we looked in the monitor. that's when i started coming out here and seeing if anybody was around or anybody was doing it. i couldn't find nobody. >> whatever was in the yard has vanished. >> so i pulled the videotape out and i took it home with me. when you go from a little screen like this to one this big, you could actually see it.

and it, to me, honestly looked like a woman wearing overalls, blond hair with a white shirt. and she was just sitting there twirling around through these cars and everything back here. >> the security camera records fewer frames per second than a regular video camera giving the image a jerky appearance. >> i know by the videotape it looks like slow motion and there's glitches. but that's because you're taking 24 hours of air time and putting it on an 8 hour tape. but when i was seeing it, it would be just like taking your arm like a ballerina just going around in circles. >> unnerved, kathy calls her husband. >> i said i need you to come home and see what i seen on this tape. he looks at it and he went what is it? i said, david, what do you think it is? he said do you think we ought to call chris? i said, yeah. >> he said, something's happened on this tape. you need to see it. you need to see it. david, what is it? i wasn't sure what it could be. it's a ghost.

no, no. go ahead. bring it up. let's see it. >> we went ahead and brought it up and showed chris. that's where it all blew up. >> news of the ghostly image caught on puckett's security camera quickly spread. >> it went from one cop to two cops, four cops, eight, 16, 32. it just went crazy. then the firemen got in on it. we had people from the oklahoma county sheriff's office come in. we had the attorney general's office come and look at it, investigate. it was pretty amazing. >> it's not long before the apparition catches the attention of lieutenant kevin parton from the oklahoma city police department. >> mid-june 2002 i responded to an injury accident in about the 3700 block of airport road in oklahoma city. upon my arrival i found a female that was laying in the roadway. she was a 33-year-old white female.

and she sustained injuries that were serious in nature. and then some time later the female passed away due to her injuries. >> this is where the story gets even spookier. >> the officer that worked the scene had come up here and he said, well, she was wearing a little short set overalls. with a little white tank top under it. and said she had blond hair, but she had it pulled back into a pony tail wearing a cap. that right there just, oh, my god. just which i ams. >> -- which i achills. >> what the woman is wearing on the tape appears to be exactly what the woman was wearing on the night of the collision. >> curious, chris looks at his notes from the vehicles in the lot the night the so-called ghost appeared. one record leaps out at him. >> there was a pickup and it had had a bad accident, ran into a side of a bridge and was damaged pretty bad. >> the license plate of the pickup truck sitting at

puckett's matches the one from lieutenant parton's accident scene. >> the night this incident happened was the first night it had been moved from the first spot it was originally in. we moved it because the salvage pool was coming to pick up the car. to sell the salvage. so that was another weird coincidence. >> the time of night the image appears is also eerie. >> the time of the accident was about 1:05 in the morning. and then the time the image appeared at puckett's wrecker was nearly the same time. >> i think it was her spirit, or apparition. i think she come back to look for something. >> when people would watch it, the first thing they'd talk about was it or she is looking for something. >> her husband had come up here and cleaned out the truck and had got all her belongings out of it like her wallet with her kids' pictures and stuff in it. so it could have been that. >> paranormal investigator joe nichol has a different theory. >> the least likely possibility is that it's a ghost.

the idea of a ghost is a lovely one, very romantic, but not credible. but illusions with films of things that could look like ghosts are usually hoaxes or anomalies that just happen. >> over the next ten years, psychics, camera crews, and professional debunkers analyze the video. none has been able to definitively explain the image. >> i believe that it's not a hoax, doesn't have the warning signs and earmarks of a hoax. not easy to reproduce as a hoax. but it looks just like what happens when various kinds of insects get attracted to a security camera. and i think it's the simplest explanation. >> one set of researchers came in. they brought a little martian martian doll and put it on a string on a stick and waved it in front of the camera. one came in and thought it could be a electronic bleedover from an electronic or outside source.

if it was the system at fault, why not one of the other seven cameras? i had a hard time believing that, especially that night there was no storms. there was no interference. there was no wind. you know, there was no martians. there was no spaceships. there just wasn't anything else to go with it. >> i believe there's a possibility it could have been her. i watched several people come up to oklahoma city. they've made attempts at debunking the myth that this might actually be her. and i haven't seen anybody yet that's been able to come in and show that this could be possibly something else. >> today i still don't know what the image is. coming up -- >> this circles begin to just form out of nowhere. >> curious formations crop up on a farm. >> it's very mysterious. we don't know what it is. >> when "caught on camera: mysteries and monsters" returns. which means it's never been easier to get a new passat, awarded j.d. power's most appealing midsize car,

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something unexplained is happening in this field. >> this is amazing. >> suddenly the circles would form out of nowhere. >> and it's all caught on camera. >> it's very mysterious. we don't know what it is. >> for 400 years crop circles have sparked a debate between believers and skeptics. are they from extra terrestri s terrestrials? or manmade art? >> it's contentious. you can get into heated des about it. >> 1996, wilshire, england. the story begins on a dark and stormy night. >> a crop circle researcher headed out with with a video camera to see if he could see ufos or crop circles. and he went to an area where many had appeared over the years.

he went in the early hours of the morning it is claimed. >> he came here. and it started to rain at about 10:00. but it rained very heavily. i mean, a real down pour. i've never seen rain like that. it was very heavy. it caused flash flood in a village down the hill there. >> he puts up a tent and falls asleep. at daybreak, something woke him. >> he heard a clicking noise or like crickets it's been described. when he trained his camera on the area where he heard the noise, he started filming. >> what he catches on camera is perplexing. >> then he sees these little balls of light which make the crop circle. it's question of -- it's not even a second. it's very, very quick. he was startled. >> the mysterious balls of light appear out of nowhere and hover over the field. but watch what happens under the lights. >> underneath the lights you

could see this snow flake-lake crop circle appearing out of nowhere. within about seven seconds. the video is probably one of the most entire aspects of the entire crop circle phenomenon that we have. >> this is the proof believers have been waiting for. or is it? later that day the videographer takes it to the barge inn. a local hot spot for crop circle enthusiasts. >> we saw this footage on sunday evening. this was about 10 or 12 of us. it's very rare when actually you can capture something on film. >> this footage was incredibly important. because nobody had ever managed to film the formation and appearing or never in a way that was absolutely clear. >> but who is this researcher? and is his imagery genuine? matt williams also saw the oliver's castle video that night at the barge. his assessment? it's a fake, and he has a theory on how it was done and who did it. >> the oliver's castle video was

created by a guy who worked for a television company. he created this in his editing suite. >> adding to the mystery, the man disappears before anyone can ask him if he faked the video. >> what you would have needed to do to fake the video is get footage of the formation. we know that formation was not there the day before. so he would have had to have taken the footage that morning. how did he know it was going to be there? did he know who made it? did he make it? that has never been nailed down. he would have been had to have rushed the footage back and then added on the balls of light. now, that's going to take time to marry up so these two things make it convincing. >> but did he have enough time to fake it? don't forget, it's shown at the barge the same day the circles appear. >> he was accused of having done a sequence on computer and then

copy it onto film. you'd have to have facilities like hollywood to do that kind of stuff. in 1996, it wasn't feasible. >> the videographer is written off as a fraud. and ostracized from the crop circle circles. >> you have two views of the situation. one is he really did film this and that it was real. and he was so taken aback and frightened by the attention that was suddenly put towards him, because it would have been a very important piece of evidence if absolutely known to be real, some say he backed off. say he gave the tape to others and said i don't want anymore to do with it and that's why he wouldn't come forward. others say basically that if the footage was real, that he had to be persuaded into silence. that somebody had to pay him or force him to say he faked it to drain the emergennergy out of t situation. >> he was very badly treated. people put detectives to find

out where he was. he was accused of all things. in the end he ran to ground. we didn't see him again. it was very unpleasant and very sad. >> he is pretty hard to track down. of course, this just adds further layers of intrigue. >> and what about the weather that night? would hoaxers really have worked for hours in torrential rain? and wouldn't they have left muddy footprints all over the formation? >> we know from experience when you walk inside a wet crop formation, the first thing you do is tread wet muddy footprints all over it. yet inside that formation when it was first discovered there were no wet, muddy footprints. >> it's not man made, but there are people who would do anything to convince everyone that it is manmade. there's no evidence it's manmade. we've never seen anybody do that. never. >> matt williams disagrees. >> what we do is we use this to flatten large areas. i'm right footed. so i'll use this foot.

>> for 20 years matt has been making crop circles. and he has the conviction for causing criminal damage to prove it. >> a complex design would start around 10:00 at night. when it gets dark in the summer months. you'd be working until 4:30 in the morning when it gets light. >> this night vision video shows matt and fellow circle maker terry roderick making the famous river hills serpent circle. which fooled believers in july 2011. >> you use one person as a center point and hold one end of tape measures. use the measurement from the outside. and sidestep to scribe the foot lines. then you use geometry or you can improvise and be a bit more free style with it. start creating the pattern. >> but even they don't know who or what created the famous oliver's castle formation. >> i think one of the interesting things about this controversy is that it's gone on for so long. i mean, here we are a decade and a half on and still nobody has

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something strange is lighting up the night sky. >> another one showed up. >> it was a massive span. over a mile wide. >> it was almost the perfect park. they remain in that position somewhere around two, two and a half minutes or so. >> hundreds witness the mysterious lights and a few even catch them on camera. >> there's another one! >> whatever the phenomenon was, it was really eerie. >> march 13th, 1997. phoenix, arizona. >> i got four of them. major sighting here. >> an enormous arc of lights

suddenly appears near a mountain range southwest of the city. >> holy [ bleep ]. they're lined up in a pattern, man. there's geometry behind this. >> it was 15 1/2 years ago this whole thing happened. this footage has been around the world and no one to me has come up with a plausible explanation. >> mike christian, a phoenix resident for more than 20 years has a perfect view. >> i was watching tv about 10:00 at night. i noticed a light to the east over here directly on the other side of this mountain. so i went and i got my camera. and i started to film that. and as i was filming that, all of a sudden this array of lights started to come on one at a time. formed this arch that you see in the videotape. it was an exciting thing, because i'd never seen anything like it before. it was very bright. it looked like it was very close. i got pretty excited about it. i called my wife. >> hey, sue! >> well, that is a totally different configuration than

we've ever seen before. >> dr. lynn keti also sees the lights and takes this video. >> i was excited to get out there, and i grabbed my camera. by the time i got out there and looked up and got the camera focused, the six had changed to three. like the end points of a giant triangle. by 4:30 that afternoon my video was plastered on every news station. it was unbelievable. it was exciting. here i'd been documenting these things for two years. then i learned thousands of people saw what i had been seeing. >> is this a ufo sighting? with photograph evidence from multiple sources? paul scohan, an asktronomy professor at arizona state university, has a less extraordinary explanation. >> here in the desert southwest we have a lot of military bases and rocket launches, and it's very easy to see them because we

have 330 clear nights a year in phoenix. so it's very easy to see these phenomena in the night sky whereas elsewhere in the country maybe you wouldn't see them. >> look. the one in the middle is doing something. it's going out of alignment. >> with a growing interest in the mysterious lights, the military responds to witness accounts. it asserts the maryland national guards was dropping illumination flares that evening at a bombing range directly behind the mountains where the lights were seen. scohan believes the military's explanation. >> as we went through the video and those lights started to wink out, at every time a light was extinguished, it was seen to line up exactly with the line of the mountains itself. the area down here to the southwest of the mountains, there's a part of it that is set aside for use by the military. it's called the gold water bombing range. a standard practice for a night bombing run is to drop high altitude bombing flares that are

very bright sources of light so you can see the area on the range that you're trying to hit. and they have parachutes attached to them so they descend slowly and dramatically. >> but witnesses are not so easily convinced. >> to blow this off as flares is a joke. it's been a diversion for 15 years. i mean, it was a very easy answer. when you look at the footage, because the footage doesn't do it justice. >> i've seen them dropping flares. and they didn't look anything like flares. they looked much brighter. plus they had a consistent pattern to them. when flares are dropped they're sort of dropped in bunches and they look kind of scattered. >> paul scohan says arizona's unique weather could allow flares to remain in formation after being dropped from planes. >> we have numerous evenings here in the desert especially in the spring and the fall and the lights happened in march where the air is completely still. there is no cross wind that

would disturb a formation of that kind. >> i think probably it's got something to do with military. with some government experiment which would seem logical to me. i don't think -- i don't know if there's evidence of it being alien spacecraft. there's no way of knowing that. >> given that we are one star in 100 billion in our own galaxy and there are 100 billion other galaxies out there, it would be unfortunate if we were the only sentient life out there. but so far there is no evidence that there is other life elsewhere that we have seen yet. >> it's amazing when you hear over and over again hundreds, thousands of people describe what they saw. and also how it made them feel. they were mesmerized. they were in awe. >> the last one left. it's gone. >> there it goes. >> we may never know. but nonetheless, it really was so dramatic and so different from anything, anything you can

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it's the controversial film that captivated even nonbelievers. >> thought it was extremely gory. i thought it was fascinating and compelling. >> but it's also the one skeptics called a fraud. >> anyone who would believe that is what we would call pathologically gullible. >> what's the real story behind this alien autopsy that's claimed to be caught on camera? 1992, cleveland, ohio. british film maker ray santilli is producing a documentary on elvis presley. while searching for rare footage of the king, he says his quest takes a bizarre turn. >> in cleveland we came across a guy who had probably the most remarkable footage of elvis. we purchased that off him. later on he said are you interested in anything else? >> santilli claims the man has also never been seen footage of the infamous roswell ufo incident. >> and he explained that in 1947 he worked for the army air force

and that he was involved in photographing the recovery of a crashed vehicle and these creatures. that's where the story started. >> the roswell story first hit headlines in 1947 following reports that a ufo had crashed in new mexico. >> there was scattered debris. the whole thing weighed just a few pounds. it was foiled paper, sticks, tape, and rubber. immediately the government came in and they said, oh, it's a weather balloon. and that's that. >> rumors of a government coverup begin to circulate. and before long, the story starts to include reports of extra terrestrials on board. but if unearthly beings were recovered, what happened to them? >> he showed me the film. it was remarkable because it was obviously the autopsy of a creature of some kind. on the tape you see possibly surgeons. certainly they're operating with scalpel. they are separating the skin and the body tissue. they're removing organs.

they're placing the organs into glass jars. they're peeling back what seems to be a black film that's over the eye. and they are conducting a medical examination. >> the film you're watching premieres on television in 1995 to more than 11 million viewers. 32 countries by the rights to televise the shocking film. the audience is told that the footage is authentic. in fact, it is not. according to santilli it's a recreation. this is what he says happened to the original alien autopsy video he purchased in cleveland. >> we got the film back into england and we started to run it through the machines. it was just peeling off as it was going through the machines. we just had to stop zblifs very, very disappointed and upset. he thought it was something to show the world. >> if you bought something this valuable, it might seem logical to try to restore it. instead, santilli says he decides to recreate it with the help of john humphries, a well

known hollywood sculptor. >> we had frames. we had a lot of images. john was given the responsibility of creating exactly what was on film. so that we could dove tail it into the film. sort of create what would be a seamless 20 minutes. so we plugged the gaps, basically. >> the aid in the film i saw looked like it had been very badly injured. in some kind of incident. there was a big tear around the knee and burns here and there and bruising. i was very shocked, very shocked. >> humphries says he viewed frames from the original damaged film and was able to replicate the alien seen on the operating table. >> we didn't make any sculpture. you start with a frame. you make a frame, get lots of bags of clay. you literally just manipulate

that clay into the shape and form you want. in this case an alien. it's painted then with special silicone paint. you can then set about doing the effects. i just got some bits and bobs from the butchers. and interpreted what i could see from the pathology going on on the alien in the film as best i could. >> john even appears in the film. here he is holding the scalpel. >> i had to take the role of the american scientist pathologist from the original film. i just had to don a radiation outfit. and cover myself. that's why you don't see my face in it. but that's me doing the pathology. >> it was a work of pure genius. i'm very proud of it, but it is a restoration. >> the deception goes all the way to oh, okay. it was a hoax but now we'll make money telling you how the hoax was done. >> despite questions about the film's validity, the fascination is real. >> when we went public with the alien autopsy footage, we were

visited by a number of delegations from various countries around the world. and the people that we saw were really very high up within their sector of either politics or military. >> the film also inspires hollywood alien invasion movies such as "independence day." and santilli believes it has a bigger influence. >> it was interesting that the american government for the first time acknowledged area 51 after our first transmission of the alien autopsy film. we transmitted at the end of august '95, and a couple weeks later the american government acknowledged the first time its existence. >> in 2006 more than a decade after the film is broadcast, santilli publicly admits that large parts of it are a recreation. but he maintains that sections of the film are original and real. >> so we have a fake film of an allegedly genuine film of a real alien. i'm not buying it for very good reason. >> for the people that say the

film never existed, there's an exclusive for you. there's a few frames. >> is there anyone out there who still thinks the alien autopsy is genuine? hmm. >> he's bought this film. he believes in it. i believe him. and it was kind of left open really. no one could be 100% sure about anything. but ray believes in the film. and i believe him. >> santilli plans to auction the entire unrestored original film. he wants no less than $5 million. >> to have santilli say trust me, i would say to him, no. coming up -- >> this thing battered its way for a few seconds through the waves. >> the famous film that brought thousands to the shores of loch ness. >> whatever it was was just underneath the surface. was pretty big and it was shifting. >> when "caught on camera: mysteries and monsters" continues.

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this thing battered its way for a few seconds through the waves. >> legend has it there's something lurking in the murky waters of scotland. >> whatever it was was just underneath the surface, it was pretty big and it was shifting. >> and that legend has been kept alive largely by one mysterious piece of film shot more than half a century ago. >> my father took a film in 1960 of some object in loch ness. and that pretty much changed his life. changed my life. >> april 1960. loch ness, scotland. armed with a rented 16

millimeter bolex camera, british aeronautical engineer tim dinsdale is monster hunting. >> he read an article in 1959 in a small magazine and he became fascinated by the subject. the article covered thipngs lik the surgeon's photograph and dozens of other people's eyewitness testimony. >> the 1930s and '40s saw a surge in apparent loch ness monster sightings. including this one filmed by malcolm irvine. dinsdale wanted in on the objection. he went in there. he wanted unequivocal moving film of the object. >> on his fourth day at the lake, tim captures what thousands before and since have tried and failed to film. >> he described it as for all well being like the back of an african buffalo. same color tone. quite an enormous, quite a large object. as i say, several feet wide. several feet out of the water. with sort of a reddish brown

hide. as he watched this thing, it suddenly took off, he suddenly realized, suddenly remembered, of course, why he was there. and then he started filming. >> is this the elusive loch ness monster finally caught on camera? >> well, that's the perennial question, isn't it? that's the $64,000 question. he really didn't know what it was he'd filmed. >> for 50 years this grainy, 62-second film has captivated the world. >> it was analyzed by the royal air force in 1965. and they measured the object. you can see in the film. and they say it's six feet wide across, five feet high out of the water. it moves up to ten miles per hour. as it's moving, it gets lower in the water. their assessment is it's not a boat, can't be a submarine. therefore, it must be some form of unknown animate object. >> despite inconclusive evidence, monster hunters and tourists flock to the shores of loch ness hoping to get a glimpse of nessie.

>> we came for a whiskey tour. and i said, we've got to see nessie. so hopefully he's going to show up for us. >> but sightings are rare. which may only feed the obsession. >> since 1991, i've been full-time living on the side of loch ness hunting for whatever the explanation to this mystery is. >> steve feltham's father brought him to the loch in 1970 when he was just 7 years old. he's been obsessed with the legend ever since. >> since i've been here i found out the loch ness monster is extremely elusive and we're still no nearer, really, identifying what these animals are. it's still such a mystery. >> to support his monster-hunting lifestyle, steve makes and semis clay models of nessie to tourists. >> the one time i was really blown away by a sighting of something, i was at the other end of the loch at fort augustus

and something just shot across this bay as if a torpedo went through the bay. it was going against the waves. so as it hit each wave, the wave would flash up white water. and there's no simple explanation in loch ness for what that could have been. >> dinsdale's film also inspires marine biologist adrian shine to identify once and for all what lies beneath the surface of lake ness. >> the loch ness monster is an amalgam of many things perhaps melded together by the human consciousness by human perception, perhaps by human aspiration. we'd all love there to be something there. >> adrian's loch ness project has organized dozens of expeditions from operation deep scan, a 24-boat sonar exploration in 1987, to submarine searches, and even an exorcism. >> be gone now, hideous demon.

unto thine appointed place. >> but nessie has remained a no show. >> i think the legend is popular because we seek dragons. and also in a way, we like our mysteries to be something we can half comprehend as well. loch ness is one of the places where anybody can come. there's a road around it. it's not the antarctic. it's not outer space. it's not the bottom of the ocean. looking for monsters in a lake with a road around it is a mystery we can all join in with. >> when i finally see something in the loch, i really don't know what i'll do. i don't know what i would do. i wouldn't be packing up and going at the first opportunity. no. this is my life's passion is trying to solve this mystery. >> while skeptics have long dismissed the loch ness monster as a mythical creature, for its many believers and wannabe believers.

the question remains. what is she? tim dinsdale devoted his life to answering this question. >> he first went up in april of 1960. every year thereafter, he went to loch ness. from the end of 1960s he'd given up his work, given up his job, and he was doing this full time. >> but he never captures nessie as clearly as he did in 1960. there have been other photos and films, but the dinsdale footage remains iconic. >> i often say that witnesses seldom lie. cameras very often do. sometimes without their owner's knowledge. the dinsdale film of 1960, it's quite a poor quality film which makes identification difficult. >> my father's film to this day stands as being unexplained. but i think i'm convinced that given all the evidence, all the eyewitness testimony, the photography, my father's film and the other pieces of film that have been taken, there's

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a myth centuries old. >> bigfoot appears out of the bushes and makes the long striding steps. >> and the iconic film that became part of the legend. >> this was the most amazing thing to happen in almost the history of the world. >> october 20, 1967. the pacific northwest. roger patterson is deep in the woods with his 16 millimeter camera. >> roger was a bigfoot buff and announced he was going to go out and film bigfoot. >> known as bigfoot in north america, yeti in asia, and sasquatch in canada, it's been

reported all over the world. yet evidence of the beast is scarce until this film becomes a worldwide sensation. >> you're seeing in the patterson film, bigfoot shows up on cue. the creature is walking along a creek bed making what i think are exaggerated steps, exaggerated gait. turns, looks at the camera, and is gone. the patterson film was put out as here's proof that bigfoot exists. >> the film awes believers and fascinates nonbelievers. >> no matter what it showed they were going to believe it. and skeptics would be dubious about it. >> i'm sitting in my living room at home watching television and the announcer comes on telling a

story about these two rodeo cowboys who were out in the forest and ran upon a bigfoot. and i'm looking. there's our gorilla suit walking across the screen. >> originally an entertainer, he makes and sells gorilla costumes. >> i received a call from this man who says he's roger patterson. do you have a gorilla show? a magician. no? he says we're playing a joke on people. how much is the suit? >> according to him he had specific requirements for the suit. >> did it look like a gorilla what about the eyes where you see the eyes? i said you get the makeup. it will blend into the mask itself. they also wanted to know how to make it large and massive. >> and he wanted some extra

material that's going to have to change the head. he's going to have to put these -- and this is brilliant on roger's part -- these female breasts which everybody thought wow, that's the kind of detail nobody could make that up. it's so credible and believable. >> well, the check arrived and i sent the suit out to him. he called me back and said, listen, you can see the zipper in the back of the suit. i said well, that's easy to overcome. get a hair brush. brush it back and forth across the zipper. that was the last i heard from him. >> until he sees his suit on tv. >> i told my wife come here. you want to see this. she walks in and said oh, look. there's our gorilla suit. >> morris keeps quiet about his involvement hoping that patterson would talk about making the film. >> i didn't say anything to anybody because i thought our market was for magicians. it would be unethical to sell

him a costume and then tell the audience it's a gorilla suit. >> but patterson earns thousands of dollars selling the rights to the film. and yes, we too, pay for the rights to use it in this episode. >> he went on television shows, radio shows all the way across the country. and i realized at a point that he was not going to tell anybody that it was a hoax. and i just set back and was watching what he was going to do. and i think that his intentions were that he would get someone to produce a motion picture of bigfoot and he would make a fortune out of it. >> five years after it debuted on tv, roger patterson dies of cancer. maintaining the film is genuine. in 2002, morris goes public with the story. >> i started announcing that's the gorilla suit.

another 10 or 20 magicians across the country have the same suit. it's not a real bigfoot. >> but it comes too late for many of the film's believers. >> people are so taken by the things they fall for. they're hugely invested in it. now they're fools if they were wrong. and as soon as you come in and rain on their parade, you find utter hostility. >> the first reaction was no, you're lying. that is a real bigfoot. i said how is it possible that this thing could fool people. the suit was all right. it wasn't the best gorilla suit ever made. but it was okay. but in broad daylight did not look like a real animal. >> i talked with phil morris about this in retrospect seeing how entrenched this film has become, and he feels he probably should have come forward. >> we set out to verify morris'

story and found bob heironimus who says he was in the costume. they have since become friends. >> he said patterson told him to walk like a gorilla. bob had no idea how it would walk. he walked like a normal person walking down the street and kind of waved his arms back and forth and thought that was real show business. >> bob has the size, the gait to be bigfoot and give it life. and i think this is important, there are people still living who remember seeing a bigfoot suit in the trunk of bob's mother's car. when it comes down to it, it's hard to improve upon phil morris as the source of the costume. bob heironimus as the guy in the bigfoot suit. and roger patterson as producer,

director, and whatever else of this film. >> just as patterson stood by his story, so, too, does morris. >> rick baker who is academy award winner eight times said to me one time, he said, phil, that was the worst gorilla suit i've ever seen in my life. and i said yes, it's true. but think about this. that there were over 10, 20, 30 million people who saw that film of bigfoot walking through the forest and they thought it was a real suit. that's absolutely amazing. >> at the end of the day when you've watched this figure stride and you looked at it, i'm inclined to agree with the late john napear from the smithsonian who remarked famously i can't see the zipper. and i think that's the most concise way to view what happened. >> everything can change in an instant.

>> everything can change in an instant. >> outside i could see the trees kind of coming up towards the wing. >> forcing people into extraordinary situations. >> i put my arms out and said catch her, don't miss. >> when survival hangs in the balance. >> it was more action than i'd seen. >> shocking -- >> translator: his hands were bleeding, but he wouldn't stop digging. >> unexpected -- >> i felt like at one point i was questioning were there any dolphins left to respond to. >> and death defying moments. >> you touch that, that would be a fatality.