(TV Show) The Missing Evidence - Bigfoot

Summaries

A giant ape-like hominid is said to live in the forests of North America. Eyewitnesses claim that it is up to ten feet tall and covered in foul smelling, brown fur. Shy and elusive, despite sightings over many centuries, the beast defies capture and no conclusive proof of its existence can be found. Some say it is a myth while others believe that it is a prehistoric relic, a distant cousin of humans that has somehow evolved beside us in the shadows. Stories of a giant walking creature have been told for centuries in the remote landscapes of Tibet and North America but it was not until 1951 when the explorer Eric Shipton took a photograph of huge footprints in the Himalayan snow that the legend took off. Very soon, eyewitness reports from the US and Canada suggested that an ancient species of hominid had survived in the remote American wilderness. This programme meets Jason Miller and his daughter Hailey, who both claim to have encountered the elusive creature on a family hike. Enter Jeff Meldrum, who has devoted his life to studying eyewitness reports and collecting physical evidence of the creature. He has an impressive collection of plaster casts of Big Foot prints, which undeniably resemble large human tracks. Meldrum takes to a helicopter to survey the vast wildernesses where he believes that this elusive giant is to be found. Palaeontologist Donald Prothero, however, argues that the science behind population survival rules out an undiscovered species remaining undetected for so long. There would simply be too many of them to avoid detection in our age of advanced technology.