Bigfoot

Bigfoot is the second episode of the first season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on October 30, 2008 on Animal Planet that included the pilot episode Chupacabra, and was directed by Douglas Segal.

Plot
Between August 14 and August 17, 2005, forest ranger Rachel Glen performs a study in the woods, concerning the declining population of black bears in the Pacific Northwest. During the course of her study, recorded with portable and stationary cameras, she not only observed the bears but also heard strange sounds coming from the forest, and had a feeling she was being watched. After setting up a camera trap one day, she hears a strange wailing and climbs a hill, only to be snared by an illegal poacher's trap. Unbeknownst to her, she is being watched and taped by a poacher as she disables the traps he had set up. Some of her cameras capture brief glimpses of a large, hairy creature that cannot be identified. Meanwhile, the poacher discovers and destroys a few of her own cameras.

Rachel grows more and more suspicious of the strange sounds and unidentifiable subjects in many of her photos. While examining a camera that had been tampered with, she hears more strange sounds and discovers a den in the woods. Inside, she discovers some strange hair, which she sends to the game warden. Over the phone, the warden tells her that the hair belongs to some kind of primate and not a bear, and warns her to be careful of hostile poachers. After she gets off the phone, she suddenly hears someone call her name and goes to the door, but only finds a threatening sign that says, "WHO'S WATCHING YOU?" pinned to her door with a hatchet.

She requests help, but has to wait forty-eight hours for it to arrive because of how remote her outpost is. She later finds the poacher lurking outside her outpost and makes him hand over the camera he was holding at gunpoint, which contains pictures where the poacher seems to be stalking her. He trips her up as he hand the camera to her and immediately flees the scene. In the last hours before she leaves, she begins to wonder about the strange animal she keeps seeing, and gets the feeling that it seems to be watching over her. As Rachel is making her final video journal entry at her outpost later that night, the same poacher tries to break into her cabin. She suddenly hears screams for help and unnerving screaming and growls outside. She discovers the poacher, who has apparently been killed by the creature and is now hanging upside down from one of his own traps. She hears more strange sounds, but finds no other signs of the creature. After the poacher's death, the black bear populations began to rise again, but there is no confirmation of any other unusual or new species in the area.

Clips in the episode also discuss gorillas, poaching, and the possibility that Sasquatch might be the extinct primate Gigantopithecus.