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- [Thomas] The heck is that?
(Screeching)
- [Companion] Oh shoot, go!
Shoot! Shoot!
- It is my opinion that this recording
does not meet the standards for admissibility
or to be considered an authentic representation
of the events to make determinations from.
Upon further investigation, I found evidence to support
that this particular person that created these
this recording also created other versions
of similar activities.
These videos were science fiction type videos
that he created
in which case these recordings are are
a verdict of of fake.
- [Thomas] The heck is that?
- [Companion] Oh shoot, go! Shoot. Shoot.
- One thing that struck me about this video
upon watching it was the very orchestrated feel.
- [Companion] Be cautious.
- [Videographer] My camera's having a really hard time
picking this setup.
- [Companion] Can you see anything in there?
- [Videographer] I can. I can see it, yeah, but I dunno.
- [Companion] Just stay quiet.
- [Jeff] It turns out, reference to the IMBD reveals
that the videographer actually lists himself
as the maker of horror films.
And so even more so now, this begins to feel
like a sizzle reel or a teaser
for a anticipated project that
he might be shopping around.
- Hey, my name is Thomas Collins.
I live in the Pacific Northwest
specifically in the suburb of Portland, Oregon.
Up here I do landscaping,
landscape maintenance for a living
and I've lived here my whole life.
Where we were living me and my parents,
the property, it wasn't a big property
but it backed up to other large property
a couple hundred acres, that wasn't developed
didn't have anybody living on it.
So it was kind of like a gray area
as a kid for me and my friends.
We could go explore back there and that sort of thing.
We started to hear things at night
kind of like screeches, something
like throat guttural, but not exactly human,
but not exactly animal.
(screeching)
Enough to get us kids really interested,
but when we told parents, they were like,
"Nah, it's nothing."
So, we kind of took it upon ourselves to
do a little bit of investigation on our own.
I talked my buddy into going down there.
There was actually like a house that someone
probably had lived in, you know, 50, 60 years ago.
We're kind of just taking our time because it's
there's holes in the floor and I think
squatters had lived in there at some point,
so there's lots of trash.
I think we were only in there a couple minutes
before, you know we heard a noise
and that's when we turned and were able to spotlight
that creature for, you know a second
with our crappy flashlight.
But you know, we kind of of wanted to find something
but it scared us so much that we just ran.
- [Companion] Oh shoot, go! Shoot, shoot!
Just get outta the house, get outta the house.
- It's kinda hard to explain because
certain big animals might scare you
in the sense that it's your size or larger.
It could kill you, right?
Well I didn't exactly get a feeling like that.
I think, you know, we just, we got spooked
and went home and I would look at it
and I would think about it.
I'd think like, "Oh, this thing is not interested in me,
I'm kind of seeking it out."
You know, it's not coming to my house and scaring me.
I'm coming to his house and scaring it.
I mean, in the moment I'm scared of it
but ultimately I'm just interested in it
and it might not be able to communicate
the same way that I can but I just wanted to,
I feel like deep down I wanted to make a connection with it.
I guess there's always potential it could be an alien,
but I would ask myself,
"Why would an alien be in the forest?"
You know, wouldn't this probably be
like a superior intelligence being
having traveled from another planet or something?
Maybe more just like a feral human, you know?
Because we get a lot of homelessness
and there's a lot of,
you know, people living outside here in the northwest
cause we have mild winters.
So I always thought maybe someone could have slipped
through the cracks to society and just grown
up completely on their own, out in the forest here.
But my parents just thought somebody was messing with me
based off what they saw in the video.
But I, I don't think that's possible
if people think that it's fake, but if we wanted to fake it
I think he would've done a better job.
Oh shoot go! Shoot!
And also we don't really have any incentive to fake it.
I mean, I'm not a huge believer in the paranormal
so I don't really feel the need to go out there
and try and convince other people that it's real.
The videos, they don't have millions of views.
It's not like I made a bunch of money off of doing it
or anything like that.
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