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Matt, Ranae, Cliff, & Bobo (the BFRO) head to Oregon to check out some riverside bigfoot footage. Did some rafters on the McKenzie River accidentally catch bigfoot on tape? (Maddeningly, as on many such shows, they only show a few instants of the tape, with little context.) Talking to witnesses, they recreate the footage with Bobo. Bobo looks bigger than the supposed squatch; Matt start making excuses for why the footage is a real bigfoot; Ranae says "This is a human." (Are you starting to notice a pattern on these shows?) "We are clearly in a very squatchy area," Cliff concludes. Which must inevitably lead to a night hunt. Would you be surprised if they howl at each other and hear strange noises? You shouldn't be. Nor should you be surprised they find elk with their thermal camera.
They then head to Leaburg to attend a "bigfoot beer" meeting ("bigfoot anonymous" Bobo calls it) to hear more local stories and pick a few to investigate. For once, they meet someone they don't believe; her story stretches even squatch credibility. Clearly, having a regular "bigfoot beer" night may attract people with issues other than bigfoot. Then they talk to some youngsters who have pictures and a footprint cast. And then talk to some people who hung out a rabbit surrounded by glowsticks as live bait. Naturally, the BFRO has to try the rabbit trick, in the dark; naturally, they hear tree "knocks." So, they hunt another night -- without the rabbit -- and hear strange howls. "It was nothing but a sasquatch," Matt declares; his mind is closed. "I don't know what those other hows were," says Ranae. They find fresh urine, but see no sign of elk, so maybe it was squatch. However, they apparently take no samples. Whoops. What do they end up with? Howls. Do they subject these sounds to analysis by an animal expert? Not so far as the show tells us.
Maybe someone should remind Matt -- who sees squatch behind every tree -- that evidence without rigorous analysis is worthless.
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