Freak Encounters

A small research crew is investigating mysterious attacks that have taken place in a remote wildlife preserve. While preparing to launch an aerial surveillinance camera, the Team Leader arrives and is angry that they launched the craft without him. The crew informs him that they haven't launched it yet, and the assistant researcher wonders what he saw in the night sky.

A forensic traffic investigation team is dispatched to a rural community to uncover the truth behind a series of accidents. The team interviews a victim from his sickbed before heading out to a recent accident scene. He claims it was much more than a woodland creature that was involved in his accident. Even more bizarre is the fact that the wound he suffered from the car crash has yet to heal.

A university professor and his small film crew, doing a study on contraceptive measures for bears in the wild, begin their evening in the remote forest. With the recent explosion in the bear population of this region, the professor is laying out oral contraceptives for the bears, with an animal conservation officer as their guide and aide.

A highway crew heads out to a remote location to survey a new rural road route. While taking measurements and photographing the landscape, the team hears a whistling sound and sees a burst of light in the distance. They run to see what it is, only to find burned soil and bushes and what appears to be a landing site â€" but no craft. The next things they see are glowing red eyes deep in the woods.

A documentary crew is shooting wildlife footage for a documentary about changing feeding habits of local bobcats. Or so they think. What they don't know is the doc Team Leader is actually pursuing his secret personal obsession of the big foot like Genowskwa; and he is willing to put everyone in danger to get conclusive evidence that it exists.

A law firm has been given a court order to catalogue documents from a government-contracted warehouse. Their goal is to gather evidence about the contractor who has not been totally forthright in providing documentation on their research, which has resulted in cost overruns, legal problems and public relations issues.

A scout team for a structural engineering firm is shooting footage of a dilapidated house to see if it qualifies for demolition. The inspection begins with documenting some exterior problems. As the inspection continues through the air ducts, more evidence mounts that a very large rodent has been nesting in the house and has been feeding off local animals.

A camera crew has been hired to film a sewer exterminator for a reality tv show pilot about an "Extreme Exterminator". The drainage tunnels outside the city are experiencing a rat population explosion, and neighbourhood groups are worried it could be connected to a rash of missing pets in the area.

A building inspection team has been hired by a real estate agency to inspect and videotape a manufacturing plant that is being posted for sale on the internet. The team enters the building with a checklist of different areas they need to inspect and document so that repairs can be made before the property is listed (i.e.: wiring, plumbing, structural work, foundation, etc.).

An animal control team is creating a training video as they investigate reports of wild dogs running across roads, into yards, attacking other pets and causing damage in a rural area. The animal control team starts at the home of a family whose pet has gone missing. After speaking with the homeowner, the animal control team spots something running across a field, but cannot catch it.

A remote oil expedition outpost has been abandoned for reasons that have yet to be explained. A five-man crew is thought to have quite and abandoned the remote and desolate location. Therefore, the parent company has decided to send an inventory team to videotape and document what occurred at the now uninhabited site.

A geological expedition sets out for a remote and chilly destination to take core samples in a quarry. The overnight trip will include videotaping and documenting the search for pre-historic strata and mineral deposits. While drilling, a burst of smoke and steam stuns the workers. As time progresses, they mysteriously begin to show signs of physical and mental distress.

A security crew has been hired to reprogram all the alarms in a warehouse space to prepare for a new tenant. During an overnight shift of tests and code entry, the crew discovers that the previous tenant vacated in a hurry, and left a lot of strange items behind, including abandoned animal cages, pet food and even a huge boa constrictor in a glass cage.

A university research team has received a grant to conduct an anthropological dig and study of an area believed to be the site of one of the earliest forms of man in North America. Earlier in the day, the ARCHAEOLOGIST discovered a number of artifacts that have led him to believe this is a dig site of some sort. There is also evidence that something has been hunting at the site more recently.

A controversial construction job on suspected Native ground has been halted once again due to another archeological discovery. Complying with local laws, all work has been hastily stopped and all crew removed until an ARCHEOLOGIST and his small research team can catalogue the findings. Supervising the scout is the site FOREMAN to make sure no one gets hurt.

A remote trucking checkpoint has hired extra hands to help inspect cargo. There's been an increase in illegal goods trafficking, so more and more truckers are being stopped for inspection. As the night rolls on, a few minor incidents occur,but later in the night things get interesting.