Yeti

Yeti is the sixth episode of the third season of the thriller horror docudrama found-footage television series Lost Tapes. It originally aired on Animal Planet on October 12th, 2010, alongside Devil Monkey and was directed by Douglas Segal.

## Plot

In Spring (March) 2005, renowned billionaire explorer Mark Hordstrom went missing while climbing Mount Everest. Three years later in 2008, his body was discovered along with another huge discovery. Two journalists, Jared Slate and Alex Turner, bribed Charlie Newhouse, a longshoreman working on the cargo ship *Inventus* that was rumored to be carrying Hordstrom's remains and the discovery, in order to break the story a day early. Newhouse takes them aboard, and they sneak into the inner workings of the ship.

Turner asks Newhouse what he knows about the discovery, but says that he knows nothing more than they do, and has in fact agreed to get them aboard because his employers have recently let him go. Newhouse takes them into a cold storage area where the crates containing Hordstrom and the discovery are being kept. Slate sees some dead rats on the floor; Newhouse says that the ship's staff have been putting out poisons to deal with the pest problem, but Turner notes that the rats look more like they were ripped apart.

They suddenly hear loud banging noises, but assume that it is machinery shifting. They find a crate, and Slate opens it with a crowbar, expecting to find Hordstrom's body inside. However, the crate is instead filled with fruit. Suddenly, the mauled corpse of one of Newhouse's co-workers falls down from the ceiling. While wondering whether they should call the police, Slate notices a crate behind them labeled "BIOLOGICAL SPECIMEN", which they conclude is the major discovery that they heard about.

As they examine the crate, they see that it has been forcibly opened from the inside, and they discover white fur caught on some of the splinters. They hear more clanking, and Newhouse explains that no one else was instructed to enter this part of the ship, so the sounds must be being made by the creature. Newhouse refuses to continue on to find the creature and tries to convince the journalists to leave with him. Slate tries to convince Turner to come along, but she insists that they get a shot of the creature before they do.

Newhouse makes for the exit, but the door is jammed. As his flashlight begins to go out, the hulking form of a mostly unseen and very hairy animal suddenly comes into view of a security camera and attacks him as everything goes dark. Hearing him screaming, Slate panics and runs, but slips in a large puddle of fresh blood on the floor, and they see a huge, bloody footprint. Turner again insists that they capture the creature on film, or else they will be accused of staging the scene. They follow more footprints to where the creature is apparently hiding and begin to hear low growling sounds. Slate picks up a hammer to defend himself, and the creature emerges in full view of the camera for a brief moment. Now terrified, they flee, but Turner bangs her knee against a vise. As Slate tries to help her, the yeti comes out and tries to attack her on-camera.

Slate manages to hit it, and they escape, thinking that they've scared it off, but it emerges from behind some boxes roaring. They hide behind a metal storage container where they can see the door. As they prepare to run, Newhouse's severed arm suddenly falls down on them from above, its hand still gripping the flashlight, and they discover the rest of him immediately afterward. They reach the door and get out of the cold storage area. Thinking that they're safe at first, they suddenly see that the yeti is still following them.

They run up toward the main deck with the creature in hot pursuit. They finally reach a door out onto the deck, but it's locked. A security guard appears on the other side, but he does not have a key to the door. He runs away when he sees the yeti approaching them, obscured by the darkness, and Slate and Turner try to break the door down until it finally attacks and kills them.

The bodies of Newhouse, Slate, and Turner were never recovered, and though their video evidence would suggest otherwise, their deaths were officially attributed to drowning. The press conference awaiting the arrival of Hordstrom's body, and the creature was abruptly canceled, and the *Inventus* was diverted to Plum Island, a government-controlled island notorious for biological experiments and research.