In Zampanò’s text, Holloway, Jed, and Wax continue their journey on Exploration #4, but “the purpose of that vast place still continues to elude them” (111). They reach the bottom of the staircase, where they take samples and place neon markers on the walls. They go through a series of rooms leading onto hallway, which lead onto more rooms. As they begin to trek back and ascend the staircase, they notice their neon markers have been “badly mauled” and some of their water is gone from their “caches” (122). Holloway is determined to investigate, since he thinks the discoveries are connected to the growl. Jed and Wax decide to head back, but Holloway refuses and “has run off blind” (125).They re-encounter Holloway when he accidentally shoots Wax in the armpit, thinking Wax is the beast. Holloway refuses to help carry Wax back, so Jed does so on his own. Holloway pursues the two men, continuing to shoot at them.

In the main text, Zampanò includes commentary from various authors on the medium of film and photography, and the ways in which both mediums have become less reliable as they’ve become more easily manipulated. He concludes that nothing in The Navidson Record is a result of special effects, since Navidson simply did not have the funding necessary.