Given that they left the clip in and did not actually bother to go in and show the foot (not a leg, sorry about that!) the very first time, I am quite suspicious here. I'm doubtful of (a). If it were JUST a foot as Paul said, they would have hauled cameras in there faster than you could shake a tripod. I would also hope that the investigator would know the difference between just a foot and a regular sleeping human (full-body human that is) At some point in that scene, I fear that (b) happened. Either in that there was more than just a foot during the first look or that there was just nothing and the rest of the scene shows a play-along for drama.

Barry: "That one is Scott's bedroom. And he's not there."

To me that says there shouldn't have been a living person in there. Certainly Scott (who just took them on the tour) would recall that the investigation was going on that night and if it was his room, who else would be in there? So Crow is right, far-fetched. Means we are probably down to the alternative two options.

Barry: "Have a check in that room" (Scott's room, where they are hearing things from) "See if there's anyone there…just to make sure."

Paul gets up and goes over to the door.

We see Paul _shutting_ the door.

Paul: "But somebody is in there. I just saw a foot."

So, I wonder how you just see a foot (under the covers presumably?) and not notice that the rest of the person is there. When Paul went to look, he took no camera and had no devices so he did not have the aid of any night vision equipment. How then (if the room he was looking in from was also dark) could he see _anything_?

No visual evidence from his first look, but very prominent footage from the peek when the bed appears disheveled. I'm leaning more and more toward (b)

When you look at the ratio of missed evidence to that of captured evidence, it speaks poorly of certain abilities across the whole franchise. I will admit to and allow for some bad luck to creep in and miss a few things. But if things actually are happening so often, you'd think they'd be a bit more prepared and be thinking "Okay, we missed the shot of a lifetime last time because someone didn't take a camera with him, I better take the camera this time" Haven't really seen that happen. Barry (for all the things he's allegedly seen) should have stopped Paul instantly and told him to take a camera.

By this many seasons they should be prepared for most contingencies and should be anticipating these things. Hearing sounds where you shouldn't? Take a camera and document what is there. That's really pretty basic when you think about it! But…what happens instead? Paul tiptoes to the door, barely peeks in with no means of recording any evidence.

I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt, but I think we have two options. (a) Incompetence as investigators or (b) Some embellishment of what is actually happening. There is a (c), too, but it's a much less kinder version of (b)

No, it looks like it was just a tease that went unfulfilled. They come back after commercial and go right to the reveal and nothing is mentioned about it. I tried looking through the bonus scenes over at SciFi but they are labeled pretty poorly so you can't really even tell what episode they are from but the titles didn't jump at me nor did I see anything "interesting" or "foot-related" in the ones I watched. You're right, the room belonged to his cook/chef and he said they both were gone that night.