Monsterquest in my backyard and me woth no cable

[imjohn]

MonsterQuest : SNOWBEAST SLAUGHTER
Wednesday March 11th 2008 at 9PM / 8PM central on HISTORY

High in the rugged wilderness of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains a large hairy creature is said to be preying on the elk and frightening residents. The stories date back centuries with the earliest settlers describing terrifying encounters with a large beast whose scream bellows across the hills. Even today ranchers and hikers report a monster they can’t explain that may be attacking their horses. MonsterQuest will sift through the evidence and determine what may be killing the elk. The aerial search ascends to 11,000 ft in search of fresh evidence that could lead to the creature; as the ground team scales the side of Pikes Peak to hunt for the legendary Snowbeast.

More than 30 years of tramping around these hills and I've never seen a single bigfoot. :(

Pikes Peak is so close to heavily populated areas -- any bigfoot on this hill would end up across the hood of someone's pickup.

[imjohn]

That title should have been "with" not "woth."

What is a woth anyway?

[Yeah_Right]

More than 30 years of tramping around these hills and I've never seen a single bigfoot. :(

Pikes Peak is so close to heavily populated areas -- any bigfoot on this hill would end up across the hood of someone's pickup.

<footer explanation why you haven't seen bigfoot>They were successfully hidng from you</end footer explanation why you haven't seen bigfoot>

[LTC8K6]

You need a few rocks to throw, a Louisville Slugger to beat on a few trees, some whiskey and cigarettes to give your voice that nice rasp for making return calls, some alderfeet, and a mud wallow to lay in...

[Miss_Kitt]

and nice, hefty pigs for throwing!! Don't forget the pigs!!

[Maldon]

and nice, hefty pigs for throwing!! Don't forget the pigs!!
And the orgies.:wink:

[Cleon]

High in the rugged wilderness of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains a large hairy creature is said to be preying on the elk and frightening residents.


So that's what Hal's been up to since the election...

[Mojo]

Monsterquest in my backyard and me with no cable


Couldn't you just watch them out of the window?

[Silly Green Monkey]

People climb Pikes Peak every single day, why wouldn't any of them have seen, well, anything?

[desertgal]

People climb Pikes Peak every single day, why wouldn't any of them have seen, well, anything?

You forget that, according to recent 'footer lore, Bigfoot has a "human detection warning system". I'm not sure if it consists of knocking on trees, or hurling pigs in the air, and it doesn't seem to work too well, since they keep getting spotted, but every self respecting myth of Bigfoots learns it early on. :D

[AtomicMysteryMonster]

You didn't miss much, as it was the most disappointingly boring episode of "MonsterQuest" I've ever seen.

Despite all the hype about the "snowbeast" stalking and killing elk, very little is shown to support that case. There's one point where they find a dead elk in the woods and that's about it. Although I'm sure they'd like us to think that Bigfoot killed out, the lack of time devoted to it makes me think that it died in a decidely non-Bigfoot way.

Although they discussed misidentified bear tracks as an explanation for some Bigfoot tracks, they made no references to how overlaid bear tracks can create large, human-looking tracks. Perhaps this was because doing so would ruin the "this track is too big to be a bear's" rationale...

As for the fake feet explanation, I have a problem with the test they did: wouldn't the weight of the bags they put on the fake foot-making device be distributed by the four table legs supporting the device? I think that would make the fake foot make less of an impression than that much weight should have it do. Well, that, and differences in soil consistency.

Finally, I just know that the scratches in the little hole-cave thingy they suspected of being from Bigfoot are from some other animal. Something tells me they know this as well and won't be coming back to check that spot in Season 4.

[LTC8K6]

Despite all the hype about the "snowbeast" stalking and killing elk

Skookum cast explained!

Film at 11.

[godless dave]

The thread title keeps reminding me of a former friend of mine. She literally had Monsterquest in her back yard. They were doing the episode on "rods", and to test the explanation that rods are just birds flapping their wings faster than a video or film camera's shutter speed, they wanted to film some birds in flight. My former friend is a big birdwatcher and has a yard conducive to it. I have no idea who put the producers of Monsterquest in touch with her, but they ended up showing up at her house to shoot footage in her back yard. But that day there were few birds to be seen; they had been scared off by a hawk.

[LTC8K6]

Not to mention that RODS have already been thoroughly debunked. Very thoroughly.

http://www.opendb.com/sol/seq.htm

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You didn't miss much, as it was the most disappointingly boring episode of "MonsterQuest" I've ever seen.



As for the fake feet explanation, I have a problem with the test they did: wouldn't the weight of the bags they put on the fake foot-making device be distributed by the four table legs supporting the device? I think that would make the fake foot make less of an impression than that much weight should have it do. Well, that, and differences in soil consistency.

Plus, the original print, which looked just like a bear print to me, was found right by the water. It could have been made when the water was higher, meaning the ground would have been softer, plus the water likely would have eroded the track somewhat, making it seem larger than it was.

Finally, I just know that the scratches in the little hole-cave thingy they suspected of being from Bigfoot are from some other animal. Something tells me they know this as well and won't be coming back to check that spot in Season 4.

Possibly the dumbest part of the show. If bigfoot was living in that cave, he wasn't a very big bigfoot. I don't think either of the guys could even get through that opening. It would have been tight.

Last night's new episode wasn't much better. It had Loren Coleman telling us that violent encounters between bigfoot and humans were becoming more and more common these days, yet failed to give an example of a recent violent encounter, lol, and most of the encounters were from 25 years ago or more. They also tried to spin a South Carolina lizard man encounter as a bigfoot encounter. Apparently bigfoot had a craving for car bumper that evening. Not very smart for the world's most intelligent creature.

They did document one recent encounter where bigfoot was hit by a car, allegedly. I thought bigfoot didn't hang out by roads? Anyway, this collision was witnessed by the boyfriend and brother of the driver who managed to shoot the bigfoot, but, naturally, no body was found. They did find a bullet though...a bullet that passed through bigfoot, a tree, and about 3/4 of the way through another tree. I'm not really buying their story though...everyone knows man can't shoot bigfoot because he looks too human.

About lizard man, Loren apparently believes lizard man sightings are really mistaken bigfoot sightings. That's right, people can mistake a hairy bigfoot for a tall, bipedal creature with 3 toes and 3 fingers, covered in scales, with glowing red eyes, yet it makes no sense to argue that folks are mistaking bears for bigfoot. :eek:

[AtomicMysteryMonster]

Plus, the original print, which looked just like a bear print to me, was found right by the water. It could have been made when the water was higher, meaning the ground would have been softer

Great point!

Last night's new episode wasn't much better. It had Loren Coleman telling us that violent encounters between bigfoot and humans were becoming more and more common these days, yet failed to give an example of a recent violent encounter, lol, and most of the encounters were from 25 years ago or more.

I'm still amazed they used the Albert Ostman case and yet only told part of the story. Maybe it's because the behavior indicated in Ostman's tale doesn't support the idea of Bigfoot as a surviving primitive apelike creature. They also didn't mention how Ostman only told that story after his family passed away and that it's suspiciously similar to a folktale from his home country (right down to the escape via tobacco).

I loved how they included a story about a wild man with a club and some other tool. Oh yeah, that just screams "Bigfoot."

And let's not forget the classic claim that many people are having violent encounters but don't report them. And yet somehow "MonsterQuest" still knows despite the lack of reports...

They also tried to spin a South Carolina lizard man encounter as a bigfoot encounter. Apparently bigfoot had a craving for car bumper that evening. Not very smart for the world's most intelligent creature.

Let's not forget how the DNA test results came back and the old woman still refused to believe it was done by a canine. I can only hope they showed her the jaw recreation.

They did document one recent encounter where bigfoot was hit by a car, allegedly. I thought bigfoot didn't hang out by roads? Anyway, this collision was witnessed by the boyfriend and brother of the driver who managed to shoot the bigfoot, but, naturally, no body was found.

The descriptions of what they hit looking like a bear walking on its hind legs (which a bear can do) but was "too big" and supposedly resembled a man and therefore was a Bigfoot killed me. After all, it's not like bears can have deformed or injured faces that could seem humanlike to people. Especially not after getting hit by a car. And let's go chasing after a (supposedly) dangerous animal with guns in a dark forest! That couldn't possibly have any negative repercussions!

I also loved how one report came from Yakima, Washington. And anyone who pays attention to the Bigfoot threads should know of a man with an ape costume and love of pranks that lives in the area...

They did find a bullet though...a bullet that passed through bigfoot, a tree, and about 3/4 of the way through another tree. I'm not really buying their story though...everyone knows man can't shoot bigfoot because he looks too human.

Or what about the dog that they used in their effort to track down the body? I thought dogs were too afraid to track Bigfoot! :rolleyes:

The only thing that made me laugh harder was when one of the witnesses failed a polygraph test. Not that failing a polygraph proves anything, mind you, but it was still hilarious.

About lizard man, Loren apparently believes lizard man sightings are really mistaken bigfoot sightings. That's right, people can mistake a hairy bigfoot for a tall, bipedal creature with 3 toes and 3 fingers, covered in scales, with glowing red eyes, yet it makes no sense to argue that folks are mistaking bears for bigfoot.

Another great point. However, I'm sure proponents of that idea will say that the three fingers and toes are either due to losing them in an accident or a birth defect caused by inbreeding. In fact, they'd probably blame inbreeding for making the bigfoot more aggressive and therefore, the witness was mostly accurate in what they were describing.

I'm surprised they spent so much time on the Lizard man in that episode and didn't just save it for another episode involving reports of reptilian beings.

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The only thing that made me laugh harder was when one of the witnesses failed a polygraph test. Not that failing a polygraph proves anything, mind you, but it was still hilarious.


I missed that part. I also didn't know the "lizard man" DNA results came back as canine. Really strange behavior for a canine.

[AtomicMysteryMonster]

I missed that part.

I forget when it occurred in the program, but it the guy who failed was the one who claimed that something grabbed him and tried to pull him out of a truck.

I also didn't know the "lizard man" DNA results came back as canine. Really strange behavior for a canine.

Not necessarily. Coyotes and feral dogs are known to eat cats. Now imagine what would happen if a cat tried hiding from one in the space between the upper part of a tire and the car itself.

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Not necessarily. Coyotes and feral dogs are known to eat cats. Now imagine what would happen if a cat tried hiding from one in the space between the upper part of a tire and the car itself.

Yeah, that's a good point.