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I'm a fan of anything cryptozoological so these are two of my favorite shows right now.  Which do you think is better.

MonsterQuest on A&E is better scientiffically.  Scientists using real scientific procdures to look for mnsters.  They often have CGI models in the recreations rather that a POV shot or reactions of people-which I always thought was a bit of a cop-out.  MonsterQuest is about learning, and meant to satify your mind.

Destination ruth however goes for the gut.  It intends to envoke a reaction as you watch Josh look for monsters in dark jungles, swamps, dangerous places where you might be wondering about his safty as much as proving whether or not the creature exists.

Two shows, similar themes, different approaches.  Which do you like more.

 

They moved Monster Quest to A&E? They didn't tell me :hatred: I've been watching reruns and waiting for a new episode. Dumb UFO Hunters.

I like both shows. Monster Quest uses graphics to re-create encounters and show relative size and covers some really obscure topics in certain episodes (Killer Ape Men was a trip) I like little things like that. Destination Truth goes for artistic renderings of creatures that look great, looks into many of the more lesser-known cryptids, and above all has Josh Gates. You couldn't find a better guy to lead the team; some may find him annoying but I can't help but love his sarcasm, possibly because he also harbors a genuine interest in the subject and doesn't let expectations cloud his mind.

Did I say A&E?

Let me check


Whoops, I did.  I meant The History Channel.  My mistake

The new season of Monsterquest started on June 4, program about an animal of some type thats been killing goats and dogs in North Carolina. These are both good shows, I think that Monsterquest is a tad more scientific in its approach to the subject but they are both thought provoking and fun to watch.

I think the episode is titled 'In Search of the Redneck'. :teddyr:

My new favorite epsiode aird a last a few weeks ago.  The took on the topic of ghost (not monsters, but I'll forgive them)  One of the Ghosts was "The Blue Light of Parma"  an apparition seen at a gas station that is only a few blocks from my house. 

Other than Drew Carry's orignail theme song-it may be the only time Parma gets nation wide attention. 

I actually watched the ghost episode a few weeks ago where they went to Lizzy Borden's house.  Its about ten minutes from where I live and I've been.  The house is most definitely worth the tour.   :thumbup:

I'll Take Monster Quest any day of the week, hands down. It's probably not fair, but the main reason is I CANNOT STAND the host Josh? of Destination Truth. I saw him helping out hosting Ghost Hunters once and I could barely stand to watch that ( and I love Ghost Hunters!). He reminds me of a phony kiss-ass suck-up know it all. But hey, that's just me.  :cheers:

Josh was actually pretty good on Ghost Hunters International recently and he's great on Destination Truth in my humble opinion.

Has Destination Truth been cancelled?  I haven't heard anything about a new season.

I always have to chuckle at the end of Monsterquest episodes because they seem to repeat themselves.  "The motion capture camera only managed to capture a passing duck and no monster".  Still I watch though knowing they'll never find anything. 

Yeah - when they go to commercial they like to leave viewers hanging with a teaser that goes something like "Did our intrepid Sasquatch hunters finally obtain hard evidence of this elusive cryptological creature's existence?" and the payoff is always: "Aaaaaaah - it's another duck."

But could the presence of so many ducks somehow maybe suggest Saquatch might just somehow be lurking just out of range, perhaps behind yonder tree?

Perhaps!  :cheers:

Those ducks are on their way to subway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDPS5VmvqkY

they just keep cutting through the monser quest expediitons.

Ducks love Sun Chips!

One Monster Quest that did seem about to pay off with a money shot was the one where they were looking for giant Humboldt squid in the Sea of Cortez.

Of course, the expedition was cut short (naturally) by bad weather.

Speaking of cryptids, some group in Georgia says that they have the body of a dead Bigfoot and they are going to show it to the press tomorrow in a big news conference.  Most likely a major hoax, but just possibly the scientific discovery of the century.

I'd be interested in seeing the photos when they're published.  I wonder why cryptozoologists try so hard to prove things existence.  Wouldn't they be out of a job if, say, a bigfoot was found to be real? There would be nothing to research. 

I like when they hype it up before commercial break as well.  Its always like this;

Annoucer:  Coming up, the team reviews the footage...and find something shocking
Researchers (looking at screen):  Wow look at the size of that!

When they come back from commercial we find out they were reacting to a rather large flock of ducks when they said "look at the size of that".   :bouncegiggle:

Here's a photo of the Peach State Bigfoot:

(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/C06B97E1-F6BF-0CCA-74EBCFC145F9FEDA.jpg)

I assume it's under that PLANET OF THE APES costume.

Turns out they've already admitted to filming a hoax interview with a fake scientist.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4657122a4560.html (http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4657122a4560.html)

One of the guys involved explains why Bigfoot-obsessed hasslers/stalkers made 'em do it:

But Mr Whitton insisted the Bigfoot discovery was authentic, saying the fake interview was filmed to stir up those in the "Bigfoot world" who had been hassling and stalking the pair.

"I'm just tired of all the stalkers so I had my brother, 'Dr Van Buren', come down ... I'm just glad you all had something to do on the weekend," Mr Whitten says on the video. "We still have a corpse," he adds later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRcKClMRz4I&feature=related
Dr. Paul Van Buren!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMEsD3_J2DQ
NOT!

Lesson Learned: Most Bigfoot fakers make their fatal mistake by not considering the gender of their costume and leaving off Bigfoot's tallywaker.

Second Lesson Learned: The spellchecker for this site recognizes the word 'tallywaker'.

I watch this show when nothing else is on. I kinda laugh at it most of the time. Ok you left those cameras up for a week and got nothing. How about leaving them up for a year? Yeah the squid is the only one they found anything. Some of the eyewitness accounts are easily disproven.

In one episode I watched they are talking about some sort of Alabama Sasquatch. I remember 3 of the eyewitnesses and being able to discredit them on my own.. 1st was a guy who thinks he saw it because he was about 300-400 yards away. Kinda hard to tell what something is from that distance. 2nd was a guy who saw it as a kid. It was midnight and he was camping with his parents. He wakes up hearing a noise looks out the screen and see 2-3 of them coming out the river. Well let's see late night, kid, wakes up... I think he imagined it and his mind played tricks on him. 3rd was a guy out looking for it. He set some bait for it in a dumpster and waits next to it. He falls asleep and wakes up hearing a noise. Get up and comes face to face with it. It gets out of the dumpster and walks off. Well he just woke up to see it face to face. I know sometimes when I wake up from having very little sleep I am disorientated for a while.

A few weeks ago I saw one on possible wolf hybrid creatures that was killing dogs (and a horse apparently). One lady had the body of one. I saw the picture and it looked like a black chow.

Another one of my personal favorite moments on Monster Quest is when they have average every day people reinact their experience to the best of their Z-level acting capabilities.   :bouncegiggle:

CRAP!  :hatred:

I missed last night's episode about The Whitehall Monster aka the 'New York Bigfoot'.

Did they git 'em?


(http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/morrisawilliams/bionicbigfoot.jpg)
Not the Whitehall Monster

Nope, just more ducks.

I've been tivo-ing Monster Quest and I'm getting really bored with it. Seems like every episode the end up strapping a camera to an animal, claim its the first time its ever been done, then the guy in the lab with a mowawk does some DNA sampling and its inconslusive. There have been some good episodes but overall the show has too much padding.

So far I've seen them attach cameras to a wild boar, a rat and a squid.

Haven't seen Destination Truth yet, but the wife likes it so I'll probably check that one out too.

I watched several episodes of MONSTER QUEST especialy the BIRDZILLA episode everybody see ginat birds in TEXAS,ALASKA, and ILLINOSE

We've had several ABC (Alien Big Cat) sightings here in Newfoundland over the last few years...