bigfoot poll!

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Are they even on the air anymore?

Good question.

Maybe in re-runs. I just now started getting cable again after a long hiatus.

But now there is rival show called "Finding Bigfoot" that (like Monsterquest) at least pretends to be scientific. A team of people chasing down scrapes of video, and eye witness all over the USA. They focus on a different state each night.

And there's the "Survivor Man" shows which sometimes veer into Bigfoot territory.

One of the strangest TV shows I've ever seen is: "Mountain Monsters": supposedly real hillbilly professional trappers team up to try to catch bigfoot type creatures in the Appalachians on a "reality" series. One of these bearded mountain men trappers I recognized as being the same actor who plays a certain clean cut yuppie lawyer who frequently appears on "the Good Wife"! Its actually a quite entertaining ripoff of the Blair Witch Project. But its about as "scientific" as WWF wrestling ( and seems to target the same audience).

I've seen Animal Planet's excursion into cryptozoology with Finding Bigfoot, and I even concede I've watched that Godawful Destination America show Mountain Monsters. I would think people who actually live in the Appalachians would be offended by the stereotype of the Hill Billy type who hoot and holler like they're all liquored up when closing in on a monster (I thought the point of the show was to catch a cryptid alive, not scare it away! ) The same channel also had had a short lived show called Alaska Monsters, of the same premise, but chasing Bigfoot and other monsters in the Great White North.
I admit I watch those shows for the same reason why I watch pro-wrestling - because it's all brainless fun!

no is winning, the agnostics follow 2 behind, with the yes people bringing up the rear.

Interesting because TR's life intersected with cryptozoology more than once.

The other time it had the opposite result.

Nessie is only the best known of the many serpentine lake monsters in the world.

TR was on a safari in east Africa near one of the big lakes, and learned from locals about the local lake monster.

He was awakened the next morning by a commotion in the lakeside camp. The native porters were yelling the name of the lake monster.

TR investigated, and sure enough there in the lake was a series of undulating humps in the water: one large hump followed by three small humps in echelon behind the big hump-Like an over turned rowboat followed by several smaller over turned rowboats- moving as one.

TR lowered his rifle and fired. One of the little humps suddenly froze while the other humps vanished into the water.

They rowed out to retrieve the remaining hump. It turned out to be an otter cub. The "monster" turned out to be a mom otter, and her babies, and not one long serpentine creature!

that poor thing! nasty teddy boy.

One thing that confounds me relating to these things: I find it odd how people are cool with others taking shots at unidentified critters/objects. That's fraught with safety problems as well as ethical.

You don't just plug a critter that you think might be Big Foot (even if it is Big Foot too). Well you can, but you're a jerk if you do (and a potential manslaughterer/manslayer).

I really hope Animal planet and those other cable networks get sued for all their fiction monster documentaries that get presented as fact until the credits roll in and there's fine print (that everyone misses unless you record freeze and magnify the text) that all characters and monsters in this episode are fictional. Although it did temporarily amuse me that that Kim Kardashian actually thought mermaids were real.

Actually, as far as I can tell, Finding Bigfoot is on the up and up - - because they never actually find anything! Oh, they talk to witnesses, and they hear something screeching out in the darkness intermixed with coyote cries (they surmise Sasquatches must travel with coyotes), but they never come away with any evidence.

I'd have to vote Yes.

Recently been listening to interviews with David Paulides. He has done DNA research on Bigfoot, and tells an interesting story related to him from a 'Native American'. He said that the elders in his tribe told him that when they were in the wilds at night they were not to leave the area of the campfire. He was told that the land they lived on belonged to another tribe of people (Bigfoot) many years before and that if they left the campfire, they might be taken by them.

You might say 'well, that was just a boogey-man story to tell the children'. But the man noted that none of his tribe would leave the campfire at night. If you do some research, there are legends among 'Native American' tribes regarding Bigfoot as a tribe of people who were far older than themselves.

I would listen to what the native americans have to say, they've been here far longer than us. so far, twice as many WPers believe in big foot than in ice cream

I guess I'm just a big sceptic; every Fall millions upon millions hunters descend upon the woods. None of them to my knowledge have ever seen one. Any time someone does claim to see one and has film to prove it, the film is very poor quality and un-definitive. I would love to know if it really exists or is just a hoax.

I am confident there will be a day coming relatively soon, when all will be revealed.

For what it's worth, primatologist Jane Goodall believes there's a good chance that Bigfoot is real.

what category of living thing does she put bigfoot in?