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Old 30-November-2007, 02:01 PM
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This show had to take the cake for all out creativeness. They should really hire thier authors out to SciFi channel.

Half the show was part attempt to debunk deniers of Big Foot, and the other half a chronicle of two expeditions into the mountains.

There was one bit of semi good science, where they tried to get a man to walk with same gate as the Sasquash fim from the 60's. However they failed here two when they never actually showed him walking, and just said it had failed.

The two expidition set out 'traps' with fruit to try and lure a Sasquash. And managed to get a so called hit. However my problem with that is both expeditions took Light Amplification cameras, but they didn't bother to point them at the traps that lured a beast they took foot prints impressions from?

All in all it seemed another bit of tripe from the History Channel.
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"Sasquatch." But yeah, I don't bother watching that show. It'll just make me mad.
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Oh, come now Gillian. They're fun. I for one admire their perseverance, and ability to consitantly ignore how rediculous they make themselves look. It takes a lot of work to ignore as many facts as they do.
(Note: above is in jest, as I don't really want to paint every "cryptozoologist" or whatever with the same brush).

dgavin: was this the same episode where, near the end, the narrator said something like Take a look at this chilling and compelling evidence, shot in secret by such-and-such, who is a self-proclaimed big-foot skeptic". They then proceeded to show a few night-vision clips of a guy pointing the camera at him self and talking about how "all day there's been this feeling like I'm being stalked...watched. earlier we came across this very distint odor, which such-and-such described as smelling 'like a wet deer'. blah blah blah"
and after every few words he'd pause and look over his shoulder, like he thought he saw something.

Funny use of the word "evidence"...I was not aware that videotaping your own monologue was all the proof required to show bigfoots existance. heh.
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The two expidition set out 'traps' with fruit to try and lure a Sasquash.
Well, there's your problem! They should've set out cinnamon and a pie crust.
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Old 30-November-2007, 07:42 PM
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Funny use of the word "evidence"...I was not aware that videotaping your own monologue was all the proof required to show bigfoots existance. heh.
Then bigfoot proof is all over You Tube.
I simply must post this gem I made up:
"What do you call a Yeti that had an anvil dropped on it's head?
Sas-squashed!"
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"Sasquatch."
You're slipping, Gillianren - you missed "gait."

I think I saw part of this show. Ooh, they heard a rock or something hitting the top of their cabin!
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And "two."

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It wasn't in the thread title. Mostly, I leave lesser spelling errors--ones that aren't someone's name or don't appear in thread titles--alone.
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actually, i thought it was a pretty good show.
i can't comment on the scientific methods being used, but i do know that pointing a motion sensing camera at a fairly busy road isn't a good way to get pics of bigfoot- but they did get some good pics of passing cars.
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Are Sasquash's brothers named Sasgourd and Saspumpkin?
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Oh, come now Gillian. They're fun. I for one admire their perseverance, and ability to consitantly ignore how rediculous they make themselves look. It takes a lot of work to ignore as many facts as they do.
(Note: above is in jest, as I don't really want to paint every "cryptozoologist" or whatever with the same brush).

dgavin: was this the same episode where, near the end, the narrator said something like Take a look at this chilling and compelling evidence, shot in secret by such-and-such, who is a self-proclaimed big-foot skeptic". They then proceeded to show a few night-vision clips of a guy pointing the camera at him self and talking about how "all day there's been this feeling like I'm being stalked...watched. earlier we came across this very distint odor, which such-and-such described as smelling 'like a wet deer'. blah blah blah"
and after every few words he'd pause and look over his shoulder, like he thought he saw something.

Funny use of the word "evidence"...I was not aware that videotaping your own monologue was all the proof required to show bigfoots existance. heh.
Actually i missed the end of it, fell asleep.

Go figure.
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Well, they could easily obtain footage of a squid as the first live video of one was taken in 2006. They are technically no longer "cryptids".
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Well, they could easily obtain footage of a squid as the first live video of one was taken in 2006. They are technically no longer "cryptids".
Were they ever? Just because they weren't seen alive until 2006 doesn't mean they were cryptozoological in nature. I'd call corpses being trapped in nets and washed up on beaches for who-knows-how-many-years proof positive.
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Were they ever? Just because they weren't seen alive until 2006 doesn't mean they were cryptozoological in nature. I'd call corpses being trapped in nets and washed up on beaches for who-knows-how-many-years proof positive.
The book Tales of the Cryptids had them in the "existence confirmed" section.
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Actually i missed the end of it, fell asleep.
Go figure.
Didn't miss much, just some guy I've never heard of that was a self-proclaimed skeptic, who's mind apparently was changed by a few snapping branches and a muskey smell in the woods.

I've had animals trail me in the woods too...it's eerie as all get-out, but I don't think it was bigfoot (all though admittedly I can't prove that it wasn't him either).
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I'd be more itnerested in what makes the bloop and julia sounds as sensed by SOSUS...
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I know that they have used it to listen to whales, could this be the case?
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...That video is now the focus of an episode of a History Channel series.
"I didn't see it when I was shooting it at the time," Mowry said. "I didn't have my eye in the view finder at all. Then, when I went back to the edit bay, I just happened to pause it on one of the seven frames it was in."
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