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Another thing that bothers me just a bit, is the multiple bigfoot shows. You know, like looking for Sasquatch, Skunk Ape, Yeti, Wild Man, Swamp Monster etc.
Yeah I agree. Of all the ape ones my favourite was the Urang Pendek from the first season. That one was actually credible, they wern't looking for a 7ft tall man in a gorilla suit but a potentially real as yet undiscovered ape, the existence of which was actually a possibility.

True it's not an ape man or a monster like the Bigfoot, but at least it might actually exist, as the witnesses who attest to seeing it were credible scientific researchers working in the area over long periods of months and years and not some crazed toothless yokels.

Do you remember the one with the man ( I ALWAYS think of them as Trainer Monkey!) who swore as a child he was carried off by a thunderbird, I mean seriously that is just insane why even bother interviewing him.

Some episodes are brilliant though, the one about 'vampire killers' that despite the exaggerated title was about some unknown animal killing cattle. The evidence gathered suggest it might be leopards or jaguars (forget which) moving back into an area they weren't supposed to have been in for hundreds of years. But that was plausible and therefore MUCH more interesting than going on a wild goose chase for something that has at no point in the history of the universe ever existed.

I guess they have to play to the stupid American mass market rather than people who are actually interested in genuine mysteries.

Still I've gone this far and never missed an episode so I'll be watching it through to the end, even if like you I sigh whenever I hear its yet another Big Foot sighting somewhere in America.