A link to the MonsterQuest "Swamp Stalker" episode is available here.

I meant to say "trailer" rather than "episode" in the previous post.

thats a great new trailer swamp stalkers of monsterquest its does bring back memories indeed. thanks bill

im definetly looking forward.... to monsterquest tonight indeedy i hope you all as well.

I'm watching it and in chat right now!

Hi

Pretty decent show i think, Man that place is just so spooky and down right creepy, I love those remote cameras that were used, The 360 lens Rick Noll used is awesome,

Peace
Tim

hey everyone its a awesome new segment about the fouke-boggy creek monster on monsterquest im going to watch it again later too A++++

Anyone notice that they used the actual scream from the movie?

hey rick & tbrc researchers WOW.. you all were awesome in that new segment about the boggy creek creature on monsterquest indeedy. yes i realy liked how they used clips from the legend of boggy creek. their reactments of the sightings were wonderful etc. i hope the tbrc go on more monsterqust segments in near future yes last night segment did bring back memorys awwwwwwwehoooooooooooo that scream. good morning. bill

Yea it was one of the better MQ shows so far I would say.
One of these days one of these shows will find some real proof I hope.

hey micahn, yes totaly agree with your above reply i guess monsterquest is doing 2 more bigfoot segments in upcomeing months updates as it continues.

Yeah that was a pretty interesting episode. Definitely cool being in Fouke.

yes that segment realy made ya feel like your realy fouke arkansas and boggy creek etc it was a great feeling

In my former career, I spent plenty of time in swamps (we pronounced it rhyming with stamp and amp). They can be nasty places and the animals that live there always have the advantage.

I loved the 360 lens, too. That's a heck of a piece of equipment to have. I also liked the remote cameras.

I have to say, though, that I was dismayed with the use of lights while they were moving. They telegraph your arrival as much as noise. But also the noise: wow, those folks are talkative. I've used canoes like that in still water. They can be very quiet, but the driver has to cooperate.

I'd like to see some folks like the guy in the deer stand - just sit there and don't move. See what comes your way. Bait the area and don't even sneeze four about 12 hours. Sit there overnight and see if anything come up (you'll need NVGs).

I hope that Monsterquest will return there soon. That's one of the places that needs to be investigated.

Tom

I really enjoy the show but . . .

I don't think they will find much of anything as long as they continue to do drive by investigations. They go to a potential monster hot spot for a few days or week and then they are off to the next story. I also don't like the way they try to get you to keep watching by saying something like "and what they found was astonishing!" just before a commercial break, only to find "astonishing!" is anything but. Or spending five minutes re-capping what happened the previous thirty minutes.

In regards to this episode: The guys in the canoes went to great lengths to cover their scent but sprayed that UV stuff all over the place. Was that stuff toxic? Did it smell toxic or un-natural? If there was anything out there the camera crew walking along the river bank scared it away. Not to mention all the racket and lights shining everywhere. As Tom.Merrill mentioned, you have to be absolutely silent for awhile and wait. This is why many sightings come from hunters IMO.

I like the idea of remote controlled trail cams. I think a network of these in a given area is the way to go. Perhaps made of metal, as one of the investigators noted that animals can smell the petroleum in the plastic(?). The 360 camera was cool too but I would hang it high in a tree and not leave it on the ground.

hey tom i agree i hope monsterquest does go back to boggy creek sulpher river bottoms to look for evidence etc all we can do is wait. bill

I think MQ is a joke, last nights episode is more of the same we should have or could have done this or that. There techniques in the field are sloppy, they made so much noise and contanimated everything in there path. The spraying of the luminol was just silly. The 360 cam should have been used extensively with the trail cams way up in the trees pointed down. I couldn't understand why they did not ask or look for the medical records or get a copy of the article that was allegedly written. There is nothing to substantiate any stories purported by witnesses. I'm just not happy with the way they go about there business. Its all for the ratings. Honestly a couple of days hanging out in the field will bring nothing. The most convincing person on the show was the hunter with the mustache. That is scared to go back in the woods.

Re-capping what already happened is typical of tv nowadays. If you look at almost any 'reality' show today they spend one third of the time re-capping what already happened, 3 or 4 minutes of new content, and then spend the remaining time previewing whats coming up. Oh, and those 3 or 4 minutes of new stuff you already saw the good parts on the preview. The rest, of course, is all commercials. When you combine that with the fact that a lot of channels like Mtv will play 2 or 3 shows all day and all week, all shot in the same location starring people who would be there just to be on tv anyway, what you get is very cost effective programming. Sadly, this type of technique is creeping into all aspects of tv. People's shgort attention spans are also to blame along with the staggering number of choices in terms of the number of channels. All in all, we should be pretty thankful for a show like MQ. Remember the 70's? How often were topics like BF updated then? The next new documentary would start out as if we had never heard of the subject before. Rehash the PGF stuff with no new aspects to it at all. I'm not knocking them, because I love those old shows. For example, for years every shark documentary would tell you basic stuff like sharks are attracted to blood, etc. Well, with MQ we don't get the 101 treatment and the new episodes are fairly close together with updates periodicaly. So lets not lose perspective about how things are and how they used to be. Not to mention we used used to have to share an hour long show with the Bermuda Triangle, UFO's, Loch Ness, Amhelia Aerhart, Etc.

Yeah couldn't agree more with everything you said. I think the 360 lens was awesome if its used smartly and the remote cameras were pretty amazing as well. And your point about liking the idea of sitting in the tree stand is exactly how I think it should be more often. I definitely think that a big camera crew, several trucks, and a huge camp doesn't really help in trying to get some concrete bigfoot evidence. But im not saying that everytime you have a large group of people you can't get any good evidence. Our teams a perfect example because in late 2008 we had a 9 person team with 2 video cameras, and a rather large camp sight with several trucks and we ended up getting some very good movement the whole night and a perfectly clear wood knock response that every member of our team heard and we caught on our recorders and a video camera.

All tripe and hype. Nothing but a wish sandwich.

RayG

i realy like the above replys but i hope monsterquest does even better to wonderful another boggy creek segment in near future. hmm lets be patient.

Fully agree.

The episodes would be more interesting if they'd do three or four episodes on the best places, instead of a mere few days at one famous location, then WHOOSH, of to the next after that investigation offered nothing. Its getting very predictable with the narration ( and what they found was astonishing, to keep you on the edge of your seat for after the commercial) and giving up after one mere quicky investigation.


I think they've ran the course with the fast food/drive through quickie approach and now they may be need to start making the show more substantial and more involved for those really interested in the topic and want to see a more focused and serious effort into each location. The idea to appeal to the casual monsterfan may be running its course after the show has become so predicatable..................., Now maybe its time to make the show more serious and less fluff .

But, that's easy for me to say, as I've not got money invested in it. Afterall, it is a TV show where entertainment and attracting the most viewers is the goal. So, who knows........I just think the show has become so predictable.................its virtually the same show over and over again only in a new location.

The episode with the screw board was a two episode location, and aside from the party members hiding in the house when the rocks were being thrown, that was the best episode(s) to date.

But, at least we do have an ongoing series dedicated to sasquatch and his ilk. Can't criticize it too much, right?

There is an MonsterQuest episode coming up this season that is about bigfoot and takes place in our team's home state of Indiana and has one of our good friends and fellow bigfoot enthusiast in it and he is a more old school- let bigfoot find you kind of thinker- so it should satisfy some of us that are more on the side of being against the big epic expeditions.

I don't want to bash MQ too much, it beats the hell outta Destination Truth or anything else that's currently running. I really like the way the show is presented/produced, I just wish that they would put more effort into finding what their looking for and stop with the re-capping and fake "astonishment" before a commercial.
I know they don't cover BF constantly but they seem to be giving the subject more attention than any of the others. If BF is going to be an on going topic for them, then I think it would be in their and the viewers interest if they would just drop some camera traps in a given area and have updates as the season progresses. This would be a better way of finding something more substantial than the current hit & run tactics that they are using - IMO. I think the viewers would be hooked because there would be constant potential of finding something . . . astonishing!

I have some problems with the accuracy of some of the things said in this episode, the distances within Arkansas, and black bear not being indigenous to that part of Ark., i think Monster Quest is more for entertainment then anything.

is the new episode posted online somewhere? I missed the tv show, of course.

hey okbffan yes it might be in the official monsterquest website i hope

it's not there.. yet. Was hoping someone else would beat them to it (sigh).

Which scream were you talking about? The one Noll was broadcasting? One of the those was the Ohio Howl and the other recorded by yours truly

SY.

Having witnessed a Season One episode being filmed I can say... be prepared to be disappointed.

Are those the ones the narrator referred to as "verified primate calls"?

No, I was reffering to one of the screams in one of the recreation parts, not what they were call blasting.

I'm not sure they said verified, If they are verified that would be news to me. The scream that was broadcasted does sound like a human female to me, although the circumstances in which it was recorded might suggest other possibilities.

SY.

Roger that.

SY.

The horror....never get off the boat

Yeah well im not saying that its gonna be the best episode yet but im saying if theres any hope in having a somewhat logical investigation, this would be the one. Plus i know this researcher personally, so i know his ways of thinking and looking forward to seeing him on there.

Generally, I regard these shows as entertainment for the masses, but do appreciate that certain scientists are at least willing to analyse some of the findings. Sticking to the evidence is where it's at. These shows often go for dramatizations of experiences and what not, but often inhibits the actual effort of gathering evidence, with all the extra camera crew lights, loud talking and re-enactments they are doing just for the show. I don't expect that this will change much when they are cramming so much into an hour program that is so diminished with comercials and recaps.

SY.

i realy hope the monsterquest team goes back to the boggy creek area next year to do another segment with researchers etc but we will have be patient on that indeed..

I see this episode is now available for download on itunes. Is it worth $1.99??

Just an FYI - The Swamp Stalker episode is being shown again tonight before the new episode on gators.

hey everyone i watched swamp stalker segment last night still very awesome like i said before i hope monsterquest crew do go back to boggy creek to do another segment next year possibly. good morning bill