While the police video was very interesting where was the professional video analysis/breakdown? I honestly thought the recreation looked similar to the original video and to jump to saying ‘it was a bigfoot’ with other options on the table (hoax etc.) and no other evidence seemed to show unwarranted bravado.

The few eye witness testimonies seemed to be accepted without any background research to the individuals and/or the historicity of their cases. I mean a 9ft 8″ (I think that was the measurement which is on the extreme high end of sightings) squatch crossing a busy road in front a residential driveway? Both MM and his cohorts just seemed so eager to accept that kinda evidence (or lack thereof!)

The night surveillance was just full of conjectures without any reasoned restraint or scientific methodology.

As mentioned MM calling himself an ‘expert’ on Bigfoot. Really? So Bigfoot has smaller legs, longer arms and a dark nose? How do we know? Photo evidence? (Paleo)anthropological evidence? Back up your hypothesis.

They may be ‘experts’ on examining sightings/evidence (I got a more amateur vibe honestly) but until you’ve confirmed the creature exists and really studied a live sample, its biology and its daily life in its habitat nobody is an expert.

I must make mention of our local Virginia researcher William Dranginis. His name was dragged through the mud by MM but from what I’ve read and researched Bill has approached his hunt with solid scientific methodology and left the hype at the door. As Jeff Meldrum was quoted regarding Bill “He’s seems to be levelheaded and not prone to embellishing his stories.”

That’s not what Finding Bigfoot seems to be about and Bill is better off not being associated with BFRO/MM IMHO.

As someone previously said, you can label someone an expert on something all day long, but the label does not mean you are in fact an expert on the subject.

This show is fake…just more reality TV that makes money for someone ironically named Moneymaker.

As for Lost Tapes, it was fun campfire story type of stuff, but made itself cyrstal clear at the begining of each and every episode it’s fake. Something Finding Bigfoot should do as well.

I think I managed to like watch one ep of Lost Tapes and it lost me real fast…. To over the top really.

While you’re right that there can be and are “experts” in just about everything imaginable, there’s a huge difference between someone being labeled an expert in that area by their peers vs someone crowing to the world that they’re the biggest expert in the history of experts. This is one of the reasons that so many in this forum were put off by your attitude. Your accomplishments via the BFRO speak to your dedication to the subject, but when you go on about yourself in such a grandiose manner you draw legit comparisons to Tom Biscardi, and I know you know that ain’t a good thing. Throttle back on the self-congratulatory back-patting and let your experience speak for itself. Anyone who has to remind everyone that they’re the greatest usually isn’t, and it becomes apparent very fast.

Best of luck.

The only thing good that came out of that program was me being able to explain to my son is never trust a TV program, photo or internet article without being able to look up and verify things for yourself. Google peoples names, if this really happened it will be all over the place. Look for supporting evidence, more than one newspaper would have run the story. If they have evidence like that expect scientists or at least forensic analysis to be done. If you don’t see these things, be very, very suspicious of what you’ve been told/shown.

He listens to his Mother, he is the one the other kids go to for ‘what do you think’ regarding all sorts of things. I hear them talking and he does openly weigh out a lot of things before stating his opinion. I hear their debates and it makes me smile. I want my children (and their friends) to be inquisitive, and open to all sorts of ideas and possibilities, but I don’t want them to be suckers.