Comments on: Don Keating’s Ohio Grassman

By: sausage1

sausage1 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:21:07 +0000

Thanks, Lyndon.

I have seen most of the first series on YouTube, none of the second lot yet.

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:32:34 +0000

Shane Durgee- That story about the scat is hilarious! What a bizarre thing to home in on and criticize, especially coming from a UFO researcher. That’s my new line I’m going to use from now on for anytime I don’t think there is any evidence for a theory or if some evidence is very shaky. Scat.

By: Lu Ann Lewellen

Lu Ann Lewellen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:51:29 +0000

I saw most of the show but kept falling asleep so I may have missed this.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the handprint cast Jimmy Chilcutt was examining turn out to be from an impression made by the hand of a dead Gorilla? The indented fingertips indicated a dead or dying animal.

Gorilla hand ashtrays used to be popular and provided profit for poachers.

By: Lyndon

Lyndon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:00:35 +0000

sausage 1 wrote:

“”When is this series coming to the UK? It’s so frustrating reading these posts you guys put up and not having a clue what you are watching.”"

Sausage,

I’m in the U.K and Ive seen all of these past Monsterquest episodes on You Tube. All of season 1 should be on there if you search.

No doubt, season 2 should be up soon.

By: rayrich

rayrich — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:41:23 +0000

Lame to say the least, save for the eyewitness accounts. These weekend expeditions don’t cut it especially with cameras around. Stick with real eyewitness accounts and dramatize them like the old ‘Mysterious Monsters’ movie narrated by Peter Graves. That along with the ‘Legend of Boggy Creek’ were by far the best documentaries.

By: clman1

clman1 — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:06:54 +0000

Most impressive thing was the glow in the dark R/C helicopter. Very cool toy, although you would figure they would have a spare battery.

By: gridbug

gridbug — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:33:01 +0000

Actually enjoyed the Grassman episode quite a bit, though I share the frustrations mentioned above. Also, glad to see they’re getting better at the digitally inserted creatures in the re-enactments. Grassman looking in the window? Yikesaroonie!

By: Shane Durgee

Shane Durgee — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:34:18 +0000

The decoy was the most rediculous thing I have ever seen.

haha I forgot about the decoy!

By: Spinach Village

Spinach Village — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:58:58 +0000

i was referring to the walking blob, i forgot about the other one, yeah that didn’t look significant (its a forest so they should see small round blobs)

I have read about and seen (youtube for example) purported bigfoot nest both in trees and on ground before …

Gorillas make nest in trees when it rains and next on ground when its dry (i seen that on animal planet once)… so its not a far stretch to think bigfoots might do something similar

By: twoly

twoly — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:32:30 +0000

I love reading this blog and have been excited about Monster Quest. I realize that we are not going to find out about someone finding bigfoot on a Discovery Channel show… If someone found Bigfoot it would be all over the news before the episode ever aired, but the exciting part is the experts that they have talking about the evidence and how it helps prove or disprove the existance of crypto creatures. SInce I am from Minnesota it was also nice to see them using experts from around here.

I did however have several technical issues with this episode:
Why was the camera not able to zoom in to a level that gave us more than a tiny colored blob with no detail.
Why would you set up everything to run this helicopter at night for 10-15 minutes (they stated it was running for 8 minutes and had only a few minutes of power left) and not have several backup batteries available to send it right back out as soon as the 10-15 minutes ran out. Why not have a charger on site so you can recharge the batteries while the backup batteries are running and track the woods all night?
The decoy was the most rediculous thing I have ever seen. If they had taken pictures of the Grass Man in front of it he would probably have been laughing as I was.
We are looking for a primate that has been hiding from people for years… might a helicopter spook it and cause it to hide?
No one has captured them on infrared or motion sensor cameras… Might they have sight that goes into the infra-spectrum like dogs (or the Predator) to be able to avoid triggering the sensors?

I liked that they were taking a unique approach to covering the area and were talking about the decoy and getting Grass Man to confront it. The Helicopter was also a good idea since it can cover more ground but they need to plan it out better.

I am happy to have a show like this on the air and give some credibility to Cryptozoologists but this episode did not seemed to be very well planned (Or maybe funded)