Giant Pythons + Hybrid and Killer Snakes = MonsterQuest
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 27th, 2010
MonsterQuest : Ohio Grassman
Airs on Wednesday January 27 12:00 PM
MonsterQuest : Ohio Grassman
Airs on Wednesday January 27 06:00 PM
Just miles from the industrial cities of Ohio, there is a bogeyman that has terrified local children for over a century. According to stories and sightings, the Grassman is similar to a Bigfoot, but builds strange nests and has been known to attack. Can science help explain this creature? Is a primate skull, a strange print and a new video the first direct proof behind the legendary Grassman? We’ll sift through the existing evidence and take to the skies in a search for what is stalking Ohio.
MonsterQuest : Giant Killer Snakes
Airs on Wednesday January 27 08:00 PM
Head deep into the Venezuela wilderness where there have been sightings of huge man-eating snakes–anaconda. For the first time ever an industrial acoustic sonar camera will be used to search for these monsters. The investigation will also search the Everglades of Florida where pet pythons have escaped and are multiplying and growing to huge sizes, preying on all kinds of animals, even swallowing a full grown alligator in one case. Could a human become their next victim?
MonsterQuest : Giant Pythons in America
Airs on Wednesday January 27 09:00 PM
A deadly, slithering menace is taking over Florida and may be heading north. For more than 100 years, giant pythons have been discovered in parts of the Sunshine State, but since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, their territory has rapidly spread. Now, MonsterQuest searches for incursions in the outskirts of Miami, a population hotspot that is just moments from schools and homes. The team investigates whether pythons could hybridize and adapt, enabling them to threaten every state in the US.
MonsterQuest : Giant Killer Snakes
Airs on Thursday January 28 12:00 AM
Head deep into the Venezuela wilderness where there have been sightings of huge man-eating snakes–anaconda. For the first time ever an industrial acoustic sonar camera will be used to search for these monsters. The investigation will also search the Everglades of Florida where pet pythons have escaped and are multiplying and growing to huge sizes, preying on all kinds of animals, even swallowing a full grown alligator in one case. Could a human become their next victim?
MonsterQuest : Giant Pythons in America
Airs on Thursday January 28 01:00 AM
A deadly, slithering menace is taking over Florida and may be heading north. For more than 100 years, giant pythons have been discovered in parts of the Sunshine State, but since Hurricane Andrew in 1992, their territory has rapidly spread. Now, MonsterQuest searches for incursions in the outskirts of Miami, a population hotspot that is just moments from schools and homes. The team investigates whether pythons could hybridize and adapt, enabling them to threaten every state in the US.
MonsterQuest : Giant Bear Attack
Airs on Wednesday February 03 01:00 PM
Are big bears are getting more assertive and aggressive? In pre-historic times, giant bears weighed up to a ton and stalked early man. Listen as witnesses describe horrific bear attacks and take a look at unusual bear remains. The team journeys from Alaska to New Jersey to learn about bear activity and if hybridization or the next step in bear evolution could produce another crop of giant bears?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I’m only mildly interested in this one. I want to see real cryptids. We all know there are pythons, boas and who knows what other exotic pets have been released into the Florida wilderness? This is nothing new. I want to see shows about truly “unknown” creatures. I’d love to see episodes about the “Heavenly Lake Monster” in China, “Memphre” or even another episode of “Sasquatch attack”, following up on the theory of the migration patterns, that was proposed in the last one. Shows about snakes, bees and sharks, belong on “Jack Hannah’s World of Adventure”.
I tend to somewhat agree with Cryptidcrazy but, nevertheless, I will still watch the episodes.
Should be interesting on their own terms.
Personally I would like nothing better than to have MQ do an episode on the Tatzelwurm, the snake-like Cryptid in Switzerland. I’m a huge fan of Ole Tatzy. 🙂
This was actually a pretty interesting episode. I learned some new things. However, the Central Park segment seemed unnecessary. I don’t really have a problem with the animal episodes, but it just seems like a letdown that they are dominating the first few weeks of the season. Last year, they saved them towards the end. I’m jonesing right now for some “real” monsters. So far we got another Bigfoot episode. Their such a wide diversity of mystery animals to choose from.
I’m extremely attached to reptiles, and only afraid of poisonous snakes to the degree of not TOUCHING one, and no farther. So if I didn’t have cats and dogs, so-called dangerous reptiles are something I’d probably take in stride. Again, I wouldn’t be RECKLESS around them, but that’s about it.
Monsterquest apparently isn’t setting their fact checking standards on python length, high enough. MQ stated quite early in the program that there is no evidence of a python longer than 30 feet. Except within the last week, I watched a TV documentary that featured a python that is currently held in captivity in a village, that measures 48 feet. And that other show also had live footage of that little sweet heart snuggling up to his or her keeper. Which is something that we are not exactly accustomed to seeing in the Bigfoot/Sasquatch segments, unfortunately.
grandmamoses, that 48′ reticulated python named “Fragrant Flowers”, turned out to be a hoax. It was much smaller than advertised. In fact, it was around 21′ feet long, which is still big, but not close to the monster it claimed to be.