MonsterQuest’s Thought Process
Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 11th, 2009
Reporter Amy Carlson Gustafson of the Pioneer Press interviewed MonsterQuest’s Executive Producer Douglas Hajicek for today’s edition of her paper.
One item of interest she asked about was what was the thought process behind a MonsterQuest expedition. Here’s his answer:
“We’re certainly not out to debunk, we’re out in search of. You can’t discount everything. We go out with an open mind, and we sincerely give major effort and try to think out of the box. We try to capture film evidence of the existence of these things. You have go on the hypothesis that they’re real, or why would you be out there trying to find them?”
She also asked about how scary some of the expeditions get:
“I’ve been on some expeditions where I’ve wanted to go home. We were up in Ontario and we had our cabin attacked by something, but we don’t know what. We didn’t get any footage of it, but something was throwing rocks at the cabin. I’ve been on four expeditions to that same place, and three times we’ve had the cabin attacked and big stones thrown at us. It’s quite interesting because it’s in the middle of nowhere and there aren’t any roads. To get there, you have to be flown in and dropped off.”
See the rest of the interview here.
MonsterQuest is broadcasting Season Three every Wednesday night at 9 PM Eastern on the History Network, usually with a replay of a previous episode at 8 PM Eastern. For example, tonight’s program on “Cattle Killers” is proceeded by a re-run of their giant bear program from last season.
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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 do like this show quite a bit.
One can see that its hard to put this kind of show together when most of the subject matter is speculation.
I’m sure the thought process is ” lets go out there film this thing and make a great show.” When what usally happens is the show concentrates on one or two pieces of evidence and personal experiences.
I think they do well in keeping it interesting even though having very little to work with. I’m looking foward to the rest of the season.
Ps.
my roomate can’t stand the “monster eye” they use for the segways……..
Keep up the good work Doug. Bigfoot is here in washburn county wisconsin too.
Technically you’re supposed to create a hypothesis and try to disprove it. However although some evidence can be disproved proving something doesn’t exist can be harder than proving it does. So all in all I’ll let that statement slide because I really enjoy MQ.
Well I find it hard to believe the thought process is anything other than to poke fun. They spend a few hours some where with some thermal imaging cameras and say ‘well we just missed it again’ if they wanted to do a serious show they would spend a few days at least they seem to do the bare minimum to get away with appearing to try to find anything. I watch the show but half way through turn it over as the same thing happens again. I so want this show to be good.
I can see where the show is improving. Last nights show kept my interest the entire hour and I’ve never been that interested in the cattle mutilation thing.
It seems as though they took a great deal of what we said about last season as constructive criticism or at least I’d like to think they did. I can see many aspects that have gotten better. One thing that drove me crazy last year was the redundant and constant review after every commercial break. I noticed last night that the narrator wasn’t doing that as much and if he was, it was much shorter.
MQ, you are getting better!
It looks like I’ll be missing MQ – 3 because the new episodes air at the same time as the new episodes of LOST. Can’t really say I’m too terribly disappointed though, but I’ve ranted enough about MQ so I’ll just leave it at that.
I still enjoy MQ because they keep alive and present stories about unusual phenomena and animals that wouldn’t ordinarily be covered by “mainstream news media.” MQ—keep it up!!! 🙂