Review: Monsterquest 3-25-09

This pretty good episode focuses on Sasquatch or Bigfoot, and people are reporting encounters, close ones, with unknown creatures. The earliest known report is from 1883 from Ontario, Canada where an 8-foot high creature attacked two men. Loren Coleman is profiled and discusses an aggressive Sasquatch or Bigfoot. The Albert Ostman story is once again recounted by Coleman (it was recounted originally on the First-Season Sasquatch Attack episode). The next state is Minnesota, where a young lady claims to have hit something, a possible Sasquatch. She said it was 7 feet tall, looked like a cross between a bear and a man, and her boyfriend and a friend also witnessed the wreck and were convinced it was not a bear. They chased the animal into the woods with rifles. A bear research biologist believes the wreck is of a bear, but the witnesses are not so sure. The MQ crew is of course sent to investigate it. A Bob Olson, a Bigfoot researcher/investigator, examine the van that hit the whatever it was. They find what appears to be hair which will be sent for testing. Olson, Bob Sherman and a tracker go to see if they can find perhaps the corpse of the creature that was hit. Terry Reams' sighting is profiled next, from Washington State. His sighting is, to this author, quite compelling. It turns out that Reams and his family were not the only ones to see it-12 others, including four police officers, have also seen it. The team in Minnesota is still searching for the possible corpse of the alleged creature. The researchers cut off a section of tree with a bullet lodged in it to see about gathering clues from it. The team has a dog with them to search. Unfortunately, the trail runs cold, and no corpse is found. Meanwhile, the science team is starting its tests on the tree limbs. A Jay Epping, veterenarian, examines the tree limbs. He does detect a bullet inside the limb. The log will be sent to a DNA lab. Dr. Bruce McCord of Florida International University is commissioned to do the forensic study on the bullet and the tree. The bullet is extracted, now the DNA results will be tallied. From Michigan, in 1965, a young lady was attacked by a Sasquatch which blackened her eye. In Bishopville, South Carolina, a year ago, a van was chewed up by something, and the van was covered in blood. This case was speculated to have been done by Lizard Man, and Lisdon Truesdale, the retired sheriff of Lee County, is also interviewed on his impressions. Loren Coleman thinks the Lizard Man is actually a Sasquatch (side note: author D.L. Tanner believes it is a Skunk Ape). The results of that DNA testing turned out to be from a dog. An auto engineer and a wildlife biologist are going to test the van again to see if they can get perhaps a different result. They are constructing a reconstruction of a jaw just to see how it matches up with the bite marks on the van. Witness David Griffin of Indiana had a sighting in 1972 which he has never forgotten. He says this thing was headed towards him, but did not attack him. He kept that story quiet for many years. Another young man in Indiana, Aaron Wheeler, says he also was attacked by something he could not explain. Both of these witnesses are subjected to a polygraph test to determine their truthfulness (or lack thereof). More testing is done, more witnesses interviewed, and the results are...well, I won't reveal too much more. Next week focuses on Ogopogo, in an episode titled Lake Demon, beginning at 9:00 EST/8:00 Central on History. Check local listings for time and channel. However, this Sunday, there is a special of interest called Predator X, about a giant dinosaur said to make the Tyrranosaurus Rex look like a guppy. That begins at 8:00 EST/7:00 Central on History. again check local listings for time and channel.