Written By: Ken Hulsey
Source: Eagle Valley Enterprise (Co)
The crew for the popular cryptozoology based television series, "Monster Quest", was in Eagle, Colorado this past week filming segments for an episode featuring reported Bigfoot sightings. The shows producers were drawn to the area by a couple of reports stemming from the Spring of 2000, when fisherman reported finding huge, "human-like" footprints in two separate areas along the Eagle River.
The segment that was filmed in Eagle will feature interviews with local residents involved in the track sightings plus analysis of the evidence by former Division of Wildlife Officer Bill Heicher. Heicher is himself a skeptic, but after looking at the evidence presented, he admits that he is puzzled by what he saw, “If Bigfoot were out there, somebody would have found signs, like scat, or fur samples that could be used for DNA tests,” he says. Still, after talking with one of the men who found the tracks eight years ago, and examining the photographs, Heicher says he can’t explain what left the track near the river.“I don’t think it was human. I ruled out wildlife tracks. I don’t know what it was,” said Heicher.
The shows producer, Liz Pollock, was able to find over 100 reported Bigfoot “encounters” (including track sightings and vocalizations as well as physical sightings) in the state of Colorado.
The episode on Bigfoot in Colorado will include a mix of interviews, a scientific experiment to determine the size and weight of the creature that made the Eagle River tracks, and an “expedition” into the local wilderness. Pollack said that the approximate 15 full days of filming will include a couple of days on horseback and two days of helicopter flights over the Pikes Peak area (where the most recent Sasquatch sighting was reported) with a representative of the Colorado Bigfoot Organization.
There will also be a reenactment of the 1881 tale of Leadville-area miners encountering a strange, hairy, man-like creature with extraordinarily long arms that was chronicled in the book “Treasure Tales of the Rockies” by Percy Eberhardt.
Pollock stated that it has always been the mission of the production team to present an unbiased overview of all the topics featured on the "Monster Quest" series. “Our main goal is to keep it as credible as possible,” says Pollock, “We try to get unbiased experts to look at people’s physical evidence.”
Look for this episode to air during "Monster Quests’" third season, probably in February or March.
See Also:
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Bigfoot Prints Found In Siberia /
Written By: Ken Hulsey
