My 7-year old son, God bless him, has recently taken an extreme interest in the paranormal, just like his dad. He’s got a bunch of age-appropriate books on the subject, with Bigfoot and ghosts being his favorite phenomena, but finding appropriate TV shows for him to watch is tough. He loves Finding Bigfoot and MonsterQuest, but some of the other shows (namely Monsters and Mysteries in America) are way too scary for him, mainly due to the realistic recreations. Recently he’s gotten into Mountain Monsters, and I’ve had the unfortunate task of watching these episodes with him. Why unfortunate?

Look, I know that paranormal shows are embellished at best and blatantly faked at worst. And I’ve been diligent on reminding my son of such facts. Creative editing or downright hoaxing, the shows are meant to provide entertainment, and are not an accurate portrayal of investigating such phenomena. And my son gets it. While watching most of the shows, I can see his young brain working, his little bit of critical thinking where he tries to figure out what something could be, rather than what the show is blatantly telling us something is. But he also has a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief. For most of the shows, at least. But with Mountain Monsters, even the 7-year old is not fooled. Not for a minute.

I’m not even sure where to start with this show. The easiest criticism would be to mock the bearded Hillbillies who “investigate” the aforementioned monsters. But hey, I’m open-minded, and freely accept that backwoods hill folk can be good investigators. Unfortunately, these are not them. And of course most of the team members all have funny nicknames. The leader is John “Trapper” Tice. The rookie is Jacob “Buck” Lowe. Joe “Huckleberry” Lott runs around with a gun (not that that really differentiates him, but he doesn’t seem to have a “thing”). William “Wild Bill” Neff builds the traps and spews Larry The Cable Guy quotes ad nauseam (he must hold the record for saying “Git ‘er done!” the most times in a 44-minute span), with fellow trapper Willy McQuillian (I guess it would have made too much sense for him to be nicknamed Trapper?). Oh and some guy named Jeff Headley pretends to take notes in a tiny notepad while interviewing fellow illiterate hillbillies. Likable fellows they all seem to be, but they are not good investigators. Frankly, the show just perpetuates terrible stereotypes of the Appalachian people. If only that were where the problems ended…

I know the trend these days is for something exciting to happen on each episode of any given paranormal show. Remember when most episodes of Ghost Hunters had Jason Hawes saying they had no real evidence and couldn’t call a place haunted? Yeah, I can barely remember either. Most episodes of Finding Bigfoot find the team hearing some sort of weird knocking or howling. But even these shows don’t claim, in almost every episode, to have been touched or attacked by a Bigfoot. Oh no. Yet the Mountain Monsters team claims to have captured some of these creatures, most notably the chupacabra. Which was then freed from its cage (which was all wooden planks, obscuring the view of the elaborate puppet elusive creature captured inside) by none other than Bigfoot himself. I kid you not, the team claims, on video, in a very serious fashion, that the captured chupacabra let out a howl, which Bigfoot realized was a distress call, which prompted him to run to the rescue of his pet chupacabra. It was theorized that Bigfoot uses the chupacabras as “scouting dogs.” I am not making this up. In another episode, in which they were hunting a black beast/devil dog sort of creature, they also concluded that Bigfoot was assisting his pet devil dog.

The evidence that is collected on the show…good God. Mostly-obscured puppets, special effects that would make folks at the SyFy Channel giggle, and “eyewitness” videos that are quite obviously faked, and not even with a tried and true gorilla suit. Maybe fur coats? I never thought a blobsquatch could ever looks so fake. Some of the alleged trail cam photos are so poorly PhotoShopped that they are jarring.

As for the actual investigations themselves, what can I say? I’ve seen these armed men (let me reiterate – armed men, like with hunting rifles and shotguns) get attacked by the supposed creatures they are hunting numerous times over numerous episodes, and yet I have not seen a single shot fired yet. Hunters, an ex-Marine (so he says), and not one of them has ever taken a shot. Again, I know it’s a fake show and all, but at least give me a somewhat plausible reason to suspend my disbelief. If you’re using re-purposed Muppets and CGI from the early 90s, why not put some blanks in the guns?

Oh. And when they do find “evidence” of something, they get scared and leave. One episode (and again, I kid you not) shows the team stumbling upon what appears to be a Bigfoot burial ground. Just out in plain sight, on someone’s property. Yes, complete with stone circles and 10-foot long graves. The team starts digging to find bones, I suppose, and then are scared off (so they run about 10 feet away from the burial ground, to go do their interviews) by some clearly faked howling sampled from an episode earlier in the season. Then the show ends. They do not come back during the light of day, with, you know, actual scientists, or anyone useful for that matter. Again, points even my 7-year old son found odd. In the episode I referenced earlier, after “capturing” a chupacabra (and subsequently witnessing its rescue by Bigfoot), the team just shrugs their shoulders and moves on. No suspension of disbelief here. I just can’t believe Destination America is airing this. And still people ask: “Is Mountain Monsters fake?”

If you like shows where stereotypical Hillbillies pretend to chase mythical animals who keep other mythical animals as pets, then Mountain Monsters is the perfect show for you. But overall, this program is an all-out assault on the intelligence and sensibilities of any normally functioning, breathing human being over the age of 4. But it does give my son and me a lot of chuckles, so I guess because of it’s absurdity, it is a bit entertaining. Or perhaps my IQ is dropping faster than I thought…

282 comments

• Well written and hilarious. I watch the show because I love to laugh and it entertains me how bad it is. However, as your intelligent son illustrates for us, it has BAD examples and can be a shame to watch. The way those men handle firearms is worse than a bunch of kids playing with sticks. The swearing is awful–you let your SEVEN YEAR OLD listen to that?!

  • Thank you! It is pretty entertaining, in that “it’s so bad it’s good” sort of way. My son and I see it as riffing fodder, like MST3K. The show is pure fiction and offers nothing to the field.

    As for the swearing, it’s basic cable. The most egregious stuff is bleeped out, and whatever is left it nothing worse than he’d hear at school or in a PG movie. I’ve taught my son well, and he doesn’t repeat the bad words. It was one of his criticisms of the show, actually 😉

    • Just a quick FYI you kind of got Willie and Bill mixed up
      Wild Bill is a “Tracker” not The main Trap Builder
      Willie is the “Trap Builder”. He takes care of drawing up the design of the trap and Bill just lends him a hand with the manual labor part of it
      Bucks place on the team is as an “expert Caller” LOL
      Jeff is “The researcher”
      And lastly Huckleberry’s place on the team is “security”
      Other than the jobs that each of them do you are actually pretty accurate. I watch the show once in a while , It doesn’t bother me that they are very fake. I watch it for the comedy only. Bill annoys me with the the Git r dun” crap too but the most annoying part of him to me is constantly on and on with the Ooh-Rah…..I mean come on we get it you were a Marine. Im a combat Vet as well and I hardly ever speak of it , I think its his way of trying to get people to thank him. If that’s the reason he joined up then he did the right thing but for the wrong reason. Huck was a Marine as well

    • I think it is affecting your intelligence. You wouldn’t say ” It gives I something to chuckle about”. Why would you say ” It gives my son and I something to chuckle about?”

      • Yes, it’s called a typo.

        • Mountain Monsters….. What a bunch of Idiots. All real redneck hillbillies. Biggest shit reality show ever on TV. I cant believe how they could ever land with shows on TV. Fake assholes. From a fatty to old hillbillies to a guy with a fat nose. Total idiots.

  • And you call yourself a “reverend”. YOU’RE the fake you dork ass. How DARE you judge these men as “fake”. It’s called RE-AL-I-TEE tv. Which means it’s true. Why do I say it’s real? Because calling it reality and it isn’t, is called false advertisment. Soooo, say what ya’ll want with your “witty and crude” comebacks, but, if you can PROVE beyond a shadow of doubt, that it’s fake, then do that, PROVE IT! It’s called put up or shut up!

    • You believe all reality shows? Please do not vote, handle weapons, or drive. The nice men in the white coats will be there soon.

      • Unfortunately, Jora voted and a whole lot of other people like her did the same. God save our republic from Trump and his followers.

        • you must be a libtard. since you decided to bring the subject up Trump is way better than that marxist muslim we had in the white house screwing this country up.

        • God did. That’s why we don’t have a lying murdering twat named Clinton in office. Better cheeto than that cunt!

        • It’s not nice to attack anyone. My post was a congrats to a good writer who put his thoughts out there, thoughts about a show I like. It transports me to my younger years, when we appreciated the work that goes into laughably fake stuff. What the president has to do with any of it is irrelevant.

    • Put up or shut up? how about you PROVE that it is real. The only thing I can say is that they are very creative as far as creating traps out of natural resources. That is cool. But there traps don’t seem to work. They have great imaginations. Just like my boys who are 11 and 8 years old.

      • in the cave monster scene where they actually have footage of it sitting there looking at them ,well if you notice as the camera man is filming them walking towards where they saw it ,hes filming them walk towards the camera so the camera man is in the exact spot it was sitting so why didnt it get him

        • Because it’s fake?

    • The Easter Bunny lives at the bottom of our garden and have it on very good authority my grandmother is The Tooth Fairy! Prove me wrong!

      That isn’t how you spell reality- try GULLIBLE. It’s a SCRIPTED REALITY SHOW… Most of them are and designed for entertainment purposes only.

      • I can say that your grandmother is a great lady too! Those kids she takes care of…

        I just wonder why in the 4-5 years this joke has been on the air, if it has any hit of reality, why have then not caught one damn thing? I am amazed how all those cool traps seem to “just miss ’em” and fall apart.

        AND, why the hell to they have to YELL and repeat themselves so much?

        Good lord, a respectable TV channel and this is the best they can do? Git ‘er done!

    • Hate to bust your bubble, but all you have to do is read the closing credits. You have to pause your DVR to do it, because they flash by. It clearly states that “No animals were hunted or trapped” during the filming. Furthermore, you might want to note that no matter what state they claim to be in, the credits state “Filmed in West Virginia”. Yes, that Cherokee mind controlling beast in North Carolina (my personal favorite) was somehow filmed in West Virginia. Go figure!

      • Stupid. Animals like deer and whatnot. Doy.

    • Omg, please tell me you did not vote for Trump either?.

      I think the word Guilable has just been removed from the dictionary – you might want to check and make sure.

      • Maybe these guys should go hunt for Hillary Clinton. Now there is a real monster.

      • I just checked and it’s still there. Hang on – wait a minute… DOH! 🙂

    • You sound a wee bit angry.

      I hope to god you are serious and believe the show is real, because it humors the shit out of me knowing someone believes this show.

    • you are an idiot Jora Lynch…truly

    • Yea go there see how yu last you don’t know don t say it is with out rock hard proof

  • A blind squirrel gets a nut every once in a while. These so called expert trappers who supposedly trap in Ohio and all over the Appalachian Mountains but the credits state that they never film anywhere out of West Virginia have NEVER killed nor caught anything ever ! What are the odds of that ? All of those gun shots and baited traps and nothing ? I mean how much money are you willing to spend on traps that never catch anything and where in the world are these back woods trappers getting all of the money to build all of these traps ? WOW ! These guys are what I call a bunch of fat,obese,foul mouthed losers who are in no way,shape or form in any physical condition to trap in the hills and valleys tat they pretend to hunt ! Unbelievable how they go in barns and lofts where the creature is trapped dead to rights but it ALWAYS escapes SIGHT UNSEEN when there is no way it can without being seen in some way,shape or form ! Always a noise but never a body seen escaping in plain site. How is that when there is no other way out but straight through them ? No windows,doors or wholes in the walls. Invisible creature mode I guess. And again the language is so bad that you wouldn’t want to watch this with children in the room ! And they tell you in the credits that no animals were hunted or trapped yet they build a trap every episode and supposedly are trapping in the wild. Which makes me wonder if monsters are considered animals ? Not to mention that the so called creature evidence that they plant and supposedly find is comical ! This show is totally unbelievable and their nicknames and staged events are so comically funny that it does have some entertainment value ! Especially Wild Bill the over acting ,spastic,egomaniac marine grun.

  • hey! you obviously missed the bear beast episode. They ALL shot at it multiple times. Naturally, they followed a blood trail that led to , what else??? a swollen raging river that washed the body away…..DARN IT!!!!

  • If they were serious that’d be one thing. It might be interesting. But they don’t seem to be at all interested in DNA samples or even getting one Bigfoot live on film! Every time you hear them say “there he is” the camera pans the hunters who are pointing at it, and why not zooming in on it, the jackpot? I think most people would like to see what they are seeing. Also it was disappointing to see the fake blood in the recent ‘shot bigfoot’ episode. Also why don’t they wear go-pros, or even set up multiple motion cameras when they set bait traps? I thought it was pretty stupid when the bigfoot broke out of the truck and they were all rifled up at point blank range and even the camera couldn’t get a blurry shot. Also every time a witness shows a video or picture they yank the image all around so the viewer can’t even see it. It’s all very sad, sappy sad, they even have to trump up these ‘mystery’ side themes with stalkers and who knows what. To me there is nothing more interesting that a dull dry fact. Spare me the dumb drama. That’s for girlie men. Give me facts. And I mean real raw information. I can’t stomach any more fake reality. Who knows? There could be a real big foot out there somewhere, and if you ever find one, no one is going to believe it if it is buried under fake news.

  • It’s Saturday afternoon, and a Mountain Monsters marathon is on. Can’t say I’m a religious watcher but I happened to tune in. It’s not only unbelievable, it’s ridiculous! Whoever thought up this show of 5 knuckleheads running around the woods making all that noise, with guns no less, must be nuts. They obviously haven’t hunted over much. I find these guys very reminiscent of the 3 stooges, just not as good. I despair of what television is becoming with all this Reality Show garbage. Yikes! I’m just waiting for one of them to have a heart attack and drop dead right on the show.

    • hahahah You are all rigth, great comment

  • The easter bunny, tooth fairy, wicked witch of the east, west, north, south, casper the friendly ghost, dora the explorer, bugs bunny, wizard of oz, granny and jed clampett, and a few more live in the dark forest. They are all capable of shape shifting–(appearing as bigfoots, big cats, dogs, and other monsters) and that is really what they are chasing.

  • Oh yeah, so fake. I love the way they scare so easily …. grown men with rifles. Then when they see or hear something they yell…..really good trackers! Ha. They forget about camera errors too. Last show the big guy went into the woods with a camera and no camera man wanted to go with him. Then he shows the video following him and the little girl walking away…..it was a moving shot, not on a tripod, so who the heck was filiming it….oops!

  • That is exACTly why I watch this ridiculously hilarious program- I LOVE TO LAUGH!!! Never ONCE in all the episodes I have seen (which are many) have they EVER caught the thing they were pursuing- EVER. I realized after the third or fourth episode that never would they be seen with a victory. At that moment, I began to LOVE watching these goons because I LOVE to laugh. I just can’t figure out where the (wasted) money comes from to build some of the monstrous traps. Nevertheless- when I’m feeling sad- I watch Mountain Monsters- the uproarious laughter lifts my spirits. I believe it has now become one of my favorite comedies on TV.

    It’s interesting because I JUST finished watching the very episode the author of this post saw- about them finding that burial site while looking for the screaming big foot. Why didn’t they plan on returning in the morning with shovels or bulldozers? Probably because digging enough dirt to create the mounds was probably enough work, since they knew (having staged this themselves) that nothing was buried there. I must admit that they did a great job with the stone borders.

  • I agree but take it for what it is Friday night “ entertainment” I think you might have been a bit harsh … I mean didn’t it give you and ur son something to really really talk about …get to understand how his little 7 year old mind works … you said it in the article. I would like u might just kinda give those guys a break… Hey I watch the show it’s fun … makes me laugh … makes worried oh no is Buck gonna get eat tonight hehehe!! I mean he would be the most satisfying the others are all skin and bones and what self respecting Monster wanting skin and bones!! But just take the show for what it is a goofy Hillbilly monster mystery and I bet the little guys is having fun talking to Dad about this monsters stuff!

• It is what it is and strictly for entertainment is what it is.

  I watched my first episode of Mountain Monsters last year and was blown away at the amount of foolishness I had just witnessed. I thought, “I’m never watching this garbage again.”

  Now, I find myself DVRing the crazy show every Saturday night. Yeah it’s completely over the top, but I suppose that’s why it has grown on me.

  • It’s definitely a good guilty pleasure type show to have on in the background, or just to watch when there is nothing else on. But as far being anything besides pure fictional entertainment, it fails miserably.

    • When it first came on I thought it was real then I said to myself what hunter would go hunting for something while making enough noise to wake the dead. Also why did they never catch anything. The six stooges are an insult to West VA hillbillies period. But I still watch the show so’s I can get a laugh before going to bed.

• Hey Stranger! Long time no see! I was cleaning up links on my Link List and ended up having to redo the whole thing. As I was doing it I came across your site again and remembered fondly when I had hours each day to devote to Haunt Jaunts and all the blogs I used to follow religiously. This brought back such great memories…except I’m frightened how far-fetched the paranormal reality TV shows have gotten. We ditched cable a couple years back so…I don’t know what’s on anymore. But I do know I would’ve made fun of this…except not near as well as you did. Bravo! I’ll try not to be a stranger anymore but…my time management has suffered a bunch lately! Glad to see you’re still doing what you do!

  • Hey Court! Same here, I haven’t been blogging at all since December. Part of it was just other things in my life getting in the way, but a big part was just paranormal burnout. Even though I make fun of a lot of the terrible and ridiculous stuff in the paranormal world, even I needed a break from it. And as you can see, things haven’t gotten any better on TV! And yeah, don’t be a stranger! Our little niche is much better with you and Haunt Jaunts in the mix!

• I don’t think it’s intended to be a serious “reality” show…it’s strictly for entertainment…and a guilty pleasure just for laughs…like a follow commenter said…it is what it is…although we all the swearing..not sure I would let a 7 year old watch

• I live in West Virginia and these guys really give this State a bad light. Not everyone has a beard and no teeth or a brain. These ridge runners couldn’t catch a cold if it was in a jar with a sign on it. The witnesses they have on these shows look just like they do and live in nothing but shacks in the boonies. The elaborate traps they build must cost somebody a lot of money. Who pays for them? I don’t think this group has the intelligence to think of making these traps on their own.

  If you want to find some real monsters just go to Charleston and visit the Capitol building these are plenty of monsters there.

  • I agree, they really do paint the residents of the state in a bad light. And I’m sure Destination America pays for the traps and the producers probably hired someone to design them 😉

    • I told my old lady 25 years ago, how bad fake the wrestling is. Fought every time it came on, still today, I hear her bitching at times. it is still like I reached into her chest, grabbed and removed her her heart, or like I got caught peeing in her bowl of cheerio’s. I wish ya’ll could do it for me, I’m sick of all the different inter-bred big foots, I guess they thought big foots was boring and came up with sheep-squatch, grass-squatch.. I would love for her to know this crap, I just can’t tell her. I still catch hell over the fake wrestling, and that was so many years ago, at my age now I could be on my death bed and easily in my mind, hear her hollering how I destroyed her everything busting the bubble she lived in. I really hate for her to keep believe this crap. Our land borders a swamp like wildlife management area, shell ask me about how good it is that “we” both know there’s bigfoots around. We gotta Kawasaki brute force 4 wheeler, so to keep the peace I’ll stop real quick, then stand up even faster, point one way and try to seem to be really genuine when I say,” did you see him this time.I hate to lie to her, I have the nerve to tell her, but damned ya’ll might understand why I just don’t see what it hurts for to live this way. You had experienced her for a year of life after the wrestling revelation, B Sweet

  • So True, B.C George. This is the worst acting I have seen since the last GOP Debate!! The saddest part is that these guys “trap-making” skills come directly from Wile E. Coyote and RoadRunner Cartoons!!!

    This is an Intellectual Insult to anyone with half a brain!! I am from West Virginia originally. And, this show paints the state and it’s population as blundering imbeciles. Very sad.

  • lol, I could tell you lived in WV as soon as you started defending it against stereotypes. That seems to be an obsession and a lot of state laws and agendas are even created just for that reason. But yes, lots of monsters in the capital and statewide also. Never known a more controlling state. The people do however make up wild myths but unfortunately they are about people or businesses who do crazy stuff like work or dare to not depend on government.

• I just recently stumbled across this show. I first took it seriously and thought it was pretty well done. Then 5 minutes later I realized what I was watching.
  Having said that, I found it strangely addictive. I have watched about 15 episodes so far and take it for what it is…pure entertainment. And entertaining it is!
  Kind of the “Hillbilly A Team”. The guys have big personalities for sure. I have a blast watching them now, after realizing it is total BS.

  • It is definitely entertaining, and the boys have great big personalities! And yeah, once you realize what the show is (and isn’t), it can be a lot of fun.

• All 5 of them, armed with rifles, walking towards their prey, the cameraman right behind them, recording the action. Suddenly, a loud noise comes FROM BEHIND!!! The men turn and point their guns. The cameraman, who now has 5 guns pointed at his head, doesn’t flinch, doesn’t even turn around to see what made the horrendous noise. Real or fake? Case closed.

  • It isn’t any more fake than all those other so called reality shows on TV but this show is fun fun fun…I love the characters. And thinking that all West Virginia residents are like that any body with any sense knows it is show business. Look at Big Brother and those survivor shows. A camera man is following right along behind them also and people watch.

  • Duke Sweden, they don’t point the guns right at the cameramen, it’s to the left, right, or above them. So there’s nothing to really flinch at there. Plus, they watch where they aim their weapons.

  • If the guns were loaded,They would shoot each other. But as it is there is nothing else on to watch on Sat. night.

  • and don’t forget to point out Duke Sweden, that when they hear a “noise” the camera never points to the woods where the noise comes from…. it points at the idiots with the guns twirling around… crazy

• I’m pretty sure to be a successful hunter stealth , not running through woods telling your buddy you are as “nervous as a prostitute in church” Pretty sure hunting with flashlights are silly too.

  • Can you even imagine for a moment being a hunter, running, driving, yelling and screaming through the woods as you attempt to “capture” your prey? You’d scare anything away that was in ear shot! These clowns are so foolish in their actions that they are just shy of being totally ridiculous!

• Closed minded people are the cause of this countries down fall. People take medicine and believe it works. They watch sports all sports and think it is real. The last thing is the news people tell people stories and most swallow hook,line and sinker. What is real and what is fake? I do not discount anything fake or real because anything is possible.

  • Yeah….but this show is 100% fake.

    • There’s no “yeah but” it’s just a matter of opinion if it’s fake or not. Either way, it’s made to entertain and i find it very entertaining (fake or not). You can say it’s fake if you want to because that’s your opinion and you have every right to say it, but there’s no need in bad mouthing a show just because it doesn’t fit your version of entertainment. Here’s a simple solution to your problem….don’t watch it if you think it’s so fake.

      • Yeah but…it’s fake. An opinion is something not based in fact. If your opinion is that you like the show, great. That’s your opinion. But the show is fake. It’s for entertainment purposes. I listed just a handful of examples of fakery in the show. Can you provide even one example to prove it’s true? Lot’s of people have the opinion that the Earth is flat. Yeah but, it’s not.

• I watch Finding Bigfoot which seems to me to be the best as far as being real. Having a skeptic on board helps too as she really discounts about everything. As far as Mountain Monsters, I know the show is fake and once you know it is fake, then watch it for entertainment. It really is good. Just know it is pure fiction. Once you know that, just sit back and enjoy it. These men are funny and I love to see the Marine the most because he is so funny.

• I just came across this show an hour ago, and was watching the episode where they *found* the burial site, and all the whistling and infrared scared them off, and I was calling rubbish the whole time. First, if they could so easily find a nest, so could others. Second, I could swear that some of that whistling sounds like moose or elk calls, or some other real animal noises. I just thought it was so blatantly obvious that this could not be real. Five nights or so, and they pegged a whole bunch of them? Not realistic.

  But I’ll admit I was one of those people who googled to make absolute certain that it was bogus. It helps to know I’m not the only one to be so skeptical.

  • Althea I would believe you when you said the whistling sounds like moose or elk, except you also said some other animal as if you weren’t certain what it sounded like. Also by others, do you mean people? Because I’m 100% sure the creatures would’ve found them and scared or attacked them to a point where they run as fast as they can and never think about going back. So, no. They can’t find the nest just as easily.

• I love the show yeah it may be fake but , I know one thing the crew and the production team go out in the woods and they really never know what they can come across so for that o thank them know matter what I will watch you guys can’t wait for the new season again thank you .

• I can’t help but find it hilarious that this show -which purports to be real but isn’t– gets renewed again and again while “Lost Tapes,” a much better and more succinct 30 minutes show -which let the viewer know it was fake and staged– finally got cancelled. I guess TV viewers enjoy being lied to.

• If they have photographs of it and no one knows the species it is a mountain monster so if you say this is fake then its like saying god is fake so don’t dieny it until you have come face to face with something you do not understand there are creuctures that we do not understand and people fear the unknown so you believe it fake I believe it’s real it my apinyn but trust me people have reported strange shit but I believe there are things out there we do not understand yet so don’t hate just know that one day you will see so thing you can’t explain with normal explanation

  • I am not saying there are not animals out there that we haven’t discovered yet. I’m saying this show is as fake as they come. Their “evidence” is terrible, and everything looks fake. Also, how do you explain the fact that actua wildlife biologists cannot find these animals, but these yahoos seem to capture a creature every week? It’s because it’s fake.

    • These so called Yahoos seem to capture a creature every week?
      If you actually watched the show, you would see that they do not catch the creature. It is all video evidence. Yes they build traps, and plan a way to lure the animal in the trap but they have not captured one single animal in my 3 seasons of watching.
      I am just saying that they don’t capture them, and some episodes may be fake, its weird on some episodes, but with video evidence, (would could be faked) you can’t deny it.
      Not saying that every episode they capture good evidence, but I am one to watch it for entertainment, not to watch how bad a show is, or point out flaws that a show does. That is what critics are for. I am not a critic, and unless you are, (Seems to me you are) don’t criticize a show that is put on the air for entertainment purposes. Why don’t you watch reality tv? That’s all real right? Not everything can be real, but you can’t say something is real or fake, unless you experience it yourselves. No show is going to be 100% real. That’s the whole purpose of production , they take months, years to plan the shows, and like news, read off signs. If you going to criticize anyone, it should be the whole entertainment company. Especially if you let your son watch these shows, and the real question. Is your son really smart, or being told stuff so he believes. Let your son think for himself, and don’t put ideas in his head, because (Not saying you did/ didn’t) if you did, you should tell him the whole entertainment company and shows are fake. Just saying. Happy Trails.

      • My son came to the “fake” conclusion all on his own. That was sort of the point of my article, that even a 7-year old could see that this show was poorly faked. At least other shows that are faked put in some effort to look like they are not LOL

    • Jason Stroming: Scientists don’t spend time looking for these creatures. And if they did, they don’t know anything about them, therefore, they wouldn’t know where to look if they tried.

  • OK Zachary I’m praying like hell English isn’t your first language because damn, there isn’t one bit of punctuation in your comment . Hey, on the other hand, only three spelling mistakes.

  • I’m ‘on the fence’ regarding bigfoot etc. and agree with you that something could be out there but the more I watch these shows I believe slightly less each time. With drones, infrared cameras etc etc you’d think by now some real evidence would show up. I still think it’s possible. What I don’t like is when they call the show reality….the different guys keep going into trances etc….weird enough but in the last show the big guy said he was taking the camera by himself into the woods. THEN he shows the video of him walking away with the little girl and the camera was moving and following along! Who was filming? OOOPS! Kinda like some other shows on that and other channels where the stars will come to the door and there is a view from inside the house of the people opening the doors and acting surprised!…Hmmmm….the cameraman would have to go in first! Even like on the Pickers show when they come to the door and everyone acts surprised, notice not ONE ever looks at the camera man who is often right there with them! Most people would look at the camera but they were obviously told not to . I still watch though! 🙂

• Ok…so my husband and I watch the paranormal shows that frequent the cable channels. A few thoughts about the different shows…First Mountain Monsters. Obviously fake. I am not a hunter but even I know that you should be quiet when on the hunt. My husband on the other hand thinks its real. This is coming from a man that is the most logical person I know. He believes all the stories and footage that they show without question. Secondly, I have a few issues with Finding Bigfoot. The most irritating thing about this show is that they say “Bigfoots.” Why can’t they just say sasquatches when talking in the plural? Is that so hard to ask? (I’m a teacher) So saying “Bigfoots” is like nails on a chalkboard for me. I think that the Finding Bigfoot team does hold a bit more credibility because they do have a skeptic on their team…That being said I don’t understand how they think every knock or noise they hear at night is a bigfoot howl or knock. On a side note Mr. Moneymaker needs a haircut!!

  • All of the shows have their issues, and are based on gaining the most viewers to generadte ad revenue, plain and simple. But Mountain Monsters really takes the cake.

• I don’t believe it’s fake show , it might be entertainment but why don’t you guys try going out there with the rednecks and hunting so shut up and I love this show and they have physical edivence and unlike other shows

  • Well…they DON’T have any physical evidence. So…

  • the physical evidence is from the prop room… you cannot get any more fake than this… who in their right mind… while “stalking” a creature starts talking at the top of their lungs… come on dude… fake as fake can get… stupid fake

• They have used the weapons in episodes before. We all know tv shows are recreated it’s just common knowledge. You talk of these sterotypes but calling people “bearded hillbillies” furthers the ignorance of sterotypes. You use a lot of words but i made my point with only a few. Wanting to complain about something and having to bring all these reasons as to why you’re watching just to do it is truly comical.

• It clearly states that this show is for “ENTERTAINMENT! Egads people lighten up it is hilarious I must watch it everyday for my daily laughs, especially Wild Bill Hooo Rahhhhh

  Anyone who takes this show seriously better check themselves!

• They have to be the noisiest ” hunters ” ever. Lol!

• Any Television network wants ratings, so they do a fictional story like a bunch of rednecks with rifles chasing creatures that are actors in a hairy costume. I do not believe in ghosts, allens from outer space or ghosts, but it does not hurt to create a show. I am a skeptic .

• When is Buck going to drop some weight? Can’t get out of his own way when needed. Never have they ever pulled the hammer on their guns.

• I mean i love these men. They are so silly. They are all hansome and strong. Im weak and i know they would protect me. One time a monster stung me and i know if these silly men would of been there i would not have been stung like that. Ouch. I named my snail trapper because my favorite monster man is named trapper. Plus i have a trapper keeper for my school work.

• I think that wild Bill needs to step away from the Meth Pipe

  • Amen

• Hey I’m in the UK I just watched the second series of mountain monsters. on the first series I did think it was real how great the show was. Excited second series comes along and then I realised how fake this is every episode there’s something going on and if any of you guys remember destination truth with gosh gates there would be episode where they go and investigate he would come back with nothing and say it’s just a myth where story’s would be passed on and on and if you watch finding Bigfoot there would be episode where they don’t even get anything

• I’ve just watched the ‘telepathic’ Bigfoot episode & almost died laughing. By far & away the funniest thing on TV.

• Its better than watching 4people barking and hitting trees in a green light. I noticed the young one pump his pump action shotgun twice without it expelling a shell.

• This show comes from the Southern traditions of tall tales and grotesquerie and people who find those a little…”touched in the head”…interesting.

  Yes, it’s full-blown hooey, but we know it’s hooey from the time we read the disclaimer that says no animals were actually hunted in the course of each episode. Still better than the Kardashians.

• Yes, it’s so fake. If all this possible evidence that they have found, including the mouth and saliva samples from Big Foot eaten apples, hair samples, footprints, pictures, and videos of these creature were real, then National Geographic would pounce on this like flies on…well Big Foot scat. Also, if the grave sites and marking were found, as shown in one of the episodes, then this would be the next big find in the history of the world. Yes, it’s all fake, but I like to watch the show because I like to see the locations of my native state. And, we are all not illiterate hillbillies…there are some though, I can tell you that. I cannot believe that a 7 to 9 foot tall ape-like man can stay hidden for hundreds of years with out any real evidence. At some point someone should have hit one of these creatures with their car. So, is Big Foot hunting mass hysteria? There are a lot of people who claim to have seen a Big Foot. Can they all be off their rocker…nuts? Somewhere in all of this is some logic however little it may be. Like with UFO sightings…what’s up with this. Thousand upon thousand claim to have seen them, so they all can’t be crazy. Who knows! This show is so so fake that it has become a paranormal soap opera.

  • Robert Spradling: why do you think it’s impossible for a 7 – 9 foot tall creature can’t hide from mankind very well. Is it impossible for mankind to just plain out not be the smartest type of living beings on the planet? People can be wrong for ages and not even know it. There were actual animals that mankind thought were extinct, when they actually weren’t. We were wrong about that for quite a while.

  • You said the words that I’ve been thinking all along when I’ve watched an episode of Mountain Monsters… “Soap opera”. I recently watched a few episodes centered on the “Lady of the Lake”. Let’s start with the cabin that three of the team were forced to (the one with the big two-way mirror). The captor(s) allowed the film crew to continue filming as each of the team was tied to chairs. No attempt from the crew to free the men.
    Fortunately one of them had a knife that was “missed” when they were searched. Perfect focus and timing of the camera crew when the skull head appeared in the mirror. Then there’s the crazy hunt for Trapper, who left a note in a safe they just “assumed” would be the place Trapper would leave something. Next episode they pursue the “Lady of the Lake”. Next episode, a Hell Hound (of sorts).
    …and so are the Days of our Lives. Tune in next episode when it is revealed that Bigfoot is actually David Duchovny, who was turned into Bigfoot by a chupacabra, with some help by the Lady of the Lake, using an ancient serum extracted from space alien teeth.

• The biggest giveaway to me is all the yelling. I have gone hunting with both my real dad and stepdad and the first thing taught to me was gun safety followed by stealth. These idiots frequently have guns pointed 5 different directions (its a wonder they haven’t blown each other’s heads off) while yelling at the top of their lungs.

  • Amen Deb! These ol yahoos need some hunter safety courses. It’s so fake I can’t NOT watch it!! Lol. What hunter goes thru the woods “hunting, stalking” yelling hooting & hollering. Clearly guns r not loaded, or the poor cameraman woulda been shot dead after 1st episode! Like watching a train wreck!!

• Agreed on all accounts. This show is so bad its awesome. I love how no matter what it is, its a “critter” I giggle every time. And of course no matter the elaborate trap they always miss the creature by a few feet. I watch most of these paranormal shows and Finding Bigfoot is amongst the best because not every episode has any evidence but the local stories folklore background makes it worth it not to mention how they all interact. and MM supposedly comes across all this evidence but never takes it – no molds are taken, no scientists. If cryptids were really that close to getting filmed it would be every expert out there with them. Its wildly entertaining though I get the biggest kick out of them but I can’t believe DA still shows them and its going into their 4th season now

• Anything aired on Destination America is fake.

  • Except for river monsters my guy.
    I would go war on anyone who would call river monsters fake. I’m pretty sure you have nvr watched river monsters have you? Get your facts rights mah guy. No offence

• I think the show is great and I have always believed in these things cause I have seen strange things in both Michigan and Florida.

• It’s a show people either watch it and enjoy or move on and find something else

• I don’t know why they waste their time building traps, they never catch anything. I saw one show where they were after a huge wild hog but when they captured it the hog wasn’t as big and wild as the picture they showed. And why is it when they say they see bigfoot or any other creature the camera men always keep their cameras on the team instead of out towards the woods where they claim they saw something. That proves to me its fake or they would want to show what the guys are looking at. I’m just saying if something is out there wouldn’t destination America network want to be the first to get something on film for proof.

  • BOGUS,BOGUS

• The lack of respect for a bigfoots intelligence in the simplicity of their electrified trap is beyond ignorant. I like the show but I don’t think these guys are the sharpest thorns on the cactus by any stretch of the imagination.

• My husband loves this show just for pure entertainment ~ and I’m just usually in the same room on my laptop, so I can’t help but listen, but he laughed one time and said, “Wouldn’t it be funny if once they say “cut” after filming an episode, if all of these guys have British accents?

• This show isn’t any more fake than all the other “reality shows” about the races, the paradise island. But this one is more entertaining. I love these guys just because they are hookey. I’d rather watch them then The Amazing Race.

  • YES!!! EXACTLY

• Just do what I do and watch it as if it’s a comedy. I thoroughly enjoy watching these idiots scare themselves.

• This review was spot on and had me laughing hysterically as how well you said everything I thought. I’m watching it again as we speak. scooby doos gang including the talking dog are smarter and more believable than this crew.and yet I can’t look away…

• I’m so glad I stumbled upon your review of the show! I just saw Mountain Monsters this evening and was appalled, yet entertained. It is almost as if they are little boys videoing themselves doing some make-believe adventures in the woods. And..it is aired on television. I still am unsure on whether these guys are being real and actually believe or if they are acting.

• To waste a channel for 2-8 hours is a waste of a persons time, put something real on like someone who is really looking for evidence of Big Foot, and I don’t mean, someone going to different states an screaming in the middle of the night, and knocking trees with sticks. Do a documentary or something in the middle, but this Mountain Monsters have got to go !

• It irritates me that I’m one of the millions of ppl that watch this show or DVR it wkly… everything about this show screams I’m a DA!! They’re always gonna catch’em a Bigfoot.. but the first sign of a track..broken limb.. nest or a growl Trapper is telling the crew “we better back out of here” WTH!! On a show last season they (the crew) were really upset over ppl watching the show were calling them fakes…and now on a more recent show (Jan’16) another group of hunters that are tailing these goons shoots… kills.. and loads their Squatch on a trailer and hauls him off. Only after the other crew start driving off do they take off after them.. then seconds later have a big ol’ laugh!! So now I’m waiting on the Bigfoot thieves to cash in their millions to and turn this creature over to science… Right??? Oh wait…. I’ll bet it turns into a government cover up; (((….guess we’ll all have to get out and catch our own Squatch if we want to know for sure. The best show I’ve seen on” Bigfoots” (I know the teacher will love that) is the survivor man episodes. I’m not saying there is nothing out there because I’ve seen something I can’t explain and it stopped me from hunting for yrs but then again how can you be so lucky as to be a Bigfoot hunter and get attacked by the creature everytime you step foot in the woods hunting him!! They must be rolling in the $$$ because they now advertise this show as the #1watched show on cable TV. I would love to hear what the finding Bigfoot crew…Dr Meldrum or Les Stroud has to say about the mountain monsters show… I’m sure they are begging Trapper and Buck to take them out on an excursion get roughed up by a Squatch!!

• They have finally managed to jump the shark, turn the boat around and jump it again with the lightning man and the cursed/blessed thunder axe. When you go that far over the top, all semblance of “reality” in your reality show is spent. Anyway, bigfoot should never be lumped in with the paranormal. It either exists as a natural world animal that has not yet been caught and proven, or it doesn’t. Since the bigfoot hunters all see it as a simply a fascinating cryptid that exists in the natural world, it is NOT paranormal. Just like that prehistoric fish that was found to still be alive not too many years back – that wasn’t and isn’t paranormal either. Lumping cryptids in with ghosts only muddies the water, muddies people’s perceptions of the subject and muddies their thinking as well.

• Mountain Monsters is Fun, I’m a granfather and find it “ENTERTAINING.” I don’t feel any guilt letting my grandchildren watch the AIMS team and that isn’t so easy anymore. What’s wrong with that ? Not a thing. Of course it’s fake and yes, a seven year old can figure that out. I saw an episode where ole Bigfoot was in a cave with a campfire going. The boys just wrote it off and said ” He’s evolved.” If you don’t find it a lot of fun, pass. They seem to have a devoted audience and that’s why it keeps getting renewed.

• Let’s see, the latest episode, the ammo can is modern, and the “cabin” has particle board walls. Neither is 100 years old. They need better story writers, and property masters.

  • Just another stupid fake money making show,dumb and fake as it comes

• thank you, I just saw the show and was “Um HELLO?” I am told there is a small disclaimer at the end. Problem is, for real Bigfoot groups, that spend years investigating one location and need permission from land owners to investigate their property (unlike the Monster guys who seem to just wander around at will), this show has made their job harder. It is rather a whole show of Bobo, the most popular member of the “Finding Bigfoot” crew. Being a member of our local group, the “No you can’t put up a trail camera” and “No you can’t come and do an investigation” is becoming MORE of an issues as people rightly assume we’ll be howling and as Bobo once did playing loud whale sounds, and using strobe lights. We get the show is faked, but it also perpetuates many stereotypes. One is that Bigfoot hunters are environmentally disruptive and just plain old dumb. The Bigfoot community needs to demand more, not just worship these guys are conventions and such. Even “Finding Bigfoot” can’t do a true investigation without losing viewership, and people need to be more open such as you are (THANK YOU) that reality TV is not the best basis for how any paranormal investigation is done.

• […] obviously faked paranormal show “Mountain Monsters”.  Even the Bigfoot and die hard paranormal community is not convinced this show is “real”.  The show ends with a small disclaimer that […]

• This show is no fake I lives in the area and knows all of these big foots is real. I have seen them with my own eyes. If you don’t think it’s real don’t watch.

  • Thank you. At least SOMEONE has a clue

    • I agree that bigfoot is real, it’s the show that is fake.

• This is not a fake show. I have seen these big foots before.

• I agree

• […] short of it: Destination America (the network that brought us the ridiculously fake and offensive Mountain Monsters) is debuting a new ghost hunting show, featuring an all-black cast. They are calling it Ghost […]

• The funniest thing about this show is: how kenny is to southpark Willie is to this show. Every episode he falls down gets dragged away slips or something ridiculous happens
  He was repelling down an “icy” cliff side and they hyped it to be like 30 feet high seconds later a camera cut to Willie screaming “Ahh!” and a plop sound can be heard with Wild Bill screaming out to Wille as if he Careened off a mountainside to his death.

• If this is a number one show, may the lord have mercy on us. This has got to be the sorriest show or what ever they call it. As for these so call actors, what a joke. To let them have a gun in their hands I find very laughable. My eight year old grand daughter acts more responsible with a rifle or handguns. This is a very disappointing show that destination America has on the channel. I know there has to be something much better out there that you can replace this with. Whatever happen to some thing to watch that the ” actors” can at least look half way clean and with at least 1/2 ounce of brain matter.

• My favorite show is when 2 guys were in the barn with a camera man and one guy was outside with a camera man and bigfoot ran out and over the guy outside and no one captured footy on camera lmfao these are the worst camera operators on the planet lol oh did i mention the fake blood bwahahaha too funny man.

• I used to think this show was fake. Then last weekend I happened to be in one of the counties where they had previously conducted some research. I talked to a couple of the locals, one of whom showed me a video of a bigfoot that had been creepin’ around his shed. That son-of-a-bitch must of been at least 8 or 9 foot tall! Later, I talked to another man who played an audio recording of several different creatures howling outside his barn one night. This mean there was DEFINATELY at least 2 of these things out there–if not more! I’ve decided the best for me to find out more will be to conduct a night investigation this Tuesday night. I’m determined to get that son-of-a-bitch one and for all!

  I’ll send an update later this week.

• […] A little blog post that I did talking about the Destination America show Mountain Monsters and how mind-numbingly fake it is became the most popular post I did last year, and one of my most popular posts of all time. […]

• I tried, twice to watch this show, I can’t believe its been on for what? four years? It’s just awful. These dudes run around making so much noise and yelling they could wake the dead. I haven’t seen one professional ” tracking, Hunting, Calling” thing going on. All I can say is,,,,” Well at least they got jobs, even if its crap”. Seriously after Destination Truth and other credible shows this is a joke. I have a good sense of humor, but this is not even entertaining.

• […] Mountain Monsters: Fakest of the Fake Paranormal Shows?: This has become our second all-time most popular post, right behind Thoughts on Grant Wilson […]

• Okay so how can you find anything yelling and screaming the way they do? I am surprised that anything stays in the woods after all the screaming lol

• It’s funny you mentioned the ammo can I thought the same thing so I paused the show and checked. The ammo can is an n463 it has a first packed date of 1974 right on the front. That’s the date the military packed it so maybe someone could have gotten it a couple years later but no sooner than 1974. So that can is no older than 42 years or so. I like the show but it’s just entertainment.

• I understand that the show has some bad clips as some would put it, it’s still entertaining to watch even if it may not be real (not saying the legends aren’t real or anything). I also understand you disliking it but still, give them some credit for trying to capture the attention of people interested. I really believe this show makes people question the exisitence of myths and legends which, in anyone’s case, is usually never a bad thing. I also get you have an opinion but to say “this program is an all-out assault…” is a lot coming from someone who doesn’t have a TV show, let alone try to create one that gets more hits and views. Maybe, instead of using that line in particular, just take it out completely and actually give some credit for them trying. I’m also sorry if I came out negative, I wasn’t trying or going for that at all in, all honesty.

  • Why would I give anyone credit for making a terrible TV show and outright lying to their audience? And why is my opinion any less valid if I don’t have a TV show? I’ve been on TV before, numerous times. I never would appear on a show as harmful to the public opinion of Bigfoot as this show.

• Don’t judge until you have an encounter with a BIGFOOT, YOU ARE CRAZY TO SAY!

  • Well, that was almost a sentence…

• This show is NOT FAKE I watch the show and I hate how people like you just watch it once and say it’s fake because it’s not you can see the fear in bucks eyes when they had to go back to the red shed (if you watch the show you should know what I am talking about unless you have not seen it) buck is not and actor also if it’s fake then why is the government trying to shut it down? If you seen the new episodes you should know that people are following them and it has to be the government because why would they want a dead Bigfoot body?!? ( in an old episode people killed a Bigfoot the stonish giant and dragged it away) why would they want it? It’s because there trying to scare the Montain moster people so they will stop looking for Bigfoot! The government does not want people to know that things like bigfoots and hell hounds are real. Also in the new episode the people who follow them have photos and things about these Montain monster men that no one knows about them so if you still think it’s fake find a away to watch all of the episodes and look into there eyes when stuff gets scary look into bucks eyes when they go after the Cherokee devil he’s not faking it. I do think that this show is real so if you don’t think it is then prove it.

  • I’ve watched numerous episodes of the show. It’s fake. It’s called acting. It’s amazing how well people can act when a nice paycheck is involved.

  • you are the reason contraception was a great discovery

• I agree the show is fake but they’re acting is so good and I watch it to see purely if they ever will actually catch a fucking bigfoot lol, but I watch every saturday, even though its fake, just to see what they do and the latest episodes about the C Quad rogue team coming back is just to good of a plot twist, Im actually a really big fan of this show, they make me laugh every episode and its interesting, usually fake shows annoy me but Mountain Monsters has that special connection to the people in the show that makes me wanna stay, fake or not Ill always be a fan.

• I like the show, something that I can watch with my grandchildren without sex and murder. We never miss an episode. I go to sleep with an episode every night.

• Who cares if it’s fake. It’s entertaining.

• Let me tell y’all something, have some respect, call them hillbillies again and you got something coming, they bust they’re butts to do something you’re too lazy to do, ok. So shut up, and enjoy the show that’s REAL!!!!

  • If a cable TV channel paid me to fake evidence, I’d…well, I’d never do a TV show that was fake like this one is.

• I can’t quit laughing at these people actually believing this ridiculous show is anything but fiction and are trying to defend it. My boyfriend likes the show but he also likes wrestling which doesn’t even claim to be real. I don’t like the mountain monster show I just can’t seem to get into something I know is fake but I watch the stupid show because my boyfriend likes it, to me it’s a waste of time and to be honest I get aggravated by watching them when I can plainly tell they are lying. If they want people to actually believe the BS they should have hired better actors. I can’t believe this show has been on for as long as it has and people really believe it’s real.

  • Comparing it to pro wrestling is a perfect analogy, April! Most people with half a brain know it’s fake, but there are certain people who will always insist it is real, no matter how much evidence to the contrary is out there.

• The last episode that I watched is where they were followed by the rogue team and hid behind a shed , if they had a tracking device on the truck , the other team knew where they were.

• And when Buck asked where did the other team get their name’s , maybe the same way I did . by pauseing the credits at the end and writing their names down.

• You know what, you people don’t have to be so mean! I think Bigfoot is real. You also don’t have to make fun of there nicknames or THEM FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!! ?

• Thank u Coontrapper.cs for saying that, you are awesome, I agree with u??

• […] like Destination America, would be a good fit with their already goofy paranormal programming (see Mountain Monsters and Ghost Brothers), but Destination America reaches far fewer subscribers than SyFy. Interesting […]

• U know like a lot of people have said already so what if it’s fake it’s funny who’s to say If Bigfoot is real but what gets me is what ever crazy thing they say there going after they always have run ins with whatever it is that week but never shoot or throw a rock or even spit at it iam waiting for them to actually run into a pissed off bear but whatever it’s still entertaining

  • I wouldn’t hold your breath…

• […] Ghost Girls or Ghost Broads or some other offensive nonsense (see also: Ghost Brothers and Mountain Monsters). It’s just a shame that there are so many men out there who don’t believe that a woman […]

• The show is real. The team has been around since 2006. The camera men don’t always point the camera at what they see because the government knows bigot is real, and won’t let them put it on t.v. Stop calling them hillbilys because you would not like it if they were calling ya’ll all names. If you go on YouTube and search, trapers interview, or something like that you can see that the show is real. They do more hunts than just the ones on t.v. They go like every other week but are always having interviews with witnesses. They actually sleep out on the night hunts but the show cuts that out. If you still don’t believe that the show is real then do your own research on them like i did. Or find out a way to contact them yourself. Once agency the show IS REAL

• They all yell alot because they try to push it to the trap. They have alot of evidence its just the show don’t show it. but its on YouTube and its real

• The government is trying to stop the show and that’s who is chasing them around. Just like, I have a clue said. Just look it all up. If you watch all of the episodes like me and, I have a clue then you will know its real. If you still don’t believe then just stop talking about the show. Just give them some respect for what they do. They get hurt just to find out if the the animal is real and if it is dangerous TO KEEP US safe. I believe in bigfoot. And do you wanna know why? Its cause i have seen home with my 2 eyes. I will not tell were so that the government does not go to that area and shoot them down from helicopters. Cause i would like to see him and get him on video to prove to my family he is real and that Im not crazy. The only other ones that believe in him are my grandpa and some of my friends. And trust me it takes alot of guts to go out to the same spot in the woods that you had your encounter with bigfoot. So give the A.M.I.S. team some credit for doing what they do cause i know any of you trash talking yuppies can’t do what they do so just shut up for once and trash talk something else. Just not duck Dynasty. And once agency THE SHOW IS REAL. So just get it through ya’lls little heads.

• Sorry its i have got a clue

• Ah, the wonders of a 6th grade education.

• What does that mean

• […] Travel Channel, and Ghost Hunters would face stiff competition on each of those channels from other equally terrible paranormal […]

• I have been watching this show for a while, and completely enjoy it. I do think it is a shame that shows like this make those who truely believe look like idiots. Yes, I think there are things we haven’t captured/killed, that exsist despite not having hard core evidence. There are far too many animals found each year that were previously undiscovered. With that being said, unlike Bigfoot or the chupacabra, I think sheepsquatch and some of the other “monsters” these men chase after are as fake as this show. Yes, chase, not hunt or stalk, but chase yelling and hollering. Like another viewer mentioned. It tickles me that given the fact that there is always tons of evidence, they run into these creatures in the field yet the cameraman always happens to be looking the wrong way. With as much money as these men appear to have none of them wear go-pro’s to catch footage. The other funny thing is the fact that they do get footage just about every time, I have seen after shows for other animal documentaries for known elusive animals, snow leopard. Where the camera man waits for days/weeks to get footage. But magically in the two or three days these guys are on location, they get footprints, have run-ins with the creature, or get it on their camera traps despite the fact they are elusive animals and they have been yelling and making a racket.

• really I can’t understand why there is discussion or even the article for that matter, of course it’s fake.
  Out of as much respect that I can offer I would say that it is mainly an acting out or embellishment of scary campfire stories and old wives tales.

  • Read the article again, and the title. Not debating whether it’s fake or not, just discussing how terribly fake it is, and the fact that some people still believe it’s real.

• Come on people, lighten the hell up. Of course the show is fake, but it’s still fun to watch. Even my son, who never had any interest in paranormal things, admits the show is entertaining and the actors are very personable, and likeable. And it beats the same old tired doctor/ lawyer/ police dramas. Those kind of shows are getting as stale as westerns were in the 50s and 60s.

• Mountain monsters is the most retarded and silly show since finding bigfoot…omg….these hillbillies looking for sheepsqautch and the werewolf of wolf county and the ohio grassman. You cant get more stupid..buck is a fat ass. One looks like santa clause…wild bill is retarded. Jesus help me….im done

• It’s real

• After watching an episode each of Mountan monsters and Alaskan Monsters – I can’t believe the poor weapons handling and bush craft.
  Having spent time with Australian army if I walked infront of the barrel of loaded weapon or let mine point at a member of my section I would get my as kicked or worse. They bunch up and make more noise than a freight train no wonder they find nothing and catch nothing.
  Ps – I don’t think it reflects badly on USA or their state I’m sure you have plenty of fine people and bushmen there just they are not one of them. It’s just entertainment however wish they wouldn’t dress it up as fact.

• What ever happened 2 Claude Henry Smoot. In March of 2016 He promised he was going to spend a Tuesday night investigating on his own and update us on his findings at the end of the week. It is now November and he has never been heard from again.

• OK, first off, this is terribly made and I agree with you and your 7 year old on how fake it is. Here are some clues that it is fake, especially to those who believe that there are some creatures out there, that we haven’t discovered and that Trapper, Buck and the hillbilly crew are going to capture and save us from.
  1. Their clothes are too clean and look new. Overalls are brand-new denim and not worn. Flannels are pressed and not faded or torn. Hats are clean and bright. Bandanas are ,well you get the idea.
  2. Well groomed beards, clean hands and face; but they’re missing teeth? Hmm…
  3. Camera positions are way off.
  4. Too many silly things to list…. so I’m done.
  But wait, remember when the “hellhound” knocked that guy down in the corn maze? He said he felt like he got tackled by a linebacker! Heeheehee! No injuries and no one got it on video? It’s definitely, for entertainment only. Silly show

• I hope the Tsul ‘Kalu didn’t get him. Maybe we should ask the mountain monster guys to look for him.

  Seriously I’m having a weird day. For some reason the TV Guide has been wrong all day long. I was settled in to watch the long-anticipated 100 hour lockdown at the black Monk house only to find some show called Mountain Monsters being aired instead. I was immediately drawn in by the groups enthusiasm and pitiful hunting techniques. I found it very entertaining enough Sol that I Googled it and came across this article.

  You know why I think the show is fake, because in my 50-plus years on this planet, I have never been able to locate the thing that I’m looking for when I am looking for it. How many times have you lost your keys your glasses your glass of soda Etc only to find it after you stop looking for it? How many times have you gone to the store for one specific thing and you couldn’t find it? I’ve even discovered the love of my life only after I stopped searching for him. Much the same way I found Jesus when I stopped looking for him.

  These guys find everything that they’re looking for exactly when they’re looking for it…amazing. But as far as the entertainment value is concerned this show is a riot and I don’t feel like I’ve wasted my day watching it.

  In all seriousness though what happened to Claude Henry Smoot? Maybe I should go to Appalachia and not look for him?

• werewolf episode 23.13 that a bear not a werewolf this show is so dumb its full of pensioners high on moonshine pfffft, im from uk and go hunting we dont use huge eqiupment to dig a hole, or run around the woods shouting and whooping or with headtorches so bright they would probably blind anything in a 5 mile radius, this is so dumb its not even funny well it is funny as entertainment purposes only, but seriously how many blood sucking, scaly, hogzilla,mothmen,time travelling elves are there in west virginia, trapper the leader says he found a nest in one show a nest ? are they after a BIGFOOT or BIGBIRD.

• The worst show on tv

• I can prove its fake. I live in Wolfe county, Ky where the supposed Wolfe man is. I’ve been there all of my life, and I’ve never heard of the creature. The “locals” they interviewed in Hazel Green, no one knows them. Heck, the episode wasn’t even filmed in Ky, it was filmed in WV. Ask me anything you want.

• This is a gem of a show and I find it very entertaining. It plays the ramshackle, hillbilly stereo type to the limit, but is as fake as the panes of glass that stuntmen dive through. These shows are usually shot with one camera so watch for the multiple angles, the scenes are reshot to get the other angle (something to watch out for in all “documentaries”). I find it a bit of genuine escapism that appeals to the seven year old in me and I will be genuinely sad when they run out of stories -as they seem to be doing- a bit of fun whilst it lasts.

• This show is real. I’ve seen many of the monster when they mist them.

• Thank you for this article! I’ve just read it for the 3rd or 4th time … and have years running down my face again! Hysterical! My husband and I watch this show now and then just for a good laugh. In one episode, we saw a wire (that was meant to remain unseen) that had been put in place to pull an fake animal part down from the rafters in a shed. You could actually see the wire! Love it!

• Thank you for this article! I’ve just read it for the 3rd or 4th time … and have years running down my face again! Hysterical! My husband and I watch this show now and then just for a good laugh. In one episode, we saw a wire (that was meant to remain unseen) that had been put in place to pull an fake animal part down from the rafters in a shed. You could actually see the wire! Love it!

• Well people, we have a new stupid gauge as crap one. KILLING BIGFOOT. It’s like 2 hillbilly iq Points up from mountain monsters. You have to see it. Armed to the teeth hanging out in camo at night when a tree Bigfoot straddles one of them. Lol.

• mountain monsters, more like mountain morons, lmfao

• ive seen scarier stuff outside my bedroom window late at night

• Love that “Sumabitch” they keep saying. Yep it’s fake, and I like the big boys turning sissy when they supposedly find a creature! Marine and Army veterans jumping in their side by side runnin, but the road is always right there! The woods are clean and easy to walk, kind of like a back yard needing mowed. All in all this Ohioan laughs hard even as they fun with Ohio lookin for the “Grass man”.

• omg its so fake i have lived in the hills all my life i hunt sang and other roots . i hunt day or night depending on what game i am after. after 67 yrs on this earth i can tell you the only monster you will find in the hills is a damm meth lab.yes i do call the police . never seen any other monster. and what bad actors they are.lol the fat one everyone knows he dont walk enough much less run up and down hills at night chaseing monsters. that desthd channel most of there shows are fake.and we dont look like that we dont dress like that
  and that guy says hes retired marine he should keep his mouth shut he gives the marines a bad name he may have really been in the salvaction arm

  • In the name of Science please say it is’nt so..Fake ? cmon…Welcome to 2017…just like the days of roller derby and the characters portrayed we evolved into wanting this kind of entertainment for the silliness it provides…Just like the B movies over the years there is a following..does’nt have to be great to be good.. just has to be entertaining enough to the few in life that use our imagination to appreciate just the slow and subtle humor it provides..To suggest that one believes in such non-sense is an insult to say the least..The value i find is the sense of humor that keeps tugging at me while watching this show..to suggest its anything else of value other than that is clearly misguided..enjoy it for what it is thats all and consider us lucky for one thing…The Grass-man lives another day

  • I said the Same thing to my Marine hubby! “Maybe don’t tell people u were in the Marines”. That “Marine” guy is a full bubble off plumb on that “show”.
    Oh, btw, u yahoos that actually think that Mountain Monsters is “real”,
    Get A Life!! Fake Fake Fake!!

• I have a question regarding these mountain monster hunters. Without their beards how old do you think they really are I wonder? Because if there were any such thing as bigfoot or any other creatures, they wouldn’t be able to run very fast especially the young fat one. My god bigfoot could feed off him for a month lol

• How much crack are you on? I am a crypto zoologist and this show is BULLSHIT! For one, how can you hunt anything with all the yelling they do? As a hunter that doesn’t work. Their traps are carp and ineffective. And NO ONE is going to go into any type of hunting situation yelling and running around and expect to see anything

• Most everyone knows it’s fake. And I don’t care. I enjoy the fact I can sit down after a long day of driving, and watch this on dvr. I don’t have to think, listen to any political garbage, who’s sleeping with who. It’s just a bad program I enjoy.

• I love this show. It’s entertaining which is why I watch TV. That’s the whole point. If I want to watch something real I won’t turn to a show about Bigfoot.

• The show is real as can be ! The bad thing is Willie is such a failure and couldn`t build a trap to hold a mouse, plus they team him with a crack head called wild Bill, just spells disaster.

  They trap something damn near every week, but it gets loose due to the weak link of the team.

  If I was in charge of a bigfoot team I would just find where it lays it`s eggs, take one, hatch it, and bamfuck baby bigfoot!

• I love the show of course it’s fake but i laugh my ass off every time ol Trapper says son of a bitch! I’d love to hang out with em and drink some shine but they can keep the meth for their selves lmao!

• Buck needs to go on a Bigfoot diet, he falls in every show

• Killing Bigfoot has taken the crown of the fakest of the fake. Would recommend checking it out to see for yourself, but if hate to be responsible for waiting 45 minutes of your day. But trust me its 10xs worse than mountain monsters.

• I watch the shownwith some apprehension myself. I live in Indiana and i have seen A bigfoot twice in my life. One time sitting out at a hang out in the woods with others my age. I say maybe we were faked but i watchwd come up a creek at us abd atvtje end we watched it hide behide a tree and play beek a boo with us. But it was the smell that sold that. Next tine was sitting on aback road and watched one walk up to our car to the driver side. And again the smell was horrible. Do I believe . . Yes I do we as a species arentvthe brightest and by farvdont care whatvgoes on inbthe deep wilds. So there is something out there i believe. And I do agree that somebis staged which is a shame because the Appalachian mountains is big and long and can hold mysteries we dont understand. I would like to see them work harder then just to showmanship BS.

• iN ALL THE TIMES i HAVE SEEN THIS SHOW, i SEE A LOT OF YELLING AND SWEARING AND STATEMENTS OF WANTING TO PROVE THAT BIGFOOT EXISTS BUT EVEN WHEN THEY SUPPOSEDLY FOUND SOMEONE ELSE MOVING A BODY AND FOUND A POOL OF BLOOD i NEVER SAW ANYONE OF THEM TAKE ANY FORENSIC EVIDENCE!!

• Hello,
  I like the show. I´m German and I love the idea of monsters in the extensive forests of the US. May be one day I´ve got the opportunity to walk the Appalachian Trail and spot one of them 🙂 or “just” a black bear…..
  Many greetings from Germany

• So fake it makes my ass ache…. a bunch of ol fat ass holes with Guns pointing at each other …. great gun safety!

• Well said Jora. What gets me is, as you’ve stated, it’s entertainment and it makes me laugh. This so call reverend to judge what’s fake or real. 1th. place: No man should ever call himself reverend. Only our Father is pure enough to be known and Revered.
  2nd.place. So what if it’s fake, I’m entertained by their antics. Why ppl as you take part in judging these men as not hunters. Third place: if you’re a, man of God; why are you judging these guys. Father, said: “Judge not less YEE be judged!”
  4th. place: Trapper Tice, stated on TV, Every monster, in the Smoky mountains; are witness by property owners. He, Himself have seen many of these creatures are real. Ask the ppl in Virginia. Many have seen Mothman which killed many ppl.. nothing they’re invented, ppl have proof.
  5th. If you think these guys are cussing, never allow your son to watch any local tv, movies, or as one man stated:” School!”
  I’ve been a. Christian all my life. I’m one which hate vile filty words. Finally, here’s a; funny funny show which is rare on tv these days.. .
  I’m no judging of any man. Just hate to hear when ppl try to convince me these creatures, spirits etc. are fake. So what. I, dislike football, baseball, every sport but; bowling. Hate new programs, dislike nbc, cbs, abc, so; DA, ID, NG, AP, TLC stations.
  These mountain men bring me joy and laughter. That said: leave us, which enjoy this show alone..
  Besides, pastor ( i’ll never call any man reverend or Father as priest expect) prients, teachers, rabbis’ any man which claims to be a; of the cloth l, remember one thing is true:: “YESHUA, WARNS US:> JKV BIBLE= “judgement begins at the pulpit!”
  That’s judgment Day… Beware mr.pastor, remove your TV from your housend if you want to keep your kid away from this world.. I’ve raised my 3 children, 4 welfare abused children, and grandchildren, Great grandchildren, all my children which are wonderful Christian All Retired Veterans of each branch. Now, my 2nd. Grandson in serving our great US Army.. Stop judging.
  A, Servant of Yeshua D Christos, Méria

• I live in the UK so i don’t know your area BUT even i know animals will not stop and eat while being chased.
  The programe is fake 3 of the team have been in other programes and are actors. If this man belives its true i think he should see his Dr lol (he may be joking though).

• Love the show. It’s entertaining that I enjoy rather than watching who the next baby daddy is or turning to the news to see how many drug and crime problems there are. But gun control issues…cmon let’s not go there….i mean I’m sure your kids have seen avengers,iron man, spiderman,& Batman and you’re questioning the reality of this show and the way they handle fire arms….let just put our protest signs down and enjoy a program, if you don’t enjoy it, grab the clicker.

• Se the new show? What a joke. It was a fun show but come on it’s getting out of hand. I can’t believe people believe it I was reading the posts and people have to ask if it real. Just think Iron Man replaced by Buck Monster Hunter.By the way can he keep up with the Flash

• this show is freaking hilarious. they all scream so loud they could wake the dead. at first I was worried that they would shoot each other. but now it would be surprised if they could hit the side of a ocean liner.
  what they need to do is take their money and buy some teeth.

• I really enjoy the show, however I’ve watched it for several months and I have concluded the ! The guys who pretended to be hunters and trappers should be taken out, tarred and feathered.

  No serious Hunter,trapper or woodsman would go after game the way they do.

  I am convinced it is all fake !!!

  If you really want to find out if BIGFOOT OR MOUNTAINS MONSTERS EXSIT!! ,ALLOW MY HUNTERS AND ME TO COME IN

  I AM THE WORLD’S Greatest’S Hunter!

• What the fuck is wrong with you they caught the devil dogs and what about the damn Bigfoot body and the damn rouge team so it might be kinda fake but it’s not totally fake and what about all the pics about what they missed all dead animals around them and if you don’t believe check s1 ep3 and s5 ep1 and 2

• Rev. You say the show is fake? Well here is a bit of info for you….Yes, the end credits say no ANIMAL was hunted or trapped…but a “Bigfoot” or “Sheepsquatch”, or whatever is not an animal until it is identified by DNA, plus, they are hunting out of season without permits; so the end disclaimer is for the protection of the show. 2nd. In the last episode aired 15 April, 2017 the Crew is contacted by the rogue team and Trapper is to meet the rogue team at a building. The coordinates are left for the AIMS team if they can’t find Trapper. The coordinates are blurred out by the production staff. After running the footage through FBI video software (don’t ask how I have that), I was able to see the blurred coordinates…they are 39° 13’10” N, 81° 23’53” W …look it up on Google Earth…that is the building that the team looked for Trapper in…As far as the cussing…they don’t say anything on the show that your kids don’t hear everyday at school; the difference is that the show edits out the foul language…I use foul language and am an Ordained Non-denominational Pastor…I don’t use it all the time, only when I need to convey the severity of a situation or to get a point across…using them all the time takes away the shock value of the words (besides they are just words)…and if the show is fake then why would Jeff pee his pants from being scared (would you per your pants for a fake show?)…I wouldn’t for any amount of money. I am working on analysing the 2 halfs of the second set of coordinates for the Dark Forest location, and will post them as soon as I get it cleaned up enough to read….the show may seem fake, but I can assure you that it is not…People say that they make too much noise to be hunting Cryptids…but these are huge creatures that could kill in a second…why would the creature be scared of noise…it isnt going to be scared! If you think it is fake, let’s go out in the woods at one of these locations, and we will see how fake it is….just name a time!

• Whether the show is real or not is irrelevant, just take it as it is and enjoy the show or don’t watch it simple as that

• This is just entertainment

• This is soooo out keep. A bunch of fat guys trying to organize rough the woods making enough noise to wake the dead. Their stupidity is unbelievable. I’ve never seen anyone hunt like that. One episode was more than enough.

• This show is so stupid I can’t even stand to watch previews of it. I wish I could contact the creatures and the actors and tell them how stupid they look they have no business handling firearms . They are backwoods hillbillies that need to lay off the sweets. The producers should be kicked in the nutts. I’m sorry I just can’t stand I know it’s silly of me to let a dumb show to bother me so much but I can’t help it it’s a show full of fat uneducated backwoods fucktards

• The show would be better if Wild Bill would scream his comments instead of just yelling them at the camera, also, buck is looking a wee bit thin and could use a grilled cheese sammich.

• Totally fake and totally hilarious!

• I heard through the grapevine that “Trapper,” whose real name is John Tice, lives in the residence of Pleasants Colorado.

  Most of the shows are filmed in Pleasants. Even when they are supposed to be in North Carolina and Kentucky….it is in Pleasansts! LOL. 😀

  I watch the film too try and figure out where they are acutally filming. The “Eye witnesses” are always local yokels with fictional names.

• One Corection – I apparently heard wrong… “Trapper” John lives in Pleasants CO (COunty) WV Not COlorado! My bad. LOL. 😀

• I watch this show every chance I get, not for the realism or fake but because I ENJOY IT.
  So if you don’t like it then change channel. I don’t understand why people keeping watching a show and bashing it if they don’t like it. No just this show but any show.

• Ever notice how they are always cooking the guns and cook it again never firing a shot and no bullets ever eject…..just saying. And the woman in the woods I personally think is one of their wives making sure there’s no hanky panky going on out there either with another woman or the crew or even big foot himself….. lol

• It actually reminds me of of wrestling,people know its fake but still watch it haha What it amounts to is a whole lot of money,people eat this stuff up. They have played the bigfoot stuff up so much they are trying to come up with new things like mermaids and megasharks. I don’t really thing anyone really ever got into the lokeness monster and the bermuda triangle but they ate the bigfoot stuff up big time. And the space alian thing will always generate a big audiance but its to the point it hast to be faked as well

• I only watch this for pure enjoyment but I know it’s totally fake. I don’t know about you guys but no creature would come near you making all that noise walking in that location they would run away.

• This is about the stupidest show I’ve ever watched in my entire life you got a bunch of fat loudmouth hillbilly coonass Hicks trying to look for something that I’m f****** there somebody needs to take a moment to Wild Millie and this knock some sense into that loud mouth ass stupid f*****that’s all I got to say about this show I hope it ain’t going to be on too much longer cuz it’s just a waste of Television time stupid ass loudmouth f****** coonass hits

• Haha! I agree Chuck(-:

• These so called “hunters” couldn’t catch a fly in a shit factory!!!

• Someone ‘splain to me… When the guys were being taken “for a ride” by the rogue team, being frisked, blindfolded, tossed in a van and hauled off, when exactly did they do their “interviews” explaining how things weren’t going as planned. And since the cameraman was allowed to go (fucking REALLY??) they knew they had something the rogues wanted and all would be good. To watch the footage, the rogues didn’t exactly let them stop and do interviews. Yeah, it’s real.. keep dreaming that shit.

  And the production crew just happened to catch a glimpse of the rogue team taking pictures from a black SUV? They just caught it out of pure accident or the FACT the shot was zoomed, focused, and edited?

  Never mind the fact the camera man NEVER focuses towards potential life changing, infamous events that would uncover secrets which may change the world. Oh HELL no, let’s focus on the expressions of the loud hillbillies who have no clue regarding proper hunting/trapping techniques.

  It’s entertaining. But for anyone to get their feelings hurt when someone calls someone dressing and acting like a hillbilly, a HILLBILLY, and getting butt hurt to the fact there is NO evidence ever retrieved (such as hair and blood samples from a trailer supposedly ransacked leaving hair AND blood), well, you should go back to watching pro wrestling and not be on the internet. This isn’t a place for folks so easily offended.

• That’s the most fake shit I’ve ever seen ever in my life anyone and everyone knows if you’re hunting YOU need to shut the fuck up all the DAMN noise let’s everything that’s in the woods KNOW you’re there it’s more funny and no one in their right mind thinks this is real my 5 yr old granddaughter says it’s stupid. There you go a 5 yr old can tell that show is stupid and fake

• I am so glad and relieved as well that someone has some sense enough to tell these fools how stupid their show looks. Not that you said those exact words. I believe our intelligence is being challenged here. They should have this show on the Saturday morning cartoons for kids and not at night. This show is for children under the age of 5. They would be quite entertained. Where did you get these characters out of a bar on skid row. lol just kidding but hey we don’t have to watch the show do we? but we have to watch the commercials about the show. I just wanted to say thank you to the writer of this article you have written what Me and I know a lot of people have been thinking. I guess there are some people who like this fake show cause they keep renewing the show. thanks for posting.

• Look So u think the PARANORMAL is not “REAL”?? Lol!!!

  Please take a look at just a few of my pictures from my HAUNTED HOUSE I own!

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  • Dust orbs and smoke. Not saying the paranormal doesn’t exist, but you haven’t photographed it.

  • Quit smoking and the ghosts will disappear… hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

    Ho men, i am so sorry…………..

    I cant stop lathing after seeing your photos…..

• Simple suggestions if they are for real “hunters”
  Coon dogs for tracking
  Night vision goggles
  Day hunts

• I just cant believe you guys dont believe this show.. its just .. oh its just so undenighably genuine. What do they have to do .. i mean they caught that big hog that one time. And they saw the other bigfoot with the torch walking around in the woods… it just has to be real… just has to be… dont bust my bubble…PLEASE.

• this show isn’t fake so don’t start. it’s the best show ever.

• So true but it is a great great laugh

• I like to think of the M M show as Bigfoot meets professional wrestling. Like rasslin’, the show is obviously fake and scripted but the producers hope you’ll fall into one of two classes of viewers: 1. The “true believers” who think the show is real. 2. The rest of us who sit back and laugh and see it as just “entertainment”. The problem is, if you’re in that second class, there’s only so much of it that you can take. The entertainment value gets lost when they continually insult your intelligence in multiple ways, such as: tracking down monsters of all shapes and sizes (not just Bigfoot) to keep things fresh; always making contact with the monster but never (ever) getting a clear shot of it on camera; not continuing to track the creature on subsequent episodes after contact was made; introducing “paranormal” elements, such as the monster having the power of mind control.

  After discovering it late, I probably watched a dozen shows before throwing in the towel. The laughs I got at its absurdity gave way to my saying (out loud) “You have GOT to be kidding”. I will say this, it must be a great job to be a script writer for this show.

• Mountain Monsters has got to be the most unrealistic, stupid shows on television. I cant believe anyone with an IQ over 50 would watch this. Its just as bad if not worse than Killing Bigfoot which wasn’t worth the electricity to run the television. Plus this station plays the same commercials over, and over, and over again. Its enough to drive a person totally insane after an hour! We have become a nation of morons all watching these ridiculous reality shows that are about as real as unicorns, and fairies are. Trash TV at its worst!

• I didn’t know a bunch of goofy hillbillies could act or at least try to act so good this shit cracks me up every time it’s on it’s so stupidly fake that the shits funny

• Love these guys! Lighten up about it being fake. We all know that duh! Just have fun playing along. Show is super creative, has creepy moments and a great cast and crew- its our family’s favorite

• I just had my first Mountain Monster experience tonight. It was S5/Ep06. What a joke. Every time they speak their lines they are yelling at the camera like we are deaf. The “blood” is clearly fake. Melted sugar with red food coloring that hardens when it cools. They had Jeff meet with a guy, but they were all hiding in the bushes with their rifles pointing at the guy Jeff was meeting, looking through their scopes, like they were going to sniper an innocent man who poses no threat, just because he’s a guy from the “other crew”. So damn pathetic!

• Hello guys, I am from Portugal, but for what i have been reading there’s still hope for America, All of the reality shows are fake of course they are, but this one passes all boundaries, it’s was the worse five minutes of my life, yes i could not take any longer than five minutes.

  I do believe in paranormal but not in fairy tales, of course it could only happen in America, it’s where all the monsters are, all of them are in there in the Appalachian…

  Sorry guys but i had to comment.

• Just wonder why they have never shot a single thing even when their just feet away. Also they have never caught a thing in their traps.its just an hour of no brainer chuckles.id much rather watch. Big foot survivor man.

• You are correct…..it is so fake, that for the most part, it’s mildly amusing. However, as a southerner, I do resent one more ‘hick’ stereotype that portrays us as ‘dumb as two rocks’….especially the ‘Wild Bill’ character. I know several Marines, and quite frankly, I have a difficult time believing he was one. He gets on my nerves as well. My second ‘peeve’ with the show is this: does Destination America not pay these guys enough for dental care? Missing teeth play into the stereotype much?? Good grief, guys! Have a little dignity! And if I hear ‘woohoo’ one more time….! (Actually, I won’t ’cause I can’t stomach watching anymore)

• You are correct…..it is so fake, that for the most part, it’s mildly amusing. However, as a southerner, I do resent one more ‘hick’ stereotype that portrays us as ‘dumb as two rocks’….especially the ‘Wild Bill’ character. I know several Marines, and quite frankly, I have a difficult time believing he was one. He gets on my nerves as well. My second ‘peeve’ with the show is this: does Destination America not pay these guys enough for dental care? Missing teeth play into the stereotype much?? Good grief, guys! Have a little dignity! And if I hear ‘woohoo’ one more time….! (Actually, I won’t ’cause I can’t stomach watching anymore)

• Doubtful they let them have actual ammo.

• I think that among all five guys, they might be able to put together a full set of teeth, It looks like the company that produces “Billy the Exterminator” also makes this because every time something happens, they all holler “WHOA” and it cuts to a commercial.
  If you look in the dictionary for the word “fake”, you see their pictures!!!!

• These guys couldn’t catch a cold. Waiting for one of them to shoot someone. Noisy, crazy, funny to watch them be foolish and so far out.
  Hill folk at their best. Fighting with shadows and imagination…..

• This show is so ridiculous the supposed to be whistles are from elk and other recorded animals how many people think that a Bigfoot walks around with a torch and draws on rock ceilings really,this worse than the old school batman&robin that came on in the 60’s

• They have one hell of an imagination it’s alright it’s entertaining keep up the good work guys

• They did get a Bigfoot on camera in the apple orchard and just because it says filmed in WV doesn’t mean anything it may just be a WV film crew and i seen people a lo t bigger then any of them hike up and down hills.

• If you guys thank it is fake and stupid then don’t watch it me for one thanks it’s real and no one can change that if you ever seen a 40 foot try shake the way I have or stuff killed in the woods a deer for exp destroyed and the only thing gone was the head what creature can kill a animal and 3 bone fragments in the winter so you tell me what it was

• I found this show highly irritating, fatties and geriatrics running around the woods shouting or pretending to be alerted with dubbings of Lion roars and elephant rumblings. Mainly though I think these guys should be banged up for attempting to trap a human because their alleged targets essentially are. Also popcorn would be better bait for that hahaha
  Seriously Idiocracy was only a film for the sake of our race boycott this sort of stuff for the future of our race.

• One of the best comedy shows I’ve ever seen

• Just watched an episode where the “team” goes looking for the Cherokee Devil “a bigfoot” and good lord…. this episode’s cringe level is 1000. I kid you not this bigfoot has the power to read your mind and “take over your body” at least according to local native American legends. Of course as soon as these “professional” paranormal hunters step foot into the woods they immediately encounter the monster every episode. Then, I kid you not, bigfoot proceeds to “take over” their minds. The show then features Buck m.i.a. only to find him blair witch project style, sitting zombiefied in a run down shack. Later he cries as he recounts his “encounter” with the Cherokee Devil. Then ANOTHER member gets their mind taken over, which of course they then take off into the words. The men then proclaim “we gotta go find our buddy”, HOURS later, when its nice and dark out, they then decide to go look for their friend, who is not in his right mind lost in the words somewhere. They then proceed to find him crazed and confused wandering around. Of course Buck then goes off on his own to find the monster, proclaiming that no one can join him because the bigfoot can read their minds and know where the trap is. But then Buck goes directly to the trap and waits? The trap is a bridge with a pitfall in the center. He whispers “he’s here, he’s right on the bridge” but keeps the hand held on his face while there are noises 5 feet infront of him…. and every episode is like this. When the monster is close, the camera is on the men, NOT the direction the noises are coming from, or where all the guys point and say “THERE HE IS”. It’s cringy how badly this show tries to pass off these “investigations” as real or serious hunts for these creatures. This show is fake, as in it is scripted. Reality tv shows have no script, it is just filming what happens in real life. These men are acting, they follow a script (it is pretty obvious) the events are staged and they use props. Hell, if it was that easy to encounter these creatures, we would have specimens in museums and no one would be looking for these creatures in the first place. This show is nothing but a group of friends screaming and running around in the woods on make-believe adventures to chase and capture paranormal beings. All while they laugh as they take Destination America’s money to act in this “reality” tv show.

• If you want to cancel something , why not Ghost Asylum? You want to talk about fake?!!!!Catching ghosts, give me a break

  • Pretty much any paranormal “reality show” out there is faked.

• Brenda…….YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!!!…..JUST WHEN I THOUGHT THERE CANT BE ANYONE WHO THINKS MOUNTAIN MONSTERS IS REAL…THEN YOU COME ALONG….you have 3 teeth in your head with bottlecap glasses your huge and short red hair…that’s the only way I can picture someone who would actually believe a program like this..hickstyle…..give me a break lady…you definitely need better priorities..lmao!!!!!

• […] so he may not go for that. They can go to Destination America, the cable TV dumping ground where terrible paranormal shows go to die, but then again, we’re back to competing programs. Plus, Destination America doesn’t […]

• You are obviously very thick! This garbage is ridiculous….On the one occasion I did watch it (and the last!) I liked the bit where they urgently need help because they are being attacked for the hundredth time by a bigfoot, guys get over here we need help…..only for Bill or Buck to stand there in front of the camera telling everyone they need to rush over and help the other team immediately…..but we still have time to stand in front of the camera and tell you this before we rush off and try and capture this pretend creature!. Absolute garbage from start to finish.

• You are obviously as backward as they are!

• And for those of us who speak English?

• You obviously have very limited intelligence if you believe this garbage!

• Whomever wrote this article is a narrow-minded individual. Why don’t you go out in the same woods they went? They’re out in these woods shooting for a 140 hours and then American Chainsaws is editing up all those hours and putting together just ONE EPISODE!
  You go trapping thru the woods with guns for that long and let’s see what you come up with.
  How can you sit back and criticize people you know basically not much about except for what you watch. They’ve done interviews, events and of the such, did you read, watch, go to them as well?!
  I’ve watched each episode multiple times over a course of a few years. You pick up on different things that many don’t usually the first time around.
  Btw…They’ve used their guns and have shot at different types of “monsters.” I guess you missed those episodes. When the bigfoot (I guess) broke those chupacabras out, they reacted & Jeff got it on thermal.
  The only complaint I have, even though I’m a huge fan, is that most of the time the camera men don’t show whatever “monster” the team is after. Granted it’s most likely very hard to see it on camera, unless it’s within a few feet.
  Stand in someone else’s shoes before you judge them! Reverse the roll.
  I used to be in a paranormal investigator. I’ve studied, researched, read tons of books and was in the field. I do feel that some of those paranormal shows are pure bs, but for me being in that field for years, I can see what’s real and what’s bullshit.
  I have no idea how long some of these 45 minute shows are actually in location and shooting. A lot of the newer paranormal equipment is legit. I personally don’t care for Ghost Adventures. What type of professional paranormal investigator runs away or freaks out like Zak does?! A bit too much! I’ve walked in his shoes and have been at locations in the dark that scared the shit out of me, but to run away like a baby rather than get that evidence…Something is definitely not right there. He has gotten better than he used to be. Obnoxious is the perfect word.
  Study something, do your research, get whatever equipment you need and go out there multiple times for hours at a time, then you can judge a little. If you don’t like the show don’t watch it. Why you need to write an article based on just your opinion and a negative one at that is beyond me.

  • It’s a TV show. It’s clearly faked. Even my 10-year old son knows this. Glad you enjoy the show, though.

• It sucks as entertainment too!!!…..anyone who watches this show lives in a cave.

• Dianne, I pitty you. I really do . I bet your the type who actually found it amusing when Trump mocked that reporter ( Serge F. Kovaleski ) You’re a moron and I’m glad I don’t know you . Unfortunately I do know your type. The show for me does nothing.

• Hey it’s an entertaining show you mean to tell me if there’s nothing else on TV you don’t turn on mountain monsters and watch it a get a laugh out of it. Hell everyone knows it’s fake as shit but sometimes its the only thing on worth watching, and if you hate the show that much just switch the channel or put in a DVD you have that choice. And as far as them breaking all the safety rules on how they carry their guns if you notice when they first start their hunt and they rack one in the chamber there isn’t any shells in their shot guns. I mean for the people and scientists who are trying to study and prove the existence of Sasquatch that show is a mockery at least the show Finding Bigfoot they go out and get skunked a lot of the times I’ve never seen Bobo get knocked on his ass by one LOL. its an entertaining show and I’d like to see if they’re gonna have a new season soon or at least have them run some reruns I’d love to see the Sheep squase piss in Trappers eye again LOL!!

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• FAKE!!!
  The biggest gieaway is that all of the tracks they find, are flat prints. It may show the print but the bottoms of the prints are perfectly flat, evenly across the whole print. Lol.

  Go trump!

• I may agree with you on some of the points that you pointed out. With that being said there is not much of a need to almost be making fun of the cast because they do not talk the way you think they should. Each person comes from a different background. My mom and I were born and raised in the same town and her accent (sounding hillbilly) verses mine are two different things. She has a southern draw but I only the other hand do not. So calling someone illiterate because of their “hillbilly” accent is you passing judgment just because they sound different then you. Next time xhose your words more wisely.

  • “But hey, I’m open-minded, and freely accept that backwoods hill folk can be good investigators.”

    See, I DID xhose my words carefully!

• All those shows are funny the ufo nuts Bigfoot hunter there all fake as hell but at least this one is fun to watch these bumbling idiots are so hilarious makes me laugh all the time it’s a great parody

• When I first started watching I was not sure whether or not it was fake, but what finally made me realise it was fake was all of the props from The Blair Witch Project they used in the last series when they were in The Dark Forest (or whatever it was they called it)!!!

• If you don’t like it, don’t watch it!! I love it whether it’s real or fake. I don’t care. I love the show.

  • How can I review a TV show if I don’t watch it?

• That show is an insult to anyone that’s got a brain. Those redneck jerks claim to be expert hunters. What a joke. You’d have problems shooting a squirrel with all the noise those loud mouthed idiots make. Anyone with half a brain knows good hunters are as quiet as possible if they expect to shoot anything. Six loud mouths trying to creep up on anything is stupid at best. Animals could hear them coming at least 1/4 mile away as much noise as they make.

• i like the show i wouldnt say ita def fake but i sont know it might bw or might not be its looks goofie but i like it and i cant say for sure but u always hope a show is reql

• To all you people who think that mountain monsters is fake just because they never show the monsters whatch the last episode of season 5 and you will see why they don’t show the monsters. They give buck his own camera and he films the woman of the woods. And the reason why it says that “no animals hunted in this episode” at the the end of each episode is because its one of the regulations to show that they were not ileagly hunting deer or any other animal out of season. Oh and just imagine how scary it would be to see a real monster on camera. HELL, FINDING BIGFOOT DOESNT EITHER!!!! And the reason why it says “filmed in west Virginia” is because that is their home state! So you can spit out made up carp all you want but unless you know all the facts, then don’t say anything you’ll regret after reading this comment!

  • Do you still believe in Santa too?

• HUNTER!….The show is fake..no if’s and’s or but’s about it…they don’t show the monsters Hunter………BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE …DOOFUS!! …THERE ARE NO MONSTERS…THIS SHOW IS STRICTLY FOR ENTERTAINMENT…you cannot have a decent education if you enjoy or believe this show is real…get a clue

• How come Buck falls in every show,and that big bad Bigfoot puts poor fat Buck into a trance,and the people in the 4 x4 always chasing them and leaving clues like who the heck cares,Someone needs to put uncle Buck on a Bugfoot diet..

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• I was born and raised in West Virginia and have spent 35 years in the woods of Wheeling WV hunting and fishing. Never have I seen a Bigfoot but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. I agree this show is absurd and made for entertainment. Reality TV is created to entertain. I just wanted to comment on these pretenders. West Virginia is plentiful in acres and acres of mysterious and dense woods. You never know what could be hiding out here. But that doesn’t mean there are ridiculous gorillas and impossibly fake sounds coming from them. It’s a hoax and it keeps getting more and more absurd with each season.

• I actually think Willie builds those traps or at least most with DA personnel assisting. Now, after the use or non-use of said traps is another issue, like the big ass holes that are dug! I think the acting is just as good as any other network crap, probably better than most!

• Listin here you bunch of idiots! I can prove mountain monsters is real. If you wander why at the end of each episode it says “no wildlife harmed or hunted in this show” that’s because they don’t want people to think that they are ileagly hunting deer or turky considering that they usually hunt for monsters in between hunting seasons! And the reason why it also says that its “filmed in west virginia” even when it’s not is because that’s their home state and its part of their regulations that they have to state what state they do the most filming at considering in most episodes they are in w.v. Now you may notice that they only show the monsters on thermal imaging , well if you whatch the last episode of season 5 then you’ll know exactly why they don’t show any of the monsters after buck captures the woman of the woods. It was very graphic.

  • I guessing you haven’t heard back from Yale or Harvard yet?

• Hey little mister Jason gore-tex I stopped believing in Santa Claus in 5th grade. Same time mountain monsters came out!!!

• Nothing about the show I would consider paranormal it’s just another stupid hunting show

  • So all the Bigfoot and chupacabras and cryptid bears and werewolves are all run of the mill for you?

  • Agree. Stupid old, fat hillbillies and all fake. Idiots.