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Skeptic-based Bigfoot documentary?

AlaskaBushPilot said:
Look through the other threads on this page. You will find the example of someone who did just that and when he actually asked challenging questions of the witnesses, not one of them stuck with their story and admitted they made it up.

I've been interviewed a number of times for both the news and television shows - Ice Cold Killers most recently and it covered the same things I was interviewed for on City Confidential. The producers call you up or email and tell you what kind of show they are doing, ask if you consent to be interviewed, and in so doing you get a pretty good idea about what they are up to. I know everyone else they contacted for both those programs and what their reasons were for either consenting or refusing consent to be interviewed.

You are going to have the same issue. If you are honest and tell them you are a skeptic who does not believe in bigfoot, will go to the site of their alleged sighting, and ask investigative questions... you will lose a lot of witnesses, and this is actually an important point to your documentary if it is to be factual.

On the other hand, you can lie, at the very least a lie by omission, and pump people up in thinking there will be the kinds of questions we always see on these documentaries, which anyone making up a story would have no fear of. But then what do you do when they point out a place they supposedly saw bigfoot and a hundred feet away in every direction is a shopping mall, gas station, school, etc.? What you are going to find is these stories are incredibly lame. Of course they are - there is no bigfoot.


You would benefit a great deal by reading some of the threads here, like on alternate reality gaming. Any kind of research a person does, if they are serious, begins by looking into what others have discovered.

One of the reasons for that is when people tell you their belief is based upon the Patterson-Gimlin film then an obvious question is to ask what they think now that Greg Long interviewed the man wearing the suit and the original manufacturer of that suit. Etc.
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That's pretty cool. Did your interviews make it to the aired episode(s)?
 
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Crossbow said:
Just in case you are still interested, there used to be a TV show called Critical Eye which took a good look at various paranormal things, including Bigfoot.

Anyway, one of the things they did was to interview several Bigfoot witnesses and showed how the description of Bigfoot changed considerably over time. And, of course, if Bigfoot was real, then one would expect the descriptions to be much more consistent.
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Some people would say the inconsistency proves there is no Bigfoot.

Others would say that it proves there are several kinds of Bigfoots, one for each kind of description.

It works the same way with aliens. They used to be lizard-like, then bug-like, now grey-like with big eyes.
 
dmaker said:
That's pretty cool. Did your interviews make it to the aired episode(s)?
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Oh yes. Both shows.

I did a couple things for City Confidential they said were too "over the top" - like pulling a .44 mag out of the holster, twirling it, and shooting a can. It took a lot of practice to do that with a single-action. You have to pull the hammer back as it spins.

One thing I guess in retrospect is probably good they didn't put in there was that I got approached by a Hell's Angel offering to take out the perp for $5K. It was an attractive offer on account of its economy but not exactly the kind of thing you want to be drawing a lot of attention to on national TV with your known identity.
 
Is this the City Confidential about the Fairbanks murder in season 1?
 
Crossbow said:
Just in case you are still interested, there used to be a TV show called Critical Eye which took a good look at various paranormal things, including Bigfoot.

Anyway, one of the things they did was to interview several Bigfoot witnesses and showed how the description of Bigfoot changed considerably over time. And, of course, if Bigfoot was real, then one would expect the descriptions to be much more consistent.

Therefore, I suggest that you look for this show before starting your own.

Thanks.
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Thanks for giving me the show name - I'll check it out and see how it is. I'm still mulling over various options for what I can do. My primary motivations are to contribute to the skeptic community and film community by producing something useful.
 
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