We have a thread for TV shows that we each think a good so how a out a thread for shit shows?
For example there's a new season of that sasquatch show coming up on Discovery. WTF, if it existed how come they never find it, photograph it?. All you hear is a few noises in the distance and they all claim that it is one. How do they know? Have they ever actually met one? Forest creatures expecially Owls can come out with some interesting noises.
Re: Sasquatch - there are many cultures around the world that have legends and sightings of large ape-like cyrptids . America has truck loads with all sorts of names but so does Russia, Nepal, (Yeti), Mongolia, South America, Africa, Australia, (Yowie), even New Zealand has the Moehau.
So why haven't we filmed them? Most countries that they are supposed to inhabit are vast beyond belief. If you've ever flown over Mongolia on the way to NZ overnight it is awe-inspiring how few people live out there and how vast the country is. America has large unpopulated areas also. Mind you, LG you are correct of course, many sightings are simply misidentified bears or other animals.
Other folk I think it was Paul Devereux believe that these cryptids exist outside or apart from our world so can only be seen, heard etc at rare times when their world co-exists briefly with ours. This sort of phenomenon might include those accounts of cafes, petrol stations, etc that people visit only to find once they left and returned no cafe or petrol station was ever there. It might also explain how some people just vanish off the face of the earth.
It is also possible that people are experiencing some sort of temporary psychotic state or perhaps a temporal lobe event. Sleep paralysis is often characterized by an individual being visited by a hag-like being during sleep and being unable to move. Every culture has it's version of this "entity" and it was considered a supernatural event but now has a perfectly scientifically acceptable diagnosis.
My take is there that if we keep on looking we will eventually find an explanation, but in the meantime it makes the world a weird and interesting place.
The TV show is bloody awful though