‘Finding Bigfoot’ Hoaxed! Says Cast

Submitted by Xavier Ortega on July 16, 2011 – 6:16 AM111 Comments | 1 views

As if I needed to point this out.

A complaint by the cast of “Finding Bigfoot” is spreading through the web. They’re claiming to be fed-up with the constant editing and presentation of the show. According to Matt Moneymaker from the BFRO, the producers like to edit the show so that it seems like the team at times is chasing shadows or possibly Bigfoot itself.

The “Finding Bigfoot” cast isn’t too pleased with the results. Check out the article from Gather.com:

The TV show Finding Bigfoot has a lot of critics debunking the evidence that the legendary cryptid really exists. That now includes the people who appear on the show itself.

Cast members from the TV show have commented in various online forums that they are bugged by the heavy-handed editing done by producers of the series, and are not happy that they seem to be putting false words in their mouths. To say nothing of using tricks to make their actual findings more seemingly groundbreaking.

Critics of this kind of documentary-style Reality TV shows have pointed to programs about the Paranormal which seem to build on the gullibility and limited experience of viewers. The phrase “what the hell was that?” is becoming a catch-phrase for the practice.

It derives from the many characters in these shows who utter the phrase as they respond to perfectly normal, and easily explained, phenomenon caught on camera. Usually through night-vision FLIR lenses and “filming” ghosts or the famed Sasquatch itself. This seems to be the case in the latest example of rigged Reality TV.

Cast member and BFRO leader Matt Moneymaker says, in response to a question about one particular scene with typically grainy footage, “… the thing I ran after up the hill was a human — someone who was sneaking around us in the woods trying to watch the production in progress. I said so repeatedly and vehemently at the time, for the cameras, but they edited out all of that in order to make it seem unclear what I was chasing after.”

That seems to be all the proof needed. Looks like Reality TV itself is the next Sasquatch. Someday everybody will try to prove it really does exist..

Why am I not surprised?

It’s sad and embarrassing how some people will vehemently defend these types of shows as being “real”. Do I need to bring up the “Paranormal State Hoax” post?

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I am 95% sure Bigfoot exists. I am also a fan of Finding Bigfoot. However, I don’t ever see the show coming up with conclusive evidence they exist. The bets thing the show does is present the eyewitness accounts of the creature. Ordinary people from around the country seeing something quite unique and extraordinary. Some may be lying and some may not have actually seen a Bigfoot, but I am sure many actually did. Going into the woods on the show may provide the drama to get viewer’s attention –and it may prove fruitful one day, I can’t say with certainty it won’t– but it seems unlikely. It isn’t just 4 people in the woods trouncing around, but a camera crew to boot.

Either way I still like the show.
Papillon

After watching a few episodes, I would be hesitant to claim to have seen a BF even if I had its cold carcass in my freezer. If its possible, they give people that seriously believe BF exists a bad rep.
This show is so silly, and the unintentional (?)humor factor is off the charts.
BTW, I really like that, regardless of the whether (freezing, snowing, etc…) all of their video has crickets and tree frogs chirping. They were on one expedition, dressed like they were in Antarctica, with snow and freezing rain coming down, and sure enough, crickets and tree frogs were heard on the soundtrack. I saw a fake motive poster that read

“My sandwich is missing from the fridge! A squatch must of took it!”

That about sums up the level of scientific insight they seem to exhibit most of the time.
Jeff54

I would like to know where Matt came up with the call of Bigfoot? I have never seen someone so enamored with his own voice, as Matt. The team always has a explanation why something always keep them from proof! Maybe they just don’t exist!
Danny G. in Texas

First of all….as a kid in the 70′s, I firmly believed that a bigfoot could be out there….and as I grew up I read several books and watched all of the documentaries….I have to say….If a Bigfoot does exist, these four idiots are the last individuals that are going to find one….Matt Moneymaker is a freaking joke…..his explanation to Renae regarding why a Bigfoot doesn’t eat cattle, since they are just standing there….and would rather go after deer, which would be WAYYYY more difficult to catch, because they have the knowledge & understanding that the cows are for humans and the deer are for the Squatches…..WOW!!! Unbelievable!!! It’s one ridiculous comment after another…..BoBo and Cliff are such believers, that it doesn’t even matter who they are talking to or what story is being told to them, or even how credible the source is………they know for a fact, without a shadow of doubt that these people saw a Squatch…..Listening to these idiots claiming that: “That is what a Bigfoot does…” or “This is actual Bigfoot behavior…”….How the hell would anyone know that??? A Bigfoot has NEVER-EVER been scientifically observed and studied in the wild or natural habitat….and a Bigfoot has NEVER-EVER been caught and scientifically studied…EVER…..These idiots act like they have done all of this already. I started watching the show in hopes that they would actually go into the woods in these different states and intelligently see what they come up with……but not this…..these guys practically make you NOT believe….if you had believed in the first place. And for the record…..I spend a ton of my free time in the wilderness hunting and fishing, and have several friends that are Game Wardens & Outdoorsman…..they all agree that these guys are jokes….Animal Planet…….you guys are better than this.
Specialkriss

is bigfoot real i have been watching finding bigfoot and it douse proive that big foot is real on the baby Bigfoot it shows Bigfoot in the show so to all of those bigfoot none belviers BIGFOOT IS REAL… GO CAMPING AND MAKE CALLS TO ACTRACT BIGFOOT HIT A TREE OR DO SOMETHING…SOO
Ctryboy310

they said the same about gorillas. who werent even discover until the 60′s.
Ctryboy310

I agree. They should watch some hunting video’s. as for Matt Moneymaker he is a con artist anyway. I pity the others who are ligitimatly pursuing sasquatch. He’s suckering them. Its all bs for ratings. If real effort was put in theyd find it.

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