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Is the Mountain Monsters Ever Coming Back on Tv? In 2019

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Mountain Monsters
"Mountain Monsters, Season 3 logo".jpeg

Season 3 intertitle
Genre Reality Television
Starring
  • John Tice
  • Jeff Headlee
  • Willy McQuillian
  • Joseph Lott
  • William Neff
  • Jacob Lowe
Narrated by Michael Berger[1]
Theme music composer Last American Cowboys
Opening theme "Mountain Man Town"
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 8
No. of episodes 69 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Colt Straub
  • Duke Straub
  • Russell Geyser
  • Jay Blumke
  • Ken Charles
  • Royal Malley
Producer American Chainsaws
Running time 42-60 minutes
Release
Original network Destination America (2013–17)
Travel Channel (2019–present)
Discovery+ (2021–present)
DMAX (2013-19)
Original release June 22, 2013 (2013-06-22) –
present
External links
Website
Production website

Mountain Monsters is an American cryptozoology-themed reality television series airing on Travel Channel. It originally premiered on June 22, 2013 on Destination America. The series follows the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (A.I.M.S.) team, a band of six native West Virginian hunters and trappers, as they research and track unidentified creatures in the Appalachian Mountains. There is also a side-series titled Mountain Monsters: By The Fire that features extra facts and never-before-seen footage from different episodes of the series.

The series aired for five seasons on Destination America.[2] After an 18-month hiatus, it was announced that the series was renewed for a sixth season and would be moving to Travel Channel.[3]

In 2021 it was announced that a TV special titled Mountain Monsters: A Tribute to Trapper would premiere on January 3, 2021. It was also announced that the seventh season will premiere on January 10, 2021.[4] It was announced shortly after the premiere of Season 7, that new episodes would only release exclusively on the Discovery+ streaming platform for the rest of the season.[5]

Premise [edit]

The A.I.M.S. team is a self-styled, cryptozoology research team founded by West Virginians John "Trapper" Tice, Jeff Headlee, and Willy McQuillian. Their goal is to prove the existence of mysterious creatures such as Bigfoot, Werewolf, Hellhound, Lizard Man, and Mothman. The episodes normally begin with Trapper, Jeff, Huckleberry, and Buck discussing the specific creature they are hunting on the way to the location where the creature was spotted. They then meet with eyewitnesses who have encountered the creature, giving the team an idea of where to conduct an initial night investigation to find evidence of the creature being in the area.

After concluding their initial night hunt, Willy and Wild Bill begin work on a trap to contain the creature while the rest of the team searches for more evidence, meeting with additional eyewitnesses who normally possess photographic, video, or audio evidence of the creature. After testing the completed trap the team begins the final night hunt.

The creatures are, supposedly, occasionally caught on camera, such as the Cave Creature. They are also shown as a digital rendering that appears before and after commercial breaks. The team attempts to capture these creatures (with Hogzilla, three Devil Dogs and two wolves from the tygart valley being their most recent trapped creatures). In some instances, the team places trail cameras and/or infrared camcorders near the trap to capture photographic evidence of the creature in question. They have caught fleeting, blurry images of what they claim to be the Grassman, Shadow Creature, Cherokee Death Cat, and the Black Wolf on camera, to name but a few. More recently a recurring rogue team has spied on and sabotaged the A.I.M.S. team and their investigations. But the Rogue Team did not have much involvement in the show's 6th season, which focused more on the team hunting monsters like in the earlier seasons.

As of the 7th and most recent season, Trapper has passed on, and the rest of the team continues to hunt creatures in his legacy.

A.I.M.S team members [edit]

  • John "Trapper" Tice, Team Leader (May 24, 1947 - December 16, 2019)
  • Jacob "Buck" Lowe, Expert caller (formerly "Rookie")
  • Joseph "Huckleberry" Lott, Security
  • Jeff Headlee, Researcher
  • Willy McQuillian, Trap builder
  • William "Wild Bill" Neff, Expert tracker

Production [edit]

Prior to the season six premiere, John "Trapper" Tice announced that he would have limited involvement due to a myriad of serious health issues.[6] He made a minor appearance in the first episode of the season where he was visited by Huckleberry and Buck to whom he expressed the severity of his situation. He made one more brief appearance in the season's eighth episode. Tice died on December 16, 2019.[7]

Series overview [edit]

Episodes [edit]

Season 1 (2013) [edit]

Season 2 (2014) [edit]

Season 3: Bigfoot Edition (2015) [edit]

Season 4: Bigfoot Edition (2016) [edit]

Season 5: Secrets of the Dark Forest (2017) [edit]

Season 6: The Quest for Spearfinger Part 1 (2019) [edit]

Season 7: The Adventure from Trapper (2021) [edit]

Season 8: Tygart Valley Mysteries (2022) [edit]

Finding Bigfoot "feud" [edit]

On April 5, 2015, Matt Moneymaker of Finding Bigfoot tweeted that Mountain Monsters was scripted and the A.I.M.S. team were merely actors. This led to "Trapper" John Tice directly responding and referring to Moneymaker's show as "Losing Bigfoot".[23] The online feud has continued with Finding Bigfoot castmember Cliff Barackman chiming in that the show is "fiction"[24] and the official Finding Bigfoot Twitter account calling Mountain Monsters a "fake-hoax" show in regards to the series' April 2017 return.[25] On May 30, 2017, the official A.I.M.S. Brasil Twitter account responded by saying that Finding Bigfoot "do not find anything".[26]

References [edit]

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  2. ^ "Destination America Orders Fifth Season Bigfoot Series Mountain Monsters". www.broadcastingcable.com. 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 22 October 2016. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  3. ^ "The AIMS Team Is Back with a Brand-New Season of "Mountain Monsters" on Travel Channel". The Futon Critic. July 15, 2019.
  4. ^ "The Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings Team Honors Their Beloved Leader John "Trapper" Tice in New One-Hour Special, "Mountain Monsters: A Tribute to Trapper," on Sunday, January 3 at 10 P.M. ET/PT". The Futon Critic. November 23, 2020.
  5. ^ Travel Channel [@travelchannel] (10 January 2021). "Wild Bill with hair? The AIMS team picks up where Trapper left off on tonight's @discoveryplus exclusive premiere of #MountainMonsters.Tune in at 10" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ^ Robinson, Mandy (August 23, 2019). "'Mountain Monsters' Star John Tice Forced To Step Away Due To Health". TV Shows Ace. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  7. ^ Makitalo, Georgia (December 17, 2019). "'Mountain Monsters' Star John 'Trapper' Tice Dead At 72: All The Details". TV Shows Ace. Retrieved July 27, 2020.
  8. ^ a b c d e f "Finding Bigfoot: Season 1". Archived from the original on 2012-04-23. Retrieved 2012-10-23 .
  9. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (January 26, 2016). "ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.23.2016". showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  10. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (February 2, 2016). "ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 1.30.2016". showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on June 23, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
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  17. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (March 22, 2016). "ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.19.2016". showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on March 23, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  18. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (March 29, 2016). "ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 3.26.2016". showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
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  21. ^ Metcalf, Mitch (April 19, 2016). "ShowBuzzDaily's Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.16.2016". showbuzzdaily.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  22. ^ Mountain Monsters [@TheAIMSDA] (28 May 2017). "Can't wait for next week's season finale? Watch it here now! #MountainMonsters" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  23. ^ Trapper John [@TrapperWV] (28 April 2015). "@MattMoneymaker1 I'm not an actor. Sometimes I feel your show should be called Losing Bigfoot. Keep up the good work bud" (Tweet) – via Twitter. ?lang=en
  24. ^ Cliff Barackman [@CliffBarackman] (9 January 2017). "Nope. Fiction" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  25. ^ Finding Bigfoot [@FBIGFOOTFANS] (27 March 2017). "If you're interested in a hoax- fake show, Mountain Monsters returns April 8th :)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  26. ^ aimsbrasiloficial [@aimsbroficial] (29 May 2017). "If you are interested in watching a show where do not find anything, watch Finding Bigfoot!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.

External links [edit]

  • Mountain Monsters at IMDb

Is the Mountain Monsters Ever Coming Back on Tv? In 2019

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Monsters

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