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Monday, November 9, 2015


Some of you may be too old to remember the great video game crash from the early to middle 80's. Some of you may be a little too young to know about it, but at the time it was really a major blow to the video game industry. Some even wondered if it would survive at all.

The video game industry was at an all time high for revenue in 1983 but by 1985 it had dropped by almost 97 percent. During this time many big name companies went bankrupt and out of business. Many in the industry went from making money hand over fist to closing up shop and hitting the unemployment line. The main cause of the great video game crash was saturation of market, in laymen terms, the market was flooded with video games and related items.

Many of the games and consoles that flooded the market were very sub par. In other words the games being produced were utter garbage. Take for example, the Atari game E.T. The Extraterrestrial, which was based on the hit movie.  It was massively over produced and is often called the worst video game ever made. The movie was very popular the world over, the video game version came out strong as a Christmas item but quickly became a returned to store gift. Some of these games were so bad it caused reputation damage to the industry as a whole. After all, the ET game was nothing more than an attempt to cash in on the popularity of the movie. The ET game was so over produced and terrible, that the remaining copies were buried in a Alamogordo, New Mexico landfill. Recently, within the last few years, some of the buried ET games were dug up.

So, at this point, I'm guessing some of you are thinking, "what does this have to do with Bigfoot?". Well, let me give you my take on what is going on. In my opinion,we are already seeing a decline within the Bigfoot community. There appears to be less interest and less support than in days gone by. But this is probably only the start of the Bigfoot crash. I can remember when Ghost Hunters first came on TV, I almost never missed an episode the first few seasons. As I was getting kind of bored with Ghost Hunters, I discovered Ghost Adventures. Now I rarely watch either but think they are the better paranormal shows still on. Now you can watch these shows and ones like them at about any time of the day, 7 days a week.

Over the last few years there has been an explosion of Bigfoot and paranormal related TV shows. Many of which fall into the same fate as the ET video game, sub par.  The popularity of Bigfoot and Ghost hunting has been at all time highs over the last few years. This has caused a lot of very bad shows to be put on the air in attempts to grab some cash. It has in effect caused damage to the cryptozoological field in general. For people who do serious research of subjects such as Bigfoot, it has caused an increase in fake reports and plain old hoaxing. Many may see these TV shows and get the idea of faking reports, photos and videos, in attempts to get on TV.

But over the last year or so, there seems to be a declining interest in the subject of Bigfoot. I think this is directly related to overcrowding of "not so good" television shows and other factors. The market has been flooded with misleading and often sub par shows. Some are docudrama type shows, that attempt to pass themselves off as being real. These sometimes brings confusion to the cryptozoology community, when some people believe it to be real.  Producers of these shows should be upfront about the programs contents, to help avoid this confusion.

Now, I'm not against good quality, honest TV shows. In fact, I think if done correctly, it could help advance study of many unknown and unconfirmed creatures. I know of one instant, where a local man had/has a TV show. The producers wanted him to "pretend" he and a rival were about to fight. The producers wanted to build up the fake tension between the two, wanted them to pack guns and act mad. The main person told the producers, he wouldn't be doing any of that fake stuff.

So, has there been a flood of bad Bigfoot and Paranormal shows? I think the answer is yes. Has it caused a decline in interest? I think it has. Will there be a Bigfoot crash? I think there could be at some point.

What will happen after a Bigfoot crash? Well, if we take what we know about the video game crash and apply it to the Bigfoot and Paranormal fields, I think they will survive. The crash, like the video game crash, will shake out many of the "undesirables".  This type of thing happens often when something becomes very popular and it floods the market. Many knockoffs get created and floods the market even more. Then one day it reaches a tipping point and the bottom falls out. Which is not always a bad thing, even though we do end up losing some of the good ones in the process. I think we are moving towards that tipping point in the Bigfoot community.

But, there is some good news. The Bigfoot community and Cryptozoology community in general, has a good core of solid and honest researchers and supporters. This will insure that it will survive and grow in the future. The gaming community was able to save and build the video game industry back up again. And in many ways it became better than it ever was because it pushed the gaming industry into new areas and technologies. This can also happen for the Cryptozoology community. This is achieved by having a good solid base of researchers, artist, fans, supporters and yes, even TV shows.

While the crash may come, some of us will still be here after the smoke clears. We will put back on our backpacks, load up our cameras,strap on our boots and hit the woods. Guaranteed!

Thanks
~Tom~




This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet


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7 comments:

  1. When a camera man keeps his camera pointed at the human and not the monster they are hunting, you know something is off, I knew Mountain Monsters was one of them after their first encounter, they always bring a comedy element into something that they don't want you to know, they need you to believe what they have said and taught is the only truth, when news readers mention anything about bigfoot or aliens, it's always with a snigger, my favorite ghost hunting program now is the same as yours and started the same but even on these programs they have " for entertainment purposes only " when I know that spirits exist because i've seen 3 myself. And it's not that our leaders have lied to us all before, " the sun god needs blood, your a witch, the world is flat, if you sin God will punish you severely. I have been reading about our past leaders and Kings and Queens, well just the rich in general. If sightings of sasquatch are getting fewer then something is keeping their numbers down, probably that storey about a special forces team taking down sasquatch may not be so far fetched, they could start from published recent sightings, using UV night vision not IR. More people should find out more about how the normal people ( civilians ) were treated, it's shocking, in England every animal belonged to the Crown, hunting was banned with a punishable by death law with the same law for most crimes, or sent to the colonies as slaves.

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  2. Thomas, you're more spot on than you know. It didn't start with TV shows, it started with Facebook and social media. When the internet first came out, in the 1990's, there was hardly a Bigfoot website and very few groups involved. Sure there were individual researchers and small groups here and there, but it was a small circle of researchers. Then the conferences started becoming more abundant, popping up everywhere. Enthusiasts and fans, started researching and calling themselves experts. Much like the Ghost field, groups started popping up everywhere. Everyone wanted a group. Everyone wanted to be a researcher. From the mid 1990's to the mid 2000's, the research field of series minded investigators remained small and dedicated. Now in 2015, you cant swing a dead cat without hitting a Bigfoot "Researcher." Everyone is an expert. Everyone suddenly has 40 years of experience when in fact have only been investigating for a few years, if that. Personally, I've seen it coming for a while and have backed away from the field to pursue my own research and interests. I dont work, communicate or socialize with many researchers or groups. I share very little information and evidence and I steer clear from most if not all the blogs and groups, although people keep adding me. I'll continue to lay low until the crash happens, and the "thrill seekers" "Experts" and short timers give up and go away, then maybe I'll be back. Until then, I'll continue doing my own thing far away from the "Bigfoot Community!" Best of luck to you and yours and hope to see you on the other side after all the dust settles.

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    1. Great comment. Yes, social media has sure played a part...both good and bad. All the infighting has been amplified thanks to Facebook. I tell people that there are no bigfoot experts. For many years I didn't share much, but over the last few years I have but I'm kind of drawing back from groups and sharing so much. I just do my own thing. Good luck with your research Eric and we will see you on the other side.

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    2. Well put Eric. With all of these social media experts showing lousy pics and all of the claims they make; Sasquatch should have been proven without a doubt by now. Drives us traditional people who have been around for a while crazy and boy do they hate when you take a skeptical approach to their many claims. Pete Wilson, sasquatch Watch of Montana

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  3. Hi Tom, me again, sorry but I have just watched a video on youtube which I think you would like to watch, it's on for over an hour but it is well worth the time to watch, it's Jim Marrs - Monoatomic Gold, now I understand mostly why we have had an invented human history and involves something that we both believe in, How the human race appeared and why, yep, slaves.

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