Talk:Monster Quest
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In the Swamp Beast episode there was an anecdote about a 1829 Florida encounter with a Bigfoot-like creature, which killed members of an expedition sent to hunt it. I've found no references on line to any such story. Does anyone know where this piece of MonsterQuest originated? It sounds like a made up boogeyman tale, but it would be interesting to read the original account. Bryce (talk) 00:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
Aha, found a reference. It was termed the "Man Mountain" and in the story killed 5 men before dying of gunshot wounds. http://home.cinci.rr.com/kd8afh/Pre1960.html Bryce (talk) 00:21, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Reads too much like an advertisment
I've read over the article, and it seems like the entire thing is a copy-paste of the promotional material. This being an encyclopedia, I think the article should be a bit less leaning toward an ad for MonsterQuest. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Southern guy (talk • contribs) 02:58, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. Simply including a "Criticism" section could balance it. Some of the claims definitely need backing up. I added an NPOV tag. JDspeeder1 (talk) 20:29, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright Violations
It reads like an advertisement because most of the info here is ripped off directly from the History Channel -> see here for just one clear example. This article was started by Superraptor and if you look at his talk page, you can see he is clearly notorious for ripping off other sites and pasting the info here. He even made refs back to the pages the info is taken from, so it wasn't hard to figure it out. If I have time, I'll try to overhaul this page, but I'd say a majority of it as it stands now violates copyright policy. Cyberia23 (talk) 20:54, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
