Yeti 4 part event

some issues I had with the shows:
1) I guess none of the camera traps put out in the first episode yielded any photos/video of note? since they were never mentioned again (and, I guess they were left there for some time, since, by the time he found that den in Bhutan, all he had to 'cover' it, was a motion sensor to tell them when something visited...which left prints, which would've been a lot easier to identify for sure, if a camera had caught the maker of them!)

2) um, if I'm a wild animal, coming in to investigate a stinky possible meal, and the sound of an animal dying, and someone points a flashlight in my direction, I'm either high-tailing it in the other direction, or hunkering down, as low to the ground as I can get, and waiting silently, till they leave, dumb move, Gates, I mean, I know you were trying to point to where the camera could catch the moving trees, but you probably prevented yourself from seeing whatever it was

3) this one's kinda gross, I know, but important - the sample identified as 'domestic goat scat', while I don't have any personal experience with goat #2, what I have seen of it (on Dirty Jobs), it was in little pellets (like rabbits do...pun intended), not one 'log' shape...now, maybe domestic goats kept in that part of the world go differently than the kind here do, but still...and is the tester sure he was getting a reading off the producer, not something that was its meal?

4) now, the human hair found in the cave 'nest' of pine needles...so, either Josh, the guy with him, or the cameraman in there with them shed, and no one noticed, or there was a person in there, hanging out, before they got there? could this validate that some so-called 'bigfoot's or 'yeti' are actually 'wildmen' or 'mountain men'? people who live out in the wilderness, just wanting to be left alone? since there were only 3 know people to have been in that cave at the time the hair was found, could they have done some DNA testing of the hair, more than just to identify species, and nail down whose it was? and if it doesn't match Josh, the other guy, or the cameraman, can they do like those testing companies do, and try to suss out the heritage/origin of the person the hair belonged to? are they of Asian ancestry? what other specifics does the genetic code of the hair tell us? if Josh didn't ask these questions (on camera) of the doc (he didn't even seem all that surprised that it was 'just' human, to me), then he must've thought it was reasonable that it was just from his team all along

Why?
It's interesting subject matter and an entertaining travelogue.

You think Expedition Unknown is dumb??? I'm betting you think your job is way better then Josh Gates.

It must be really boring to travel to different parts of the world to investigate things while at the same time enjoying the country and what it has to offer.

You have to be INCREDIBLY dumb to make a comment like that markartis. Really dirt dumb [sic].

Expedition Unknown is absolutely wonderful. Josh Gates (and his team) has a way of bringing television cameras to the farthest reaches of this planet, well beyond that of almost any other TV series. He's put himself in very legitimately dangerous positions more than a couple times during the course of filming for his shows. He takes cameras, often times by his own hands, into deep holes, uncharted caves, high cliffs, dense jungles, deep waters and everywhere between.

Josh has made actual discoveries, legitimate real world discoveries, during the course of filming for his TV show. He is a true explorer in every sense of the word.

Unfortunately the show gets its funding by marketing itself heavily towards the world of uncovering cryptids. To that effect I'm uncertain if he/they truly believes in what he seeks, or if it's all played up for the show. My assumption is he and his producers are very smart people who don't necessarily believe half the stuff they're supposedly searching for, but know that people base their tales/sightings/fears on SOMETHING, and if they were to stumble upon anything that could explain the stories then we're all the better for it.

So I disagree with you sir, I argue that this is a fantastic show. Whether or not someone might be considered dumb for believing everything they go looking for exists I'll refrain from commenting on. But if you're willing to carry along your salt shaker to take all the cryptid stuff with a grain of salt, then you're in for an amazing and entertaining exploration and travel show that will bring you to places rarely, if ever, seen on TV.

by markartis >> You have to be INCREDIBLY dumb to watch this show. Really dirt dumb.

Hunt for the Yeti is a special never seen before episodes. But he does mention his findings when he did hunt for the yeti on Destination Truth

It seems to be mostly new but they're definitely including some of the old content as if it happened during this special series. In part 2 of Hunt for the Yeti, he visits the monastery and asks to see the Yeti scalp and gets permission to take the hair sample, all of which happened during his first visit to Napal. It's unfortunate they air it like that, as it comes across as fake and ruins the appeal of the show for fans. It would be just as easy to include the segment as a flashback sequence.

But then again we're talking about Expedition Unknown, the series that aired a rerun as its season finale last season (Shangri-La). And the same network that tagged on ": Aftershocks" to Ghost Adventures with hardly any new content and called it a bunch of new episodes.