TV-Reviewed

Yeah, I admit to slacking off as it pertains to writing reviews for this show. I have to blame the producers of the series for that. It is sometimes difficult for a series which seems to do the same investigations week in and week out.

If you’re a regular viewer of MonsterQuest, you are very familiar with lake monsters by now. There was a slight twist to this one. Instead of looking for a Canadian version of Nessie, we went in search for a monster-sized eel. It was a new monster, but the research approach was the same as previous investigations.

Bring in the divers, sonar scanners, sketch artists, and supposed eye witnesses. I can’t say that any of the eye witnesses had anything particularly unusual, although I kind of laughed at the story about the man wrestling with an eel in the water.

It didn’t seem likely to me that an eel would reach that size. And after watching the show, it’s still hard for me to accept the idea of an eel inhabiting those waters. We’re not talking about a 10′ eel, but something much, much larger. Images of eels have always made me uncomfortable. There’s just something unnerving about them, lurking in the shadows, beneath the rocks, waiting for something small to swim by.

The issue I have with the sketch artist is the same I have with the lie detectors occasionally brought in. If someone believes they saw a monster, then there’s no lie to detect. What these people are seeing isn’t a monster. I’m certain it’s a case of mistaken identity. Floating logs, beavers, and otters are three very good and common things to mistake them for. I can’t help but point out the fact that they didn’t bring out a single live eel from the lake. They showed a guy electro-fishing for eels, but they only showed one eel and it was instantly put into a net and we never really saw it for more than that split second. I don’t discount the possibility of large eels existing there, but I don’t believe they’re as large as these people are suggesting. It’s merely mistaken identity.

Rating: 5