Recent speculation about National Geographic Channel making a new Bigfoot documentary in West Virginia is groundless. National Geographic Channel’s production team was there recently to do some spot re-creations of events that took place decades ago in East Asia, not about classic Bigfoot, but regarding Almas.
I’ve been in communication with them for some time, as hominologist Adam Davies’ expedition to Mongolia in search of Almas was being planned and then being filmed. Now they are doing end-of-the-production tidbits with the re-creations.
On March 16, 2006, I exclusively wrote about this documentary here at Cryptomundo.
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For example, one scene that the film production crew may have tried to film was the one when military doctor Vazgen Karapetyan checked on a captured Kaptar or Almas in Daghestan, Caucases, in 1941, during World War II. This drawing is contributed by Dr. Igor Bourtsev.
Decisions on where re-creations are filmed often have little to do with reality or imitating the actual locations. Usually a line producer from the production company makes such choices, based on costs, ease of access for the crew, and hotels nearby, without reference to consulting the cryptozoologists and hominologists at all. This seems to be just such a case, as the bottomline is usually about holding costs down regarding talent, filmmakers, and accomodations.
Of course, as I recall, most of the Yeti reenactments I’ve been involved in for television documentaries have been filmed in California, not Nepal.