Mountain Monsters: When Discovery WENT INSANE | Billiam

[@shawnconway6009]

The reason that Mountain Monsters works is BECAUSE it has a low budget and is cheap. It's four guys having a blast in the woods, they look like regular guys, and they act like regular guys. The Finding Bigfoot people act like they're larping professionals. They try way too hard. Mountain Monsters knows what it is, which is why it works.

[@kanseiyamazaru435]

I know the show is fake. I know the show is hokey. I KNOW the show is dumb but DAMMNIT I still find it way more entertaining that just about every other "cryptid hunting" series that has ever aired on Travel Channel.

[@Melodyofthesea78]

@@kanseiyamazaru435 It's fun and entertaining.

[@YapsiePresents]

It's WWE but with bigfoot we came for the fake action but stayed for the drama.

[@thomasorsini9735]

It’s kinda like Lost Tapes in that way for me, it knows what it is and it rolls with it

[@jimmysmith773]

@@kanseiyamazaru435 that's exactly how I feel about it and I enjoy watching it

[@tracychallice1099]

as a Native American, I would love a show that explores our stories and culture, but I also sorta want it to have the exact same tone as this. a bunch of natives bumbling around in the woods by the lake tryna find our sea goddess

[@the_rose_garden01]

I would love to see that, actually

[@Shampoid]

thatll just get you cancelled for "cultural appropriation"

[@chronicallygothic]

@@Shampoid they said natives bumbling around in the woods. natives can’t appropriate their own culture lmao

[@bloodangel19]

Nah it would be too " racist" for today. Funny how a native suggests this, almost as if people can take a joke lol.

[@tracychallice1099]

@@bloodangel19 where’s the joke

[@gayliljaehyun]

imagine getting kidnapped by your rival bigfoot hunting team and the camera man just stands there and films it

[@fannisland]

He I getting paid to film and not to interrupt 😏

[@richardtherichard26]

It’s like on nature documentaries they’re not allowed to get involved 😂😂

[@EtchaSketch444]

I like to imagine the camera man awkwardly asking the rival bigfoot dudes if he can tag along to keep filming, and the rival bigfoot guys are all 'Shit, why not?'

[@stevescott8060]

Yes, that's the job.

[@gpizzle9365]

Take only pictures, leave only footprints..... the mans a professional

[@MetalFan9490]

When Trapper died they had this tribute thing on the show where they were sitting around a campfire and they all talked about how they were feeling and how they loved him and they cried with each other and supported each other. Fake show or not, this is a great show that they are making to entertain people and the love and support these men show each other and the fact they can talk about things and show so much love makes these guys the most real and manly men I have ever seen in my life.

[@Jane-oz7pp]

fr if we could get more manly men showing that emotional sincerity and vulnerability it would do a lot for the world.

[@hunndigg]

Damn right

[@ackvevo]

They also got into beef with Finding Bigfoot once and to be fair at least the guys on Mountain Monsters have guns and traps

[@brandonblackwood3680]

"May the Valkyries welcome you, and bring you through Odin's great battlefield. May they sing your name with love and fury, so that we might hear it rise from the depths of Valhalla, and know that you've taken your rightful place at the table of kings."

[@macbuff81]

"Manly men" 😂😂😂 You are aware that these guys are probably just actors

[@clarkgable1458]

"we're actually investigating the woman of the woods" "Don't go in the woods"

[@DinoboyLegosandMOCs]

Billiam talking about how they're pretty much just D&D LARPing, makes me unironically want an actual show that fully embraces the D&D LARPing. Kind of like a mockumentary series with D&D players hunting down monsters for quests with goofy over top acting and ridiculous costumes for the monsters. I want them to even interview the monsters like they interview the main characters, it'd be hilarious.

[@kabobawsome]

Want them to be like fighting actual demons in the Abyss and it just cuts to an interview about with a demon they are fighting, talking about how awesome the party is to work with, talk about their skill in fighting, cut to them doing a brutal teamwork kill on this exact demon while the demon talks about their teamwork compatibility, would be great. Finally, you cut back to the Demon, now cut in two, just finishing it off with a line like "I tell you, this party? They're the real deal."

[@eazy8579]

If you ever need a guy in Michigan, hit me up. I’ll be in it for free; sounds like fun

[@curleyqreviews9793]

Beholder: These guys just came in and tried to take my stuff. I had to fight them off

[@mongmanmarkyt2897]

@@kabobawsome write this down write this down

[@treetheoak8313]

Sell that to Droppout 🤣

[@CaptainBamboo]

the fact mountain monsters doesnt even try to convince anyone its real and is basically just telling a story is pretty cool, would like to see more of them because I'll never watch it myself

[@gabemissouri]

You should watch it, it's entertaining as hell

[@SergioLeonardoCornejo]

TBH it feels like a South Park parody of the genre.

[@gabemissouri]

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo it is lmao

[@coreyswan4747]

It doesn’t have too cause it is, ppl are jus to naive and think that stuff isn’t real jus cause they’ve seen finding Bigfoot which is completely scripted, most of the stuff that happens in the show is not scripted of any when it comes to the actual hunting an investigating, ppl jus deny stuff cause they don’t believe

[@bloodangel19]

It is worth the watch, idk how but 4 hillbillies runing around the woods makes for damn good fun

[@jbmp1390]

At least the Rogue team were nice enough to still allow them to do interviews directly to camera during their abduction. Not a lot of kidnappers are that considerate 😁

[@planescaped]

"So far this meeting isn't going like we thought it would. They're zip-tying us, putting bags over out heads, and stuffing us in the back of this van. Thank goodness they let our camera crew come along and me out of my cage to do this interview and get some Mcdonalds."

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@planescaped THE RATINGS, MAN! THE RATINGS!

[@vardiganxpl1698]

Hey man, if I were in that situation. I know damn well the possible ratings from that sort of thing would blow through the roof. So what my life is in imminent danger, RATINGS BABEE!

[@The_Wendigo]

To be fair… it’d be fun to chase a bunch of imaginary monsters in the dark with friends AND get paid for it? Add a case a beer and that’s a regular hunting season for the southern gentleman.

[@olliecloudd]

Rest in peace Trapper. He passed around 3 years ago I believe, still love this show, and I will until the day I die. When I was younger, I used to think it was all real, especially the episode about the cave creature from season 2 ☠☠

[@cj16423]

NOOOOOOO 😭😭

[@itsaperfectionist4158]

...which one was trapper again??

[@arthur-oy2ki]

I used the terrified of the original Cherokee Devil episode!!

[@Shythalia]

​@@itsaperfectionist4158 The leader

[@tasnimbari4012]

The last few episodes with trapper were so sad

[@niko7892]

These guys would just pay random people as witnesses and it just adds to the charm. The hellhound witness was a friend of my mom's ex and it's so surreal seeing him talk about it 100% genuine lmao

[@dubuyajay9964]

How much was he paid?

[@vijaidranrajagapal7955]

froever

[@averyeml]

As soon as you framed it as “wrestling, but cryptids” I was not only hooked but FULLY understood what I was looking at. The analogy is perfect.

[@macrussell78]

That would actually be pretty metal. Trapper just fisherman suplexes the baba yaga while the other crypto fighters gang up and 3-D Skunkape through a flaming table.

[@Lauri226]

Ikr that was great lmfao

[@ambiguouszenithar]

@@macrussell78 that really would be awesome but unfortunately trapper passed back in 2019.

[@bungiecrimes7247]

Okay Emma.

[@SpellCastor]

Honestly if this was an internet ARG people would unironically love this.

[@CheziahKatt]

I mean, a random ARG isn't the same as a TV channel that marketed itself as a knowledge based channel

[@moosenman]

This would be one of those hokey args that’s made by beginners and I’d love that for them honestly

[@namacator]

I'm with you on this one Frightfur Demon

[@thevoicesaregettinglouder16]

Ever heard of the Paranormal Paranoids?

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

What in an ARG?

[@Topaz542]

15:12 I LOVE that you called it a DnD campaign because i ran a homebrew campaign I wrote when I was in college about a rag tag group of adventurers bring contracted by the king to hunt various beasts in the surrounding land and it was directly inspired by THIS show 😅

[@tatecarlson]

This show is one of my favorite monster-hunting shows. RIP John Tice aka Trapper, and best quote of the series has to be "He looks like a Redneck Crocodile Dundee." Got to love Buck, and hell gotta love the humor of the AIMS team, especially Wild Bill.

[@vijaidranrajagapal7955]

Forever

[@kcjc]

Not gonna lie, as a wrestling fan the comparison peaked my interest and is definitely warranted. What sold me was the inclusion of the evil rival investigation group lol

[@Slop_Dogg]

Yeah that was just that next level of ridiculousness I needed to start watching. It’s bizarrely engaging lol

[@92Raider-art]

I know right!? Had crack me up so much lol

[@rafaelmoreno6331]

ngl someone should make a tag team inspired by this

[@50shadesofinsanity]

This is how the Wyatts really should have been booked as. Lmao (jk, of course)

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

@@50shadesofinsanity The CEO of the rival group comes out "It was me Austin!"

[@hythlodaeus1705]

Mountain Monsters was the best thing to come out of the mid 2010s cryptid boom, and I’m so glad to see it starting to get the attention it deserves

[@TheSixOfSwords]

For real, me and my Grandma would save the episodes and binge them together lmao

[@Sevrgpro]

@@TheSixOfSwords same

[@shawngillespie3532]

I was watching and thought this was a parody movie, they built an electrified cage to capture a Sasquatch that was following them, I was like what the? And why doesn’t someone do this to capture a Sasquatch 😂😂😂

[@GhostofGomezDawkins]

Completely agree, I don't mind this review, but it almost feels disingenuous. I'd rather hear the reviews of people in these comment thread. I watched a lot of TCM, Family Feud, and Boxing/UFC with my Grandma.

[@lachlanshelley6336]

A couple of years ago when I was at university, my friend and I used to watch mountain monsters every single night because he showed it to me and we thought it was the funniest and genuinely entertaining shows we had seen. It deserves so much attention because so many moments are absolute gold.

[@virtual_vanitas]

I'm Native American! I was showing my mom this first few bits of this vid and she said we should make a Native American one. so when you said you would like to see Native American folk lore monsters show I lost it in my room and yelled to my mom there's an audience for it! I'm sure we can get my step dad and his buddies a few beers and get them to LARP in the woods of Kansas Oklahoma and Texas.

[@weirdotzero7065]

I'd watch it.

[@milospencer503]

I’d pay money to watch this

[@bunnylovingbastard]

I'd watch this if it's obviously low budget and there are multiple beer breaks called for on camera during the LARPing. Question is now will you be fighting these monsters or tryna get footage? 🤔

[@mr_JackSchwarze]

I’d watch it man

[@curleyqreviews9793]

Yes. Do it

[@mc39S686]

A relative of mine was on the show for an episode and also helped work on the sound for a few others. When we asked him if sound meant recording the audio or making fake bigfoot noises, he replied "yes."

[@RussianBot-kp8wn]

Mountain Monsters knows how to not take itself to serious and just entertain people, finding bigfoot is so self reassuring on every aspect you know it's not real and you cant suspend your disbelief.

[@lucassmith992]

This show is absolute gold and no one can tell me otherwise. My favorite take on this show (which my dad pitched me) is that the producers and crew have just been fucking with em and they all genuinely believe what’s happening and this is just how they are lmao

[@TheGreyTurtleEntertainment]

This feels accurate

[@delaneymcdonell5774]

This show is literally my guilty pleasure because I know it’s funny and dumb as hell

[@DarkOmicron]

The ol' The Blair Witch Project method taken up a notch

[@coreyswan4747]

Bruh the crew doesn’t even know what’s going on half the time, u clearly haven’t watched this show enough

[@MF-R]

"They are Shonin style warriors against Bigfoot" I never, ever, expected to hear those mountain men to be refered to that way... EVER. But I'm here for it.

[@drvinylscratch1936]

"They are woohooing in the woods" hearing that completely outside of the Sims has me dying

[@ronbridges678]

I'm full blooded Cherokee and I love these videos!! We kids used to have bon fires and one of the elders used to tell us stories about Bigfoot and the dog men. I don't believe the videos but they are good fun to watch and I hope they make more of them!!!

[@charlesjennings93]

As someone who loves this show, I glad it gets the recognition it deserves. RIP Trapper you are deeply missed. Also Mountain Monsters has gotten affirmation from Cliff and Bobo from Finding Bigfoot. And Cliff was also one of the leading experts on Monster quest for the bigfoot episodes.

[@iivin4233]

I want to see the arc where they become increasingly skilled and professional. I want to see them go on journeys of self discovery and improvement. I want to see ripped hillbilly bods tearing down supernatural phenomenon, always out gunned but never outclassed.

[@Wired_User]

You want them to go on a shonen training arc?

[@LzKal]

Yes a 1000x times yes

[@iivin4233]

@@Wired_User the grass demon tournament arc

[@Never_heart]

@@Wired_User We need a time skip where they all get broken powers that after 3 episodes get overpowered by the bigfeet also training and getting even more broken powers before the rookie realizes the bigfoot inside him isn't an enemy but a misunderstood ally making him the strongest

[@planescaped]

I can just picture an episode where they're training in a Tibetan temple, when it is attacked by a Yeti and they need to track it down.

[@ellabee4820]

This video reawakened a memory lmao. When I was younger I went to this girl's sleepover birthday party and at night she put this show on and we were all entranced and thought it was real (kids are dumb) her dad terrified all of us by putting on a gorilla Halloween costume and jumping out at as pretending to be a Bigfoot. One girl got scared so bad she had to leave. 💀💀💀 her dad felt really bad but I had a great time. Great show 10/10

[@VivaLaEmail]

Me and my friends use to go camping on my property and my dad would always tell us scary stories then shake the tent in the middle of the night of make noises in the woods and one night a new kid was there and got so scared he actually peed himself. Miss those days

[@pillbugm8914]

coolest dad ever

[@planescaped]

It brought back a memory of seeing my older brother watching it and just being so confused and flabbergasted as to why... Why!?

[@Perroden]

My sister was watching chucky with a friend when my mom got a doll, put fake blood on it and gave it a butchers knife and threw in it the window right at a jump scare😂😂😂

[@crispy7311]

I didn't know there were other fans of Mountain Monsters besides myself, and now I am having a field day! Thanks Billiam, for giving the show the praise it deserves

[@RobertwithTrueCrimePodcast162]

I love Mountain Monsters can't wait for the new season

[@shawngillespie3532]

I didn’t know anyone actually watched this, don’t even have cable, watched this when at my mothers’ house, funny as hell🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Mrpeppino444]

I thought I was the only punk watching this show also 😂😂😂😂

[@dalebowers9192]

There is thousands of us out there including my wife and myself from Norwich city over the Pond here in United Kingdom.

[@WildAuthoress]

My entire family watches every Saturday night - the episodes never get old!

[@TheDeadman419]

I really wanted the rival Bigfoot team to have their own segment where they speak to the camera. I mean, if you're going to kidnap two guys on camera, while the crew is going to do nothing to stop you, you might as well say something to the nice folks at home

[@kevenrules]

I've met 2 of the mountain monster guys they are really sweet and wouldn't shut up in the best way possible and even played with our daughter and took a bunch of pictures. The fake shows like mountain monsters were hilarious and the guys in it are super nice guys. I even told them I don't care if the show is fake or if they are 100% real and edited in a way to make them more entertaining and seem fake It was the trap builder Willy and jeffro

[@lukepevensie]

they are real but never get any physical evidence nor shooting one, except the rogue team shot a bigfoot they were after. they did kill one of the cryptids though, the bear dog hybrid. Billiam here would want to carry an AR-15 or AK-47 like Huckleberry in the later seasons has the AR-15 if they are with the AIMS team, those hillbillies carry guns for self defense or hunting them

[@nicofischer6963]

Mothman is a veteran creature and a national treasure and you're gonna give him the respect that he earns!!

[@averytherockgod9822]

Mountain Monsters is genuinely one of my fav shows ever and the Dark Forest arc is one the most hilarious and one of my fav arcs of a show in tv history. Every episode of it is like its own so bad it’s good movie and the fact that show is marketed as a “reality tv show” just genuinely makes it far more hilarious. I honestly hope that now the show is on a streaming service, the budget gets even bigger and the arcs get even more ridiculous. Because the fact that this show isn’t as well known and memed on a ton is just insane cause this show is a LIVING meme and I wouldn’t hv it any other way.😆

[@samuelbastable2002]

The show should be on discovery+ which is a streaming service.

[@averytherockgod9822]

Yes, Samuel that’s wht I was implying

[@Kimosabes2hot]

I actually vividly remember MonsterQuests Mothman episode and having a mental breakdown because my uncle said "West Virginia is so close to Virginia, he could totally fly over and get ya!" And then I couldn't sleep alone for a month.

[@versebuchanan512]

You're lucky Mothman's a good boy

[@Gloomdrake]

@@versebuchanan512 he's a hoot at parties, too

[@versebuchanan512]

@@Gloomdrake Oh you know it

[@darkpuppetlordful]

As a close friend, and professional associate of Namthom the Mothman, I am shocked to hear you were afraid of him, for he is a good guy who brings warnings and good tidings

[@peterstoric6560]

I get that. When I first heard of mothman I was a mere lad and it was my stepbrother telling me about how it would be attracted by light at night and if you had your lights in it would break in to your house/car, kidnap you, and remove the bones from your body.

[@cheftristone]

Before I watch this, I want to be clear that I adore this show unironically.

[@b.lazing9923]

i realy liked the Grass Man bit, how one goes "He's been showing up where people live" and everyone is disgusted by that, and i'm just thinking... did the Grass Man did something? is he actively terrorizing folks or eating babies or just minding his own business? and that gave me an idea, a show about hillbillies actually wrestling monsters who are just minding their own business, like they stumble on bigfoot sitting on a meadow watching the clouds and they run up to him and start to wrestle him and then just leave all happy because they sure showed him

[@coolgreenbug7551]

Monster quest footage of Bigfoot in a recliner with a pipe and newspaper

[@GabrielWard-yu6sk]

Something about an angry hillbilly power bombing the wendigo taking a bath in a small pond on his lonesome is… is.. just peak cinema I don’t know how else to explain it.

[@macentallungan6178]

I need billiam to do a “Lost Tapes” episode so badly. I feel like cryptids use to be so much more popular when I was a kid.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Wasn't Lost Tapes part of a compilation vid he did?

[@Hatris]

Good news

[@macentallungan6178]

@@Hatris no fucking way

[@anthony5413]

They’re getting a bit of resurgence in forms of podcast, expanded perspectives and cryptonaughts make awesome cryptid related content

[@txt5220]

if this is how Billiam acts with crypto hunting shows, I REALLY want to see him watch "ghost hunting" shows

[@caodesignworks2407]

I used to hang out at a local cemetery a lot to photograph the animals that would come out of the woods that bordered it. It was also a good place to do some astro photography as it was on the edge of town and there weren't any lights in the area. I used to run into a ghost hunting group a lot. Typically I'd see them way before they'd know I was there, for one, because they were loud. And always jumping or exclaiming at random animal noises or shuffling. The way they'd talk about the "whispers" their recorders picked up was often just hilarious. The main lady running it would get so pissed off at me for just being out in the cemetery at night. As if there aren't 4 other cemeteries she could go to. She'd say that I was "scaring the ghosts away." Just grifters being grifters. Everything is haunted until people who don't believe show up. They seemed to be doing just fine until they realized the distant random glow was my camera screen in the dark or that clicking noise was my camera. Or that other noise was usually just a screech owl. Or perhaps from one of the houses that neighbored the cemetery with maybe a 50ft strip of trees and a railroad track in between. Anyway, I'd love to see him cover some ghost hunter shows. Those people are seriously ridiculous.

[@Xenunnaki]

Ghost Adventures would give him a real field day

[@johndanes2294]

Phasmophobia but you beat up the ghost

[@txt5220]

@@johndanes2294 "Ghost catching"? Nah, the only thing these ghosts are catching is these hands 👊

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@txt5220 Chad Ghost Puncher?

[@m0istur]

I remember mountain monsters and was sad to hear trapper passed away in 2019 after the 7th season aired. It was still show that although didn't scare me too much, I did find it entertaining and I feel like it did get me more into the world of cryptids and monsters

[@Sevrgpro]

Aw man did he?

[@m0istur]

@@Sevrgpro yup

[@Sevrgpro]

@@m0istur that’s a shame to hear

[@1997Nightwing]

I love revisiting this video because it’s just completely wholesome vibes all the way through

[@HotDogBunN2YG]

i recently went through the mountain monsters series and god what a gem. the gallysnasters episode had me crying.

[@thegnarledpirate9198]

I remember being a kid watching these guys "hunting" monsters while acting all crazy. Mountain Monster is one of those shows you know what's happening is not real, but that doesn't matter because it's fun.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

My favorite one of these shows will always be Ghost Adventures, Zak Baggins seems to have a righteous, holy fervor to not only find a real ghost/demon, but he seems to want to die a martyr battling a ghost/demon and he seems to have wrangled some friends into a obligated ghost based suicide pact.

[@fakenamebunchonumbers]

I haven't watched Ghost Adventures in years, but I uses to binge seasons at the time while in hs and later as an undergraduate. Zak is the goth jock that I never knew I needed a heavy dose of until I saw him act like a masochistic gym rat while in the haunts of supposed demons.

[@darkpuppetlordful]

@@fakenamebunchonumbers I wish I could be God's strongest, like my hero Zak Baggins

[@Para2normal]

Always had my doubts about Bagans tbh. He seems to willing to put others into potentially dangerous situations and since Nick Groff left he seems to have become more Fundie in his outlook, just because some edgy teen drew a pentangle on a wall is not evidence of "Dark Magic Rituals" and his constant linking of witchcraft to "Black Magic" smacks of the Satanic Panic dialogue.

[@rikubrown8109]

@@fakenamebunchonumbers I lived in Astoria or when they came and shot an episode of there show there. It was great because he acted all freaked out when he heard me and my coworkers in the underground changing out kegs. Looked mad, like we weren't supposed to do our jobs

[@gamergirl209]

Literally watched an excerpt where a girl from behind the camera is asked if she wants to mess with a Luigi board and she clearly doesn't but is pressured into it

[@Synetik]

I'm from Kentucky. I can verify the existence of Cookout and it's amazingly varied menu.

[@holyheretic3185]

No.. That's not true... That's impossible!

[@BlankMoments]

6:04 "And I turned around" Can not hear this phrase without chuckling a little.

[@holicandy01]

I loved that show! It's so silly, great back ground noise while I cleaned. I always recommend it when someone brings up big foot (which is more recurring than I'd expect)

[@willmfrank]

Josh Gates once declared, in an episode of "Destination: Truth," that "No one's better at ALMOST finding monsters than us." Sums up pretty much everything at Discovery these days, doesn't it? 🤨

[@eddlzilla]

I would remember every preview of the show it would show some commotion as if something extraordinary happened or they had real evidence but it always ended up with Josh losing his footing or falling down.

[@jaydeng.3029]

@@eddlzilla I think one time he actually did find what he said was a "yeti footprint". But I also love that every now and then there'd be an episode like the popobawa one where he just went "Yeah, this is bullshit."

[@okami6399]

The first episode of Mountain Monsters I ever saw was with my roommate in college who watched it regularly. I wasn’t too invested, figured it would be a fun little distraction for an hour or so like most ghost or cryptid hunting shows I see. Then the first thing I see is a guy in a cage in the middle of the forest because a skeleton put him there. It only got more engrossing from there.

[@ninjajack6457]

Ohhhhh yes, I was really hoping you would cover this. I got introduced to this show when my dungeon master and I would watch it while waiting for other party members to show up, and I legit got invested. Also the line “why are there 3 of em!?” Became an inside meme.

[@Gloomdrake]

Did your DM hijack any of the episode plots for campaigns?

[@ninjajack6457]

@@Gloomdrake unfortunately not, but everytime there was 3 of something we quoted the one line

[@TEKI07]

I read somewhere that a person met wild bill at a supermarket, and he’s just as energetic as he is in the show 😂

[@grantdixon4115]

My buddy used to work on as a bee keeper on land owned by wild bill. One time he said he went to bring him his monthly honey and when he knocked on the door Wild bill clearly had a gun behind his back. When my buddy told him he was just there to bring his honey wild bill dropped the gun on a table and said: “oh I thought you were someone else, I was gonna shoot you” and carried on as if nothing was wrong

[@Jokoko2828]

I buy that.

[@TheAntiDisneyEmperor]

You seem credible(also a total wild bill thing to do)

[@bjuganda7758]

Wild Bill being Wild Bill, nothing wrong with that

[@Jane-oz7pp]

As a human being living outside of the Grand Truman Show of the USA, I assume that's actually very normal for Americans

[@mykey2max]

i remember (being a very gullible preteen) watching Mountain Monsters with my dad and it genuinely terrifying me at times, seeing it in this video now makes that absolutely hilarious and i appreciate the show even more ☠️

[@Sm0k3turt]

As a kid you’d for sure think it’s real. No shame in that. When you’re young you don’t know that media

[@Diego-xo8mx]

No shame, even if I know everything is fake some of the roars, screeches, and terrible CGI models still give me the creeps and shivers

[@kathleenmcmanus8509]

Embrace the moment I say!

[@aizawas_left_nut7908]

me with ghost adventures

[@thejollyroger3388]

Mountain Monsters is one of the best things ive ever watched. Ive been watching it forever and when trapper died, i was absolutely devastated. Its a great show and super hilarious, please i beg you to watch it, please.

[@Darthmonk864]

Mountain Monsters is my favorite bad tv show of all time. I tell people the legend of that show constantly. The sheepsquatch episode is still an immaculate piece of media.

[@Tsotha]

so I am not the only person who remembers Mountain Monsters, can clearly remember it being a level sillier in style and tone than most other cryptozoology TV shows but had no idea it got this batshit insane in the later seasons

[@magicalmojitoes4558]

This show is the perfect storm. Every single one of these men is unhinged, all in different hilarious flavors. The way the show is shot is absolutely insane. They try to make you believe that the dude with the most empty stare out of all of them is capable of setting gigantic nonsensical traps. Wild Bill is constantly screaming when he talks. His name is WIld Bill. Once they got chased through the woods by someone named Stinky Tom. The first time I watched it with a friend we laughed so hard we almost threw up. It's a masterpiece.

[@stevenclark1662]

Thank God they aren't ACTUALLY hunting anything, or they'd have to leave wild Bill at home. First time he speaks, every creature in a 5 mile radius knows EXACTLY where the AIMS team is.

[@reeee-nq8re]

So funny thing about stinky tom it was just will running after them without his shirt on

[@michaeladawn537]

Mountain Monsters brought me together with some of my closest friends. We only watched episodes when we were together and truly, watching them spin off the rails was next level.

[@vijaidranrajagapal7955]

forever

[@ratchetxtreme6591]

Honestly wasn’t expecting another vid after the last lost one, but it’s much appreciated.

[@tanks451]

Lossened* one, FTFY

[@BurningheartofSILVER]

Right?! I was prepared to not see Billy for another 8 months

[@tjzero0008]

Hell yeah man! Friday night watching Billiam!

[@AspiringDevil]

Honestly this is the show that most represents my experiences hunting cryptids in my teens & 20s. A bunch of dudes & dudettes drinking, playing with guns & using the cryptozoology as an excuse to go camping in spooky places. Now we or may not remember to take pictures or properly document evidence, but what will absolutely happen is someone pisses in the damn camp fire ruins the mood. Unironically I actually think this guy will improve CW TV shows.

[@92Raider-art]

I'd love to see Cw cryptid show. We could have Mothman terrifying people in one scene and in the next he's talking about how distressed he is that he can't date Bigfoots daughter

[@AspiringDevil]

@@92Raider-art I'd watch that 👍

[@92Raider-art]

@@AspiringDevil Yeah for real I'd watch it too just because of the crazy premise

[@AmericanAurochs]

The first couple seasons of this show were pure gold! My brother and I spent many, many hours howling at these guys! Monster Quest is a legitimately good show that actually got some really good evidence in the second episode of season one; and full on caught two other cryptids on camera, those two were a giant squid and a shark in a river but hey. Glad you enjoyed them both.

[@TheAntiDisneyEmperor]

I love both of these shows and Monsters and Mysteries in America is pretty solid for reenacting many stories and sightings of many strange creatures

[@AmericanAurochs]

@@TheAntiDisneyEmperor That’s a great one to!

[@altonweaverjr.4091]

I'm so glad you're talking about this show. I've laughed my ass off week in week out watching this when it would come on😂😂😂

[@CalamitasCalliope]

With the DnD comparison I really recommend anyone who likes this stuff to look into the game system Monster of the Week. It's more storytelling focused than traditional DnD systems and the way its structured makes the campaigns feel a lot like this show

[@JackSilver1410]

The era when Discovery stopped being about discovery and instead became crab fishing 24/7 with one, extremely begrudged episode of Mythbusters on Wednesdays.

[@thelonesage3146]

I wish they stuck with discovery.

[@Wired_User]

Extremely accurate XD

[@breetheraven2520]

dont forget naked people on sundays

[@planescaped]

The first 4 or so seasons of Deadliest Catch were pretty great though when it was fresh and focused on the actual crab fishing. Once it started focusing more on inter-ship drama and contrived mariner politics, it was never the same. Its like after Phil died and it was a huge deal, some exec thought they needed to veer a lot more into the 'drama' side of things. Same thing with Storage Wars. These shows start out plausible and thus enjoyable, and then just inevitably jumps the -crab- shark and kills your suspension of disbelief.

[@JackSilver1410]

@@planescaped The height of American Generic Reality Show Wars. Pawn Stars was worth watching now and then because you had the chance to actually learn at least a little bit. Storage Wars was much less of that coupled with a bunch of shitty personalities. Except for the older guy in the sunglasses, what's-his-name, I'd hang out with him given the chance.

[@NegaHumanX]

A monster hunting show from the POV of the monsters could be pretty funny. Just some monsters messing with the most insane humans on the planet.

[@theflickchick9850]

This is close to the premise of a story I was working on. It's fun.

[@willmfrank]

"Next on Animal Planet: an all-new episode of "Sasquatch Seekers" And on our sister channel Cryptid World: an all-new episode of "Human Avoiders."

[@bishielurfer]

It'd be like a cryptid prank channel

[@thesteelsquid863]

@@willmfrank Actual footage of me curled up in my room for ten hours

[@Rynewulf]

The vampire hunter portions of What We Do In The Shadows

[@KingCakeGator]

RIP Tracker, this show never failed at making me smile

[@austinlee4156]

God I miss this show, watching it in its hayday was something so special

[@GenericProtagonist118]

I remember that the only cryptid they ever successfully caught was a larger then average hog.

[@faintsmile363]

hogzilla

[@shawnconway6009]

How is a show about four guys wandering around the woods screaming about bigfoot portraying the most healthy male relationships one could hope for on television? That's insane.

[@darkninjafirefox]

Hearing Billiam says "dark forest" over and over again makes me want him to talk about warrior cats. Idk if he's read it or not but I think it'd be fun

[@cartoonhistory353]

I want more paranormal content it’s chief’s kiss

[@hailmendoza6106]

oh my god I remember those books 😂

[@redmistbluemiss]

Being a boy from the Pacific Northwest, Bigfoot will always have a special place in my heart in fact one of my mom's friends is in an episode of Finding Bigfoot on one of the panels. I can't make this shit up, it's actually a pretty big thing in rural areas growing around outdoorsmen you hear some crazy ass stories. I absolutely loved Discoveries fake mockumentaries growing up especially Lost Tapes didn't like the Sasquatch one though he's a big Monke with big feet, vegetarian, gentle, and shy. Reminding us that there's still stuff to discover about the woods and we should strive to protect all of it and all of the creatures that call it home.

[@hollyhock9638]

Bro me and my whole family, brother, dad, and mother used to watch this while eating dinner for like a solid two years when I was in elementary school just cuz of the sheer ridiculousness of it.

[@Last_Person]

The cookout bit really resonated with me, simply because I share that experience. I’ve always heard about cookout but have never seen one with my own eyes. A truly scary cryptid.

[@otakuribo]

As a proud North Carolina native, I must say that not only does Cook-Out exist, but it is the Waffle House of burgers and shakes: the food's not great, but they're open late and it's cheap enough to afford after the rent's paid. Also their shakes are really good, like, really REALLY good. They make them by hand out of Breyer's ice cream. Thicc ass shakes (phrasing)

[@cartoonhistory353]

I read this in Larry the cable guys voice

[@KingJohnMichael]

Game grumps?!

[@milkbattery5477]

this was unironically my FAVORITE show as a kid living in deep woods appalachia. as a 9-11 yr old it scared the absolute shit out of me. my brother actually met wild bill in the fishing section at walmart

[@JeraWizard]

I already watched your lost video but every time you ask the audience to I wish I could go like it again. Great stuff as always, I'm enjoying watching through the ones I missed :D

[@lasercraft32]

14:21 I like how they're putting bags over their heads, but don't do anything about the literal cameras filming the whole thing going down XD

[@Bluecho4]

Mountain Monsters sounds to me like a really wholesome Hunter campaign from the World of Darkness (pick a version). They're just dudes trying to protect the world from monsters, only to discover the world has far worse things in it than merely Bigfoot. Including, of course, the most evil creature of all: Man.

[@gunnstash]

My father, may he rest in peace, unironically loved this show. Knew it was bullshit, loved it anyway. I always turned my nose up at watching it with him. I really, really wish I had taken the time.

[@luvdisneyv]

I'm really sorry for your loss

[@gunnstash]

@@luvdisneyv thank you, that's really kind

[@hakijoe]

Wish you had too now, but hey give it marathon watch and have yourself a good laugh for him, sure he'd like that

[@Sm0k3turt]

I’m sorry man. Sorry for your loss ): Watch it in his honor. This goofy shit makes me smile

[@delludyri8231]

My favorite quote from this show is when they stumble upon some trees that look weird. Then one of them says: "This is obviously a Bigfoot tree structure"

[@Kaltrogdor]

I think Buck being the "expert caller" is just saying he calls the experts when needed. I don't know if anyone can truly master the art of screaming into the darkness of the woods. Thats a true art, easy to learn hard, impossible to master.

[@Somerandomjingleberry]

I specifically remember the chupacabra episode that they did, because that was the closest they ever got to having the monster front and center on camera. You could pause it and go frame by frame and go “wow holy crap that looks like an actual wolf like creature’s head menacing them” only to then realize that it’s basically JUST the head and it’s not even rearing up its forepaws or something, and you’re like “wow that’s basically a gigantic wolf head puppet huh” but the way it’s presented and the way it has just the right amount of motion during the brief camera shot that you weirdly appreciate the dedication and ingenuity of the filmmakers doing this stuff despite everything. Same goes for the “buck and a cameraman get separated from everyone else and buck is possessed or something” moment from the Dark Forest saga, where the moments where the cameraman and buck get separated and the cameraman genuinely sounds worried about losing him only for buck to mysteriously appear right behind him again and go “dude I’ve been here the whole time”, on top of Buck’s delivery of his line claiming to know why the other guy’s nose is bleeding despite the two of them having no way of knowing that that nosebleed is happening in the first place… I dunno, it’s just very engaging somehow

[@maraganger]

Misinformation aside, there's something almost endearing about those shows. Like being able to immerse myself in 30 minutes of just pure insanity, like hell yeah homie, tell me where Samsquancho or the Yemti is. B)

[@mori8330]

These deep dives into bizarre Discovery/Animal Planet etc. content are probably my favorite videos from Billiam. Incredibly entertaining

[@manospondylus]

The premise of Mountain Monsters would kinda work well for a multiplayer videogame where you hunt monsters with your buddies

[@dubuyajay9964]

The computer game "Bigfoot?"

[@Sub-Atomic]

The computer game "Monster Hunter?"

[@manospondylus]

@@Sub-Atomic Monster Hunter is too fantastical. I wanna roleplay as an Appalachian hillbilly with a shotgun

[@Sub-Atomic]

@@manospondylus fair enough

[@404_nowheresnotfound3]

Fancy seeing you here Mr.Kosemen.

[@LenaTurquoise]

Small little neat detail i noticed that just put a smile on my face is hearing Kurtis Conner's "indoor boyfriend" instrumental as a backdrop to the sponsored segment

[@Sm0k3turt]

I wish more shows would do this. It’s just fun escapism for a good 30 minutes.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Yeah, just not "educational" ones.

[@Red_Fives217]

I know they're all staged, but I love shows like this ("Ghost Hunting" ones too). I'm a huge fan of Halloween season & spooky things (I'm skeptical, but I *want* to believe), so I watch them like I do horror movies. They're just fun campfire/ghost stories that scratch my "spooky season" itch!

[@rtp6343]

Me and my dad have always loved this show. Just four good ol’ boys in the woods fighting cryptids. Hell yeah

[@BriGuy-ed5dr]

I'm infinitely bummed that discovery is now running HBOMax

[@otaking3582]

They need to fire David Zaslav

[@Thesquareandweird]

Tell me about it. They're just wiping out all the good shows on the app and it's like...why the fuck would you do any of this? Like...you have your own app. Use that. Don't cannibalize this one. Hell toss in a sub to Discovery+ if you want.

[@curtailedbike4123]

@@Thesquareandweird they are legit burning everything to the ground for the off chance of saving money. Yes they’re getting rid of projects that waste money but they are also destroying literal shows to make some money from tax write offs

[@kabobawsome]

@@Thesquareandweird They're basically using Warner properties as a quick buck to boost their profits, as far as I can tell. It's the same tactics that hedge funds use: go into a large amount of debt to buy a company, then force that company to take on that debt and pay it off by making huge cuts.

[@weirdotzero7065]

*Running HBOMax into the ground

[@systemofadownsyndrome7715]

I live in WV this show was a guilty pleasure of mine. The episode when the other team got the bigfoot was priceless

[@christinaguidry8250]

The edit of the COD lobby is just so accurate and hilarious!!🤣🤣

[@Jivetalkin13]

What we didn't know was that the TRUE Mountain Monsters were the friends we made along the way.

[@TheJohnGill]

I tried to tell everyone years ago about this show. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Started out as a run of the mill monster hunting show, but slowly became a something much more bizarre and meta.

[@eliburry-schnepp6012]

I was first introduced to this show by Michael Jones' GLORIOUS rant on the Off Topic podcast but this is even crazier than he described. I love it.

[@turbotreehouse9780]

You unintentionally bring up one of my favorite conspiracy theories, and one that I actually think is true. Every Bigfoot sighting is actually just Bobo in the woods.

[@twocents1319]

I love the "limited edition" bit. Solid gold.

[@Demenon]

This has to be one of the best episodes ever. The way you presented the material was perfect!

[@ThorG-mg2yx]

Hey Billiam, have you heard of the series Cryptid: The Swamp Beast? Its a 6 episode miniseries the History Channel ran that tried to convince the audience that a creature called the Rugaru exists in the Cajun Bayou. I actually thought it got more Insane than Mountain Monsters in some respects

[@TheMediatorOfChaos]

The Rogue Team tying old dudes up and throwing them into the back of their van really was the scariest part of all this

[@Quonzer]

15:03 "This leads them to the scariest place they've encountered in their D&D campaign!" I'm fucking dead. 😆

[@peculiarpangolin4638]

I laughed SO hard when I saw this title! Mountain Monsters is such a stupid, insane show, that I make a point of showing it to me friends once I know them suitably well. In college, I organized a watch party, and we spent the whole night laughing, especially at the "rogue team" stuff. This show is not remembered remotely enough! Cheers for this!