Digital Video - December 2008 - (Page 26) CRYPTO CAMERAWORK THE SCIENCE SERIES MONSTERQUEST SEEKS THE TRUTH IN HIGH-DEF. Taking to the water while hunting one of MonsterQuest’s many aquatic subjects. BY JAY HOLBEN here’s no easy way to break this news to you, so I’ll do it straight: Your mother lied to you. Back in the early days of your adolescence, as you heard those creatures go bump in the night and swore that you saw a tail slither under your bed, but your mother reassured you, “There’s no such thing as monsters!” Well, whether she wanted to admit it or not, monsters do exist, right in our own backyards! In 1987, Doug Hajicek was the successful owner of a plastic and polymer injection molding company, but he was bored with his day-to-day operation. He had an idea for a TV show and decided to become a television producer. With fearless aplomb, Hajicek approached a local CBS affiliate with a pitch and the show was greenlit. Less than a month after the impulse, he was, indeed, a television producer. The show he created, which has become Backroads with Ron and Raven, is still on the air today, 21 years later. Since then, Hajicek has branched out and created a number of shows, including History Channel’s unusual science series MonsterQuest. T In 1991, Hajicek was, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere on Lake Selwyn, directly on the northern border of Saskatchewan, Canada, and the Northwest Territories of the Arctic, searching for giant trout. In a break between shooting, he stumbled on some very surprising tracks on a sandy beach. “They were human-like footprints in a perfectly straight line, one print right in front of the other,” Hajicek recalls. “They were easily 16 inches long and not the tracks of any animal I had ever seen. We’re in the middle of nowhere, a three-hour plane ride to any form of civilization, and I come across this long line of footprints leading off into the forest. There was no way this could be a bear print, even if it was double stepping [putting his back paws in the exact footprint his front paws made]. These were bipedal prints with five distinct toes, just like a human. It was a discovery that shook me to my core. Although I tried to persuade the float-plane pilot to follow the tracks, he refused to believe I was serious and got www.dv.com 26 dv december 2008 http://www.dv.com
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