Post by brobear on Jul 18, 2025 6:41:28 GMT -5
Television is notorious for its pseudo documentaries. Docs such as "real mermaids", "real vampires", "real werewolves", and tons of fake Bigfoot stories. Also tales of lake monsters and sea monsters. Sensationalism sells newspapers. This rule also aplies to TV documentaries.
I first noticed this in the TV documentary 'Walking with Dinosaurs' in 1999. They claimed that the giant pliosaur called Liopleurodon measured 85 feet long. In reality, the huge sea serpent measured roughly 40 feet long. Now, I notice that (seemingly) every tiger documentary claims Amur tigers to weigh 700 pounds. In reality, the heaviest wild tiger ever confirmed weighed less than 600 pounds. Also, no Russian tiger has been weighed as heavy as 500 pounds in decades.
The pseudo documentaries continue with tells of people living among the dinosaurs, giant humans the size of mountains, catfish living near dams the size of great white sharks, and so on. So, watch those docs with a grain of salt.
I first noticed this in the TV documentary 'Walking with Dinosaurs' in 1999. They claimed that the giant pliosaur called Liopleurodon measured 85 feet long. In reality, the huge sea serpent measured roughly 40 feet long. Now, I notice that (seemingly) every tiger documentary claims Amur tigers to weigh 700 pounds. In reality, the heaviest wild tiger ever confirmed weighed less than 600 pounds. Also, no Russian tiger has been weighed as heavy as 500 pounds in decades.
The pseudo documentaries continue with tells of people living among the dinosaurs, giant humans the size of mountains, catfish living near dams the size of great white sharks, and so on. So, watch those docs with a grain of salt.
