Review: Destination Truth 3-5-08

This was a rather interesting show on the Yeti, which takes place in the Himalayas, with Josh Gates and his team doing an investigation of the area for the hairy hominoid. Josh and the team talk to a group of villagers about possible sightings, and are directed to the village elder, who claimed a recent encounter. Josh and the team investigate the area to search for evidence. They are using night-vision equipment and FLIR (Forward-Looking InfraRed) to search for possible evidence or even an encounter. They find a cave of some sort, with some large droppings, which are of unknown origin but could indicate a large animal of some sort. Josh crawls into the small cave to see if there could be anything in there, but only finds an old coat. The team is heading to Everest for a further search. The team finds out about possible Yeti remains in a temple, but are denied access to it by the monks. They do get to see the purported Yeti scalp in another temple or monastery, and they also find some strange footprints and hairs. They cast the tracks and head back to the U.S. and present the track cast to Dr. Jeff Meldrum, who is cautiously optimistic about the footprint but finds no evidence of fakery or explanations of it being from a known animal. All in all, a very interesting and compelling program. I would give it about 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.