What happened to Trapper on Mountain Monsters?
MOUNTAIN Monsters has just finished their seventh season. John "Trapper" Tice, one of the team's founding members, was not seen on the show's most recent season. Trapper was not seen during season seven because he passed away in December 2019 at the age of 72. We are sad to hear about the passing of John Trapper Tice, a founding member of the AIMS team and star of Mountain Monsters, the Travel Channels Facebook tribute read. Our heart goes out to his family and friends." His obituary states that he died surrounded by his friends and family at the WVU Medicine Camden-Clark Medical Center after suffering from a "brief illness." "John was an avid outdoorsman, a lover of all animals great and small, a gardener, a hunter, and a lifelong mountaineer. He never knew a stranger and always had a captivating story to tell" his obituary read. In 2019, Trapper had an estimated net worth of $700,000. The majority of his net worth came from the show Mountain Monsters as well as being the leader of AIMS, the Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings. It was reported that he made an estimated $20,000 per episode of Moutain Monsters. Mountain Monsters is a show on the Travel Channel following a group of hunters and trappers as they investigate creatures both legendary and unidentified roaming the Appalachian Mountains. The show debuted back in June 2013 and has been on the air ever since. Known as professional hillbilly hunters, these men search for creatures that have been claimed to be seen in West Virginia. The show can be streamed through Discovery+ as well as on the Travel Channel website. Mountain Monsters can also be found on Apple TV, Roku, and Amazon Prime Video.