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Previously reported here on Cryptomundo was the story of documents uncovered by a Freedom of Information Act to protect the Loch Ness Monster. The Sunday Times of Scotland has now released previously classified documents that show that officials in Margaret Thatcher’s regime had planned to import two bottle-nosed dolphins from America to search Loch Ness […]

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Cryptomundo Exclusive Harry Trumbore’s drawing of Africa’s kalanoro, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe. I’ve learned, through a confidential source, that at least one unit of the US Navy SEAL (Sea, Air, Land) has had a remarkable recent encounter with unknown apes in Africa. And […]

Read: Top Secret: US Navy SEAL’s Cryptid Ape Video »

"Has Bigfoot Made a Cameo Appearance in Any of Your Photos? Submit Photographic Evidence of Legendary Creatures’ Existence and Win up to $5,000," reminds the headline about the Duel Masters photography contest, ending at the start of February 2006. Read more about the contest in the Duel Masters press release. Good luck to the contest […]

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The Inverness Courier reports that 2005 was a good year for Nessie. There were four documented sightings, with one of them having photographs to back it up. I have not seen the photos released anywhere, however. Saturday, 15th October – Robbie Girvan, owner of the Loch Ness Caravan Park at Invermoriston, took five pictures of […]

Read: 2005 Was a Very Good Year – For Nessie »

The latest expedition to search for the “dinosaurlike” cryptids known by African natives as mokele-mbembe has departed. Milt Marcy, Peter Beach and Rob Mullin left Portland, Oregon for Cameroon on January 10, 2006. They will be teaming up with Pierre Sima to conduct the next phase of the cryptozoological research on the Congo/Cameroon border. The […]

Read: New Mokele-mbembe Expedition Departs »

Published a few days ago in the Charleston Express was the stories of some strange critters from Arkansas. …one animal was about 5 inches shorter than the other, the larger being about 3 feet tall at the top of its shoulder. Both were about the color of a bobcat, with heads that seemed oversized for […]

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Queensland, Australia’s Courier-Mail on January 12, is carrying a selection from a new book on the life of Sir Edmund Hillary that is not yet available in the USA or the UK. The focus of their article is on Hillary’s 1960 search for the Yeti. But theirs is a softball examination. Hillary’s “Yeti expedition” has […]

Read: How Not To Search For Yeti »

Solution d’un mystère de serpent de mer de Heuvelmans In Bernard Heuvelmans’s classic In the Wake of the Sea Serpent, he revealed a minor mystery to keen readers. Specifically, on pages 114, 144 and 575, of the 1968 English edition of the book, Heuvelmans briefly mentioned a Sea Serpent sighting from 1782, by British troops […]

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The Pacific Northwest, actually the greater Seattle area, is fast approaching a record rain streak. It stands at 33 days but on this coming Friday that could easily be exceeded. Forecasts predict at least another 5 days to the continuous downfall we are having. I mention this for two reasons: It has been mentioned by […]

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Early Indian news reports seem to be linking the finding of "giant" footprints in India with the "Malaysian Bigfoot" media madness, and the the temporary closing of China’s Shennongjia Nature Reserve (or "Bigfoot Park" in some stories), the alleged habitat of the Chinese Wildmen or Yeren. But are the Indian reports clearly of an archaeological […]

Read: How Old Are India’s Giant Footprints? »

Cryptomundo reader jjames1 sends a heads up regarding what seems to be a Polish McDonald’s commercial starring the Loch Ness Monster. You can play the commercial from the ad agency’s website.

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Boing Boing has posted an intriguing entry on “Coelacanths in Danger” today. Who would ever have thought that the coelacanth, “rediscovered” in 1938 & 1952 (off Africa) and then, shockingly, “rediscovered” in 1998 (off Sumatra), would be the topic so quickly of them going extinct. As Boing Boing’s David Pescovitz observes: The coelacanth is a […]

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Readers beware: Old monsters pawned off in stories said to be "new" news. Uncritical folk beliefs presented as "news." What’s going on this week online? As cryptozoology becomes more popular, news alerts, newspapers, and websites are circulating old information, out-of-date data, and less-than-substantial "news" to capture cryptid-interested readers. And, no, I am not even talking […]

Read: Media Watch: Blue-Eyed Snakes and Old Blobs »

The Times of India reports today that a team of 4 amateur anthropologists have found 4 Bigfoot footprints ranging in size from 8.5 to 29 inches. I guess they couldn’t let Malaysia hog the Bigfoot spotlight. What with the Malaysian Bigfoot Flap, and the announcement that China was halting tourism into Chinese Bigfoot habitat, we […]

Read: Bigfoot Shows up in India »