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FATE May 2004 Book Reviews Page 82-83 The Making of Bigfoot: The Inside Story By Greg Long New York: Prometheus Books (New York), 2004, 475 pages; $25 Greg Long’s book is not so much about Bigfoot as it is a well-orchestrated character assassination of Roger Patterson, the man holding the camera at Bluff Creek, California, […]

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Recently, a "Weird Fish: Unidentified Marine Creature!" was hooked near Ballina. Ballina is nestled on the Far North Coast of NSW at the mouth of the Richmond River (the longest navigable river on the coast of NSW), Australia. The source on this reads: We decided to go fishing and try out our recently acquired boat. […]

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What is it? Click on image for a larger version. I note that the National Library of the Netherlands has identified this image as being a "monkey." But I note this primate is not showing any tail. Look at the feet? Those are definitely not the feet of a monkey or even an ape. In […]

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Local officials in Nashville, after viewing video (see update below) showing the mystery cat in Warner Park, has identified the felid as an African caracal (above) or an Eurasin lynx, according to the Tennessean. Not a cougar. There seems to be a bit more of a push to the caracal theory than any other. However, […]

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Loren posted the information here on Cryptomundo regarding the new book by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper, The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot. Click on the cover above to make the Yowie larger. The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot Our Australian Crypto correspondent Mike Williams shares his interview with Tony Healy here. MW: […]

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It has come to my attention that Stanford University is offering a course concerning cryptozoology. The course is entitled Dinosaurs, Sea Serpents and Abominable Snowmen: Unknown Animals in Modern History The course is within the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. The following is taken from Stanford’s website introducing the course. Why […]

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From November 29, 2005, this “Name The Mystery Fish” blog image remains the readers’ favorite. (You can click on it to make the postcard image above bigger.) But who remembers blogs or mystery fish, without awards? LOL. ‘Tis the season…let the voting begin; let the year-end awards drumbeat start. Web awards, of course, are all […]

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Did you know there are links between actual people, some real-life characters, who have searched for cryptids and the stories surrounding and linked to "James Bond"? Ask any spy trivia or "Jeopardy" buff, what was the inspiration for the name "James Bond"? The answer: Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, got the […]

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Well, since I have recently been called the National Enquirer of Cryptomundo by a reader, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to go ahead and post the following story from the Weekly World News. Bigfoot Tracks Discovered Outside Chinese Theater LOS ANGELES, Calif.–Bigfoot’s tracks have joined the hundreds of famous footprints outside the renowned Chinese Theater. […]

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There is a new track photo, on November 17, 2006, to consider and a word of caution about them to share from Sean Ang. The New Straits Times is publishing details that a "Bigfoot researcher" named Mansur Poh presented them with several "unpublished photographs" of "footprints of the creature" found in the "deep jungles of […]

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Here is a scan of the entire, uncropped photo from the Bigfoot Casebook, authored by Janet and Colin Bord. My esteemed Cryptomundo colleague, Loren Coleman, wrote the foreward for this recently updated book. Click on image for full size version. This is a scan from the book, so it suffers from the shortcomings of a […]

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During the last decade, several attempts have occurred to promote the "Ozark Howler" as a real cryptid. After the first round of efforts, I gathered the specifics of the story, discovered the identity of the original hoaxer, and submitted the overview of what happened in a draft manuscript written with Jerome Clark in 1998. The […]

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This photo was sent to Tom Biscardi by Lyle Billett of Victoria Canada. I found the photo on his website and wanted to share it, as I have never seen it before and imagined that many, or most, have not either. The text from the back of the photo says: Year 1894 Yalikom River Around […]

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What do you think? A man was out squirrel hunting in the Ozarks; he killed a squirrel and out of the woods rushed an animal trying to grab the squirrel. So the hunter shot that thing too. Hard to believe? Here are the photographs of the thing, which some people feel has some banding on […]

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Wisconsin Boys Say They Saw Bigfoot November 15, 2006 (PM release) By WTMJ WAUKESHA COUNTY, WI — Is it Bigfoot or some other mysterious creature? Whatever it is, it seems to be on the move. Last week there was a sighting in Washington County. Now, he’s been spotted in Waukesha County. As Courtney Gerrish explains, […]

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