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Rocky performs. In a not-too-surprising revelation, in the wake of an escaped tiger killing a man at the San Francisco Zoo, perhaps a few cold glasses of water in modern human’s faces are that, yes, wild animals are strong and do kill. For a moment, ponder this: If people can’t consider the realities of the […]

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The following account signals that spring is finally here in North America. In Mysterious America, I noted that out-of-place alligators should to be tracked to keep such reports separate from Lake Monster reports. Over thirty years ago, reports of crocs could often indicate an extension of the reptile’s range or an escaped or released pet. […]

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Ben Radford tells us how his “science works.” “Lake Monsters I Have Known” sounds like the setup for a bad horror movie or an even worse children’s book. One thing it might not sound like is science. But without science, Ben Radford explained at a recent meeting of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, the […]

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“North America’s Great Ape: the Sasquatch” Presented by Dr. John Bindernagel A wildlife biologist looks at the continent’s most misunderstood large mammal. Book Signing and Public Presentation WHEN: Saturday, May 3, 2008 TIME: 10 AM to 12 Noon Book Signing; 1 PM Public Presentation WHERE: State Capital Museum 211 21st Avenue SW Olympia, Washington 98501 […]

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Chasing Discovery has its world premiere at St. Michael’s College today. I thought Cryptomundians would be interested in this new film: There’s something out there… And the men and women of cryptozoology are determined to find it. The researchers in this relatively obscure science face ridicule, financial struggles and harsh skepticism in their quest to […]

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Mr. Oscar Solar Valdebenito, married, a sergeant with the Carabineros, was performing his duties as a security guard in the Preventive Custody Center of the city of Angol on Friday, April 28, 2000. The facility was under construction at the time. Mr. Solar was alone and was making his rounds of the construction site’s interior. […]

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Milwaukee [Wisconsin] Sentinel September 4, 1886 THE SEA MONSTER IN MICHIGAN. Charlotte, Mich., Sept. 2. – Charlotte is somewhat stirred up over the report that a genuine sea monster exists in the water of Narrow lake, ten miles south of this city. The monster, it is claimed by the habitués of that vicinity, raises itself […]

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I guess for pure fundraising efforts, I have overlooked that bag of potato chips in my kitchen. Now comes word that a Hampton, Virginia, resident is selling a chip with a hollowed out “image” of Bigfoot in its middle over at eBay. Here’s the description: I have here for auction one ruffled potato chip that […]

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Kay Linaker, who wrote the screenplay for The Blob, passed away on April 2008. She was 94 and would have turned 95 in July. For more complete information on her careers as both a writer and an actress, see her entry at IMDb, here.

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“Creepy Creatures” and other cryptozoology-oriented episodes of “Weird Travels” will be having some encore broadcasts in the coming days. US TV Schedule: Fri. Apr. 25 3:00 PM Travel Channel, “Weird Travels” Fri. Apr. 25 4:00 PM Travel Channel, “Weird Travels” Sat. Apr. 26 11:00 AM Travel Channel, “Weird Travels”

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Cryptomundo field correspondent Evan Livada passes along the breaking news of the possible return of active cougar sightings from southern Maine. Taken seriously by local residents, the encounters are getting the typical skeptical official and media reaction. One has to wonder, since physical evidence has confirmed their presence in the past, then why the overtly […]

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St. Louis [Missouri] Globe-Democrat January 17, 1885 A Horrible Monster. Special Dispatch to the Globe-Democrat. VINCENNES, IND., January 16. – Some hunters were startled a few days ago by the appearance of an uncouth, horrible-looking animal, south of the O. and M. Railroad bridge over Fox River, near Olney. They had killed but little game, […]

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French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal is pointing to the “okapi” (?) of Tassili found in the book and bibliography of Bernard Heuvelmans, in his book On the Track of the Unknown Animals (Paris, Plon, 1955), referred to in the cave engravings as representing the okapi in Tassili. The starting point of this assertion is an article […]

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New insects are literally found daily, by the hundreds every year. Cryptozoology, as I have noted, generally deals with the discovery of larger animals, mostly vertebrates, with the now-and-then large invertebrate, such as the giant squid (verified) and giant octopus (still an active cryptid). But, it appears the entomologists deserve their due sometimes. They need […]

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John A. Keel was a significant author of works in Forteana, cryptozoology, and ufology in the 1960s and 1970s. His Strange Creatures from Time and Space and The Mothman Prophecies, as well as his numerous articles in magazines, influenced other writers, researchers, and the general public. After the Mothman book-inspired movie appeared in 2002, interest […]

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