Archive for the “Skeptical Discussions”
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on December 5th, 2018
Bigfoot researchers remain optimistic that Sasquatch is out there; that the creature will one day be found. Why? Why do people continue to believe? We’ll talk to professional skeptic Michael Shermer about the nature of belief. And we’ll look at why—even for those who think Bigfoot is a complete myth—the idea of Bigfoot holds so much appeal. What makes us so fascinated by this creature? Why do we want so badly to believe that it’s out there?
Read: Wild Thing: Why We Want to Believe »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, CryptoRadio, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Forensic Science, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions | 4 Comments »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on August 29th, 2017
Illuminating a Herpetological Mystery From Trinidad
Read: Ivan Sanderson and the Lightbulb Lizard »
Categorized as: Classic Animals of Discovery, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, ShukerNature, Skeptical Discussions | Comments Off on Ivan Sanderson and the Lightbulb Lizard
Posted by: Shannon LeGro on June 13th, 2017
Monsters Among Us is a call in show about monsters, and the unexplained. On the latest episode, host Derek Hayes discusses a pair of U.F.O. sightings, a run in with possible MIB’s and yet another mirrored men encounter. New shows released every Thursday evening.
Read: Monsters Among Us Podcast »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Chupacabras, Conspiracies, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Flying Humanoids, Folklore, Forteana, Into The Fray, Lake Monsters, Mothman, Mystery Cats, Out of Place, Phantom Panthers, Podcast, Pop Culture, River Monsters, Sasquatch, Sea Monsters, Skeptical Discussions, Swamp Monsters, Thunderbirds, Yeren, Yeti, Yowie | 2 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 13th, 2017
Dr. John Bindernagel, a professional wildlife biologist, uses a series of colorful graphs to explain why evidence for the sasquatch as an extant North American mammal has been largely ignored or dismissed by his scientific colleagues, and why the subject has been treated as scientifically taboo.
Read: Sasquatch Illustrated: Skepticism and Scientific Aversion Explored »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Footprint Evidence, Forensic Science, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions | Comments Off on Sasquatch Illustrated: Skepticism and Scientific Aversion Explored
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 29th, 2017
During a night investigation, Cliff and Matt get several responses. Could this be the evidence that could convince the Freethinkers?
Read: Could These Howls Convince the Freethinkers? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Call Blasting, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Expedition Reports, Finding Bigfoot, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions, Television, Videos | 2 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on January 29th, 2017
The Freethinkers don’t believe in Bigfoot, so it’s up to the team to try and give them definitive evidence.
Read: The Team Meets the Fayettesville Freethinkers »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Call Blasting, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Expedition Reports, Eyewitness Accounts, Finding Bigfoot, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions, Television, Videos | Comments Off on The Team Meets the Fayettesville Freethinkers
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 13th, 2016
A trail of bodies, seemingly left behind by the vampire-like chupacabra, enabled one man to solve the mystery
Read: Chupacabras: The Truth About a Strange Blood-Sucking Monster »
Categorized as: Bigfoot Report, Books, Chupacabras, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Pop Culture, Skeptical Discussions | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on July 7th, 2016
Can a tiny creature that doesn’t even exist inflict agonising pain and even death upon its human victims? Ordinarily, I would say no – but the history (and mystery) of a virtually forgotten yet decidedly bizarre micro-assassin known as Furia infernalis, the hellish fury worm, is anything but ordinary.
Read: Linnaeus’s Fury Worm – The History and Mystery of a Hellish Micro-Assassin »
Categorized as: Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Forensic Science, Forteana, ShukerNature, Skeptical Discussions | Comments Off on Linnaeus’s Fury Worm – The History and Mystery of a Hellish Micro-Assassin
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 28th, 2016
You will, I’m sure, have heard of the unconfirmed North American primate vernacularly termed Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
Read: If Bigfoot Were Real »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Books, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Footprint Evidence, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions | 26 Comments »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 10th, 2016
A Skeptical discussion of the Boggy Creek Monster with Lyle Blackburn on the MonsterTalk podcast.
Read: What the Fouke? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Books, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Footprint Evidence, Lizard People, Men in Cryptozoology, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions, Swamp Monsters | Comments Off on What the Fouke?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 26th, 2016
Eugenie Scott is an anthropologist but is probably most well known for her work fighting against Creationism in the American public education system as director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Perhaps less well-known is the fact that she’s long been interested in Bigfoot. In this episode of MonsterTalk we discuss Bigfoot, science promotion, and the usefulness of thinking about monsters in honing critical thinking skills.
Read: Monster Talk: Bigfoot Skepticism »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, CryptoRadio, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Eyewitness Accounts, Footprint Evidence, Podcast, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions | Comments Off on Monster Talk: Bigfoot Skepticism
Posted by: Guy Edwards on January 14th, 2016
Today in 2009 Eugenie Scott spoke at the Ask a Scientist event in San Francisco. The topic that night was Bigfoot. As an anthropologist and a skeptic Eugenie seems to have more patience for bigfooters than she has for creationist.
Read: Today in Bigfoot History | 2009 | Hopeful Skeptic Says Both Bigfoot Camps Need Help »
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 18th, 2015
So if you’re looking for Bigfoot – or any cryptid, for that matter – put down the infrared camera and pick up a book on anatomy and get busy combing the museums for remains. Read old journals and catalogs of finds. Ask your local fossil club to let you tag along when they go to “Bigfoot country.” In short, if you’re serious, get serious about finding REAL physical evidence. If a great ape ever lived in North America, he had to leave some of himself behind.
Read: Where are the Cryptoarcheologists and Cryptopaleontologists? »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Bigfoot Report, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Fossil Finds, Sasquatch, Skeptical Discussions, Yeti | 6 Comments »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on September 1st, 2015
As a fervent browser of bestiaries, illuminated manuscripts, and other sources of antiquarian illustrations portraying a vast diversity of grotesque, extraordinary beasts that ostensibly bear no resemblance or relation to any species known to science, I am rarely surprised nowadays by any zoological depictions that I encounter in such sources. A few days ago, however, I was not just surprised but also thoroughly bemused – bewildered, even – by a truly remarkable picture that I happened to chance upon online.
Read: Investigating the Locust Dragon of Nicolaes de Bruyn »
Categorized as: Cryptoart, Cryptozoology, ShukerNature, Skeptical Discussions, Weird Animal News, Winged Weirdies | 1 Comment »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on August 24th, 2015
Between June 1764 and June 1767, a hideous series of killings, as grisly as they were plentiful (somewhere around 80 to 113 human victims, plus many injured survivors), occurred in a village-speckled district of Lozère, southeastern France, called Gévaudan. Their perpetrator became known as the Beast of Gévaudan, but more than two centuries of speculation have failed to stem the controversy regarding its precise identity. Just what was the Beast of Gévaudan? An animal? A man? Or something more?
Read: The Beast of Gévaudan – Wolf, Man…or Wolf-Man? »
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