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Benjamin Radford, M.Ed., is a scientific paranormal investigator, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and deputy editor of the Skeptical Inquirer. He has authored, coauthored, or contributed to twenty books and written over a thousand articles and columns on a wide variety of topics including skepticism, critical thinking, science literacy, media literacy, urban legends, unexplained mysteries, the paranormal, and mass hysteria. Radford characterizes himself as one of the world’s few science-based paranormal investigators, and has done first-hand research into such subjects as psychics, ghosts, exorcisms, miracles, Bigfoot, stigmata, lake monsters, UFO sightings, reincarnation, crop circles, and many other topics. Radford is also a columnist for Discovery News and LiveScience.com.

Read: Cryptologic Radio Archive: Ben Radford-Writer, Investigator and Skeptic »

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 »

One of the world’s most fascinating, spectacular, and mysterious sea creatures must surely be the giant oarfish Regalecus glesne.

Read: Oarfish Origins, and a Very (Un?)likely Sea Serpent »

Join us this week as we convene a round table discussion concerning extremely valuable concepts including logic, critical thinking, skepticism, the scientific method and how they can and should be applied to claims, evidence, and research. Understanding these concepts and how to apply them correctly to any number of situations can be extremely beneficial to various aspects of research and even rewarding on a daily basis. There are many individuals that claim to be skeptical, logical, rational, scientific, etc but we’ll take an in-depth look at what these concepts and terms actually entail in order to determine if those claims are founded and sound, on either end of the proverbial spectrum.

Read: Cryptologic Radio Archive: Applied logic, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking »

Tonight, Wednesday December 10th-5pm PST/8pm EST

Join us this week as we convene a round table discussion concerning extremely valuable concepts including logic, critical thinking, skepticism, the scientific method and how they can and should be applied to claims, evidence, and research. Understanding these concepts and how to apply them correctly to any number of situations can be extremely beneficial to various aspects of research and even rewarding on a daily basis. There are many individuals that claim to be skeptical, logical, rational, scientific, etc but we’ll take an in-depth look at what these concepts and terms actually entail in order to determine if those claims are founded and sound, on either end of the proverbial spectrum.

Read: Cryptologic Radio: Applied Logic, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking Reminder »

The International Cryptozoology Museum (founded in 2003) is proud to announce the launch of another peer-reviewed journal of cryptozoology. The International Cryptozoology Museum Journal will initially appear in April of 2015.

Read: Announcing The International Cryptozoology Museum Journal »

Some zoological photographs are so bizarre that long after they first hit the news headlines, they still continue to circulate online, like restless ghosts doomed to wander forever down the highways and byways of the worldwide web, resisting all attempts to expose them as hoaxes or explain them as grotesque yet nonetheless natural phenomena. One […]

Read: Wrong-Footing A One-Legged Mystery Snake From China »

Sharon Hill, geologist, skeptic, and Sounds Sciencey columnist, has given the boot (boot? Hill? Get it?) to the claims that prehistoric survivors are still roaming around causing cryptozoologists to get all excited.

Read: Putting the Kibosh on Prehistoric Survivors? »

The CryptoCast is the official podcast of Cryptomundo. Cryptozoology with the comedy stylings of Craig Woolheater, Monica Rawlins and Howard Goldthwaite, We will discuss the news, happenings, personalities and opinions in Cryptozoology with a comedic slant. Definitely not your father’s
Cryptozoology.

The show will be broadcast and air live one Sunday night a month from 8:30-9:30 PM on DeepEllumOnAir.com.

The premiere broadcast will be this Sunday night, March 16th.

Join in as we discuss our trip to SXSW this past Monday to attend the premiere of Eduardo Sanchez’s Bigfoot horror thriller Exists.

Read: The CryptoCast Cometh! »

One question I hear a lot from radio callers, blog readers and conference attendees is whether I think that unknown, upright canine creatures are related to UFOs. It’s actually a concept that’s been around for some time and is also asked in regard to Bigfoot and other cryptids. My usual answer is that while I don’t have any reports from witnesses who’ve seen a dogman hopping directly off a UFO (although I know there are a few cases where people have claimed this about Bigfoot), it just so happens that places where mystery creatures abound are also often UFO hotspots.

Read: It Came From the UFO? The Creature-Lights Connection »

London artist John Conway recently painted a hypothetical reconstruction of what the infamous Zuiyo Maru carcass (found off New Zealand in 1977) might have looked like in life, assuming the carcass as found was an accurate representation of the living animal.

Read: Zuiyo Maru Carcass Comes to Life »

Cryptozoologicon [is] a beautifully illustrated work focusing on cryptids, the (sometimes mundane, sometimes bizarre, sometimes nonsense) creatures of the cryptozoological literature. We’re just about done and are looking to launch soon… in fact, we’ve created so much material that we’re now going to be producing TWO VOLUMES.Cryptozoologicon Vol I launches soon in 2013; Vol II will follow soon after.Tetrapod Zoology

Read: The Cryptozoologicon is Coming! »

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? »

Watch the newest episode of his video series detailing his criticisms of Melba Ketchum’s DNA Study.

Read: Houston Chronicle’s SciGuy on Bigfoot »

These vocalizations have been called into question previously here at Cryptomundo.

Has this YouTube user Mikey Paterson replicated the sounds showing they are a hoax?

Or are they legitimate Sasquatch vocalizations?

Read: Recreating the Sasquatch Ontario Vocalizations »