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I have now the following report (below) via direct communication from the Chief of Police for the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety- the law enforcement agency for the Pine Ridge Reservation. Intriguingly, online skepticism surfaced this week that just because there are no newspaper reports (other than kill rumor denials in the Rapid […]

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Click on image for full-size version Click on image for full-size version [Credit: Cryptomundo contributor Robert O. Hipp III – but no citation or date is given. A little help here.]

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The media attention was unabated on August 18 for this story, continuing late into the night for me with local television comments, scores of email inquiries & requests, and an interview on BBC News at 10:50 p.m. People wanted to have an answer to the "Maine Mutant" or "Mystery Beast" question, even when I told […]

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Portland, Maine’s television station WCSH-TV, Channel 6, did a balanced, upbeat report on the media frenzy. They ended their report by showing footage of their reporter scrolling through the online “Maine Beast” blogs at Cryptomundo. Bizarre Animal Carcass Draws International Media Attention to Turner Web Editor:  Chris Facchini, Reporter   Created: 8/17/2006 5:11:52 PM Updated: […]

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From our good friend Scott Corrales comes the following news. INEXPLICATA The Journal of Hispanic Ufology August 15, 2006 DATE: August 15, 2006 SOURCE: axxon.com.ar (EFE) – Fishermen from the island of Sakhalin in the Russian far east found the remains of an enormous unknown marine creature, according to Vladimir Bedzhisov, director of the Sakhalin […]

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Ray Crowe has written to inform me that the Bigfoot-oriented The Track Record will be publishing again. Crowe got a surprise phone call from South Dakota from Tom Biscardi. Biscardi said he was going to fund The Track Record. Of course, why is Biscardi in South Dakota? Any guesses that he’s doing something in Pine […]

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When the media began dealing with the report of a body of uncertain identity in Maine on the 16th of August, they soon went wild with the story of the find and the even older tales of a killing mystery beast in the woods. For background, see: August 16, 2006 – Mystery Animal Photos and […]

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Source: Sedilia, Missouri’s Daily Democrat August 21, 1875 Credit: Fabio Picasso Could such reports as this “Wild Boy” from the Philippines be a record of contact with an adult hairy little person related to the Flores people, Homo floresiensis?

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Photograph by Douglas Van Reeth, Sun Journal. The story about the body linked to the central “Maine Mutant” broke over the second weekend in August and was discussed here when I was consulted on the case. The events continued, building steam as soon as both the Cryptomundo blog and Lewiston Sun Journal reporter Mark LaFlamme’s […]

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Award-winning TV documentary writer-producer-director Nicholas Webster, died August 12, 2006, in Santa Monica after an extended illness. He was 94. His 1961 documentary “Walk in My Shoes” for the ABC Close Up about blacks in America was Emmy-nominated as the Show of the Year. He also directed documentaries for NBC (“David Brinkley’s Journal”) and CBS […]

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Please click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. Click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. Click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. When the reporter from the Sun-Journal hinted via a comment on my blog at Cryptomundo, […]

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Various readers from part one of this blog, Snakes on Plains, wanted to see some of the following images, spanning one hundred years of giant snakes. In 1906, twenty years before explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett vanished without a trace in the Amazon, he was sent by the Royal Geographic Society to make a thorough […]

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How big do spiders get? To get an idea of scale, here is spider owner Ged Casserley with some of his former pets, a Goliath birdeater and other real-life giant spiders. Photo: Ged Casserley.

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The California-based Wireless Flash News Service distributes their stories to 800 alternative newspapers, radio stations, and other news outlets worldwide. Here’s their story, unedited: BIGFOOT UPDATE: POLICE SCANNER TAPE REVEALS CREATURE’S WHEREABOUTS August 15, 2006 PINE RIDGE, South Dakota (Wireless Flash) — There’s been a rash of Bigfoot sightings at the Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge […]

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The ultimate snake on a plain, The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio may represent a giant snake swallowing an egg. Accounts of giant snakes have circulated throughout the United States, across the plains, into the forests of Middle America, and from coast to coast. Reports from the area around Bridgewater, Massachusetts, tell of CCC workers […]

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