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The UK’s Telegraph is putting a new spin on the reason behind the selling of the Johor Bigfoot cast. Reporter Sebastien Berger in Lukut writes in an article entitled “Explorer hopes plaster cast will raise funds to search for Bigfoot,” in part: In the jungle of southern Malaysia, where legends of a giant man-ape echo […]

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Did another Down Under vacationer snap a photograph of a thylacine? I was tipped off to this photo on The Book Of ThoTH message forum. The text accompanying the photo is also included below. A friend of mine went on vacation to Australia, and he e-mailed me this picture a week ago- he said he […]

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The “Maine Mutant” by Mike Lemos. Remember the origins of the Maine Mutant, from the words of a beat journalist? Recall all the buzz from the initial stories written by reporter Mark LaFlamme, who brought the beast to everyone’s attention? Guess what? Mark was just named the “Journalist of the Year” for the State of […]

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Colorado Hunters Report Seeing Grizzlies, Long Believed Extinct in State By David Frey Grizzly bears have long been considered gone from the mountains of Colorado. Reports of suspected sightings in southern Colorado have sounded like Bigfoot sightings: fleeting glances, unusually large footprints, no evidence. But state wildlife officials are taking seriously a recent reported grizzly […]

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Part I My previous lengthy series of postings on Canada’s Cryptid Cops has inspired me to share a few thoughts on ways and means that may prove useful in the search for cryptids. In particular, the sasquatch field is today populated by a large investigator base attempting to locate evidence for the existence of a […]

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Winged Mystery A woodpecker considered the Holy Grail of bird-watchers could be in Pearl River Basin Sunday, October 08, 2006 By Jenny Hurwitz For nearly half a century, Susan Epps has been haunted by the specter of an ivory-billed bird. She claimed her first sighting in 1958, at age 10, while scouting the fringes of […]

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I’m going to be on the road for a few days, mostly working with First Nations people in northern Maine about suicide prevention and school shootings, so I wanted to post a timely entry here that looks at the overlap between Bigfoot and a school shooter, the Red Lake, Minnesota killer who caused the second […]

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Joshua Gates – shown above on his investigative trek in Malaysia with Seekers Sis and Illa – reveals to Cryptomundo the startling news that an excellent first generation copy of the Johor Bigfoot cast sits safely in California. Illa shows off the cast last February, as photographed from a different angle, above, as opposed to […]

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On Monday, October 9, 2006, the Associated Press was widely disseminating the news that a 13 feet tall camel — double the size of the modern-day camel — has been discovered in Syria. The bones, above, clearly show, compared to the modern camel, this animal was a big one. The giant camel apparently “poses a […]

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DNR: We’ll take cougar sightings seriously Saturday, October 07, 2006 By Nate Reens The Grand Rapids PressGRAND HAVEN — State wildlife authorities said Friday they plan to take more interest in reports of cougar sightings and that next spring three staffers will learn about the animals from experts in New Mexico. The moves, made under […]

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A peahen, shown here, is the female of the peafowl, which can refer to any of three species of bird in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the pheasant family. Scott Maruna, the new energetic editor of The Anomalist (www.anomalist.com), treks into uncomfortable country on October 8, 2006. With an unfortunate blog on the Lawndale […]

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Lion hunt: State probes area sightings of big cats Officials skeptical of reports of mountain lions say people likely are seeing some other kind of cat. By Tom Venesky Chuck Litwin Jr. knows what he saw. He just can’t believe it. It was 9 a.m. Sept. 16. Litwin was driving his truck on state Route […]

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Cryptomundo correspondent and Malaysia Star reporter Marsha Tan has been kind enough to send along her latest Johor Bigfoot article to be shared here. If anyone knows the identities of the (1) American “Bigfoot researcher” or (2) the “museum owner” who are behind the offers to either trade casts (yeah, right the Seekers are going […]

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Scientists have found a fossil of a monster fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway. The Norwegian researchers discovered remains of a total of 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs at a site on the island of Spitsbergen, about 1300 kilometres from the North Pole. At the time these were […]

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Last reminder: The Bates College Museum of Art’s exhibition "Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale" ends with a closing reception (4-6 pm) at the Lewiston, Maine site, on Saturday, October 7, 2006. This is a page from the October 2006 issue of Wired Magazine, which you can enlarge by clicking on the image.

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