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Read: 2006: Another Hobbit Year In Images »

All Photographs and Enhancements of the Myakka Photographs on this page are © David Barkasy and Loren Coleman 2001. It all began with a December 22, 2000, letter signed “God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous,” mailed to the Sarasota (Florida) Sheriff’s Department. Two photographs were enclosed. I’ve written about this extensively, so for some […]

Read: Cold Case Investigation For 2007: The Myakka Photos »

The National Geographic Channel is running a marathon of “Is It Real?” on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2006. Here are the times for the cryptozoologically-related programs. (I note that “Russian Bigfoot” program is not being shown. Check your local listings, but here are the ones that Bufo Calvin has passed along… Noon Pacific/3 PM […]

Read: Televised Marathons: New Year’s Eve & 1-10-07 Alerts »

Birders hunt elusive wonder Experts scour Congaree Swamp for ivory-billed woodpecker Wednesday, December 27, 2006 BY BO PETERSEN The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) GADSDEN – The deeper into the swamp the birders go, the quieter they get. They look tiny and elfin beneath the mammoth sweet gum and tupelo trees. Their prey is the […]

Read: Looking for Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers in South Carolina »

New Books It’s a list of more than eleven, and, thusfar, what I have for ’07. The Home Front I am speaking on firm ground when talking about my own book plans, so I’ll detail these first. The widely disseminated new paperbound edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest […]

Read: Cryptozoology Books for 2007 »

Our “Award for Best Cryptozoology Cartoon of the Holiday Season” for 2006 has no winner.

Read: No Award for 2006 »

Friday, the one-two punch of Boing Boing and The Anomalist featuring my blog on “African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style,” got the story/link repeated and viewed far and wide. Some of the locations were very diverse: Professor Hex, Lesley at The Debris Field , Africa Art History, Spooky Paradigm, Planet Kwekje, Weird History, Zapptor, Kung […]

Read: More African Dino Art Deco »

Cryptomundo reader brineblank used a story from Cryptomundo for a classroom exercise. The source was the story about the "Russian Plesiosaur" that broke here on Cryptomundo last August. He gave his students the background of the story, then showed them a brief glimpse of the rotting carcass. He then gave them a copy of the […]

Read: Cryptomundo in the Classroom »

In November 2006, National Geographic Channel began screening one of their hour-long documentaries in the “Is It Real?” Series. It was on the Almas of Mongolia and the Almasty allegedly populating the Caucasus. They called their program, “Russian Bigfoot.” Craig Woolheater’s post here stimulated some intriguing comments, on both sides of the fence. There was, […]

Read: Drinking On Your Next Cryptid Expedition? »

Nessie dries out for Hogmanay Published: 28 December, 2006 Highland News NESSIE will be making her biggest appearance of the year on Hogmanay. The friendly Loch Ness Monster will be coming ashore to take part in Drumnadrochit’s third Loch Ness Hogmanay Festival Street Party. Nessie, will kick off the new year’s eve celebrations at 10.30pm […]

Read: Nessie Comes Ashore »

The author of the article that I spotlighted in my post entitled Panther Attacks in Arkansas! had this to say here at Cryptomundo: Hi, ya’ll. Warren Watkins here, author of this article on the panther attacks here in Arkansas. My understanding is that a puma is not native to North America, and the animals referred […]

Read: Arkansas Panther Followup »

Fresno Bee, February 19, 1928 People have been seeing what they think are sauropods (or in the popular mind, dinosaurs) for a long time in Africa. More recent eyewitness accounts, of course, are still being recorded. Take cryptozoologist Adam Davies, who authored a Fortean Times article (April 2001) on his expedition. He says it all […]

Read: African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style »

Click on image for full-size version I am always interested in what the various news services do with Cryptomundo’s stories and how those get “re-mixed,” so to speak, for different audiences. Here’s an example, thanks to the alternative press feeder system, the Wireless Flash News (WFN). It is about a dispatch that was sent this […]

Read: 2006: A Big Year For Bigfoot »

August 1974 was a busy month for politics; Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford became the President of the United States of America. People are thinking and writing a good deal about Ford this week because he died the day after Christmas, repeating the pattern of his hero, former President Harry Truman, who also died on […]

Read: August 1974: Gerald Ford and Bigfoot »

A new government conspiracy AND a film to make the Patterson-Gimlin film look like a footnote? Wow! Steve Kulls, the Squatch Detective, has posted the following to his blog: I have just returned from what most likely will be my last expedition of the year, returning from Kentucky. Where, I will not say out of […]

Read: A New Sasquatch Conspiracy? »