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Has a recent hairy hominoid encounter with a respected Cherokee elder produced physical evidence of a Bigfoot? A tooth? What do you see in the way of the reported Sasquatch canine? According to one witness, this is what the Hebbardsville creatures look like. Described as averaging 8 feet tall, 400 lbs. with black skin and […]

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The Maine Mystery Beast banner remains safely in the Pine Tree State! Rogier van Bakel, his wife Debbie, and their two delightful daughters (one shown above) came by over this Christmas weekend to drop off the unique Paul Szauter sideshow art, entitled the Maine’s Mystery Beast banner. Van Bakel is a well-traveled, well-spoken journalist whose […]

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Remember the episode called "Alpha" in season six of The X-Files? It involved a cryptid dhole from China that was blamed for going on a killing rampage. The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is in the news because Vietnam feels these allegedly recently extinct "red dogs" are back from the edge in their country. "In Search for […]

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As 2006 rolls to a close, scientists are releasing more announcements of new species and subspecies. Here are details of a new lizard, new birds, a new fish and a new subspecies of tiger. Thailand: New Lizard (Not Salamander) The Bangkok, Thailand newspaper, The Nation is reporting on December 25, 2006, that a new species […]

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Camel spiders found during the Iraq war are real. I support the troops, whether they are the people out there dodging the bullets and the camel spiders or the soldiers supporting them. I won’t get into politics here, but allow me this minor holiday effort to give a cryptozoology break to some gals and guys […]

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The entryway’s Bigfoot at the Kansas City exhibition was photographed by Professor Hex. On Sunday, December 24, 2006, The Kansas City Star art critic Alice Thorson has produced a list for her “Year in Review: 10 Highlights in Visual Arts.” Entitled “Wise Visions, Decisions: These artists and institutions made a difference to KC in 2006,” […]

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Jackson’s mongoose (Bdeogale jacksoni), sometimes called the black-footed mongoose, is considered Africa’s least-known carnivore and now has been discovered in Tanzania. I’ve already included a note of this breaking news late last night in my posting of The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006, but here are the full details: The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation […]

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1. The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 2. Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 3. Top Ten Creepy Fossil Finds of 2006 4. The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2006 5. The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2006 6. Top Ten Cryptozoo Mystery Photographs of 2006 7. 2006’s Passings of Cryptozoologists and Others 8. 2006 Cryptoholiday […]

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The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 by Loren Coleman, Cryptozoology A to Z 1. Darlings of Cryptozoology Videotaped: Coelacanth and Giant Squid 2. Lost Worlds Revealed 3. New European Mammal and Others Discovered 4. Discoveries Debated: Ivory-billed Woodpecker and Kouprey 5. Africa Explored: Mokele-mbembe Quest, Gambia Expedition, and SEALs’ Secret Mission 6. Lake Monsters […]

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On Saturday, December 23, 2006, I was the “first hour guest” on Coast to Coast AM. Their historical page has a recap with the uplink to the program. As noted, during the “First Hour: Loren Coleman counts down the Top 10 cryptozoology stories of 2006.” See: The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 The host […]

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Everyone at Cryptomundo Wishes You All A Very Merry Holiday Season for ’06! Our thanks to Ted Bastien for allowing us to post and use his wonderful cartoon to get this message of joy out there to our hundreds of thousands of loyal readers.

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Here at Cryptomundo, we get quite a few submissions emailed to us, from questions, to news tips, stories, from mild to wild, and even photos. Remember the Yarwen, the baby Bigfoot that was sold for $17 million? I’m still waiting for that announcement to hit the streets… Back in late November, we received an email […]

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It is all over the televised news channels and wire services: The National Science Museum of Japan has videotaped a giant squid (Architeuthis) live – perhaps for the first time. It was a modest giant, about 21 feet (seven meters) in length, a young female; older giant squids can be around 55 feet (18 meters) […]

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Black panthers in Illinois are not merely melanistic jaguars far from home. I grew up in central Illinois (1947-1965, 1969-1974) and went to undergraduate school at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (1965-1969). I was out searching for black panthers when I was 14, for example, in Macon County, doing field work on big mystery cat sightings in […]

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Seemingly, the number of sightings of the Bigfoot at the Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota have decreased since September 2006. Or at least that appears to be the case? Is it? If so, why? The recent publication of my list, The Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006, with number 3 being the […]

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