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Joseph Friedrichs of the New West, the Voice of the Rocky Mountains, has proclaimed that “Bigfoot Is Not Real”. He doesn’t believe in Bigfoot, and thinks that we are all just wasting our time discussing it here. And just look at the photo he uses to illustrate this with on the New West website. As […]

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One drawing of how the Nguoi Rung reportedly shows itself to locals in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (Kampuchea). A wild woman has been caught. A feral human being, that is. All the details have not been collected. After all, the focus of this story can’t speak to her family of origin, yet. But this much […]

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Nick Redfern has posted an interesting Puerto Rican report from 1967 of what the witness believed to be a giant bat. Nick speculates that this could be the culprit responsible for the Chupacabras reports from Puerto Rico. Here is an excerpt from Nick’s post on UFOmystic. But yesterday’s email suggested yet another avenue of investigation […]

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What can job seekers find out about you by looking at your FaceBook, YouTube, and Wikipedia? Doing a search for you and your activities via Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, Quintura, or yes, by visiting Ask Jeeves would reveal what? Have you been mentioned in Cryptomundo, at The Anomalist, or on Boing Boing? Well, maybe Boing […]

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I am reading this book, The Shadow Killer, right now and enjoying it immensely. It follows the "Killer Bigfoot" mode that so many movies and cryptofiction books do, but I am still enjoying the read. When I finish with it, I will share my opinion here on Cryptomundo. At 448 pages, it’s not necessarily a […]

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We all were young once. What kind of member of the next generation of Bigfooters are you? What’s up with the present crop of Sasquatch seekers? Let me shout out a challenge to the Bigfoot hunters and researchers here who are 40 years old and under. I usually don’t say things so strongly about this […]

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When this baby Sri Lankan slender loris is all grown up, it won’t be more than 5 inches long. But it’ll have huge night vision eyes. The Zoological Society of London has created an amazing list of the world’s top 100 rarest and thus most endangered mammalian species. "We are focusing on EDGE species — […]

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What do they have in common? Some folks think that the subjects are related. Personally, I don’t. But I did want to announce that our sister site, UFOmystic, has gone live. Check it out for the same kind of insider information you get here at Cryptomundo, but about UFO related material, from Nick Redfern and […]

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Extinct? Which one? In less detailed media reports you may hear today or over the weekend, the New Zealand Ko¯kako has been declared extinct. Sad news indeed, but let’s be specific. It is not an entire species that is being declared extinct. Once again, also, there are hints that this may be another subspecies, despite […]

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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. – from Goldfinger by Ian Fleming, who achieved the rank of Commander in British Naval Intelligence. Rumors are sweeping throughout Kashmir of a mystery millionaire who will pay a high bounty on the capture of giant owls. Now we hear that some are saying […]

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Click on image for a full size pdf version of the April 9, 1922, Lima, Ohio, graphic. Today, the lake monster reported in Lago (English: Lake) Nahuel Huapi in the northern Patagonia region between the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén, in Argentina, near the border with Chile, is called “Nahuelito.” The huge lake itself, […]

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Weird, wild stuff Calls about odd animal sightings keep conservation officials busy By Bryan Brasher Memphis Commercial Appeal January 14, 2007 Officials from the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission chuckled in 2003 when they received word that an octopus had been found on Lake Conway. But after traveling to the lake and inspecting the lifeless, […]

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A.I. Bezzerides, 98, a novelist-turned-screenwriter best known for post-World War II film noir classics such as Kiss Me Deadly, On Dangerous Ground and Thieves’ Highway , died January 1, 2007, after a brief illness. Albert Isaac Bezzerides was born Aug. 9, 1908, in Samsun, Turkey. His mother was Armenian and his father a Turkish-speaking Greek. […]

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UPDATED: January 14, 2007. Photograph of a cryptid black felid taken late in 2005 in Florida, by a Georgia professor (credit Ben Willis) that probably is a melanistic bobcat (Lynx rufus floridianus). Based on one of yesterday’s melanistic bobcat blog comments, here are my promised suggestions for the hot spots to go observe these black […]

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Peter Loh has penned a new image (above), and I feel honored to be placed under his own special cryptocartoonist’s magnifying glass, once again. In “My Comic Life,” I overviewed various artists’ past graphic attempts to capture me, including the following by Loh: That Loren, the fedora-wearing Loren, was created by Loh for Scott Marlowe’s […]

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