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The following Cryptomundo Exclusive was posted first on January 13, 2006, and became the most popular blog last year at Cryptomundo. Here’s a quick revisit, for the information is just as intriguing today as it was then. At the end is a new 2007 update, looking at the “spikes” in one known primate species. Harry […]

Read: Flashback: US Navy SEAL’s Secret Video A Year Later »

I posted on the current news about California’s Lake Merritt Monster, a couple days ago, here. Now comes some archival newspaper articles, shared by Craig Heinselman. Following these images of the Lake Merritt Monster from old newspapers are the pdfs from 1946, 1954, and 1958, on this “created cryptid.” Oakland Tribune June 21, 1946 Oakland […]

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There is a new series of children’s books on cryptozoology for the New Year. Rosen Publishing has walked this way before. This New York City-based publisher produced a series of “Secret Files” children’s books on cryptids in 2002. It has now followed with their “Graphic Mysteries” 48-pages-long books for 2006 and 2007. The 2002 titles, […]

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Thai villagers have caught a river terrapin turtle that was thought to be extinct in the country, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Thailand announced this week. The female turtle – known for its egg-shaped shell and upturned snout – was found January 3, 2007, in a mangrove canal in Phang Nga province on the country’s […]

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I have heard from Neil Mandt (above), the executive producer for "Destination Truth," the new series that will be appearing on the Sci Fi Channel this spring. He’s been corresponding with me for some months now, and decided to give Cryptomundo an exclusive on what he and his crew are up to right now. One […]

Read: Searching For the Ropen in New Guinea: “Destination Truth” Makes Contact From Rainforest »

Ginny Prior, The Town Crier of California’s Contra Costa Times talks in her column of January 12, 2007, about the "Beast [that] dwells in [the] murky waters of Lake Merritt." She writes: I’ve always suspected something was lurking, just below the murky green surface. Now it’s been confirmed — Oakland’s Lake Merritt has a monster. […]

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The Formosan wild boar’s distinctive nostril stripe is clearly seen in this photograph. The China Post is reporting on January 12, 2007, that Formosan wild boar nests have been sighted in northern Taiwan, during the past two months. The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI) reported yesterday that these incidents marked the “first sightings” in 15 […]

Read: Formosan Wild Boar: First Encounters In 15 Years »

The Hollywood Reporter is spreading the news that “Destination Truth” on the Sci Fi Channel is a go for April 2007. After the Destination: Truth expedition of February 20, 2006, found footprints at Kampung Lukut, a new wave of ecotourism was stimulated and foreign tour groups began arriving. The cast discussed around the world: Joshua […]

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Above is a box jellyfish, but not the new one. A new jellyfish, which is unique because it can survive the dry season, has been discovered off Australia. The bart jellyfish is found only at the Gove Peninsular "in the Top End." (The Top End is the second northernmost point on the continent of Australia, […]

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My old friend Robert Anton Wilson has died. I learned of the news from my friends Patrick Huyghe and David Pescovitz. I’m sure someplace, Bucky Fuller, Timothy Leary, Charles Fort, and Robert Anton Wilson are deciding whether it’s time to play supercheckers or Texas hold ’em. I corresponded with Robert Anton Wilson (RAW as he […]

Read: 23 Skidoo: Goodbye Robert Anton Wilson »

There’s news out of German cryptozoology site about new DNA results on the skull of Khwit (shown above) and another new find. In August, 2006, the Russian newspaper Komsomol’skaja Pravda (1) reported on the examination of a skull assumed to be from a “relic hominoid” from Abkazia. Most have talked about their relationship to the […]

Read: Relict Skull Results: Khwit and Relative? »

With all of the sightings lately of cougars from all over the US reported here at Cryptomundo, we are thinking about changing our name to Cougarmundo. Well, not really, but there have been a lot of cougar or mountain lion sightings in unexpected places lately. Readers may wonder about all of the postings here on […]

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This mastodon (Mammut americanum) is the life-sized bronze representation at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, the home of the “Mastodons.” As you will recall, on the 8th, you first read here about the “Mystery Tusk.” Now comes a “confirmed” answer. Or is it? Therein lies the tale behind the splash on the television screen. […]

Read: Mystery Tusk: Definitely Mastodon Not Mammoth – Perhaps »

The author of The Opopogo – My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster, Harry Horse, 46 (real name: Richard Horne), his dog Roo, other pets, and his ill wife Mandy, 39, have all died in an apparent mass suicide. The Scotsman is reporting on January 11, 2007, that Horne, his wife (multiple sclerosis saw her […]

Read: Harry Horse, The Ogopogo Author & Atlantis Rising Cartoonist Dies »

Two incidents in one week. Two scorpions on two separate planes. The news is coming in so rapidly this week, I shared this one directly with Chad Arment’s Strange Ark, a good site for you to know about anyway. Read more fully about the scorpions on the planes, here.

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