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A new site to check out: Anomaly TV: Cryptozoology Wednesday. What do you think about it? One place to find all the Bigfoot videos you have been looking for? Word on replays of Mothman documentaries? Updates on when A & E, National Geographic, Travel Channel, History Channel and other repeats or new programs are going […]

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Proof of cougars remains elusive If they’re not here, they soon will be, state researcher says STEVENS POINT — A year-long search failed to turn up positive proof that mountain lions are present in Wisconsin, but the study’s leader is far from dismayed. “We’re still looking, but I don’t think it (finding conclusive evidence) is […]

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Jodi Magraner discusses the Barmanu and shows the drawings he had made of them from eyewitness accounts. In my modest effort to send some field guides and other books to the troops who are in harms’ way, a few shipments have gone out. Today, via a received email, I heard back from a soldier in […]

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Mountain Lion Sightings In Northern Kentucky Last Update: 1/9/2007 7:36:43 AM Local 12 WKRC-TV Cincinnati Watch This Video A mountain lion is spotted running loose near a local neighborhood. In the past three weeks, six people reported seeing the big cat. It was first seen near Camp Springs, just off the AA Highway in Campbell […]

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The Sioux City Journal mentions a talk on January 11, 2007, by a Bigfoot cryptofiction and cryptopolitical writer. Author Mike Palecek of Sheldon, Iowa, will provide a reading from his most recent book, Looking for Bigfoot: A Novel for America, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Meis Recital Hall on the Briar Cliff University campus. Palecek, […]

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Sasquatch seeker ‘Toba woman in Bigfoot documentary By JOYANNE PURSAGA, STAFF REPORTER Winnipeg Sun One Manitoban’s lifelong fascination with the mystery of Bigfoot has landed her a role in an upcoming documentary. Fisher Branch-area resident Michelle Baril has collected stories about sasquatch sightings as a hobby through most of her life. Michelle Baril and her […]

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Before this bit of news gets too old, I want to mention the seemingly funny media mentions last week about tourists in Scotland asking silly questions. The media had a bit of laughter over some questions from visitors, and, of course, Nessie was right up there at the top. According to a Travel Connect article […]

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Theeggfarm has many poems on their site, here and there and all around. Allow me to share, if I might, which I much appreciate, one just found: Untitled #8 (For Crypto Zoologists) by hybrid If every creature Rumored but Unproven By Crypto Zoologists Were given a stewin’ I’d hazard a guess that my favorite meat […]

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An anonymous Cryptomundo reader just tipped us off to this story. Cougar plays starring role in Manitoba history books Big cat caught live in photos Tue Jan 9 2007 By Martin Zeilig Winnipeg Free Press PHOTOGRAPHIC history has been made with the first-ever pictures of a wild cougar roaming rural Manitoba. Click on image for […]

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A new rather large insect, a new japygid (Order: Diplura; Family: Japygidae), has been discovered in Spain. The japygids are easily identified by the pincers at the end of the abdomen. They look like earwigs (order: Dermaptera) which also have pincers but japygids are eyeless whereas earwigs have large compound eyes. The following is a […]

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Cryptopal David Pescovitz posts today at Boing Boing about the new "Batman fish": The Otocinclus batmani is a newly-discovered species of catfish that’s named after comix hero Batman. Ichthyologist Pablo Lehmann, of the Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, named the fish based on a bat symbol-like spot on its tail. The fish, […]

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Mark Hall has posted a review entitled "When Legends Meet Science" via his "Living Fossils" page at Wonders about Jeff Meldrum’s new book, Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science. Dave Rubert photographs of the Ray Wallace fake Bigfoot footprint tools. One section of Mark Hall’s review discusses the Ray Wallace wooden fake track creations, and how the […]

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Little, Brown and Company has published, on January 8, 2007, a new novel with cryptozoological fiction as a major component of the plot. Dan Simmons’ The Terror: A Novel features a central character that is a creature, the Thing, which attacks and slowly kills off the crew members. Here’s what Publishers Weekly has to say: […]

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The famed coelacanth researcher and dinofish.com site author Jerome Hamlin sends along the above photographs. Hamlin writes: Here’s a picture of a “Yeti” that approached our car at a gas station in India last April! I thought of you when I snapped it. I was quite impressed by the outfit and in the heat. I […]

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Dr. Dave Maehr’s 1990 article details the discoveries of black bobcats in Florida. Please see below his Florida location chart (numbers 1 and 2 are from 1939-1940 through the 1990 captures). Click on image for full size version Also here is a photograph from 1990 of a black Florida bobcat. Click on image for full […]

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