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There is an excellent Bangor Daily News article, published on January 8, 2007, about Toronto-based cartoonist Ted Bastien and his comic strip, “Bugsport.” The strip is based loosely on Bucksport, Maine, and the town’s reportedly alien population. (Note to non-Mainers, when we say you are “from away” up here, we really mean it.) The article […]

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Fisherman Tim Winchenbach poses outside his home in Cushing, Maine, with a mysterious prehistoric tusk that was pulled up with a load of scallop shells on a New Bedford vessel fishing off Georges Bank in December 2006. Photos by Joel Page. Does this tusk come from a ten-thousand-years or older, long gone mammoth or mastodon? […]

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An update on the mystery black felid photograph (see various enhancements on this page) reveals some new information, which, in context, makes much sense. The picture was taken December 2005, according to the photographer’s letter shared with me last night by felid researcher Ben Willis. The photo was taken by a retired biology professor from […]

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Cryptomundo Exclusive: Sunday Insight Please click on this Peter Loh cartoon, based on a Loren Coleman suggestion, for a fuller-sized version. For more of Peter Loh’s work, see here and here.

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I turned on the television this morning, over there in the background near my desk, to check the news on the local NBC channel. The very first thing on the screen was an individual discussing a Sea Serpent sighting. I happened to be in the midst of writing an article about New England Sea Serpents. […]

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Melissa Hovey has given her permission to reproduce her recent blog on this matter completely. All comment are hers. – Loren +++++++++++++ Sunday, December 31, 2006 The MK Interview on Bigfoot Live. Dear Readers, Well, M.K. Davis has finally spoken up about his use of Rick Noll’s work, and he also discusses his new “discovery” […]

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Nashville Cats, play clean as country water Nashville Cats, play wild as mountain dew Nashville Cats, been playin’ since they’s babies Nashville Cats, get work before they’re two — by John B. Sebastian, Lovin’ Spoonful, 1967. Is this cryptid black cat a melanistic bobcat (Lynx rufus/Felis rufus)? Back on November 19, 2006, I wrote about […]

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The deaths of two other friends to cryptozoology have been brought to my attention. George W. Maugans, Jr., 94, who had been involved in various archaeological and anthropological investigations, including Bigfoot studies, died during 2006. The Baltimore Sun published his death notice last year: George William Maugans Jr. On November 17, 2006, George William Maugans, […]

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Easily obtainable photographs of Myzopoda schliemanni are unavailable. This is the closely related species, Myzopoda aurita. Chicago’s Field Museum announced today that a “new sucker-footed bat [has been] discovered in Madagascar”: CHICAGO — Scientists have discovered a new species of bat that has large flat adhesive organs, or suckers, attached to its thumbs and hind […]

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What is this tropical shark doing so far north in December? Please click for a larger image. The out-of-place animals (OOPA) are popping up all over the map. A manatee was recently captured off Texas. It is the third out-of-place manatee discovered since last August, far from Florida (the other two were found hundreds of […]

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Companion piece to Another Cougar Conspiracy? Cougars in Illinois? Quite a few sane and sensible citizens have concluded that Felis concolor dwells here again Essay by James Krohe Jr. Democratic governors came back to Illinois — why not cougars? Officially, Illinois has no wild cougars; the cougar is not listed as an endangered species in […]

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Here we go again with another cougar conspiracy. Rural legends: Cougars roam southern Illinois Posted: Friday, Dec 29, 2006 – 02:32:00 pm EST By Tom Dunn – Register Staff Writer Daily Republican Register Mt. Carmel, Illinois Many levelheaded residents will swear that cougars now live in southern Illinois, while the powers that be will testify […]

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Tennessee’s Manatee Last August 2006, an out-of-place manatee showed up in the Hudson Valley, New York (remember Tappie?). Then in October, one apparently swam up the Mississippi River to a harbor near Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis manatee was found dead in December in a lake in the State of Mississippi. On January 4, 2007, the […]

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Click on image for full size version Wisconsin’s Coulee News has published a story on January 3, 2006, entitled: "Man Bat Tale Tops 2006 for Weirdness" by Randy Erikson. It gives a journalistic overview of the case, although Linda Godfrey warns me it does have some factual mistakes. Her website with this same incident is […]

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