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A Student Film Project on Steroids. Setting a Speed Record while Standing Still. Standing Out Promises Malaysian Mania. Standing While Running In Place: The Self-Help Documentary for Your Next Radio Appearance. The imaginary subtitles were nonstop in my head as I tried to fall asleep on the night of July 14th. Todd Standing was on […]

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Indie filmmaker picks Parksville Noel Foley fell into filmmaking — and he’s taking Parksville with him. The Nanaimo based filmmaker wrapped a show here last year called Squatch. “That was an adventure,” Foley said. It used Oceanside locations, including the Skylite Motel, the Island Highway and a Qualicum Foods board room. It stars local actors, […]

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Frankly, I get so tired of these Texas (and other states’) “chupacabra” stories, that these annual versions of the Chupacabras have become non-mysteries. I figured my Cryptomundo-mate Craig would post on his home state’s latest, and he has here, a few moments ago. It’s hot, the season is right, and “they” have turned up for […]

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Looks like the Elmendorf Beast to me… PHYLIS CANION/CONTRIBUTED PHOTO This unidentified animal was hit by a car and killed in DeWitt County. What it actually is may have be determined by DNA tests to be run at Texas A&M. Chupacabra, coyote or … ? Strange animals are sighted in DeWitt County CUERO – Phylis […]

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Courtesy of The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS) Satyr? A man’s body, naturally mummified within an ancient salt mine, was found in a salt mine outside the Iranian city of Zanjan. What’s going on here? This news out of Iran is now been linked to ancient tales of satyrs and salt. Stanford University’s Adrienne […]

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You might see someone FAMILIAR in the first two attached cartoons….Thank you for the continued inspiration. Cryptoonist Charles Berlin More later…the mystery continues….

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Watching the trailer for the upcoming Loch Ness Monster film, The Waterhorse, I am struck by the similarity of the film to the canceled NBC series Surface. In both, the young male character finds a mysterious egg and takes it home and hatches an aquatic cryptid that he then goes to great lengths to hide. […]

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There’s news of another recent Maine mountain lion sighting. Please click on the image of the Sidney, Maine, photograph, above, for a larger version. Kennebunkport [Maine] — It was May 30 and a hint of summer was in the air. Holly Cook had finished up work for the day and she and her husband were […]

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Jerry D. Coleman was the first investigator to talk to Ruth and Marlon Lowe about the Thunderbird abduction. The description he obtained from the eyewitnesses was exacting. As I’ve mentioned before, this is going to be a big year for anniversaries. From such events as the filming of the Bigfoot at Bluff Creek in 1967 […]

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Megan Richardson’s article in a Downeast Maine newspaper will be remembered as the first media discussion of a little known Maine cryptid, Belfast’s Muck Monster. See the third paragraph from the end for more on that creature lurking in Kirby Lake. Prospect [Maine] — World-renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman visited Fort Knox over the weekend as […]

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The following images are the first ones I have seen of the inside of “The Department of Cryptozoology B. Heuvelmans, Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.” This location is now the sanctuary for Bernard Heuvelmans’ collection of books, paintings, and raw material detailing his years of cryptozoology research and gathering of cryptid data. These photographs were […]

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Anniversaries are those logical points on the calendar when we all naturally think about events that may have been too overwhelming to have sink too deeply into our psyche at the time. Three years ago the Mothman Death Curse, if there is such a thing, hit close to home. On July 19, 2004, the first […]

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You are welcome to attend a free talk today, July 24, 2007 at 1:00 – 2:00 PM, at the Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant Street, Brunswick, Maine. This Teen Zone Event is now open to all ages. Searching for Bigfoot with Loren Coleman: A YNK Teen Summer Program event Do you believe in lake monsters, […]

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Reports of “monsters” in Lake Kansai have issued from China since at least the 1980s. In recent weeks, via news reports rebroadcast on YouTube, we are beginning to see various videos that are apparently of different animate objects. Are any of these motion pictures of animals? Or merely mistakes and known animals posing as cryptids? […]

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For those readers who are keen observers, you will note that archival material is posted ahead of time to be published days later to Cryptomundo when I travel on short trips or long ones. Over the weekend, I was up the Coast of Maine, far from broadband internet access. Here’s part of what happened… Cryptozoologist […]

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