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As reputable an authority as the senior officer of the Cunarder Mauretania [sic] reports that on Jan. 30, [1934] while in the Carribean [sic] Sea, the ship passed “a sea monster 65 feet long, 2 feet across the head and 6 feet broad amidships. It was headed S.W.” We are sorry he did not get […]

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Dana Holyfield sends along the following news: Hi. Just letting you know that retroflicks is going to be distributing my DVD worldwide. They made a movie trailer that can be watched on my website on youtube. It’s pretty cool the way they edited the trailer. Or here is a link to watch it.Dana Holyfield I […]

Read: Update: Honey Island Swamp Monster Documentary »

Our excitement was so intense, as we saw the way to Solomon’s treasure chamber thrown open at last, that I for one began to tremble and shake. Would it prove a hoax after all, I wondered, or was old Da Silvestra right? Were there vast hoards of wealth hidden in that dark place, hoards which […]

Read: Blair Dog Project: Gable Film Fakery? »

Picture from video of “Bigfoot” 2 Chattanooga Men Say They May Have Landed “Bigfoot” Say Hulking Furry Figure Is On Video Shot In Remote New Mexico Two Chattanoogans say they may have bagged the mythical “Bigfoot”. Lindsay Lemmon and Austin McGee said after returning from a trip out west, they found that video shot out […]

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Finally, a possible solution to the Patterson-Gimlin footage? Let’s move in closer. At least we are trying to keep our sense of humor. Merci Jean luc Drevillon

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I suppose people think this is cute or funny, by now. Sorry, I don’t agree. Indeed, I am tired of all this video trash posted as nonfiction film clips. It’s one thing to have a cryptofictional movie you want to promote, and it’s another thing to keep floating parts of it out there to confuse […]

Read: “Sassafrass” Sasquatch Squashed »

For Immediate Release, September 24, 2007 Press Release Contact: Susan Rohrer, State Capital Museum, srohrer@wshs.wa.gov, 360/586-0166 Giants in the Mountains; The Search for Sasquatch A new exhibit at the State Capital Museum Opening October 6, 2007 State Capital Museum and Outreach Center 211 21st Avenue SW Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 753- 2580 WashingtonHistory.org Opening is […]

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As a followup to my earlier blog about the auction of the Shipton-Ward Yeti footprint photographs, the final bids are in. Boing Boing’s David Pescovitz blogs today of the outcome of auction. “This 1951 photograph of a purported Yeti footprint was auctioned off at Christie’s London for £3,500. Eric Earle Shipton took the photograph in […]

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Thanks to Cryptomundo correspondent Oleg who lives in the Urals, the actual photograph that goes with the blog written in August (completely reproduced below) is posted here, for the first time. The correct Snowman photograph is now here, to revise the earlier confusing mix of a compelling story and a mismatched fake photograph. What do […]

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Helen inspired so many people to help her cause that the Snow Leopard Trust continues to grow stronger and accomplish goals Helen envisioned almost 30 years ago. Snow Leopard Trust Executive Director Brad Rutherford. Helen Elaine Freeman, 75, known to many as “the Jane Goodall of snow leopards” for her advocacy on behalf of the […]

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Native, wild “black panthers” are not suppose to exist on the Iberian Peninsula, Europe. Mijas is a town and municipality in the province of Málaga, in Andalusia, in southern Spain. La Cala de Mijas is a separate village and tiny resort by the sea to the west. Word comes from that location of a new […]

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Eleven new species, including a snake and two butterflies, have been discovered in a remote region of Vietnam known as the ‘Green Corridor’, the WWF reveals Wednesday. Five orchids and three other plants make up the rest of the haul of species new to science. They all appear to be unique to Vietnam’s Annamites mountain […]

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Today, September 25, 2007, marks 728 weeks or over 5100 days since I almost died. On this date in 1993, I was free-climbing a rocky cliff in Maine, slipped on some talus, and fell back, straight down, about 40 feet. I landed on some rocks and caused my lumbar 1 to completely implode. As one […]

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Sometimes all the tumblers in the universe seem to fall into place around one issue. Yesterday, for me, it appeared to in relationship to Gerald Russell and Snowmen skullcaps, the ritual objects made to look like the head of the Yeti. I was waiting for a Strange Maine visitor to my museum Monday afternoon, following […]

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While nothing will ever match the David Grabias 2002 documentary Search for the Mothman, now bundled in the Deluxe DVD/The Mothman Prophecies, production companies keep cranking out ones filled with interviews with old eyewitnesses. Of course, there is no footage of Mothman, so they all are following the same path here. Black River Films has […]

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