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Doesn’t the above look like a Mothman clone? Read more about it over a Posthuman Blues. Meanwhile, the Mainichi Japan shares the latest on the booming cryptotourism in the hometown of Mothman. A quick stroll up Main Street, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, is enough to learn who this river town’s most famous resident is: His […]

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This story is being posted here, not because it is cryptozoological, but because it appears to relate to the recent discussion regarding the San Francisco Zoo tiger event. Tusker, a large 50 year old bull African elephant (seen in this October 2007 photograph) was shot dead on Sunday, January 6, 2008 at Charara camp on […]

Read: Taunted Tusker Killed »

As a followup to the recent story about Rex Gilroy’s proposed expedition to look for living Moas in the Urewera forest, Tony Lucas shares the latest. Hawke’s Bay cryptozoology researcher Tony Lucas is keeping an open mind on the possibility of moa still being alive in the Ureweras but thinks the evidence could point to […]

Read: More Moa News »

Tonight marks the return of Bigfoot Central on the Artist First network. Bigfoot Central was the first of the internet radio Bigfoot shows. Robert W. Morgan was the initial host of the show when it originally debuted back in 2003. After Morgan left the show, Loren Coleman hosted for a bit. The show returns tonight, […]

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As the voters go to the polls in New Hampshire, it is a good time to pause and recall the “Giant Monkey” of Danville, New Hampshire. Have you heard about it? On September 9, a few years ago, in rural Danville, New Hampshire, search parties were engaged in looking for a Giant Monkey spotted near […]

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TV Alert There really should be a “Cryptozoology Channel” on cable television, but until that happens, you can find great nights like tonight, Monday, January 7, 2008, and overnight into Tuesday. For six hours tonight, three cryptozoology-oriented programs on the Hobbit, Sasquatch, and Champ will be broadcast on the Discovery Channel. Here is the evening […]

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Karl Shuker has written an article that is meant to finally sink the oft-repeated story of a watery Siberian cryptid. Additionally, Darren Naish seems to have missed the otter sensitivity, nonsense and humor in some thoughts about the Loch Ness Monster here. As Darren Naish writes: “One of the most interesting lake monster accounts in […]

Read: Lake Khaiyr Hoax & More Otter Nonsense »

Seven albino alligators were stolen from the only zoo run by the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in Brazil as last year came to a close. Biologist Itamar Assumpcao, who is in charge of the administration of the zoo, told the media during the first week of 2008 that the alligators were last seen […]

Read: Hot or Not Zoo Whites »

The little blue moa. The Thylacine of the Avian world is in the news again. Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy recently discussed the latest new findings for Moas with the Hawke’s Bay Today. One of the good points about Gilroy is that he does serve as a lightning rod for unusual animal accounts in the region […]

Read: Living Moa News »

It looks like 2008 will have as many new species finds as other recent years. The Darwin Institute has announced that eleven new species of animals and plants have been discovered in Costa Rica. Two frogs and six plant species, including a mistletoe with a “spectacular flower,” were among the finds never before seen by […]

Read: New Species: Three Salamanders and Two Frogs »

I’m away in New York City, doing Yeti business, of course, including launching the new classics, like Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (PayPal me at lcoleman@maine.rr.com $25 marked “For ABSM Book” and I’ll send you, postpaid, an autographed copy, a hardback of this new printing to any USA address, for this one-time discount price). […]

Read: Old Books, Classics, and the Minnesota Iceman »

Does Bigfoot roam Maine? Or merely groups of comedians? Here are some funny videos from a new movie. The world premiere showing of the completed, new Maine-based film, Monster in the Woods will occur at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, on January 12, 2008. Here is the main trailer, and three other videos related directly […]

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In 1977, Randy L. Braun was hiking along Lake Superior when he had a mysterious encounter with an unidentified watery cryptid. What do you think his photograph of it looks like? What is it?

Read: Pressie: What Is It? »

This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at […]

Read: Year of the Yeti Begins Now! »

The mystery remains as to what happened at the SF Zoo on Christmas Day, but slowly the full story perhaps is being revealed. According to a new published report of Thursday, January 3, 2008, in the San Francisco Chronicle, at least one eyewitness has come forth to describe what happened before the tiger attack of […]

Read: Eyewitness: Big Cats Taunted »