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Stuart Tomlinson of The Oregonian on June 07, 2008, posted information on the RoseFest Parade in Oregon. “It appears from this float that Sasquatch, Bigfoot or whatever you want to call the mythical creature of Northwest forests, is looking for a new home — he’s riding the Oregon Realtors Float.” Photo by Stuart Tomlinson, The […]

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The European amusement park, Gardaland, has announced that “Magic Mountain,” a Vekoma double loop corkscrew rollercoaster will become “Bigfoot” in their next season. Magic Mountain, a steel sit-down coaster, is situated on the lower level of the park as the park is set on a hill. It has been operating since 1985 making it the […]

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A group of scientists from the UK based Centre for Fortean Zoology are set to travel to the Caucasus Mountains of the Southwest Russian republic of Karbadino Balkaria in search of what they are saying may be “mankind’s closest living relative ~ a hominid known as the almasty.” The three-week expedition is being filmed by […]

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On June 1st, I launched a call for applications for one or two unpaid volunteers or interns, if you will, at the International Cryptozoology Museum, here as part of my home/office/musuem in Portland, Maine, for the summer of 2008. Here’s a reminder of that call: Are you an extremely well-organized person? Are you a happily […]

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The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) has a northernmost range that occasionally stretches into northern Florida, with individuals wandering as far north as Palm Beach County on the east coast and Sarasota County on the west coast. The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a widely distributed species, ranging from northern South America to the tip of […]

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I received this email from the brother of the late Scott Norman and it is dedicated to all who supported the Norman family in their time of bereavement: Hello all My folks Tom and Diane and I, Javin, would like to say thank you for all the thoughts prayers and writings that have come our […]

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Eutropis tammanna (Scincomorpha: Scincidae) Birder, herper, evolutionary biologist, naturalist Nicholas Sly of Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, asked himself a question many of us here often ask ourselves. How many new animals have been discovered recently? The only new bird described, to date, in 2008? Zosterops somadikartai (Passeriformes: Zosteropidae) Nick Sly set out to do […]

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The news is sad. Until 1995, there was no concerted effort to establish the status of the population of the Caribbean monk seal (Monachus tropicalis). While there had been only sporadic sightings, many were unconfirmed. Now, it appears, these pinnipeds exist no more. The above image is the only known photograph of a Caribbean monk […]

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The following article appeared on local Ohio TV News Net 5, on June 6, 2008: Big Cat Sightings Reported Near Ohio City Sightings of a big cat in northwest Ohio have some families on edge. Authorities south of Lima haven’t confirmed any of the reports that began to circulate a few weeks ago. Some people […]

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Cory Doctorow reminds me that today, June 6th, is the 75th anniversary of when the world’s first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, in 1933. In the Fall 2007 issue of TAPS Paramagazine, I wrote two articles about Bigfoot drive-in movies, and recommend those overviews to you. Here, in tribute to Bigfoot flicks […]

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Extreme Expeditions author Adam Davies’ just-released footage of the “Seljord Serpent” or Selma is actually secret footage that has never been released before. (See my previous blog on this sterling example of blobdracontology, here.) Jan-Ove Sundberg of the Swedish group GUST writes: The Selma video you now write about at Cryptomundo was taken on our […]

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Times have been rather hectic lately with the recent news of the Bigfoot “massacre” theory, the Bigfoot trail camera photo prize, and the Pepie challenge money. Therefore, I did want to acknowledge an item published over at the Pink Tentacle a few days ago. The essay was entitled “Seven Mysterious Creatures of Japan”. It is […]

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Selma, the so-called “Sea Serpent” that lives in Lake Seljord (Seljordsvatnet) obviously would have to be a Lake Monster, akin to the Loch Ness Monster. The location is near the inland town of Seljord, a municipality in the county of Telemark, Norway. The town’s coat-of-arms was created in 1989, and shows the “sea serpent Selma.” […]

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A drawing of the Beast of Bladenboro by Gary Longordo ~ Click on the image to enlarge it. “MonsterQuest” on Wednesday, June 4, 2008, dealt with the cryptid most often known as the “Beast of Bladenboro,” in its “Vampire Beast” episode. It updated the story with the reports from the fall of 2007, when residents […]

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The three parts of this documentary were produced in early 2008, in Spanish. The program is about the dinosaur-like cryptid from central Africa, Mokele Mbembe. It is carried here as a special treat to our Spanish-speaking and reading audience. Una increíble expedición tras un mito que se oculta en lo más profundo del continente negro. […]

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