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Posted by: John Kirk on June 26th, 2006
An international paper with a paper edition has published a pretty informative article about Chinese Water Dragons and their correlation to the various aquatic cryptids of Canada and I must say I really enjoyed this one. There’s plenty to read about Ogopogo and the other lake monsters of Canada in the online edition of Epoch […]
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Categorized as: Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Loch Ness Monster, Pop Culture, Public Forum, Reviews | 16 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on June 23rd, 2006
Canadian Geographic is one of the most prestigious societies in Canada and is our country’s equivalent to National Geographic in the USA. It is very pleasing for Canadian cryptozoology investigators and researchers to see that an article on cryptozoology in Canada is included in the July/August edition of this eminent publication. However, I wish the […]
Read: Canadian Geographic Magazine Looks at Cryptozoology in Canada – Sort Of »
Categorized as: Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lake Monsters, Loch Ness Monster, Museums, Pop Culture, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Sea Serpents | 5 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on June 6th, 2006
While I was looking for some info on the Harrison Hot Springs website I came across this article on our favourite hairy hominid – Sasquatch: Mystery of The Sasquatch The Sasquatch (sesxac) occupies a unique niche in the traditions of the Indians of Harrison Lake and River. White Anthropologists feel quite safe in classing them […]
Read: Murderous Sasquatches of British Columbia »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Public Forum, Sasquatch | 21 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 25th, 2006
There is this notion among cryptozoology enthusiasts around the world that lacustrean (lake) cryptids around the world are all the same in terms of their appearance and morphology. I could not disagree more with this notion. I have spent the better part of the last 19 years investigating this particular area of cryptozoology and going […]
Read: Lake Monsters Around the World »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Loch Ness Monster, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Sea Serpents | 29 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 22nd, 2006
My friend and Cryptomundo colleague, Loren Coleman, stated on these pages that there is the prospect that Malaysian biologist Vincent Chow has been able to procure several photographs of the alleged Malyasian Bigfoot, the Orang Dalam or as it is known in this case, Mawas. I want to be excited about this, but given the […]
Read: Bracing For Disappointment »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoology, Lake Monsters, Loch Ness Monster, Malaysian Bigfoot, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Sea Serpents, Skunk Apes, Swamp Monsters, Television, Yeti, Yowie | 25 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 18th, 2006
A lot of people who read Cryptomundo often ask me about the BCSCC and what is exactly that we do. I am always happy to let people know about the club I founded in 1989 along with Paul Leblond and the late Jim Clark. Paul and Jim had the original vision of a club where […]
Read: What is the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club? »
Categorized as: Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lake Monsters, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Sea Serpents | 15 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 17th, 2006
One of the things I find most perplexing about sasquatch stories from British Columbia and particularly about the ones that emanate from the Harrison Hot Springs area is that sasquatch apparently have the faculty of speech. Now, I don’t mean they can simply howl growl or grunt, I mean they can talk in known languages. […]
Read: The Enigma of the Talking British Columbia Sasquatches »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Swamp Monsters, Yeti, Yowie | 43 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 13th, 2006
After the Penn and Teller Showtime fiasco, the last thing we need is another cryptozoology mockumentary. I hope that Provost Pictures – who are set to start principal photography at Okanagan Lake the setting of a film called The Beast of Bottomless Lake – are able to avoid the abusive pitfalls entered into by the […]
Read: Ogopogo Movie Set to Begin Shooting this Summer »
Categorized as: Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoology, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Loch Ness Monster, Movie Monsters, Public Forum, Sea Serpents, Television | 15 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on May 10th, 2006
It’s amazing to me sometimes how the media will seize on a story that really is no big deal. It is patently obvious that a lot of media types don’t do enough research before they write a story. Here’s an example. There are so many sasquatch research groups out there that I have lost track […]
Read: Sasquatch in the Yukon »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Public Forum, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Yeti, Yowie | 16 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 19th, 2006
The Dodu: Man Beast of Cameroon – Africa’s Own Sasquatch Part III While on a Mokele-mbembe safari in Cameroon in 2001, myself, Rob Mullin, Scott Norman and Bill Gibbons took time off from looking for Mokele-mbembe to enquire about a local man beast known as the Dodu. One afternoon as we stood on the shores […]
Read: The Dodu: Man Beast of Cameroon – Africa’s Own Sasquatch Part III »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Evidence, Expedition Reports, Eyewitness Accounts, Folklore, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Swamp Monsters, Yeti, Yowie | 7 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 15th, 2006
In Part I of this article, you might recall that in November, 2000 Bill Gibbons and Dave Woetzel had stumbled upon a possible new hominid while interviewing pygmies and Bantus about Mokele-mbembe in southern Cameroon. The pygmies had described a dark haired manlike creature which only had three digits on its hands and feet. This […]
Read: The Dodu: Man Beast of Cameroon – Africa’s Own Sasquatch Part II »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Expedition Reports, Eyewitness Accounts, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Swamp Monsters, Yeti, Yowie | 2 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 13th, 2006
Some readers may no doubt know of Ivan Sanderson’s delightful book Abominable Snowmen – Legend Come to Life. In this very readable tome, written in Sanderson’s classic Scottish old-school intellectual style, the wily naturalist makes reference to the unknown bipedal hominids of Africa, some of whom were small in stature. Most notable is the Agogwe […]
Read: The Dodu: Man Beast of Cameroon – Africa’s Own Sasquatch Part I »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Expedition Reports, Eyewitness Accounts, Lake Monsters, Living Dinosaurs, Malaysian Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes, Yeti, Yowie | 7 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 11th, 2006
I am often asked why I spend as much time as I do in pursuit of Ogopogo, the denizen of Okanagan Lake. The reason is straightforward: Because it is there. I know this animal to be a real entity as I have seen it on more than one occasion. What is it? Blowed if I […]
Read: Ogopogo: Denizen of the Deep »
Categorized as: Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoology, Eyewitness Accounts, Lake Monsters, Loch Ness Monster, Sea Serpents | 17 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 9th, 2006
The principal purpose of the Cryptosafari/BCSCC expedition to Cameroon a few years ago was to obtain evidence of the elusive saurian known as Mokele-mbembe. However, while Bill Gibbons, Robert Mullin, Scott Norman, Pierre Sima and I were in the bush we encountered people who were adamant that other life forms existed in their part of […]
Read: The Ngoubou »
Categorized as: Cryptid Universe, Cryptotourism, Cryptozoologists, Cryptozoology, Expedition Reports, Extinct, Eyewitness Accounts, Living Dinosaurs, Swamp Monsters | 12 Comments »
Posted by: John Kirk on April 6th, 2006
If we are unable to know for sure what a sasquatch is in the order of things in nature, how can anyone brazenly suggest that you kill one? if it is indeed in the same branch as human beings, then by killing one, you have committed homicide. The last time I had a look at […]
Read: Killing a Sasquatch For Science? »
Categorized as: Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot, Cryptid Universe, Cryptozoology, Malaysian Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Skunk Apes | 17 Comments »