Posted by: mystery_man on October 3rd, 2012
On the island of Amami Oshima (Amami big island), there have long been stories of a hairy, monkey-like creature known as the Kenmun. Let us now take a look into these tropical southern islands of Japan, and the mysteries they hide. Amami Oshima is the largest island in the Amami chain of islands, in the […]
Posted by: mystery_man on September 30th, 2012
On the island of Hokkaido, in the cold northern reaches of the Japanese archipelago, the indigenous Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived. Does Japan have its own race of proto-pygmies?
Posted by: mystery_man on September 27th, 2012
What made these mysterious tracks?
Posted by: mystery_man on September 24th, 2012
One of the most well known cryptids of Japan is a mysterious, bipedal water dwelling creature known as the Kappa.
Posted by: mystery_man on September 23rd, 2012
You don’t see this everyday.
Posted by: mystery_man on September 22nd, 2012
What kind of beast terrorized this small Japanese rural community?
Posted by: mystery_man on September 22nd, 2012
I will be republishing some previous articles of mine as a series on Japanese hominids for the benefit of new readers and as a refresher for others. Part 1 concerns a gorilla-like creature said to inhabit the wilderness of Mt. Hiba, Japan. Is there a strange hominid lurking in the remote mountains of Japan?
Posted by: mystery_man on September 9th, 2012
Recently the Japanese River Otter was declared extinct by the Ministry of the Environment after sitting on the critically endangered list for decades, but is there the possibility that some still survive?
Read: Japanese River Otter Extinction? »
Posted by: mystery_man on February 24th, 2012
Is there a large mystery cat lurking in the jungles of one of Japan’s most remote islands? Many images.
Posted by: mystery_man on October 7th, 2011
Could the spike in sightings of UFOs following the recent March 11, 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami have a cryptozoological origin?
Read: Tsunamis and Sky Beasts »
Posted by: mystery_man on July 31st, 2011
Mystery Man (Brent Swancer) takes a tour of the cryptozoological exhibits at the National Science Museum in Tokyo.
Posted by: mystery_man on May 28th, 2011
There are many mysterious monsters dwelling in the lakes and rivers of the world, but the ones that really intrigue and terrify us are the ones that are purported to attack humans.
What sort of creature would, or could, kill 12 well armed samurai warriors? As bizarre as it may sound, there are other stories of river dwelling beasts attacking humans in Japan as well.
Posted by: mystery_man on April 7th, 2011
Revisiting a post I wrote awhile back here at Cryptomundo on the Hibagon, Japan’s own Bigfoot.
Are the forests of Japan home to a mysterious hairy hominid?
Posted by: mystery_man on March 31st, 2011
The Honshu wolf was not the only type of wolf endemic to Japan. In the cold northern wilderness of Hokkaido there lurked another, much larger variety of Japanese wolf. The final installment of my Japanese wolf series.
Posted by: mystery_man on March 30th, 2011
The last Honshu wolf is commonly thought to have been killed in 1905. Did it survive past that date, or even into the present? Part 2 of my Japanese wolf series.
Read: Japanese Wolves Part 2: Yamainu »
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