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2012 was a good year for Nessie!

Read: Nessie: A 2012 Review »

There’s a new article from me at Mysterious Universe that begins like this: “Beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of the leading seekers of strange creatures in the world today is Dr. Karl Shuker, who hails only a couple of miles from where I grew up in central England. But, Karl is not only […]

Read: The Weirdest Cats of All »

Dr. Karl Shuker, in a new post at his Shuker Nature blog, says: “Cryptozoologically-speaking, Scotland is world-famous for the Loch Ness monster, and also for its plethora of pantheresque and cougar-like mystery cats that allegedly roam its lonely moors and shadowy glens. However, these are not the only cryptids on record from this northernmost country […]

Read: The Earth Hound of Banffshire »

In a new post at Mysterious Universe, Micah Hanks begins… “It was indeed a scandal that shook the hallowed halls of the British Museum’s honorable geological department. Arthur Smith Woodward, then serving as the department’s keeper, had been approached with a rather curious set of bone fragments, allegedly retrieved and passed along to one Charles […]

Read: The Piltdown Man Controversy »

Over at my World of Whatever blog, I have a new post that addresses one of the stranger “British Bigfoot” controversies ever to have surfaced. The creature at the heart of the saga became known as the “Beast of Bolam” (after the location: Bolam Lake Country Park, which is located in Northumberland, England), and briefly provoked massive interest at a local level and within British Fortean and cryptozoological circles.

Read: The Beast of Bolam: 10 Years On »

Karl Shuker’s latest book, Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2012), is now in print!

Read: Cats of Magic – Now Available! »

In a very interesting new post at his Loch Ness Mystery blog, Glasgow Boy begins… “Whilst looking through some archives, I came across some items of interest on a creature reported in the Beauly Firth. This stretch of coastal water outside Inverness is about six miles long by two miles wide and has some significance […]

Read: The Beauly Firth Beast »

Dr. Karl Shuker tells us… “The history of cryptozoology is embarrassingly well-supplied with classic cases of lost opportunities, and the long-running saga of the sea serpents has provided quite a number of these over the years. One of the most notable examples took place on the shores of Gourock, on Scotland’s River Clyde. This was […]

Read: The Serpent of Gourock »

Dr. Karl Shuker has a new post at his Shuker Nature blog. The subject: the European wildman.

Read: The European Wildman »

For decades, people all across the United Kingdom – from the cold northern realms of Scotland to the southern-most borders of England – have reported sightings of large cats, very often the size of mountain-lions and equally often completely black in color.

Read: Seeking Britain’s Big Cats »

Glasgow Boy tells us at his Loch Ness Mystery blog: “I will be giving a talk on the Loch Ness Monster to the Edinburgh Fortean Society on Tuesday January 8th 2013. The title will be ‘Recent Events From Loch Ness’ and reviews the various Nessie related events that have been going on at the loch […]

Read: Lecturing on Nessie »

“In cryptozoology, it is always a delight to unearth accounts of hitherto-obscure mystery beasts from the archives of antiquity,” says Dr. Karl Shuker, in a new post, continuing: “Lately two such creatures, hailing from widely disparate geographical regions but of oddly similar appearance, have occupied my attention simultaneously, though with very different outcomes, as will […]

Read: Megalopedus and More »

Over at Mysterious Universe, there’s a new post from me that deals with one of my trips to Puerto Rico in search of the Chupacabras, when nothing less than both a Man in Black and a Woman in Black became part of the story!

Read: A MIB, a WIB, and a Monster »

Glasgow Boy tells us: “Tony Harmsworth, long time Loch Ness researcher, is putting his book Loch Ness Understood online for free viewing. The book also goes by the former title Loch Ness, Nessie and Me. I reviewed this book last year but now you can read it for yourself at Tony’s link. Tony says the […]

Read: Loch Ness Understood »

Nick Redfern has produced another excellent title that we will all wish to add to our Redfern Library of Monsters, Weird Creatures, and Perplexing Paths of the Paranormal. In Monster Diary Redfern takes to the road to search out ‘strange and sinister creatures,’ and the literary style of diary entries serves the subject matter very well.Brad Steiger

Read: Monster Diary: Brad Steiger Reviews »