Cryptomundo
for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More

In the June 1968 issue of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained’s journal, Pursuit, cryptozoologist Ivan T. Sanderson detailed his involvement in the early investigation and dissemination of the footage taken by Roger Patterson on October 20, 1967. The article makes for interesting reading, as it gives an insider’s look at what some […]

Read: The Patterson Affair »

For those wanting to add some "classic" Bigfoot films on DVD to their collections, there are some great deals available on Amazon.com. Released last year by Image Entertainment was the Sasquatch Horror Triple Feature which includes Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot. Many people remember seeing this film in theaters in the 70’s. It was filmed […]

Read: Bigfoot Movie Collections on DVD »

According to Fangoria, coming soon in 2007 to the SciFi Channel, these movies will screen: Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon, an American World Pictures from a script by Rafael Jordan, and Lake Placid II, more about giant crocs in Maine, from Sony Pictures. Both sound enjoyable. Please, bring back more drive-ins. By the way, […]

Read: More Monster Movies »

Word out of Katmandu is that the US State Department today, April 24th, ordered all non-emergency US mission personnel and dependents to depart Nepal. This decision, made at the recommendation of the Embassy, was taken out of concern for the safety of US Government employees and their families. The US Mission includes the Embassy, its […]

Read: Not Good For Yeti-Hunting »

Is Manimal More Man Than Animal? by Dmitri Bayanov © 2006 International Center of Hominology Moscow, Russia Conclusion It is said that the significance of a scientific theory can be measured by the time it impeded scientific progress. Let’s hope the “ape model” theory won’t go down in history as very significant in this respect. […]

Read: Manimal – The Conclusion »

Is Manimal More Man Than Animal? by Dmitri Bayanov © 2006 International Center of Hominology Moscow, Russia Part Three In my book, In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman, 1996, I told about a local teacher in Eastern Kazakhstan, named Mstislav Kushnikov, who “has heard stories about ksy-gyik (wild man) from the locals and personally […]

Read: Manimal – Part Three »

Is Manimal More Man Than Animal? by Dmitri Bayanov © 2006 International Center of Hominology Moscow, Russia Part Two But the hardest stumbling block, which I painfully stumble against even today, is the unbelievable linguistic prowess of the Carter Farm Bigfoot. The two Sasquatch words of unknown meaning, remembered and brought from the wilderness to […]

Read: Manimal – Part Two »

Today, Cryptomundo’s publication begins – in four parts – of Dmitri Bayanov’s lengthy commentary on the status of Sasquatch/Bigfoot, a bit on ksy-gyik, and specifically, in some depth, his notions on the Carter Farm Bigfoot, within the context of the human family. This Bayanov essay is entitled, “Is Manimal More Man Than Animal?” After all, […]

Read: Is Manimal More Man Than Animal? »

Who is trying to sell you on Nepalese non-protection and jumping on the Johor juggernaut? More adventures in forgetting history and spinning the media are in store for you today. You have to ask yourself, how long was it going to take before some official body in Malaysia declared their local version of the Bigfoot […]

Read: Joyriding Johor and Neglecting Nepal »

Please avoid letting me hear “Sasquatches” too! 🙂 No, no, no “Bigfeet” allowed in here. Some nouns, particularly the names of animals and fish, have the same form in singular and plural. Historically and grammatically correct is the word “Bigfoot” for singular and plural, just as “sheep” means one sheep and two or more sheep. […]

Read: Bigfoot, Not Bigfeet! »

Are reports of the Johor Bigfoot baby being captured, then denied, actually based on some poaching activity of out-of-place orangutans with a new range in Malaysia? – Loren Poser over baby Bigfoot poachers 21 Apr 2006 R. Sittamparam ———————————————————————— KOTA TINGGI: Could the people in four-wheel-drive vehicles and a truck purportedly carrying a baby Bigfoot, […]

Read: Mawas = Orangutan Poached? »

As Loren has written here on Cryptomundo, it looks like the Sonoma footage from last fall was hoaxed by Penn & Teller for their Showtime program. As Loren also mentioned here last year, Penn & Teller were trolling for unsuspecting crypto-dupes for their Showtime program. It looks like they resorted to putting up a website […]

Read: Sonoma Shakedown, Shakeup… »

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 »

I think not…  What is it with people claiming that the film has been proven a hoax? During the Q & A after Peter Byrne’s talk at the Institute of Texan Cultures a few weeks ago, one person in attendance brought up the fact that Patterson had made a deathbed confession that the film was […]

Read: Patterson/Gimlin Film a Proven Hoax? »

Loren Coleman Reviews "Corwin’s Quest: Realm of the Yeti" On April 15, 2006, the Animal Planet’s Jeff Corwin treated us to a frustrating two hour advertisement for Disney World’s Expedition Everest. As it turns out, after watching "Corwin’s Quest," I have a lot more respect for Joe Rohde and his design team at Disney than […]

Read: Yeti Yes, Corwin Hardly Bearable »