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What would happen if a small relict band of Neandertals (Homo neanderthalensis) was discovered? What if they learned to speak some language known to modern humans (Homo sapiens) and tried to integrate into our society? For hominologists, such questions have been pondered for years, due to the fact that many of us have considered it […]

Read: GEICO’s Cavemen – Neandertal Prejudice or Comedy? »

Mecheny, a Marked Hominid, as drawn by artist Harry Trumbore in The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Victoria Alexander, in the midst of a blog about several non-cryptozoological items, records the following interesting passage: Wildman of Russia. I finally came across Valentin Sapunov’s report I received when in Russia in 1992. I’d […]

Read: Russia’s “Big White Man” »

Remember this 1983 book? Was it the one your Mom bought you for your birthday, almost 25 years ago? You can now get the new 2007 edition (seen directly above), via clicking here: Mysterious America. But do you want a more personalized version? As a pre-postal rate increase (rates go up May 14th) and pre-Mother’s […]

Read: Mysterious Mother’s Day & Mailing Rates »

Craig Heinselman has completed his compiled and edited massive opus, Elementum Bestia. The following chapters are in the book: The American Sârâph: An Unnatural History of Winged Snakes in North America by Scott Maruna The Case of the Grey Ghost by Craig Heinselman Littlefoot – The Junjudee by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper The Hobbits […]

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“Scoftic” has to be the most ridiculous word in the current lexicon of Bigfoot research.Nightwing, November 2006 “Scoftic” – a Roger Knights neologism.Matt Crowley, September 2005 Sometime before the fall of 2003, Roger Knights, a frequent comment maker on all matters Bigfoot, decided to coin a word that he felt would be a counter to […]

Read: Is “Scoftic” A Useful Term? »

Sometimes I allow my thoughts to drift to trying to understand the “people” part of the Bigfoot quest. In my Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket – Simon and Schuster, 2003), I wrote Chapter 15, “The Bigfooters” to detail my thoughts on the matter of the why and the what […]

Read: Brooding About Bigfooters »

It is a strange world when I see things like “My Comic Life” end up on Wikipedia and Boing Boing, frozen in cyberspace. Therefore, here is my update with hints of the upcoming adventures of Crypto-Man and a character based on me. Since it is Sunday in Singapore, the time is right for another irregular […]

Read: Sunday Comics: Crypto-Man Meets Mystery Man »

Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America Here’s a new quiz that goes to the depths of your knowledge on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research. I’m joking, of course, for it is only ten questions long, but it is a good survey of some high points of your awareness of the field. It is more […]

Read: What’s Your Bigfoot IQ? »

(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Fans, friends, and readers of Cryptomundo, I have an idea that it might be good to have a permanent “Cryptomundo’s Frequently Asked Questions” location attached to the Cryptomundo site. Perhaps it would be via a long blog of answers, or series of blogs. Maybe […]

Read: Cryptomundo’s Ultimate CZ FAQs »

Bigfooter Ray Crowe of the International Bigfoot Society shares with Cryptomundo a photo he received from Russian cryptozoologist Valentin Sapunov. Following is the message that was sent to Ray along with the photo: Dear Ray! Best regards. My student from the North Urals got me a photo of Bigfoot. Reserve Jugyd-Va, nearest big city – […]

Read: Photo of Russian Bigfoot? »

The German Study Group of Sub-Human Primates has summarized the following news out of Russia: The website Tochikoni Rossija, a Tajik-Russian Mass Media Project published a photo (above) of the St. Petersburg artist Nikolaj Potapov with his painting of a “relic hominoid”. In the 80’s, Potapov was a participant in a “snowman” expedition in Tajikistan. […]

Read: Russian Relic Hominids »

There’s news out of German cryptozoology site about new DNA results on the skull of Khwit (shown above) and another new find. In August, 2006, the Russian newspaper Komsomol’skaja Pravda (1) reported on the examination of a skull assumed to be from a “relic hominoid” from Abkazia. Most have talked about their relationship to the […]

Read: Relict Skull Results: Khwit and Relative? »

Melissa Hovey has given her permission to reproduce her recent blog on this matter completely. All comment are hers. – Loren +++++++++++++ Sunday, December 31, 2006 The MK Interview on Bigfoot Live. Dear Readers, Well, M.K. Davis has finally spoken up about his use of Rick Noll’s work, and he also discusses his new “discovery” […]

Read: M. K. Davis Apologizes and “Clouds” Bigfoot With Almasty »

In November 2006, National Geographic Channel began screening one of their hour-long documentaries in the “Is It Real?” Series. It was on the Almas of Mongolia and the Almasty allegedly populating the Caucasus. They called their program, “Russian Bigfoot.” Craig Woolheater’s post here stimulated some intriguing comments, on both sides of the fence. There was, […]

Read: Drinking On Your Next Cryptid Expedition? »

Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 by Loren Coleman, coauthor The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. In the 1950s, anything covered in hair, upright or nearly so, and appearing to be an unknown human-like creature was called an “Abominable Snowman.” Today, the universal term, cryptozoologically speaking, used for any hidden, uncaught, or […]

Read: The Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 »