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Joel Johnson (the Boing Boing correspondent who toured and filmed my museum) has alerted me to the mention and actual work of Mike Stimpson, involving LEGO photography and various classic photographs that Stimpson has recreated. One of the greatest new images that Stimpson uploaded this week is an amazing Lego recreation of that famed frame […]

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Besides my recent Cryptomundo postings on the dodo and the moa-nalo, I have written other past entries here, which have reviewed the following often cryptic flightless bird species: elephant bird, more dodo, terror birds, more terror birds, moa, more moa, and takahē. In line with a question during an earlier discussion about how might have […]

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Proof of skunk ape found in Everglades? COLLIER COUNTY: Scotland has its Loch Ness Monster. The Himalayas has its Yeti. But in the Everglades of Southwest Florida – it’s all about the skunk ape. ABC7 found out why a skunk ape researcher believes he found proof that, not only do these animals exist, but that […]

Read: David Shealy and the Skunk Ape: Back in the News »

It is Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and the History Channel, on behalf of “Monster Quest II,” is here in Portland, Maine, with a film producer and crew today to digitally film interviews with me about cryptozoology, in the context of a five hour tour of the International Cryptozoology Museum. Their snippets of the interviews, b-roll, […]

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At Don Keating’s Ohio Bigfoot Conference last weekend, the M. K. Davis presentations on the Patterson-Gimlin footage and the furor caused in the wake of the “Patty was shot” theory were not all that happened there. One presenter’s recent activities were overshadowed by the Davis “massacre theory.” That specifically was the news shared by Jeff […]

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As you may know, since 2006, Ray Crowe, nearing 71 years old, has been dealing with the closing of the doors to his International Bigfoot Society. Ray, who began the organization, first as the Western Bigfoot Society, back in 1991, in Portland, Oregon, has been gathering Sasquatch items, art, artifacts, and related popular culture materials […]

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When these four St. Dominic Regional High School seniors were tearing down an old shed at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lewiston during a class project, they came across some strange bones. From left to right are: Andrew Gwarjanski, Codie Keene, Jeff Lewandowski and Cameron Laney. (All photographs by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal.) The Lewiston Sun-Journal’s Christopher […]

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Okay, yes, it does take a lot to get people’s attention these days. Sometimes it can be the implied promises found in a blog headline. Other times it may be the surprises via an assumed backdoor. But how about thoughtful and reflective images, as well? It is more difficult to go there, right? Nevertheless, take […]

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Cryptotourism has been in play for ages, especially highlighted by such sites as Loch Ness, which boasts of Nessie. Smaller examples of monsters and places, such as the Lizard Man of South Carolina or Tessie of Lake Tahoe, dot the maps of the world. But a new trend is the recognition of cryptids, history, and […]

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Cary Stayner (above) is the Valentine Weekend Yosemite Killer who said he had an encounter with Bigfoot. He later used his hunt for Bigfoot to get closer to one of his victims, the park ranger he beheaded. A relative of Stayner’s ~ named Jeff [last name on file] ~ has written to me via Cryptomundo, […]

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Mac Tonnies encountered this Nessie stencil graffiti in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday, April 27, 2008. Tonnes asks: “Any examples of this in your hometown?” Mysterious origins.

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You may have heard that recently the Hobbit fossils, technically Homo floresiensis, were in the news due to the remarkable claim that they were hoaxes because the teeth showed dental work. What was incredible, as I read this, was that this new debunking was done on the basis of the skeptic’s visual examination of only […]

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I guess for pure fundraising efforts, I have overlooked that bag of potato chips in my kitchen. Now comes word that a Hampton, Virginia, resident is selling a chip with a hollowed out “image” of Bigfoot in its middle over at eBay. Here’s the description: I have here for auction one ruffled potato chip that […]

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French cryptozoologist Michel Raynal is pointing to the “okapi” (?) of Tassili found in the book and bibliography of Bernard Heuvelmans, in his book On the Track of the Unknown Animals (Paris, Plon, 1955), referred to in the cave engravings as representing the okapi in Tassili. The starting point of this assertion is an article […]

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(AP Photo/Miami Beach Guitar Festival, Andy Newman) Just what every music-loving Sasquatch researcher needs: the Bigfoot Guitar. Obviously, I should have one for the museum. In this photo released by the Miami Beach Guitar Festival, guitar maker George Marlin strums on his Bigfoot creation at the Miami Beach Guitar Festival Sunday, April 13, 2008, in […]

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