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I want to share an addition to the International Cryptozoology Museum, a new sculpture whose photographs are seen about this blog. It represents a depiction of the Agogwe from Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), and gives me this opportunity to introduce these hominoids here. The following is my summary description of this unknown African […]

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On December 20th, 2006 Over at Boing Boing, David Pescovitz has added his comments to the growing chorus of praise for the apparently out-of-print Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. Pescotvitz writes: I have the catalog and it’s quite wonderful. Of course, there are reproductions of the artists’ works from the exhibition and provocative essays, […]

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"I found that the Patterson subject was carrying…a stick." – M. K. Davis, December 3, 2006. At the top of this post are two photographs; (1) a common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) digging with a stick; and (2) a lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) with a stick. Directly below is the archival photograph from the Library of […]

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Professor Hex and his nieces visit the Kansas City exhibition. Fantomina reports for work. Goblina studies a unknown hominid. The Crookston Bigfoot longs for the new snow in Maine and gets ready to come home. Also, see the latest from Boing Boing on this subject.

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This entry adds more information to the December 3, 2006 initial posting on The Bayer Stone Head. The Bayer Stone Head’s owner, David Chisholm (a military security consultant) shares the following and forwards the photograph of the bottom of the head: The color is brown paint. William Bayer’s uncle painted it brown. The best estimate […]

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What face stares out from the nearly thirty-pound stone head found in the ground in 1932, in New Paltz, New York? Are the features extremely ape-like or child-like? How does it compare to the Columbia River stone heads discussed in the Sasquatch literature? Does the stone head’s smile remind us of that Tsimishian carved mask’s […]

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What is it? This was published on November 14, 2006, in Victoria, Australia’s South Gippsland Sentinel Times. This thing was caught off the extreme southern coast of Australia. South Gippsland is a fertile agricultural area renowned for its prime cattle and dairy produce as well as a commercial fishing industry. Wonthaggi is located 132 kms […]

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Bigfoot remains a Texas-size mystery Web Posted: 11/28/2006 12:52 AM CST Chris Marrou KENS 5 Eyewitness News With 300 million people in this country, it’s hard to believe that much of anything could happen in America without someone seeing it. But there is a sizeable number of people who believe that an entire race of […]

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St. Petersburg Times: Tony Signorini said that in 1946 or 1947 his boss saw a picture of dinosaur tracks in a National Geographic and said, "You know, we could have fun with this." Ted McLaren, St. Petersburg Times: Signorini’s tracks, using these 30-pound molds, created a sensation. A zoologist speculated they were left by a […]

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The Shetland pig, or grice, was a specific and special feral boar that was driven into extinction 100 years ago. It was called a “scourge of lambs, landowners and local produce.” There are no known photographs of it, although some drawings (such as the one above) exist. Highlighted in BBC News and other media, it’s […]

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What is it? Click on image for a larger version. I note that the National Library of the Netherlands has identified this image as being a "monkey." But I note this primate is not showing any tail. Look at the feet? Those are definitely not the feet of a monkey or even an ape. In […]

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Well, since I have recently been called the National Enquirer of Cryptomundo by a reader, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to go ahead and post the following story from the Weekly World News. Bigfoot Tracks Discovered Outside Chinese Theater LOS ANGELES, Calif.–Bigfoot’s tracks have joined the hundreds of famous footprints outside the renowned Chinese Theater. […]

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There is a new track photo, on November 17, 2006, to consider and a word of caution about them to share from Sean Ang. The New Straits Times is publishing details that a "Bigfoot researcher" named Mansur Poh presented them with several "unpublished photographs" of "footprints of the creature" found in the "deep jungles of […]

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While the first media outlet that I came across that was carrying this story was Forbes, it has now been picked up by 166 media outlets worldwide, at last count using google news search. The headlines trumpet: Bigfoot studies render academic an outcastProfessor’s Bigfoot Research CriticizedIdaho professor becomes a campus outcast with his Bigfoot researchProfessor’s […]

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The cropped photograph of the so-called Ameranthropoides loysi, de Loys’ alleged "ape," one of the most sinister hoaxes of all times (see #10 below). My choices for the top ten major reasons that exist for hoaxing in cryptozoology are: 1) fiscal gain (e.g. allegedly the reason behind a hoaxster’s "Coast to Coast AM" radio appearances […]

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