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“Chupacabras: It’s sort of like Jennifer Lopez, kind of cross-cultural.” – Loren Coleman, as quoted by ABC News, 1999. “What’s unique about the Chupacabra is that it’s crossing languages, which I think shows how small our world is getting,” says Coleman, reached by phone from his home in Portland, Maine. “It’s sort of like Jennifer […]

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I saw this movie, Mexican Werewolf in Texas, listed in the local paper as having its Texas premiere this past weekend as a midnight movie here in Dallas at the Inwood Theater. Apparently, the film was originally titled Chupacabra, but to play off of the American Werewolf in London and Paris movies, the title was […]

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How About An Open Season – via Emails to the Editors – on Bad Editorials? A closed-minded, unnamed editorial writer at the San Antonio Express-News has jumped on the skeptical bandwagon against cryptozoology. In a worthless use of printer’s ink called “Open season on unicorns,” the unnamed soul does the usual ridicule piece on the […]

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News reports from Dubai, United Arab Emirates tell of a blood-sucking creature killing the sheep in Sakmakam, a suburb of Fujairah. The creature takes the sheep by the neck, sucking their blood and leaving them dead. ‘Blood-sucking creature’ killing sheep in Fujairah The Return of the Vampire Authorities believe the creature is likely an Arabian […]

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One of the episodes of the "Is It Real" series on the National Geographic Channel was titled "Monsters of the Deep". It is still airing in rotation with the other episodes, several of which had a cryptozoological subject. The Bigfoot episode was laughable. You could certainly see that NGC had an agenda, to ridicule the […]

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In an article in the Brownsville Herald yesterday, come tales of the bogeyman from down south. The phenomenon is a cross-cultural one. In Mexico, one of these is a creature called el cucuy. It is described as a "small humanoid with glowing red eyes that hides in closets or under beds." The book "Creepy Creatures […]

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