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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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As you click this image for a larger version, ask yourself, is this a blobsquatch or not? “Blobsquatch” is specifically the object in a photograph of a supposed Bigfoot or Sasquatch that has a lack of definition and detail, an illusion created by a play of light within an often unfamiliar natural environment. It is […]

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An eyewitness-directed sketch of the famed Momo, the Missouri Monster of 1972. I will be speaking in SW Missouri this evening on Yeti, Hobbits, Bigfoot, Johor Bigfoot, Skunk Apes, and Momo. See you there. Missouri State University 901 South National Ave Springfield, Missouri “Monster Mash” PSU Food Court 7:00-8:00 PM Monday, October 30, 2006 Investigator […]

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As Cryptomundo readers know, especially from a recent blog entry, the Bates cryptozoology and art exhibition has moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Shown above, Marc Swanson’s White Yeti (a/k/a “Killing Moon”) is part of the exhibition, Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. The collection – from art from artists from around the world to nonfiction […]

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(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) It is a few minutes beyond midnight in the East, and a year ago today – on September 29, 2005 – Cryptomundo was born. Thank you everyone, for a wonderful first year of Cryptomundo! The images here are a quick trip down memory lane. […]

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Loren mentioned this story here on Cryptomundo yesterday in his post The Search for Giant Woodpeckers. Today comes word of a huge pending announcement regarding the Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers purported to have been found in Florida. Published in the Smokey Mountain News today is the following news. The story’s been floating around in the blogosphere for […]

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Dr. Marie-Jeanne Koffmann During a forthcoming conference in Paris on October 14, 2006, cryptozoologists and hominologists will meet and discuss items of cryptozoological interest. (The French language overview of the meeting can be found below the Richard Klyver illustration of the Almas.) At the gathering, zoologist François de Sarre will discuss unknown hairy hominoids. Michel […]

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Although the moniker of the Yardley Yeti seems to be an unfortunate choice of words, I can’t decide if this is better or worse than the usually affixed choice: Chupacabra. An article from today’s Bucks County Courier Times relates quite a few of the sightings that they have received after the previous article was published. […]

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Annual Mothman Festival in Point Pleasant – September 16-17, 2006 Point Pleasant — Organizers plan to add some new activities at the Fifth Annual Mothman Festival in downtown Point Pleasant next weekend. Above: Mothman Museum director Jeff Wamsley holds his most recent book, Mothman: Behind the Red Eyes. With him is museum co-worker Todd Wiseman, […]

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It looked worse than Frankenstein. It couldn’t have been human. Kathleen May. The smell was like oil on hot metal. You know, that greasy, sweet, slippery odor, slightly burnt and perhaps even appealing. But then more and more of it seemed to be saturating the molecules all around. It filled your nose. It permeated your […]

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In mid-June the city of Pocatello, Idaho, hosted the Bigfoot Rendezvous, a conference that included a film festival, storytelling, live entertainment, an exhibit at the Idaho Museum of Natural History on how people "know" about the Sasquatch, and a symposium described as "featuring regional experts and eye-witnesses as well as nationally known figures in the […]

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On September 11, 2006, it will be five years since the tragedy of 9/11. Why should I spend time on Cryptomundo to discuss this? Perhaps it is merely a good time to pause a moment from chasing cryptids to reflect on what happened. It was a horrible event in higher primate history. I need to […]

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Alexis Rockman’s art is at Bates College. Have you seen Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale yet? You better hurry. From Thylacines to Yowies, from Sasquatch to Sea Serpents, from Mothman to Malaysian Mawas, there’s a museum near you that is waiting for your visit. If you are a teacher, now is the time to […]

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With great sadness I must make the following announcement. As the result of several circumstances, the 2006 Texas Bigfoot Conference will not take place. Ironically, the cancellation decision was not the result of declining interest. In five brief years the annual conference grew quickly to become the largest event of its kind, attracting over 500 […]

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There’s another Bigfoot talk that has popped up on the radar. It occurs Wednesday, July 26, 2006, in the Lake Oroville area of California. At the end here is the press information on the lecture, which appears to be taking a lead from the now popular "Legend Meets Science" moniker that is becoming overused in […]

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