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What have they done to the saga of the misunderstood lonely neighborhood hairy forest giant and his cranky mom? Where has the Neandertaloid gone in this tale of a dying, soon-to-be extinct group of humanlike beings? Coming this November, Beowulf is re-invented for the screen beyond the epic remembrances many of us share of this […]

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You might see someone FAMILIAR in the first two attached cartoons….Thank you for the continued inspiration. Cryptoonist Charles Berlin More later…the mystery continues….

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Click on image for full version of all the comic panels by Steven Stwalley. I thought you may find amusement in a comic strip I drew that is appearing in the news weekly City Pages in the Twin Cities on the “Mall of America Mandrill.” I’ve been enjoying your site for some time and put […]

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My late friend, colleague, and mentor, Ivan T. Sanderson, shown above with a lemur in his private zoo, was one of the first in America to try to organize those interested in cryptozoology into a formal “society.” What does his legacy look like today? Matt Bille asked me a simple question: “How big is the […]

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Even a hard-working cryptozoologist needs to take a break for his birthday party, once a decade, right? Aren’t we all kids inside, sometimes? Snapshots from the July 12th celebration at the Portland Sea Dogs game: During the event, an unknown cryptid mascot showed up to pose with the specially made Bigfoot birthday cake and some […]

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Nessie, seal, or otter? This does not represent a car full of Rock Ness attendees trying to photograph Nessie, but merely another view of the Spicer encounter of 1933 (used for promotional purposes by loch-ness.org on various Scottish tourism sites). As you will recall, after all the buzz of the Holmes video of an unknown […]

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Please click on the cartoon for a larger image. Cryptomundo’s field artist Peter Loh, making contact from Singapore, sends in the above breaking news item, hot out of the jungles of South Asia. Flashback! Click on image for full-size version For more information on the artist and his art, please click on his name: Peter […]

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Now, for a little break from the news of the Nessie video, Tubesquatch, and other real world events. How about a musical interlude, as rock comedy meets cryptids, if not cryptozoologists? Enjoy this Sunday distraction.

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The dead dog near the road was photographed by Michelle O’Donnell, Turner, Maine, August 2006. Click on the image to make it bigger. The Maine Mystery Beast is back. Well, at least, the animal discovered next to Route 4, which was incorrectly labeled as the killer of livestock and pets, is. Mark LaFlamme called yesterday, […]

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Bill Rebsamen’s illustration completed for me in 2001, for use on the cover of my Mothman book. Does it matter what color the eyes of a more stylized imaging of Mothman appears in graphic art? Two color drawings of “Coleman’s Cryptozoo” arrived overnight from Len Peralta. What version of Mothman‘s eyes do you like? For […]

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Ever wanted your own personalized cryptid? Well, for twenty bucks you can have your idea envisioned by an artist who quickly draws your desire, via Monster by Mail. (See more ordering info at the bottom of this posting.) Thanks to Rogier van Bakel, I heard about this artist, Len Peralta who is in the midst […]

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Last year, I reported here of the Bigfoot-type reports called “Cohomo.” Does a child’s old 1960s’ notebooks have clues that relate to those sightings of the 1970s? Or was there just a cultural sense in the air that imaginations and reality merged in the Midwest of a few decades ago? Michael Isenberg, a musician living […]

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A highly informative film about Bigfoot originally aired on “Futurama”. If you are a cryptozoologist, Bigfoot researcher, crypto-enthusiast, whatever you want to call yourself, you have to be able to laugh at yourself a bit. A sense of humor is vital in cryptozoology.

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And you thought those Mutant Ninja Turtles came out of the blue? Or only some fictional sewers? Special Features of Kappa * Favorite things to eat — cucumber, fish * Least favorite things — ironware, deer antlers, saliva Key to the above drawing: 1) Shell 2) Webbed hands and feet 3) Elastic arms 4) Plate […]

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