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Before David Letterman, before “Coast to Coast” was all about Art Bell and George Noory, talk show host Tom Snyder was pushing back the boundaries on late night radio and television, sometimes discussing Sasquatch. Snyder, 71, the former host of NBC’s “The Tomorrow Show,” then “Tomorrow Coast to Coast,” and CBS’ “The Late Late Show […]

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In handing out their Cheers and Jeers, The Columbian has handed a jeers to “Bigfoot fans.” Jeers: Why do the Sasquatch believers keep on keeping on? Last week, according to The Associated Press, about 45 members of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization spent two days in the Uinta Mountains of Utah searching for the legendary […]

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Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama holds up a rare coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs. (Reuters) Scientists excited by Indonesian-caught coelacanth fish Two months ago Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama caught a rare coelacanth fish that has now lured an international team of scientists to investigate how […]

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Courtesy of The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies (CAIS) Satyr? A man’s body, naturally mummified within an ancient salt mine, was found in a salt mine outside the Iranian city of Zanjan. What’s going on here? This news out of Iran is now been linked to ancient tales of satyrs and salt. Stanford University’s Adrienne […]

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The following images are the first ones I have seen of the inside of “The Department of Cryptozoology B. Heuvelmans, Museum of Zoology, Lausanne, Switzerland.” This location is now the sanctuary for Bernard Heuvelmans’ collection of books, paintings, and raw material detailing his years of cryptozoology research and gathering of cryptid data. These photographs were […]

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People Prepare to Search for Bigfoot (KSL News) Over the next couple of days a group of people will comb Northern Utah for Bigfoot. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization says an area in Northern Utah is the most reliable zone in the state for sasquatch sightings. For $300, participants help scour the woods for the […]

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Lake Monster. Kalamazoo, Mich., July 21 – The big snake which is said to exist in the neighborhood of Carter’s Lake, Barry county, and known as “Carter’s snake,” has been seen again this week, this time by Henry Marble. The snake is variously reported as fifteen to twenty feet long. Marble was terrified and came […]

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I found the following trailer for a Bigfoot documentary on youtube. I wrote the gentleman who uploaded it, David Thayer, and requested some additional information regarding the project entitled Bigfoot: A Beast on the Run. From what I see of the trailer, the production looks high quality. I for one am looking forward to the […]

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Today, July 20, 2007, Sir Edmund Hillary is 88 years old. Hillary’s name will always be linked, in my mind, to his World Book Encyclopedia-supported trek to Nepal in 1960, supposedly, to search for the “Abominable Snowman.” In reality, it actually allegedly was more about a spy mission against the Chinese, hidden in the media […]

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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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Bigfoot researchers record thermal images MANISTIQUE — A group that searched for bigfoot in the U.P. woods this weekend plans to return in August. A four-day expedition in Marquette County by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, collecting evidence supporting the existence of “sasquatches” began with mixed results but concluded with “excitement,” according to BFRO organizer/ […]

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Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), thought extinct since 1961, appears to not be gone, after all. Researchers have found burrows, tracks, and nose pokes made by the long-beaked echidna, recently in Papua’s Cyclops Mountains. Also, locals had said they have seen the animals as recently as 2005. “The month-long expedition by scientists from the Zoological […]

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Believers hear Bigfoot’s howl 50 who paid $300 each to prowl U.P. woods for the beast weren’t disappointed. MARQUETTE, Mich. — In the middle of the night, a group tried to lure an elusive beast from its lair deep in the woods. A man banged on a tree with a stick. Another beat his chest, […]

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Dr. Shelly Williams holds the Bili Ape cast for media photographs in 2003. Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the moon. Local hunters speak of massive creatures that seem to be some sort of hybrid between a chimp […]

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Bigfoot or big phony? Seekers pay high prices They marshal dozens of searchers, lug backpacks with elaborate gear and stomp through the most remote forests in search of the legendary, elusive beast. The manhunt moves to the woods of the Upper Peninsula today following a rash of purported sightings of Bigfoot, the camera-shy ape-man that […]

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