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Weta Workshop technician Duncan Brown was recently engaged in recreating the long lost Yeti relics stolen from the monastery in Pangbouche.

Read: Weta Helps Repatriate Yeti Artifacts »

“A creature described by the natives as something very similar to an ourang-outang is supposed by many colonists to exist in the mountain ranges at the back of Western Port,” writes our correspondent.

Read: February 26, 1848: Bundyilcarno »

Beast Hunter is hosted by Pat Spain, a biologist and explorer who travels the globe in search of mythical creatures, immersing himself amongst the tribes, people and cultures on his quest to find the truth between fact and fiction.

Read: New CryptoZoo TV Series: Beast Hunter on Nat Geo »

Crypto-colleague Scott Corrales shares news of Podcast Criptozoología en España.

Read: Cryptozoology in Spain Podcast »

Tales of giants have been pervasive and persuasive. They’ve been used to sell newspapers, terrify naughty children, name fledgling sports teams and mined as fodder for all types of fantastic fiction.

Read: Lindroos on Giants »

While most students of cryptozoology recognize “Giganto” as a favorite Bigfoot/Yeti candidate, many may be unaware that German anatomist-anthropologist Franz Weidenreich (1873-1948) renamed the creature Giganthropus, treating it as a primitive ancestor of Homo sapiens.

Read: Newton on Giants »

At the beginning of the last century, the view of First Nations’ peoples was that many years ago a whole tribe of the wild men lived in Pacific Northwest. They were called “Sasquatch” (after 1929) or “hairy mountain men” (earlier). They lived in caves and hunted with clubs and stones. Is the debate about “human-like” Sasquatch about ready to heat up again? Images.

Read: Were 1930s’ Sasquatch Stories Sexier? »

What if something else, something even more fantastic in its implications than the idea that Bigfoot is Gigantopithecus, is actually afoot?

Read: Redfern on Giants »

From the folks who brought The Host and Monsters to the United States, comes The Troll Hunter.

Read: The Troll Hunter Trailer »

Can you believe this winter?

I never was sure what Groundhog’s Day had to do with these reports, but curiously, there is word of a Bigfoot from the 1940s here too. Image.

Read: Groundhogs and Pterodactyls »

Squeezed between his one-eyed pig, his feejee mermaid, his skull collection is, of course, – the must-have for every cryptozoologist Scot – a miniature Loch Ness Monster. Images.

Read: The Wonders of Rutter »

The editorial stated: “There are two principal reasons why he was not caught. One is that our police failed to take the case seriously enough at first. The other is that, when the police finally decided there was “something to it,” mass hysteria and outside interference combined to make their efforts unsuccessful.”
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Read: Putting Mattoon’s Mad Gasser In Context »

Contents are graphic, but then these animals are merely repressing their wild natures. Images.

Read: Well, Ferrets Are Weasels! »

People who explore the area for Bigfoot or gold are often not doing research on the conditions that might await them. Images.

Read: Superstitions Take Three »

Have you ever noticed there seems to be something special going on with Sasquatch, Apeman, Wildman, and rail trackways? Images.

Read: Bigfoot and Railroad Trackways »