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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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I found an interesting video on youtube that retold a First Nations story of a Bigfoot-like creature. I went to my go to source for all Native American and First Nations Bigfoot/Sasquatch legends, folklore and tradions, Kathy Strain of the AIBR, the Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers. Kathy will be speaking at the upcoming 2007 […]

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Don Getty, River Otters, Grand Tetons. Used with full permission of Mr. Getty. The photograph does not, however, appear in Ben’s and Joe’s book from last year. Would it have helped lessened the blow of this review against their flank? One would expect that the respected Journal of Folklore Reseach at Indiana University would come […]

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Here’s a new YouTube Bigfoot video. A YouTube viewer says the men are speaking Cree, and the translation of what they are saying is: “There’s someone standing here boy”…(another speaking) “it looks big”….”can you see it boy?”…”it’s kinda far away.” Easterville is a First Nations community in Manitoba. The following is the only info on […]

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On July 9th, from NBC’s Today Show to worldwide news service rewrites of the Sunday New York Times article, this all is keeping this new Mapinguary mania alive. And we all thought the interest in this creature was dead a decade ago. Sadly, the articles being spread from the UPI are often headlined with this […]

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I posted the news of this fossil find of a prehistoric crocodile here on Cryptomundo in April. See Sea Monster Found in Oregon. Cryptomundo reader mjmurphy tipped me off to an article concerning this find that likened the fossil find to descriptions of a Native American water monster and the research of Adrienne Mayor, an […]

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During the next few days, I will be passing along the complete contributions of Austrian cryptozoologist Luis Schönherr on the cryptid Tatzelwurm. The beginnings of this, through incomplete portions first published in Pursuit, will now be fully shared by the author with the cryptozoology community. My sincere thanks to the efforts of French cryptozoologist Michel […]

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A statue of the Mapinguari, an Amazon legend, in the Chico Mendes Park in the city of Rio Branco, Acre. (Lalo de Almeida FOR THE NYT) It’s stinky, hairy and mean – but is Amazon Big Foot real? RIO BRANCO, Brazil: Perhaps it is nothing more than a legend, as skeptics say. Or maybe it […]

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Zoologist to address Bigfoot theoriesOROVILLE — Zoologist Ron Brown will speak on the “Bigfoot Legend Analyzed,” with videotape footage and an informational display of castings and visuals during the next in a series of summer speakers Wednesday at Lake Oroville Visitor Center theater. Brown is co-operator of a breeding facility for Native African animals in […]

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St. John’s Day June 24, 2007 Here is my annual tribute to this special day, which happens to be a little more special than usual for 2007. Does the name Kenneth Arnold (below) ring a bell? Knights Templars display “Mysterious Head” at Poitiers (1308). Founding of the Order of the Garter (1348). John Cabot discovers […]

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John A. Keel rarely attends conferences these days. However, he will be lecturing in October 2007. UNIV-CON, the national paranormal conference, is to be held at Penn State University, in the town of State College, Pennsylvania, over the weekend of October 18-21, 2007. As noted, among the conference lecturers is scheduled to be Fortean researcher […]

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Sin Chew Daily journalist Lee Hoy Chin has written a new book Johor Bigfoot: The Beginning of the True Story after covering eyewitness accounts on the creature. The book is reported to be a compilation of newspaper reports on Bigfoot and other details not published in newspapers. Many people are searching for the truth about […]

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Who is Gordon T. Holmes? What do we know about the man who took the Nessie footage in late May 2007? Does Gordon Holmes have visions of becoming the next Sherlock Holmes, following in the footsteps of that character’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? It is with no disrespect that I compile for my readers […]

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Are they out there? A MYSTERIOUS creature allegedly sighted scampering into the bush outside Batemans Bay has all the hallmarks of the legendary Yowie, according to cryptozoology experts. Around 11pm last Saturday a Batemans Bay resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, saw what she described as a two-legged non-human creature in her headlights. She said […]

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The exhibition, “Mythic Creatures” opens at The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City on Saturday, May 26, 2007. Two good articles on the exhibition and the opening are (click on the title of each article for the link): “The Surprising Realities of Mythical Creatures,” LiveScience; “Exploring the Nature of the Unnatural,” […]

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