Archive for the “Hoaxes”

Happy Valley Horror?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 1st, 2008

Happy Valley group concerned school will harm Bigfoot habitat A local environmental group has vowed to stop construction of a new Coweta elementary school, claiming the work will destroy the habitat of a Bigfoot-like creature known as the Happy Valley Horror. “The Board of Education of Coweta County is going to build a new elementary […]

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Gynormous larkosuros Discovered

Posted by: Loren Coleman on April 1st, 2008

They, in turn, forwarded the picture to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, which is where Cape Cod keeps all of its smart people. Woods Hole sent a team, led by famed archeologist, Dr. A. J. Oke, to the site. Within an hour Dr. Oke confirmed that the January storm had exposed one of the largest flying […]

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Hoax Revealed: Luxembourg Bigfoot Videos

Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 21st, 2008

March 21, 2008 ~ Breaking news ~ The Luxembourg Bigfoot has been revealed to be a hoax via a new video confession, in which the origins and costume are shown.

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Outing the Ozark Howler

Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 19th, 2008

Ten years later, the “Ozark Howler” still haunts the world of cryptozoology, and everyone from adventurous artists to Wikipedia writers continue to get it wrong. Here we go again. A new example has popped up in the modern blogsphere. Artist Robyn Fabsits of Kansas City, Missouri, shares her vision of what two “cryptids” supposedly look […]

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No No Gnome

Posted by: Loren Coleman on March 18th, 2008

I earlier posted about the “creepy Argentinan gnome video” making the rounds, along with one of the versions of the footage. As the comments there indicate, multiple uploaded videos demonstrate that several takes of the “incident” were made, the images look like a puppet, and other things point to a hoax. Nevertheless, interest is still […]

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Update: New Klamath River Bigfoot Video

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 8th, 2008

Well, no need to wait for FCastle6969 to respond with any additional information regarding the footage shown below. Cryptomundo readers makuus & fmurphy1970 have already solved the “mystery.” Yes it is Oliver. Look at this documentary made by Channel 5 in the UK. Go to 2 mins 40 secs and you will see the exact […]

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New Klamath River Bigfoot Video

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on March 8th, 2008

This video showed up on youtube a few hours ago. I sent a message to the person who posted it, asking for additional details. It is tagged under entertainment on youtube, so that raises suspicions. If I get a reply, I will share it here on Cryptomundo. Camera was strapped to a branch about 10 […]

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Felix the Cat & Yeti

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 28th, 2008

Okay, this may be merely a Felix the Cat cartoon, but it also may be one of the worst illustrations of misrepresentations in comic history. This cartoon with Felix the Cat and the Abominable Snowman is from 1958. How many misstatements and mistakes do you see in it? (No, I’m not really upset. I’m just […]

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Patio Puma

Posted by: Loren Coleman on February 16th, 2008

I’ve received the following four photos so many times lately, I figured I better address the flow of alerts to me about them. The email usually is labeled “Kitty, Kitty, Kitty.” The location is given as someplace familiar and near you. I saw copies of these, wow, first about five years ago. It is amazing […]

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Lake Khaiyr Hoax & More Otter Nonsense

Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 7th, 2008

Karl Shuker has written an article that is meant to finally sink the oft-repeated story of a watery Siberian cryptid. Additionally, Darren Naish seems to have missed the otter sensitivity, nonsense and humor in some thoughts about the Loch Ness Monster here. As Darren Naish writes: “One of the most interesting lake monster accounts in […]

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Dangerous To Your Health: Dressing Like Bigfoot

Posted by: Loren Coleman on December 18th, 2007

A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.~ Bill Cosby. Needless to say, having written an entire book on the interaction between the media and copycat incidents, the following news item is the kind of thing I don’t like to see get sensationalized in the press or […]

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The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories for 2007

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 27th, 2007

The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories for 2007 by Loren Coleman, Cryptozoologist and Author, Mysterious America, Cryptozoology A to Z, and other books. From Bigfoot to Yeren, and from dwarf killer whales to dwarf manatees, it was quite a year. Welcome to this year’s top stories in cryptozoology. It wasn’t heaven during 2007 for the cryptids, […]

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Skeptic Created Fake Pterosaur Footage?

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 26th, 2007

You may recall that the following footage was reluctantly mentioned here in September 2007. It was claimed to be an “old 1924 video of supposed Pterosaur in PNG.” Now, the Dinosaurs and Origins weblog is saying this is a fake that was created by a skeptic to discredit a researcher. It looked as if David […]

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South China Tiger Update: It’s A Fake

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 22nd, 2007

The controversy over the authenticity photographs of the believed-to-be-extinct wild South China Tiger seemed to have come to an end on Friday when a netizen posted online what he claimed was a “convincing proof” that the pictures are fakes – a New Year picture of a tiger that hangs on the wall of his home. […]

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More on Jacobs Bear

Posted by: Loren Coleman on November 17th, 2007

Here is a new short video analysis of the photographs of the Jacobs mangy bear. Of course, despite my opinion that might seem to agree with the conclusions of this video, the point must be made that most of the “Bigfoot” used on the following video for comparative reasons are fakes, hoaxes, people in suits, […]

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