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for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the first sighting of the modern age of the Loch Ness Monster and to mark this milestone a symposium is to be held in the city of Edinburgh on the 6th of April 2013.

Read: The Loch Ness Monster Symposium »

Over at the blog of the Center for Fortean Zoology’s Australian office, there’s a new and insightful interview with Dr. Karl Shuker. You can find the complete Q&A right here, but below are a few extracts from it to give you an idea of it all: CFZ-OZ: “How did you first get involved in researching […]

Read: A Karl Shuker Q&A »

As you may know, every month New Page Books’ blog has a new Creature of the Month article, the latest one being from Dr. Bob Curran, and the subject: the toad.

Read: Creature of the Month: The Toad »

The Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia; Cornwall, England’s Owlman; the Houston Batman of Texas; the legendary Thunderbirds that populate Native American lore; and the flying woman of Vietnam: they all have one thing in common, namely that they are undeniably weird winged things that have no business surfing the skies of our planet. But, that doesn’t mean they’re not!

Read: A Winged Thing of the UK »

“First there was the infamous ‘Gable film’ video that purported to show the Michigan Dogman in attack mode, and then we had the tragic case of the Montana man fatally struck by two vehicles while dressed in what he hoped looked like a Sasquatch costume. Both of these rather bad ideas had one thing in common – – the perpetrators wore ghillie suits.”

Read: A Ghillie Suit Hoax? »

2012 was a good year for Nessie!

Read: Nessie: A 2012 Review »

There’s a new article from me at Mysterious Universe that begins like this: “Beyond any shadow of a doubt, one of the leading seekers of strange creatures in the world today is Dr. Karl Shuker, who hails only a couple of miles from where I grew up in central England. But, Karl is not only […]

Read: The Weirdest Cats of All »

Dr. Karl Shuker, in a new post at his Shuker Nature blog, says: “Cryptozoologically-speaking, Scotland is world-famous for the Loch Ness monster, and also for its plethora of pantheresque and cougar-like mystery cats that allegedly roam its lonely moors and shadowy glens. However, these are not the only cryptids on record from this northernmost country […]

Read: The Earth Hound of Banffshire »

In a new post at Mysterious Universe, Micah Hanks begins… “It was indeed a scandal that shook the hallowed halls of the British Museum’s honorable geological department. Arthur Smith Woodward, then serving as the department’s keeper, had been approached with a rather curious set of bone fragments, allegedly retrieved and passed along to one Charles […]

Read: The Piltdown Man Controversy »

Over at my World of Whatever blog, I have a new post that addresses one of the stranger “British Bigfoot” controversies ever to have surfaced. The creature at the heart of the saga became known as the “Beast of Bolam” (after the location: Bolam Lake Country Park, which is located in Northumberland, England), and briefly provoked massive interest at a local level and within British Fortean and cryptozoological circles.

Read: The Beast of Bolam: 10 Years On »

Karl Shuker’s latest book, Cats of Magic, Mythology, and Mystery (CFZ Press: Bideford, 2012), is now in print!

Read: Cats of Magic – Now Available! »

In a very interesting new post at his Loch Ness Mystery blog, Glasgow Boy begins… “Whilst looking through some archives, I came across some items of interest on a creature reported in the Beauly Firth. This stretch of coastal water outside Inverness is about six miles long by two miles wide and has some significance […]

Read: The Beauly Firth Beast »

Dr. Karl Shuker tells us… “The history of cryptozoology is embarrassingly well-supplied with classic cases of lost opportunities, and the long-running saga of the sea serpents has provided quite a number of these over the years. One of the most notable examples took place on the shores of Gourock, on Scotland’s River Clyde. This was […]

Read: The Serpent of Gourock »

Dr. Karl Shuker has a new post at his Shuker Nature blog. The subject: the European wildman.

Read: The European Wildman »

For decades, people all across the United Kingdom – from the cold northern realms of Scotland to the southern-most borders of England – have reported sightings of large cats, very often the size of mountain-lions and equally often completely black in color.

Read: Seeking Britain’s Big Cats »