Kusshie: Japanese Lake Monster Mystery
Posted by: mystery_man on November 23rd, 2012
What lurks in the cold waters of Hokkaido’s Lake Kussharo?
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Cryptotourism Travel Posters
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 20th, 2012
Fernando Reza, a graphic artist and designer based in Los Angeles, made a bunch of really cool retro travel posters for a bunch of locations based on the mythical beasts or cryptids who reside there, at least according to legend. Scotland’s poster has the Loch Ness Monster on it, Manhattan’s has giant sewer alligators, and so on. His designs are honestly way better and more visually appealing than the boring stock photography used on most legitimate travel posters. And he still has tons more material if he ever wants to do a second run of these things. New Jersey has the Jersey Devil. North Carolina has the Beast of Bladenboro.Adweek
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Nessie is a Wels Catfish?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 19th, 2012
In the Scottish Highlands is a mystery that has intrigued the world for generations: the Loch Ness monster; real or just a local fable, preserved to lure in the tourist dollar? One man, Nessie hunter Steve Feltham, is a believer – so much so he left his job, house, and girlfriend to dedicate his life to proving the creature’s existence. Steve Feltham lives in a caravan on the shore of Loch Ness, and makes clay figurines of Nessie to help fund his dream.
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Nessie and the Skeptics
Posted by: Nick Redfern on November 18th, 2012
…’sceptics’ just like ‘believers’ can come in various forms…
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The Beast of Loch Ulladale
Posted by: Nick Redfern on November 12th, 2012
A “pernicious and devilish pursuer of men’s flesh”
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Mossie: The Nessie of Mt. Fuji
Posted by: mystery_man on November 9th, 2012
What lurks in the lakes at the base of picturesque Mt. Fuji? I revisit an old mystery.
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Monsters of Michigan
Posted by: Nick Redfern on November 7th, 2012
A state of high-strangeness…
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North Texas Sea Serpent
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 3rd, 2012
“This would have been about 40-to-45 feet in life, about the size of a bus,” said Darlene Sumerfelt of the Dallas Paleontological Society. “It would’ve weighed eight tons and could’ve eaten you in one bite.”
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In Search of Issie
Posted by: Nick Redfern on October 31st, 2012
From Nessie to Issie…
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Video of Georgia’s River Monster, the Altamaha-ha?
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 31st, 2012
I came across this video on youtube that is purported to be of this river monster.
What do the Cryptomundians think?
Mokele-Mbembe Movie
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 30th, 2012
New movie The Dinosaur Project features previously unseen footage from the ill-fated, eponymous 2011 expedition to the Congo in search of the Mokele Mbembe. Discover a world lost for millions of years. In UK cinemas August 10th.
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Desperately Seeking Nessie
Posted by: Nick Redfern on October 29th, 2012
A Beast and the BBC…
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Cryptid Conspiracies
Posted by: Nick Redfern on October 15th, 2012
Cryptid Conspiracies: Book One, The Secret of Loch Ness, is the title of a new novel from Abbie Goyette. And it’s a book about which we’re told the following: “Amber Mcpherson is summoned to Inverness in Scotland by a letter sent to her by her grandfather, right before he is killed. In the letter he […]
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Monsters Down Under
Posted by: Nick Redfern on October 15th, 2012
The Bunyip, the Yowie and more…
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