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Boing Boing has a good new posting on the just-released Creature From the Black Lagoon novel. Cory Doctorow writes: "If you’re looking for a fun little paperback to take you away from your life for a couple hours, you need look no further." Perhaps we all will need this after the election is over today… […]

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As a Scot living in self-imposed exile in Canada, the memories of Scotland are always in the periphery of my thoughts. I have wonderful memories of the Highlands and the wondrous landscapes I have laid my eyes upon. I am particularly fond of the great Great Glen and its spectacular beauty and am always concerned […]

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The famed 1934 photograph by Dr. Kenneth Wilson of something in Loch Ness that automatically lets people know that what we are talking about are the Loch Ness Monsters. Gary Campbell, President of The Official Loch Ness Fan Club, shares this rundown of the sightings of Nessie for 2006, thusfar: 6 October 2006 Nick Thurston […]

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First the old 1970s theory that all the Nessies are swimming elephants was retold in new clothing in March 2006, and now we are hearing that the Scottish Lake Monsters cannot be plesiosaurs. Okay, tell me something I don’t know, please! What is it? See below. The news out of Scotland, as for example in […]

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The Highland News out of Inverness is reporting that an English couple twice spotted something in Loch Ness during a visit to the area. Here’s the report in full followed by my comments. By, the way, this is the same publication that brought the August sighting of an unknown object off Dores to the attention […]

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Christopher D. Bader, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, was one of the principal investigators of the study that is being discussed here on Cryptomundo. After reading the post on Cryptomundo and the comments from readers, Chris had this to say: There seems to be an assumption in the comments that the survey […]

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While this is not intended to be, nor will it be allowed to turn into, a discussion about religion or politics, I did find the following article interesting. This article from The Christian Post website mentioned the following: Time additionally measured Americans on weird beliefs including their perception of UFOs and Bigfoot. The report showed […]

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David Wilson feeds Oggie, Ogden Water’s own monster so that it won’t attack the public on Hallowe’en Now be a good Oggie… By Cathy Neligan Halifax Courier SOMETHING monstrous is lurking in the deeps at a Halifax beauty spot – and getting ready to surface. Ogden Water’s own version of the Loch Ness monster will […]

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What is to be made of the recent reports of river-dwelling manatees and now a dolphin? Have some of these known species been misidentified as cryptids in the past? Well, yes, they probably have been. First, let me share a mention of the newest account. Reporter Elizabeth Ratto of the Boston Globe writes that a […]

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Please click to enlarge this image of Bigfoot as drawn by Paul Smith, and sepia-colorized for the cover of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America The Top 50 Cryptids From Around The World Cryptids are the yet-to-be discovered animals or recovered supposedly extinct zoological species that are being sought by cryptozoologists, zoologists, anthropologists, […]

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Halloween 2006 seems as good a time as any to publish a response to several requests I have received lately for my top ten picks in cryptids, those animals that serve as the focus of cryptozoologists. Of course, thinking outside the lines, as I always do, I had to choose thirteen. Also, I had to […]

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A witness to a famous Ogopogo sighting in 2004 is lying critically ill in hospital in India after a freak accident aboard a local train. Josh Casorso, his father John and other members of his family were aboard a houseboat on Okanagan Lake on August 9, 2004 when at about 7:30 in the morning they […]

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From the Battle Creek (MI) Enquirer. 25 years ago today, 1981: Is "Bigfoot" stalking the swamps and woods of the Fort Custer Recreation Area? A hairy, 9-foot-tall creature has been seen again near the Kalamazoo River in the state recreation area. It’s been seen in several spots at different times. Bigfoot observers now include the […]

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The following article excerpt is from the April 2006 issue of Fortean Times magaine. This is the Monster Hunters issue that has been discussed here previously on Cryptomundo. Illustration: Xavier Lemmens Although Italy’s second largest lake, with its palm trees and neo-classical villas, hardly looks like the kind of remote spot one would expect to […]

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Scientists have found a fossil of a monster fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway. The Norwegian researchers discovered remains of a total of 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs at a site on the island of Spitsbergen, about 1300 kilometres from the North Pole. At the time these were […]

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