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Herman Regusters, a prominent African American cryptozoologist who searched for Mokele-mbembe and formerly was an aerospace engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cryptomundo has been informed, recently, sadly, passed away. Herman Regusters and his wife are best known as the first Westerners to reach Lake Tele, Congo, and the only individuals on his Mokele-mbembe expedition […]

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I want to start an effort in 2006 to rediscover some missing people and their lost cryptozoological evidence, gone for years. Let’s begin with the well-known Californian cryptozoologist Herman Regusters. In the fall of 1981, Herman Regusters and his wife led a team into Lake Tele, Congo, in search of Mokele-mbembe. (Even though they might […]

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It sounds like the Malaysians are banking on tourism dollars from the recent flap of Bigfoot sightings there. Published today in the Star, Malaysia’s most widely-read English-language daily newspaper, is another article about the Bigfoot being seen in the jungles of Johor. If Bigfoot really exists in Johor, the find may turn out to be […]

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The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2005 by Loren Coleman, Cryptozoologist and Author, Bigfoot!, Cryptozoology A to Z, and other books. Welcome to this year’s Top Stories in Cryptozoology. It was quite a year, and perhaps captured best by the headline used on Mark Baard’s article in the November 1st issue of Wired News, "America Goes […]

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Of the top 10 most viewed news photos for the year on National Geographic News, half have a cryptozoology theme. Number 10 is the photo of the Basilosaurus skeleton, previously mentioned here on Cryptomundo. Number 8 is the illustration of the real-life sea monster dubbed Godzilla, previously mentioned here on Cryptomundo. Number 4 is the […]

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Number 10 on National Geographic News’ list of the most viewed photos for the year was the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus, found by geologist Philip D. Gingerich in April of this year in Eqypt. Some cryptozoologists believe the Basilosaurus to be the leading candidate for the lake monster reported in Lake […]

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The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2005 by Loren Coleman, Cryptozoologist Coauthor of The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep and Creatures of the Outer Edge. What are the best and most interesting new works of fiction that have become near and dear to the hearts of those […]

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Several years ago I either found a document on the web, or someone sent it to me that was a press release from the Department of the Interior & Fish and Wildlife Service that was titled Are We Ready for “Bigfoot” or the Loch Ness Monster? It was dated December 21, 1977. I do not […]

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A couple of reports out of Scotland the last few days… First, the biggest earthquake to hit Scotland in 20 years struck about 11:30 PM last Saturday night. It was only a force-three quake. The article did contain some interesting "facts" however. Earthquakes have even been suggested as a cause for one of Scotland’s most […]

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Drexel University student Aaron Sakulich wrote in The Triangle, the student newspaper, about a couple of reported cases from the World War I era of naval encounters with sea monsters. Supposedly, the British patrol vessel Coreopsis came across a U-boat (UB-85) that had been attacked by a sea serpent. The submarine had come to the […]

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British soap star Amy Nuttall is in Edinburgh starring as Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady. And apparently she saw the Loch Ness Monster when she was six years old. "For now, I’m delighted to be in Scotland again. My great great grandparents on both sides of my family are from Aberdeen. I […]

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From Live Science comes an article by Cryptomundo commenter and managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer, Benjamin Radford. The Article details the pervasiveness of sea monsters on television and in the news today. Several of the items mentioned in the article have been detailed on Cryptomundo here in the recent past. From NBC’s Surface, to the […]

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Tim the Yowie Man, the National Museum of Australia’s Resident Cryptonaturalist, has landed a regular radio gig. He will be hosting a travel show with Macquarie Regional Radioworks (MRR) on Sunday mornings that will be syndicated and broadcast on their stations in NSW, Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The show, titled "Get […]

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Is there such a thing as X-CMing? Extreme Cryptomundo.com -ing? You, the Cryptomundo readers, have demonstrated that the Mystery Fish Postcard Photograph is one of the most popular all-time cryptid image enigmas, yet. Due to popular demand, here is a roundup of all four direct links to the "Mystery Fish Photo" entries in the Cryptomundo.com […]

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How to make a Monster the art & technology of animatronics, now running through March 5, 2006 at the Australian Museum in Sydney, will "reveal the methods involved in bringing creatures to life for the movie screen and how these methods relate to museum displays." You can learn how John Cox’s Creature Workshop creatures visual […]

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