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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 […]

Read: Nessie: Pachyderm, Plesiosaur or Pinniped? »

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 […]

Read: Loren Coleman’s Top Cryptids »

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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It’s not often that one has the opportunity to be in two lake monster venues in a very short period of time, and it is even less often when one is there just shortly after there has been a sighting. This summer I had the incredible fortune of following up on two sightings at lakes […]

Read: A Personal Investigation of England’s Lake Windermere »

(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) It is a few minutes beyond midnight in the East, and a year ago today – on September 29, 2005 – Cryptomundo was born. Thank you everyone, for a wonderful first year of Cryptomundo! The images here are a quick trip down memory lane. […]

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30 years ago, artist Tom D’onofrio had a sighting of a strange creature in the waves off the Northern California coast. KGO-TV, the local news affiliate for the Bay Area, ran a story on the 30th anniversary event organized by Mr. D’onorfrio. The station’s website has the story in its entirety, along with the video […]

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Last week, Cryptomundo brought you the news that a Japanese magazine was in Turkey to document the Lake Van Monster. Today, we bring you the following shocking news: Van Lake Monster Captured on Film by Japanese By Anadolu News Agency (aa), Van Source: Zaman.com (Scroll down to third story on page) A Japanese journalist and […]

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With all of the plesiosaur talk here on Cryptomundo these days, and with many new readers in the last several months, I wanted to bring back a subject that was explored here on Cryptomundo last February. I was given permission to repost photos that were taken by a gentleman named Michael Cenedella. One day in […]

Read: Mystery Photos: Sea Serpent or Plesiosaur? Name That Carcass! »

As we were talking about photo manipulation the other day here on Cryptomundo, sometimes photographs are manipulated to make them appear to show a cryptid. Below is a photo of a megamouth shark that was manipulated to appear as if it was a plesiosaur. No known source, but it was featured on several cryptozoology websites […]

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While the Kelowna detachment has had to deal with people attempting to harm an aquatic cryptid, the RCMP detachment near Peter Pond Lake in Saskatchewan has had to deal with a ‘lake monster’ which could prove harmful to humans. “Puff,” as the creature is known, has had a habit of tearing up the nets of […]

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Have the readers of Cryptomundo correctly identified this mystery carcass? While I initially thought that the "Russian Plesiosaur" looked crocodilian in origin, I agree with the majority of the commenters here on Cryptomundo that the carcass looks like it is that of a whale, most likely a beluga. Below are some photos of beluga skeletons […]

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Two weeks ago, I reported here on Cryptomundo that there was a report that Russian hauled up a dead plesiosaur. Scott Corrales had forwarded the story to us here at Cryptomundo. The story was taken with a grain of salt, as there were no corroborating photographs. Today, Cryptomundo reader 71_machone informed me that the photos […]

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Alexis Rockman’s art is at Bates College. Have you seen Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale yet? You better hurry. From Thylacines to Yowies, from Sasquatch to Sea Serpents, from Mothman to Malaysian Mawas, there’s a museum near you that is waiting for your visit. If you are a teacher, now is the time to […]

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