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Don Getty, River Otters, Grand Tetons. Used with full permission of Mr. Getty. The photograph does not, however, appear in Ben’s and Joe’s book from last year. Would it have helped lessened the blow of this review against their flank? One would expect that the respected Journal of Folklore Reseach at Indiana University would come […]

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Please donate to the International Cryptozoology Museum by sending your financial gifts, unwanted or extra replica animals, and/or cryptozoology artifacts to Loren Coleman, Director, ICM, PO Box 360, Portland, ME 04112, or any fiscal contributions via PayPal to [email protected] Thank you. +++++++ My birthday is on July 12th. I was born the year a Bigfoot […]

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Loren and I have both talked here on Cryptomundo about belief in Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Here’s an interesting take on this topic by a college student. I don’t believe in Sasquatch But I kinda wish I did Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, mainly consisting of footprint casts, grainy videotape of a guy in a gorilla suit, […]

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Jesse Cantrell, host of Black20 News, is apparently addicted to Cryptomundo, even though she doesn’t believe in Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster or the Chupacabras.

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Sterling Edmund Lanier, 79, who just died in Sarasota, Florida, harkens back to an era of early cryptozoologists and adventurers. Lanier worked as an editor at Chilton Books in the 1960s, alongside Ivan T. Sanderson, also an editor at Chilton. Chilton Books in 1961 published Sanderson’s famous book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. Sanderson […]

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Barry Lane Beyerstein, a skeptic extraordinairé, was born on May 19, 1947, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In recent years, he called Moody Lake, British Columbia, his home. On Monday, June 25, 2007, one day after the 60th birthday of the beginning of the era of flying saucers just across the border in Washington State, Barry […]

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This photograph of a grizzly bear sow and two cubs in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness southwest of Aspen appears to be a “hoax,” according to Chris Servheen, a grizzly expert with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. (courtesy photo) Bigfoot, Nessy and grizzlies in Aspen Next, perhaps, Bigfoot will be spotted at Carbondale’s Mountain Fair […]

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Someone has uploaded parts of the History Channel’s recent repeat of an episode of “Deep Sea Detectives” featuring great archival footage of recent cryptozoological discoveries, the program’s hosts diving at Loch Ness, and yours truly in my home-research office-museum. Corrective footnote: Yes, I know that Loch Ness is six miles from the ocean, although I […]

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It is not often you see cryptozoology mentioned in someone’s obituary, especially for someone so young as Derek Tripp. It seems as if the field has become so popular, so much a part of American cultural life, that among the creative, the intellectual, and the adventurous, cryptozoology is now routinely part of how we view […]

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Editorial Commentary “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” as spoken by Sherlock Holmes in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Gordon T. Holmes (above) is doing himself no favors by adding more information and speculation to his university-hosted website. In addition to coming […]

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Jay Russell, director of The Waterhorse, sent along news of this trailer for the film that was put together and shown at the Rock Ness Music Festival. Dear Craig — This popped up on youtube (amazingly I didn’t had anything to do with putting it on there). It is the little teaser we specifically cut […]

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The text from youtube, where the video is hosted. Recent overwhelming evidence has re-ignited the world’s passion for this magical Water Horse and this recent video from Loch Ness corroborates the footage shot June 2nd 2007.ASecretThisBig Was there a video shot of Nessie on June 2, 2007 that we don’t know about? Or is this […]

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Rock, paper, Nessie. Despite early Loch Ness Monster reports to the contrary in newspapers yesterday, there are hints that something cryptozoological did occur during the recent musical concert, Rock Ness. The usual things happened when a crowd of nearly 35,000 people gather. One man found unconscious under apparently “no suspicious circumstances,” died yesterday in a […]

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People get the craziest ideas in their heads about all of the money supposedly flowing from “selling” Bigfoot and other cryptozoological monsters. What might be the source of such thoughts? Well, that would be the general media, of course. Take Dwain Walden, who is the editor/publisher of The Moultrie Observer, in Moultrie, Georgia. Apparently bored […]

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Nessie, seal, or otter? This does not represent a car full of Rock Ness attendees trying to photograph Nessie, but merely another view of the Spicer encounter of 1933 (used for promotional purposes by loch-ness.org on various Scottish tourism sites). As you will recall, after all the buzz of the Holmes video of an unknown […]

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