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Of course, at some level, one could say we don’t even know what we are looking for and what skills or odors or equipment it will ultimately take to find unknown hairy hominoids. After all, we haven’t found any Bigfoot, Yeti, Almas, or Skunk Ape yet, so what we have been doing isn’t working – […]

Read: Coast to Coast AM: Male Chauvinism Within Bigfoot Research? »

Sometimes I allow my thoughts to drift to trying to understand the “people” part of the Bigfoot quest. In my Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket – Simon and Schuster, 2003), I wrote Chapter 15, “The Bigfooters” to detail my thoughts on the matter of the why and the what […]

Read: Brooding About Bigfooters »

I will soon begin to make appearances on various television and radio programs to discuss my 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, with its official release date of April 24th. Here are some forthcoming radio dates: April 21 – “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary […]

Read: Mysterious America Roadshow Begins »

Thanks to historical Malaysian Bigfoot researcher and journalist Harold Stephens, this just came to my attention from Tunku (Prince) Mahmood of Johor. Harold Stephens lives in Bangkok today and maintains good contacts with old friends inside and outside the government in Malaysia. Let’s begin our review of the new Johor footprint photographs with the field […]

Read: New Malaysian Bigfoot Tracks! »

Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America Here’s a new quiz that goes to the depths of your knowledge on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research. I’m joking, of course, for it is only ten questions long, but it is a good survey of some high points of your awareness of the field. It is more […]

Read: What’s Your Bigfoot IQ? »

In the current issue of TAPS Paramagazine on newsstands now and via mail (you can click on the ad to the right), you will find a new “Q and A” session with Dr. Jeff Meldrum about Bigfoot. Yes, I have the cover article on Sea Serpents plus a list-column on New England Lake Monsters, but […]

Read: Meldrum Tapdances »

(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Fans, friends, and readers of Cryptomundo, I have an idea that it might be good to have a permanent “Cryptomundo’s Frequently Asked Questions” location attached to the Cryptomundo site. Perhaps it would be via a long blog of answers, or series of blogs. Maybe […]

Read: Cryptomundo’s Ultimate CZ FAQs »

I sometimes neglect the fact that few people know really what I have written, in total. Today, for example, a young man emailed me with this message: “How many books have you done Loren? I have only come across two.” Well, I can forget myself, often, for many reasons. It happens. Ha ha. Memory and […]

Read: A Life Explored In Words »

As I speculated in my first blog about this case on January 18th, when the news broke of a “feral woman” being found (or captured in some accounts), there has got to be a more involved story here. I wondered, could, perhaps, this little girl have been kidnapped by a Nguoi Rung (“Forest Person”) – […]

Read: Second “Wild Person” Seen »

This is the week, 35 years ago that Roger Patterson, rodeo rider, songwriter, and Bigfoot hunter, died. Thirty-five years! How time flies. During the next twelve months you will find your calendar filled with anniversaries that hit close to home, if you are interested in cryptids and other "strange things" that happen all the time. […]

Read: Patterson Dies + 35: Anniversaries of 2007 »

One drawing of how the Nguoi Rung reportedly shows itself to locals in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia (Kampuchea). A wild woman has been caught. A feral human being, that is. All the details have not been collected. After all, the focus of this story can’t speak to her family of origin, yet. But this much […]

Read: Real Wild Woman Gone Wild: Kidnapped by Nguoi Rung? »

There is a new series of children’s books on cryptozoology for the New Year. Rosen Publishing has walked this way before. This New York City-based publisher produced a series of “Secret Files” children’s books on cryptids in 2002. It has now followed with their “Graphic Mysteries” 48-pages-long books for 2006 and 2007. The 2002 titles, […]

Read: New Kids’ Books on Cryptids »

I have heard from Neil Mandt (above), the executive producer for "Destination Truth," the new series that will be appearing on the Sci Fi Channel this spring. He’s been corresponding with me for some months now, and decided to give Cryptomundo an exclusive on what he and his crew are up to right now. One […]

Read: Searching For the Ropen in New Guinea: “Destination Truth” Makes Contact From Rainforest »

The Hollywood Reporter is spreading the news that “Destination Truth” on the Sci Fi Channel is a go for April 2007. After the Destination: Truth expedition of February 20, 2006, found footprints at Kampung Lukut, a new wave of ecotourism was stimulated and foreign tour groups began arriving. The cast discussed around the world: Joshua […]

Read: “Destination Truth” Gets Green Light »

A new site to check out: Anomaly TV: Cryptozoology Wednesday. What do you think about it? One place to find all the Bigfoot videos you have been looking for? Word on replays of Mothman documentaries? Updates on when A & E, National Geographic, Travel Channel, History Channel and other repeats or new programs are going […]

Read: Cryptozoology Wednesday »