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The little blue moa. The Thylacine of the Avian world is in the news again. Australian cryptozoologist Rex Gilroy recently discussed the latest new findings for Moas with the Hawke’s Bay Today. One of the good points about Gilroy is that he does serve as a lightning rod for unusual animal accounts in the region […]

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Does Bigfoot roam Maine? Or merely groups of comedians? Here are some funny videos from a new movie. The world premiere showing of the completed, new Maine-based film, Monster in the Woods will occur at Merrill Auditorium in Portland, Maine, on January 12, 2008. Here is the main trailer, and three other videos related directly […]

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This Friday will be the official launch of the new publication of the reasonably-priced hardback edition of Ivan T. Sanderson’s classic book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, from Cosimo Classics. This new printing contains a new preface I’ve written, and I will have a few copies, hot off the press, literally, for sale at […]

Read: Year of the Yeti Begins Now! »

Coming to the Sci Fi Channel this coming Saturday, January 5, 2008, this film may be the answer to those who are suffering from cavities due to any sweetness overloads from The Water Horse. Beyond Loch Ness appears to be cable television’s contribution to the B-movie horror fare for lake monsters. So Nessie is a […]

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Lake Elizabeth in the Otway forest. If there is one thing that is predictable, it is that most new years will open with a published report of a mystery cat sighting, usually in the UK or Australia. Australia didn’t let us down this year. Of course, this is different than the actual first eyewitness account […]

Read: First ‘08 Media Report: Oz Mystery Cat Sighting »

Goodbye to Nonja. The final days of December seem an appropriate time to talk about death, a metaphor for an internal feeling of the artificial human construction of a year ending. Death drives the mainstream news. How can we extract something useful out of all of this? This year thoughts of death have occupied many […]

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This was dispatched by the Wireless Flash News Service today, based, of course, on my “Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2007.” (For the record, I’ve noted some of the media-added errors.) 2007 BRINGS BIGFOOT BACK TO THE STATES PORTLAND, Maine (Wireless Flash) — 2007 was big year for Bigfoot in America. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman says […]

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In today’s Washington City Paper, columnist Mark Athitakis has picked his “The Best of the Best,” which are his “top ten favorite best-of-the-year lists” for 2007. His # 6 is noted as: Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories (Cryptomundo)

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In December 1985, at the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, pregnant zookeeper Gayle Booth, 30, was fatally mauled by the above jaguar. Wild animals are dangerous, inside zoos and outside. The mystery surrounding how the San Francisco Zoo’s tiger (below) escaped from the grotto may be slowly becoming solved. Human intervention could have […]

Read: Lists of Zoo Incidents: Dangling Feet & Trails of Blood »

A few years ago, the cry across the land was to have the head of a Sea-Serpent brought to Science. I place the same kind of call out there regarding the alleged track cast of the footprint of the Loch Ness Monster collected in December 1933, some 74 years ago. Of course, we all take […]

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Congratulations! Voters from Cryptomundo appear to have had an impact on the Round 2 polling for “The Seven Fortean Wonders of the World.” The final results for Round 2 are in, and of 151 votes, fully 35% (53 votes) were for “Bigfoot / Yeti.” After the choice of the location of Loch Ness was lost […]

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In an era of university shootings, campuswide notices from college law enforcement that there is a danger on the grounds of the university are taken a lot more seriously than they use to be. On Sunday, December 16, 2007, such warnings went out across the campus of Clemson University in South Carolina, not about a […]

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A word to the wise ain’t necessary – it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.~ Bill Cosby. Needless to say, having written an entire book on the interaction between the media and copycat incidents, the following news item is the kind of thing I don’t like to see get sensationalized in the press or […]

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Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization chief sponsor Wally Hersom of San Juan Capistrano with a Bigfoot cast from Walla Walla, Washington State. The 15-inch left foot print was discovered May 10, 1986. Taken at his home. Both Matt Moneymaker and Hersom live in San Juan Capistrano, California.

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People outside the study of “Bigfoot searching” create a good deal of speculation and melodrama about the feuds and in-fighting occurring in our field. What is often overlooked is how that within cryptozoology and hominology, oftentimes, the bottomline comes down to a mutual support of the overall effort to find new species.

Read: The Money Behind Moneymaker »