Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 22nd, 2024
“What a bankrupt world it would be if you refused to believe things existed until you actually had seen a specimen in a museum. I mean, there are lots of things we are prepared to believe exist without having seen them,”
Read: Beasts in the Mist »
Posted by: Shannon LeGro on August 10th, 2017
Derek Hayes of the Monsters Among Us Podcast brings to this episode, three of his favorite calls shared into his hotline. These are the encounters as told by the witnesses. A mysterious creature spotted in the road in Vermont, a massive Grasshopper/Mantis walking near cornfields in Illinois, and the infamous Mirrored Men as shared originally on Monsters Among Us.
Read: Monsters Among Us: Part Deux »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on August 5th, 2017
Whereas Arthurian legend had its Fisher King, rural Hungarian lore apparently once included an ostensibly real but presently-unidentified mystery beast known as the fisher pig.
Read: Fisher Pigs, Swamp Pigs, Hell Pigs, and Terminator Pigs – Entelodonts Emergent? »
Posted by: Shannon LeGro on May 19th, 2017
Dee Doss has spent the last ten months dedicated to his field research of the Sasquatch and Dogman creature, both in his area of northern Texas, and in southern Oklahoma. Sasquatch are reported more frequently, but the even more terrifying Dogman/Werewolf creature is also said to inhabit the area.
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 30th, 2016
Not only is today the Remembrance Day for Lost Species, but this year also marked the 80th anniversary of the death of the last known Tasmanian Tiger in captivity, Benjamin.
Read: Remembrance Day for Lost Species »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on November 29th, 2016
It has been 21 years since the original publication back in 1995 of In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, considered by many to be my finest cryptozoological volume. Not surprisingly, then, in subsequent years there has been a growing, persistent clamour among its numerous fans worldwide for me to prepare a new, updated edition. Now, at last, fulfilling a longstanding promise, I have done so – and what an update it is!
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 4th, 2016
In remake, King Louie character is a Gigantopithecus, not an orangutan
Read: Disney’s ‘The Jungle Book’ resurrects giant extinct ape »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on March 9th, 2016
When we think of sloths, we generally picture those famously sluggish, dog-sized, tree-dwelling beasts that spend much of their time hanging upside-down from branches in modern-day Central and South America. Millions of years ago, however, there were several additional, very different morphological types – of which the most famous and dramatic were the ground sloths.
Read: The Yukon Beaver Eater, and Ground Sloths in New Zealand? »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on November 4th, 2015
Excited to announce another Missing in Alaska marathon runs this Wednesday on H2 Network! Beginning @6pm EST, the six episode event will feature three entirely new episodes, highlighting some iconic Alaskan mystery creatures including Thunderbirds (a topic near and dear to my heart), the famous Lake Illiamna Monster and even Monster-sized Bears. Please help us spread the word!
Posted by: Karl Shuker on September 13th, 2015
I’m delighted to announce that my latest book, A Manifestation of Monsters: Examining the (Un)Usual Subjects, is now in print, published by Anomalist Books. It contains a superb foreword by my good friend and fellow cryptozoologist Ken Gerhard, and its front cover is sumptuously illustrated with a truly spectacular cryptozoological painting by hugely-talented artist Michael J. Smith that directly inspired me to write this book.
Posted by: Nick Redfern on July 23rd, 2015
Is it feasible that the subtropical rainforests of Australia are home to gigantic, marauding lizards of twenty to thirty feet in length? Could such Jurassic Park-like beasts really remain hidden, undetected, and free to rampage around in near-unstoppable fashion? Just maybe, the answer is “yes.”
Posted by: Karl Shuker on July 15th, 2015
One of the most spectacular members of the Eurasian Pleistocene megafauna was the Irish elk Megaloceros giganteus. Formally described in 1799, it is also aptly known as the giant deer, as its largest known representatives were only marginally under 7 ft tall at the shoulder and bore massive antlers spanning up to 12 ft, but did this magnificent species linger on into historic times?
Read: The Last of the Irish Elks? »
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 1st, 2015
Alaska is big. At 663,300 square miles, it’s about the size of Germany, Poland, and France.
That’s a lot of open area for bear, moose, and killer whales, but it’s also a haven for monsters.
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 28th, 2014
Dr Georg Wilhelm Steller was a German physician and naturalist participating during the early 1740s in the last of Danish explorer Vitus Bering’s Russian expeditions to the Arctic waters (now called the Bering Sea) separating Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula from Alaska. During this expedition, Steller documented many new species of animal, including four very contentious forms that continue to arouse cryptozoological curiosity even today.
Read: Steller’s Secret Fauna – Gargantuan Sea-Cows, Inaccessible Sea-Ravens, and Bewhiskered Sea-Monkeys »
Posted by: Karl Shuker on December 10th, 2014
In spring 1987, amid the far northeastern Kamchatka peninsula region of what was then the Soviet Union but is now Russia, hunter Rodion Sivolobov obtained the skin of a giant white bear. To most eyes, it might simply look like the pelt of an over-sized polar bear, but according to Sivolobov, and the area’s local […]
Read: Caterpillar Bears, Bulldog Bears, and God Bears – Ursine Cryptids of Kamchatka »
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