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Clark was 2008’s Tim Dinsdale Award-winner. Images.

Read: Happy Birthday, Jerome Clark! »

Well it seems that a perfect stocking stuffer has appeared on the scene.

The Sasqwatch Watch.

Who can resist this fun timepiece?

Sure to start a conversation anywhere.

Read: Sasqwatch Stocking Stuffers »

A far-flung friend has passed over to the Land of the Trolls, to continue his research and hunting. Sad news, indeed.

Erik Knatterud, a retired teacher, famous Norwegian cryptozoologist, sea serpent investigator, and researcher on cryptid hairy hominoids has died.

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Read: Norwegian Monster Hunter Dies »

The bottom of the valley, according to local tradition, was once a marshy swamp, inhabited by the lizard-like monsters. Images.

Read: Hunt For The Buru »

Some of us felt George Gill was a mythical creature, almost as elusive as the mummy itself, and that he had been a device invented by the likes of writers named Eric Norman, who only existed as a pen name among a forest of paperback pseudonyms. Now here Dr. Gill is again. Image.

Read: Pedro Mountain Mummy and the Mysterious Dr. George Gill »

Questions which were sent in by viewers are answered. Images.

Read: Q&A With Fans of Lost Tapes »

News Center’s Lee Nelson recently got a tour of the museum from Coleman. Images.

Read: Strange Creatures Inspire Curiosity »

The originator of the influential and widely debated Red Queen hypothesis was on the board of editors for the journal Cryptozoology. Image.

Read: Leigh Van Valen Dies »

Mionczynski has worked as a government wildlife technician and as a consultant and instructor. Habitat studies are his expertise, and he has extensively researched both grizzlies and bighorn sheep. He has worked with the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team and developed the concept of goat packing to transport scientific equipment into remote research areas.

Meldrum is an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University. He is an expert on primate evolutionary biology, the evolution of human locomotor adaption and bipedalism, the way in which we walk on two feet. He co-edited the book “From Biped to Strider: the Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport.”

Read: Meldrum and Mionczynski: Scientists Seriously Seeking Sasquatch »

What were the Beatles up to on that day in ’67?
All good things must be remembered, according to their days and images, now and again. Images.

Read: October 20th: Patterson-Gimlin Footage Anniversary »

“One thread that seems to run through most of these cabinets of curiosities is the presence of a relentlessly devoted curator,” notes Huffington Post. Images.

Read: Huffington Post: ICM Is One of Top Ten Cabinets of Curiosities in World »

The goal of the annual Discovery Day is to get people in Santa Cruz County to realize that the museum is not just a roadside attraction on the side of Highway 9, but a center for diligent research. Image.

Read: Bigfoot Discovery Day Report »

“To my perhaps jaded editorial eye, the report seemed to have come straight out of King Solomon’s Mines. How romantic!” he exclaimed!

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Read: The Joyful Gee of Cryptid Discoveries »

I asked Igor Bourtsev to contribute to Cryptomundo some input regarding his recent expedition. News of the expedition has been covered here on Cryptomundo at: New Russian Scientific Bigfoot Expedition and Update: New Russian Scientific Bigfoot Expedition Cryptomundian RandyS commented thusly: The problem with reports like these is that whatever was actually said has been […]

Read: Igor Bourtsev on the Russian Bigfoot Expedition »

In The Discovery of the Sasquatch, biologist John Bindernagel reconsiders much of the prevailing knowledge regarding the sasquatch. Illustrating evidence which contradicts the widely held perception of the sasquatch as merely a cultural phenomenon—a myth, hallucination, imaginary being, misidentified bear, or hoax—he explains why criteria such as testability, consistency, predictive power, and simplicity actually support an alternative hypothesis: the sasquatch as an extant mammal.

Read: Bindernagel’s New Bigfoot Book »