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Some species have been described and accepted by science, merely from their footprints. This has occurred most famously with dinosaurs. Jeff Meldrum, Ph. D., Idaho State University, has come forth with a new moniker by which we may talk about Sasquatch. But it is not a “new name” for Bigfoot. Meldrum has given the tracks […]

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The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts held their Twenty-First Annual Conference in Portland, Maine, on November 1-4, 2007. It was called SLSA ’07: CODE. The conference was intellectually stimulating and extremely academic. One paper read told of ground-breaking implications for cryptozoology, as the term “cryptid” explodes beyond the boundaries of our field. But […]

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Riverside man on the trail of Bigfoot Daniel Perez lives in a tidy, two-story home on a quiet Riverside side street, far from the deep, dark backwoods where his real interest walks. Or doesn’t, depending on what you believe. By day, Perez toils as a licensed union electrician. But his life’s work is as a […]

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Jean-Jacques Barloy, who wrote in French the beautiful biography “Bernard Heuvelmans, un rebelle de la science” (1st volume of the “Bibliothèque Heuvelmansienne,” Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx, juin 2007) – Bernard Heuvelmans: A Rebel of Science – won the “Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire 2008” (category essay), it was announced on Friday, November 3, 2007. Jean-Jacques […]

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Darren Naish, born in 1975, is a vertebrate palaeontologist and science writer, presently based at the University of Portsmouth where he works on theropod dinosaurs, particularly those from the Wealden Group rocks of Early Cretaceous England. Also, it must be noted for our purposes, that parttime cryptozoologist Darren Naish collects toys. Lots of toy animals. […]

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While a self-described skeptic, this Maine scientist deserves recognition of the pivotal role he now serves within cryptozoology, during this age of DNA analysis for every physical sample found. Irv Kornfield is one of the good guys, actually. Irv Kornfield has a black, furry nugget that looks like a knuckle from the Turner Beast in […]

Read: Men in Cryptozoology: Irv Kornfield »

It’s stuff like this that gives hominology a bad name. I don’t especially like to report on scandals and personal disagreements. However, there seems to be something happening on the fringes of Bigfootry that might boil over into public media exposure, jail time or a court confrontation. Therefore, I should at least give you a […]

Read: Sasquatch Smackdown: Tara Hauki vs Jon-Erik Beckjord »

A long-time member of the Western Bigfoot Society (sometimes called the International Bigfoot Society) just emailed me that Ray Crowe is officially discontinuing his monthy meetings, and his long-time Bigfoot newsletter, The Track Record. It is well known that Ray has had a long battle with heart disease and diabetes, which is contributing to his […]

Read: Crowe’s Bigfoot Newsletter Has Died »

The following is up and active on the Yahoo home page. Click on the direct link below noted at their “Cryptomundo” title for all of the hyperlinks Yahoo has added to the exchange. This is a direct copy of their interview, which they have given me permission to post. I added a few familiar Cryptomundo […]

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(Photo credit: Michelle Souliere) The Jeff Rense Program Wednesday October 31, 2007 Brad Steiger Halloween Special! With Loren Coleman Cryptozoology (Discussing Sasquatch, Bigfoot, and other cryptids in Mysterious America. Ray Buckland Wiccan Halloween J. Gordon Melton (Photos directly above by Amber Waterman.) More on the International Cryptozoology Museum can be found here and here.

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One of the things that happened as I was finishing Bigfoot! (published in 2003) was that Ray Wallace died on November 26, 2002. I added some details, post-proofs, to my book, but there is much that can be said about what happened, after Wallace died. The entire landscape of Sasquatch studies was changing rapidly. Grover […]

Read: DarkLore Cometh! »

I know what a lot of you do. Your day sort of starts off slowly, or ends like Sloop in that other Portland. As he says: So, I’ve been bored at work and stumbled upon lots of weird websites, like Cryptomundo, Forgetomori…Sloop Research indicates 63% of you, that’s right, you, our audience, are regular visitors […]

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Drawings of the yellow-tailed woolly monkey (Oreonax flavicauda) by artist Stephen Nash were used in Peru to rediscover the primate. The use of identikit illustrations in support of the cryptozoology method is demonstrated often. The objective is to discovery what is already ethnoknown, in terms of local wildlife. Drawings from scratch, under the direction of […]

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Please note, the times are incorrectly given in the program art (above). “MonsterQuest” begins at 10:00 PM Eastern, and is repeated often in the following days, at various times. The History Channel debuts “MonsterQuest” Wednesday October 31st, 2007. The following is their press release regarding a summary of the series, and details on what is […]

Read: Hajicek’s MonsterQuest: Full Program Descriptions »

Syracuse Herald, May 15, 1921 In 1920, the Smithsonian Institution sent a 32-person expedition to Africa, which found unexplained tracks along the riverbank and heard mysterious “roars.” See the “Dinosauria” chapter of my field guide for more details. One hundred years ago, people would grab their weekend newspapers and hurry to find the Sunday supplements. […]

Read: Africa’s Art Deco Dino: Njago Gunda »