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The Lewiston Sun Journal came for a visit to my museum. Here’s the way reporter Kathryn Skelton experienced it. And me. 🙂 Weird, Wicked Weird A man and his (weird) museum Hair from Sir Edmund Hillary’s Yeti expedition, water from Loch Ness, a 9-foot latex pterodactyl, Loren Coleman’s got it all. Sometime next spring, Loren […]

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You have many choices of events to attend during the last quarter of 2007. Here are some visual reminders of the upcoming end of the year Cryptozoology conferences: Saturday, December 1, 2007, “Introduction to Cryptozoology,” Mythic Creatures, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York. The AMNH model of Gigantopithecus is part of […]

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As reputable an authority as the senior officer of the Cunarder Mauretania [sic] reports that on Jan. 30, [1934] while in the Carribean [sic] Sea, the ship passed “a sea monster 65 feet long, 2 feet across the head and 6 feet broad amidships. It was headed S.W.” We are sorry he did not get […]

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While nothing will ever match the David Grabias 2002 documentary Search for the Mothman, now bundled in the Deluxe DVD/The Mothman Prophecies, production companies keep cranking out ones filled with interviews with old eyewitnesses. Of course, there is no footage of Mothman, so they all are following the same path here. Black River Films has […]

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The image of Mothman has changed in the last forty years. Fiction from the film has shown up as fact in popular culture. Is this Mothman’s fate? I’ve noticed that the drawings of Mothman have evolved, often negatively, from the early days of what the witnesses said they saw to the elaborate fictions we see […]

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One of the rarest first fiction films about the hairy creatures of the forests to locate today is Bigfoot (1970), directed by Robert E. Slatzer. It is a modest movie made for the drive-ins involving, in the jargon of the time, “babes and bikers.” Director Slatzer’s claim to fame, other than this movie, appears to […]

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Kenneth F. Thomas, editor of the Steamshovel Press and Missouri university archivist, shares an old reference to what seems like a new occurrence of “Chupacabras” in a sinister context, which he found on August 23, 2007. Thomas writes that he made the discovery while…. …watching the 1951 movie Bride of the Gorilla with Raymond Burr […]

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Congratulations to The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story, produced, written and directed by James “Bubba” Cromer of Columbia, South Carolina, for winning big honors in the Big Apple. In New York City, on Friday, April 17, 2007, The Long Way Home: A Bigfoot Story won “Best Narrative Feature” for the entire New York International […]

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The film was Beast From Haunted Cave, released in 1959, and filmed in Deadwood, South Dakota. Alexander “Alex” Ward (Frank Wolff), who along with his lover Gypsy Boulet (Sheila Carol), leads a gang of gold thieves (Richard Sinatra, Wally Campo) in pulling off a heist and fleeing into the snowy wilderness. But they find themselves […]

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Opening today, August 16, in Australia, is a debut film, Black Sheep, from writer-director Jonathan King. A movie about killer mutant sheep, in which genetic engineering is the evil underpinning of the film, doesn’t sound too cryptozoological. But Black Sheep and its little mutant lamb that foreshadows thousands turning into bloodthirsty predators is reminiscent of […]

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Click image for a fuller size version. “The Curse Continues” © Charles Berlin 2007 The above original Cryptomundo exclusive cartoon* was created by Charles Berlin. It is made in the style of the “four-fold vision.” But you ought to know that What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made […]

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One of Linda Godfrey’s illustrations of you-know-what. The movie Skinwalkers opens today, so it might be time to learn more about Skinwalkers: What Are They?, from The Daily Grail. “The Best Fortean Cryptozoology Book of 2005″ picked here at Cryptomundo was Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah […]

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The time is never too early to plan ahead for a movie that might interest us. On August 1, 2008, a year from today, Mummy 3 opens. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is to be directed by Rob Cohen (also directed Stealth, XXX, The Skulls, and Dragonheart). The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon […]

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What have they done to the saga of the misunderstood lonely neighborhood hairy forest giant and his cranky mom? Where has the Neandertaloid gone in this tale of a dying, soon-to-be extinct group of humanlike beings? Coming this November, Beowulf is re-invented for the screen beyond the epic remembrances many of us share of this […]

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Indie filmmaker picks Parksville Noel Foley fell into filmmaking — and he’s taking Parksville with him. The Nanaimo based filmmaker wrapped a show here last year called Squatch. “That was an adventure,” Foley said. It used Oceanside locations, including the Skylite Motel, the Island Highway and a Qualicum Foods board room. It stars local actors, […]

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