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Oregon Coast Aquarium Goes in Search of ‘Giant Squid’ Newport, Oregon) – A new traveling exhibition, based on the popular permanent exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, will open at the Oregon Coast Aquarium on May 26. “In Search of Giant Squid,” which features a giant squid beak and suckers, will examine […]

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Mythic Creatures opens at The American Museum of Natural History on Saturday, May 26, 2007. I have been invited to deliver a presentation, “Introduction to Cryptozoology,” in conjunction with this exhibition, late next fall at the AMNH. Fun for the whole family, the new exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids explores the anthropological origins […]

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I am sorry to report that details are just beginning to trickle in of a new wave of deaths and near-misses tied to the Mothman researchers, museum staff and festival people in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. (Click here for a historical overview of other similar deaths. For more on the logic behind making an openminded […]

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Images of hairy hominoids are popping up in all sorts of places. Harry Trumbore’s drawing (above) of Africa’s kalanoro, from The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, inspired Peter Loh’s Kalanoro (below) in the Crypto-Man Comix, written by Scott Marlowe. Wildlife artist Richard Klyver, who spent seven […]

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This is the card that was over Olaf the Giant display. The same card was used at the Jones Museum / Seattle Center, when the Museum was on Highway 99 – north of Lynnwood, Washington, before it moved to Seattle Food Circus. Thanks to Rich for sharing this from his growing collection of Seattle area […]

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Earlier in the week, I posted here on Cryptomundo about the recent primate fossil finds here in Texas at New Texas Primate Species Found! Last year, at the Bigfoot in Texas? exhibit, which was a joint collaboration of the Texas Bigfoot Research Center (now Conservancy) and the University of Texas San Antonio Institute of Texan […]

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New historical photographs of the former “Crookston Bigfoot” have been sent to me from the artist who created it. BTW, the big guy’s finally back home in Maine. The photo above is an image of the Bigfoot standing near the RBJ’s Restaurant in Crookston, Wisconsin, with the owner and her staff. As you can see, […]

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Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho will be appearing on June 30, 2007, to give a Bigfoot talk and to sell and sign his Sasquatch books in California. The official press release will be out in a month, but here’s an early heads-up, as the seating is limited to a mere 120 people in the historic […]

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Remember the earlier posts about Olaf the Giant? Mark A. Hall sends in a clearer copy of a photograph of Olaf with an article that’s easy to read. Click on image for full size version

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Remember the news of the very large, appropriately named Colossal Squid just captured? Here’s an update, via news services, which are reporting, in part: Scientists at New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, have taken possession of the beast that took fishermen two hours to land after it was netted by chance in Antarctic waters […]

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Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America Here’s a new quiz that goes to the depths of your knowledge on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research. I’m joking, of course, for it is only ten questions long, but it is a good survey of some high points of your awareness of the field. It is more […]

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(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Fans, friends, and readers of Cryptomundo, I have an idea that it might be good to have a permanent “Cryptomundo’s Frequently Asked Questions” location attached to the Cryptomundo site. Perhaps it would be via a long blog of answers, or series of blogs. Maybe […]

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This week, I am visiting friends in Northern California, a couple of hours north of San Francisco. It’s not a Bigfoot trip, so to speak, but the 11 year old son of my friend is intensely interested in the subject. My friend Jill was with my wife and myself when we had our Bigfoot sighting […]

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Please click on this image for a larger view of this thing. As noted here yesterday, the above body is on display as a “Chupacabras” in Dave’s Pawn Shop in downtown El Paso, Texas. The origins of the What-Is-It? that rests comfortably in that pawn shop has been solved. It is a creative taxidermy piece […]

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Click on image for full size version This is a followup to the previous posting, “Olaf, Grover Krantz and Bigfoot”. Craig Heinselman looked in his files and shares what he found: this terrible archival photocopy from the Chronicle Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, for September 23, 1985. It’s something, but merely reinforces how we can’t “see” this […]

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