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Anniversaries are those logical points on the calendar when we all naturally think about events that may have been too overwhelming to have sink too deeply into our psyche at the time. Three years ago the Mothman Death Curse, if there is such a thing, hit close to home. On July 19, 2004, the first […]

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In 1969, on July 20th, a man walked on the moon. Five days ago, one of the first men to walk with a Triffid died. Irish actor Kieron Moore, 82, died Sunday, July 15, 2007. He is one of the lead characters, Tom Goodwin in the motion picture, The Day of the Triffids. Playing an […]

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Sterling Edmund Lanier, 79, who just died in Sarasota, Florida, harkens back to an era of early cryptozoologists and adventurers. Lanier worked as an editor at Chilton Books in the 1960s, alongside Ivan T. Sanderson, also an editor at Chilton. Chilton Books in 1961 published Sanderson’s famous book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. Sanderson […]

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Photograph on left of George Haas, René Dahinden, and Archie Buckley in Oakland, California, taken by Loren Coleman, 1975. On right, alone, Archie Buckley. After posting my Bigfoot-related remembrance of Archie Buckley’s life, the media has discovered him anew and somewhat made a mess talking about his object of pursuit, Bigfoot. Let’s hope that’s not […]

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Barry Lane Beyerstein, a skeptic extraordinairé, was born on May 19, 1947, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In recent years, he called Moody Lake, British Columbia, his home. On Monday, June 25, 2007, one day after the 60th birthday of the beginning of the era of flying saucers just across the border in Washington State, Barry […]

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Little is known of what the Soviet Russians did on their Pamir Mountains’ “Snowmen” expeditions of the 1960s, especially if they contained non-Russian members. What were their goals? What did they find? Was Tom Slick or one of his friends secretly involved in funding one such expedition? Malcolm Slesser. The death on Tuesday, June 26, […]

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John Hawks, (Ph.D., 1999) an anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes a popular blog on all subjects he feels impact on anthropology. His contributions are usually intelligent and look at various sides of anthropological debates. However, once in a blue moon, usually with tongue-in-cheek, Hawks writes about Bigfoot-related items, such as […]

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Click on the above image of George Haas, Loren Coleman, and Archie Buckley, San Francisco, 1975, for a larger sized version. Archie Buckley, an early and important member of the Bay Area Group – the Bigfoot researchers of the San Francisco Bay area – died on June 18, 2007. Of all dates, I am not […]

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St. John’s Day June 24, 2007 Here is my annual tribute to this special day, which happens to be a little more special than usual for 2007. Does the name Kenneth Arnold (below) ring a bell? Knights Templars display “Mysterious Head” at Poitiers (1308). Founding of the Order of the Garter (1348). John Cabot discovers […]

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It is not often you see cryptozoology mentioned in someone’s obituary, especially for someone so young as Derek Tripp. It seems as if the field has become so popular, so much a part of American cultural life, that among the creative, the intellectual, and the adventurous, cryptozoology is now routinely part of how we view […]

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Many 1950s-1960s cryptozoologists were introduced to science on television, first and foremost, by Mr. Wizard. I am saddened to hear that he has passed away today. It is with deep sadness that we regret to inform you of the passing of Don Herbert – the one and only “Mr. Wizard”. Don lost his battle with […]

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The following is Elsanto’s translation from French to English of the back cover and table of contents of the new biography Bernard Heuvelmans: A Rebel of Science by Jean Jacques Barloy. Back Cover The name Bernard Heuvelmans is associated worldwide with cryptozoology – the science which he founded and which is generally defined as the […]

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Dragons on display at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Dragons do roam the Earth. Less than 100 years ago, a population of dragons was discovered hidden away off the coast of mainland Asia. In 1910, it is said, a Dutch pilot crashed-landed on Komodo, a rugged, volcanic Indonesian island. After his […]

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Earl F. Slick, 86, whose brother will forever be tied to Yeti, died on May 13, 2007, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The family delayed a public announcement until after services and his burial. He is shown above in the 1940s, with a model of one of the air freight carriers in his then-new company. Earl […]

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Breaking news is announced today of two important volumes. The publisher Eye of the Sphinx has just announced the first two books of and by Bernard Heuvelmans that are to be published in June 2007. This is in a projected series of French books that promises to publish several of Heuvelmans’ works. The first is […]

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