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When I was investigating mountain lion, puma, mystery cat, and black panther reports in the 1970s, many accounts from northern California were not believed. For example, in 1973, from Concord to Danville, California, people reported seeing a black panther. (Source: Vallejo Times-Herald, March 5, 1973.) I guess times have changed in those neck of the […]

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Wire services are spreading the news worldwide of an unusual weekend find near Boston, a giant manta ray. Salem’s sea monster is really a manta ray Experts thought they were being fed a whopper of a fish tale – but when they got to Salem they were astounded to find locals had netted a giant […]

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Mississippi is in the midst of a rash of kangaroo sightings. Here is a summary of what the wire services are reporting about the specifics. Bay St. Louis, Miss. (AP) – A kangaroo may be on the loose in Mississippi. Animal-control officers in Bay Saint Louis say there have been several reports in the past […]

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Have you seen anything like the above, ever? This crustacean, found in the marine environment off Walpole and Portland, Maine, is not like anything researchers have seen before. Can you assist them with identifying it? (Photo courtesy Casco Bay Estuary Partnership) Reporter Ann S. Kim noted in The Maine Sunday Telegram on July 31, 2007, […]

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More news coverage of the Big Bird sightings in Texas. Click on the link here to watch the video. Sightings of mysterious giant bird continue in San Antonio Loch Ness has its monster. Does San Antonio have one, too? Strange sightings of a huge flying creature have been reported as recently as six months ago. […]

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This is an interesting news piece that does not ridicule the subject of cryptozoology. Click on the link below to watch the video, including the interview of our favorite resident skeptic, Ben Radford. Big-bird encounter one for the books LAS CRUCES, N.M. (July 19, 2007) – Myths and legends about creatures from the Chupacabra to […]

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No, it’s not a new member of the Flight of the Conchords group, which already include performers with the pseudonyms of the Hiphopopotamus and the Rhymenoceros. No, the Kangahippomouse is the thing above. Mark Frauenfelder has blogged an entry entitled “Mystery creature photographed in Seattle — a kangahippomouse?” over at Boing Boing. A reader at […]

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Panthers spotted in region; MNR has yet to confirm reports Local News – Black panthers are roaming around Bonfield and Rutherglen, witnesses say. Several sightings have been reported to The Nugget and the Ministry of Natural Resources. John Wilson said he was driving his pickup truck down Trunk Road in Bonfield about a week ago […]

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Loren Coleman to Keynote Fort Knox Faire On July 21 and 22, Saturday and Sunday, at the Psychic and Paranormal Faire, meet with people who share an interest in or a belief in things unusual. This unique event features renowned cryptozoologist and author Loren Coleman, as well as performers, psychics, ghost hunters and dowsers. Informational […]

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On July 9th, from NBC’s Today Show to worldwide news service rewrites of the Sunday New York Times article, this all is keeping this new Mapinguary mania alive. And we all thought the interest in this creature was dead a decade ago. Sadly, the articles being spread from the UPI are often headlined with this […]

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The digital recordings of Iraq’s supposedly cryptid Garta (“The Muncher”) look like “badgers,” of course. But what is a badger? Why would American and British troops in Basrah think these were unusual badgers? Some clarification needs to be shared on what is a badger? Most Americans visualize the badger differently than how most Europeans do. […]

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Sightings Spread Horror, Conpiracy Theories Among Locals By Zeyad Kasim, July 6, 2007 For over a month now, people in Basrah have been circulating rumors about a “strange,” bear-like deadly creature that attacks people at night with its strong claws. Locals in rural areas around Basrah claim it has killed three people and injured six […]

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Here’s an update on this story that was originally posted here at Cryptomundo. Mystery Animal Found in India Bone riddle may not be solved soon KOLKATA: The mystery of the bones of an unknown animal unearthed in the Sunderbans may not be unravelled for some time to come. Although forest department officials claim that the […]

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Here, below, is the one photograph that has been released, thusfar, of the Maine Mystery Cat, taken from a homeowner’s backyard in Sidney, Maine. The photo is from a digital camera, and the pixels give this felid a less than sharp configuration. But as you can see from reading the past blogs on this matter, […]

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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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