Archive for the “Out of Place”

Lake Springfield’s Suspicious Serpent

Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 2nd, 2007

Springfield, Illinois, is in central Illinois, in the Midwest USA, west of Decatur. It is the state capital and the county seat of Sangamon County. The Sangamon River, which flows near Decatur and Springfield was impounded to make Lake Decatur. But the manmade Lake Springfield is a reservoir built by impounding water upstream of Spaulding […]

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Update: Penn Giant Snake

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 16th, 2007

The readers’ comments at Cryptomundo have foreshadowed what the media has discovered from “experts” who were asked about the recent black Giant Snake reports from Bucks County. I’m not surprised because it is obvious we have some extremely knowledgeable people registered here and leaving insights. Here are the media-obtained remarks: A spokeswoman from the Philadelphia […]

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Penn Giant Snake Eats Kittens

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 15th, 2007

One hundred years ago, explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was sent by the Royal Geographic Society to make a thorough survey of the Rio Abuna and Acre Rivers. He encountered a Giant Snake. Today, sightings of a large serpent have stirred the media in the Midwest USA. Click image for full-size version Fawcett ran across […]

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Big Black Cats in Louisiana

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 14th, 2007

Are they cougars, jaguars or nothing special? Morehouse Parish residents — especially those in the northern part of the parish — periodically report seeing big cats, or of hearing their blood-curdling screams in the dark of night. Whether or not panthers, cougars or some other large cat actually live in Morehouse Parish has been a […]

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Mystery Animal Found in India

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 9th, 2007

On the heels of the report of Bigfoot sightings in India reported here on Cryptomundo by Loren Coleman comes the following story of another strange discovery. Bones of unknown animal unearthed GOSABA (SOUTH 24-PARGANAS): The forests of the Sunderbans conceal many mysteries. It has now thrown up a new challenge to zoologists in the form […]

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Something’s Savaging Lee Straw’s Sheep

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 8th, 2007

Something’s killing Lee Straw’s sheep. Most of his flock is kept safe on remote islands, just off the rugged New England coast. But many of the rest, over the past week, have been slaughtered by a mysterious and vicious killer. If this were most parts of rural North America, dead livestock would just be part […]

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Not Feral, Farm-Raised, Just Fred

Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 2nd, 2007

It turns out that the “giant wild boar” is not exactly Hogzilla II. It’s merely “Fred.” Wire service reports are flashing the news around the world, summarizing the reported truth behind Hogzilla II. It was not a wild boar, and not even a hybrid. It was a farm-raised pig, named Fred, purchased for a canned […]

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Bigger Than Hogzilla!

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 25th, 2007

The story goes, the animal is one very big wild boar shot in Alabama. As Mark Frauenfelder said over at Boing Boing, “It’s an AP story, so I am guessing this astonishing photo is legit.” Jamison Stone, 11 years old, shot the wild boar that weighed in at a “staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9-feet-4 […]

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Update: Woolfie Versus Maine Mystery Beast

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 24th, 2007

As an update to this morning’s posting of “Maddening Mystery of Maine Mutant Muddled”, here is the photograph of the proposed candidate, “Woolfie,” followed by ones of the Turner carcass, when first found. The above photograph is of Woolfie (courtesy of Mark LaFlamme). The bottom three are of the “Maine Mystery Beast” (courtesy of Michelle […]

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Maddening Mystery of Maine Mutant Muddled

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 24th, 2007

The dead dog near the road was photographed by Michelle O’Donnell, Turner, Maine, August 2006. Click on the image to make it bigger. The Maine Mystery Beast is back. Well, at least, the animal discovered next to Route 4, which was incorrectly labeled as the killer of livestock and pets, is. Mark LaFlamme called yesterday, […]

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Update: Photos of Wisconsin Mountain Lion

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 22nd, 2007

Cryptomundo readers Morgoth and Alton Higgins have both tipped us off as to the source of the cat that has been photoshopped into the image. Click on image for full size version Click on image for full size version Thanks guys! That didn’t take long…

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Photos of Wisconsin Mountain Lion

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 22nd, 2007

On April 29, 2007, I posted a story here on Cryptomundo concerning sightings of a mountain lion in a Wisconsin business park. See Wisconsin Mountain Lion Sighting. Now, images are being sent by email purporting to be of that mountain lion. The text of the email states: I thought you’d be very interested to see […]

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Gorilla Escapes

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 18th, 2007

A 400-pound gorilla escaped from his enclosure and ran amok in a Rotterdam zoo in Netherlands, on Friday, May 18, 2007, biting one woman, dragging her around, and causing panic among dozens of visitors before he was finally subdued, officials and a witness said. The Diergaarde Blijdorp zoo was evacuated and the 11-year-old gorilla, named […]

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Surprise Appearance on C2C

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 16th, 2007

I just received a telephone call. I’ve been invited to make an appearance on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory tonight (overnight May 16th into the morning of May 17th, 2007) between 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM Pacific, 11:00 PM – midnight Mountain,, midnight – 1:00 AM Central, 1:00 AM – 2:00 AM Eastern. […]

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North Pole Seal Caught In Florida

Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 8th, 2007

A bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), normally found much farther north in marine waters, has turned up very far south in a freshwater habitat. Caught Monday, May 7th, the 6-foot-long, 250-pound bearded seal had been seen for several days in Martin County, Florida, according to an Associated Press article, “Arctic Seal Is Captured in Fla. Canal.” […]

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