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Tennessee’s Manatee Last August 2006, an out-of-place manatee showed up in the Hudson Valley, New York (remember Tappie?). Then in October, one apparently swam up the Mississippi River to a harbor near Memphis, Tennessee. The Memphis manatee was found dead in December in a lake in the State of Mississippi. On January 4, 2007, the […]

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What is an eight-foot long crocodile (Crocodylus sp.) – a Mexican example is seen above – doing in the Cayman Islands? They have been extinct there for an undetermined number of years. It obviously is not someone’s escaped pet. “Mystery crocodile described as ‘very fast and aggressive’” Cayman News Thursday, January 4, 2007 The origin […]

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On January 3, 2007, Scientific American shared the news that a group of rare, re-located Indian (Great One-horned) rhinocercos have disappeared. It was announced in Kathmandu that they have mysteriously vanished from a nature reserve in southwest Nepal. The article by Gopal Sharma continues: Authorities introduced 72 rhinos, also known as the Indian rhinoceros, in […]

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An automobile travels the sparsely used Route 4 through the Turner, Maine, area, little knowing what it will meet around the next corner. It wasn’t a Stephen King novel, but a real-life incident that captured the media, first in Maine, then more globally last summer, into early fall. Lewiston, Maine’s Sun Journal published their 2006 […]

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All Photographs and Enhancements of the Myakka Photographs on this page are © David Barkasy and Loren Coleman 2001. It all began with a December 22, 2000, letter signed “God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous,” mailed to the Sarasota (Florida) Sheriff’s Department. Two photographs were enclosed. I’ve written about this extensively, so for some […]

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The author of the article that I spotlighted in my post entitled Panther Attacks in Arkansas! had this to say here at Cryptomundo: Hi, ya’ll. Warren Watkins here, author of this article on the panther attacks here in Arkansas. My understanding is that a puma is not native to North America, and the animals referred […]

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1. The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 2. Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 3. Top Ten Creepy Fossil Finds of 2006 4. The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2006 5. The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2006 6. Top Ten Cryptozoo Mystery Photographs of 2006 7. 2006’s Passings of Cryptozoologists and Others 8. 2006 Cryptoholiday […]

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Panther kills calves near Searcy Monday, December 18, 2006 6:47 PM CST Game and Fish Commission thinks the cat is a former pet By Warren WatkinsThe Daily Citizen (Searcy, AR) Two calves have been killed and area residents have been frightened in the past two weeks by what many say is a panther along Foster […]

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No physical evidence of panthers in state 12/16/2006 8:55:31 PMNortheast Mississippi Daily Journal BY BUSTER WOLFE For Larry Castle, the question is legendary: Do panthers roam the countryside of Mississippi? "It’s a common call we field," said Castle, director of wildlife for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. "We have looked at numerous […]

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The Top Cryptozoology Books of 2006 by Loren Coleman, Cryptozoologist Author, Cryptozoology A to Z, Bigfoot!, and Tom Slick It is time for the annual top picks for the best cryptozoology books of 2006, with attention to each book’s individual achievements noted in recognition of its unique niche within the cryptozoological literature this year. Since […]

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Quagga An article in the Edmonton Journal, December 13, 2006, concerns an alleged quagga, a South Africa species with genetic links to zebras said to be extinct for over 100 years. This specific equine has been missing for over two weeks from a farm located at Carrot Creek, a little way west of Edmonton, Alberta, […]

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The out-of-place manatee, first seen the weekend of October 21-22, 2006, when fishermen spotted it in Wolf River Harbor, near Memphis, has been found dead. According to the Associated Press: Police spokesman Sgt. Vince Higgins said the manatee was discovered around 1:30 p.m. CDT (1930 GMT) [on Monday, December 11, 2006] at Lake McKellar, off […]

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Back in October, I posted an article about the Pennsylvania Game Commission’s investigation of "alleged" mountain lion sightings. On December 7, the Clarion (PA) News published the following opinion editorial entitled Lions, tigers and bears, oh boy! about the cougar "conspiracy" in Pennsylvania. You’ve probably heard the conspiracy theories about how someone (or a group […]

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In the early 1970s, I did quite a great deal of library archive research on out-of-place alligators. That resulted in the publication of various Fortean articles, such as "Showers of Alligators," (Fate, Vol. 26, September 1973) and "Erratic Crocodilians and Other Things" (INFO Journal, 12, Summer 1973). Finally, I made a unique discovery that alligators-in-the-sewers […]

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St. Petersburg Times: Tony Signorini said that in 1946 or 1947 his boss saw a picture of dinosaur tracks in a National Geographic and said, "You know, we could have fun with this." Ted McLaren, St. Petersburg Times: Signorini’s tracks, using these 30-pound molds, created a sensation. A zoologist speculated they were left by a […]

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