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I am reading this book, The Shadow Killer, right now and enjoying it immensely. It follows the "Killer Bigfoot" mode that so many movies and cryptofiction books do, but I am still enjoying the read. When I finish with it, I will share my opinion here on Cryptomundo. At 448 pages, it’s not necessarily a […]

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The Sioux City Journal mentions a talk on January 11, 2007, by a Bigfoot cryptofiction and cryptopolitical writer. Author Mike Palecek of Sheldon, Iowa, will provide a reading from his most recent book, Looking for Bigfoot: A Novel for America, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Meis Recital Hall on the Briar Cliff University campus. Palecek, […]

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Little, Brown and Company has published, on January 8, 2007, a new novel with cryptozoological fiction as a major component of the plot. Dan Simmons’ The Terror: A Novel features a central character that is a creature, the Thing, which attacks and slowly kills off the crew members. Here’s what Publishers Weekly has to say: […]

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I posted the cover on July 21, 2006, and gave the book an honorable mention on December 12, 2006. Let me share some more thoughts I have about Matthew Bille’s Shadows of Existence. Starting with the beautiful cover by William Rebsamen, there is a hint that this book contains material you don’t find in most […]

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On Saturday, December 23, 2006, I was the “first hour guest” on Coast to Coast AM. Their historical page has a recap with the uplink to the program. As noted, during the “First Hour: Loren Coleman counts down the Top 10 cryptozoology stories of 2006.” See: The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 The host […]

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The Top Cryptofiction Books of 2006 by Loren Coleman, Author of Mysterious America. In 1998, Craig Heinselman of New Hampshire and editor of Crypto coined the word "cryptofiction." The term refers to any literary work that has cryptozoology or a cryptid or groups of cryptids as the major theme or central focus. What are the […]

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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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Most people have heard the rumors about alligators-in-the-sewers, in large part, because of Thomas Pynchon’s 1963 novel, V. Pynchon wrote of the cute little pet alligators purchased as Florida souvenirs, eventually discarded, then growing and reproducing in the sewers of New York City. Moving through the underground system, Pynchon told us, they were big, blind, […]

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John Green, Rick Noll, and Chris Murphy discussed the recent revelations about the Patterson-Gimlin footage over the weekend. Rick Noll, returning from a trip to British Columbia, sent this along today, December 11th: I was with John Green this weekend and he showed me an email from M.K. Davis that contained yet another gif from […]

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"The word is out! Yes we are saying Bigfoot is human, and we think we have proved it….Everyone said it was an ape or creature or something else. No, it’s a human being of some sort. A very large human at that. It could be one of the oldest races in existence. Clues are in […]

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John Green (right) interviews Albert Ostman about Ostman’s 1924 Sasquatch abduction incident in British Columbia. As a newspaper man from Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, John Green began investigating Sasquatch reports in 1957, at the age of 30, interviewing witnesses and conducting on-site inquiries. He published several monographs and then a book on the subject, […]

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On December 20th, 2006 Over at Boing Boing, David Pescovitz has added his comments to the growing chorus of praise for the apparently out-of-print Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale. Pescotvitz writes: I have the catalog and it’s quite wonderful. Of course, there are reproductions of the artists’ works from the exhibition and provocative essays, […]

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Professor Hex and his nieces visit the Kansas City exhibition. Fantomina reports for work. Goblina studies a unknown hominid. The Crookston Bigfoot longs for the new snow in Maine and gets ready to come home. Also, see the latest from Boing Boing on this subject.

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This image of the front cover for the book may be clicked on to enlarge it. The following is a contributed review sent in to share with you, by Craig Heinselman, Editor CRYPTO. The photographs, most by Luc Demers, are scans I’ve added to the review from the book. Cryptozoology Out of Time Place Scale […]

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As opposed to viewing what recently happened during a formal anthropological criticism of cryptozoology as some cause for upset, let’s reframe what occurred as an opportunity for our field to broaden our worldview. When the apparently charming Pamela D. McElwee, Ph. D., Assistant Professor, The School of Global Studies, Arizona State University (shown above), shared […]

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