Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 17th, 2007
People get the craziest ideas in their heads about all of the money supposedly flowing from “selling” Bigfoot and other cryptozoological monsters. What might be the source of such thoughts? Well, that would be the general media, of course. Take Dwain Walden, who is the editor/publisher of The Moultrie Observer, in Moultrie, Georgia. Apparently bored […]
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 8th, 2007
Once again, Toyota is using a cryptid for a spokes beast. We have seen them use two versions of the Loch Ness Monster. The first was a kraken. And the next used a plesiosaur. Now comes this Puerto Rican market Toyota Highlander commercial featuring our favorite hirsute hominid, Friendly Bigfoot. The following video has some […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 5th, 2007
Otters, of course, are responsible for a few misidentifications of Lake Monsters in bodies of water worldwide. In my The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (co-authored by Patrick Huyghe), the fact that people do make mistakes when viewing mundane mammals on lakes and lochs is acknowledged. […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on June 4th, 2007
Hot on the heels of the Gordon Holmes video footage of something strange in the loch, comes this news of a reward for photo evidence of Nessie taken at next weekend’s Rock Ness music festival. £1m to find Loch Ness monster A £1 million reward has been offered to anyone who can find conclusive proof […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 1st, 2007
I will be a guest on CNN tonight, Friday, June 1, 2007, between 8-9 p.m. ET, on Paula Zahn Now, discussing the Gordon Holmes Nessie footage. Yes, this video is exciting a lot of people, but I wish it would have happened some other week, from a purely personal point of view. As the producer […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 26th, 2007
The exhibition, “Mythic Creatures” opens at The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City on Saturday, May 26, 2007. Two good articles on the exhibition and the opening are (click on the title of each article for the link): “The Surprising Realities of Mythical Creatures,” LiveScience; “Exploring the Nature of the Unnatural,” […]
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Posted by: Rick Noll on May 24th, 2007
Beyond Invention airing on Discovery Science Channel May 25th at 10:00 PM ET. Airing again on May 26th at 1:00 AM, 5:00 AM and 11:00 AM ET. Bigfoot in your backyard? Sea Serpent stalks Fisherman! Extinct Mutant Creature Lives! Believe it or not, these headlines are real! Featuring Rick Noll, Bigfoot Hunter.
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Posted by: John Kirk on May 24th, 2007
I haven’t been to Loch Morar in Scotland. It is always that left hand turn that I miss when I travel north from southern Scotland to the Highlands. I have been to Lochs Lomond, Linnhe, Lochy, Oich, Ness and Shiel, but Morar remains on my to-do list. Elizabeth Montgomery wrote about the creature of Loch […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 23rd, 2007
Ever wanted your own personalized cryptid? Well, for twenty bucks you can have your idea envisioned by an artist who quickly draws your desire, via Monster by Mail. (See more ordering info at the bottom of this posting.) Thanks to Rogier van Bakel, I heard about this artist, Len Peralta who is in the midst […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 15th, 2007
Details are sketchy on these photographs of what is being labeld a Mystery Giant Marine Turtle (or is it a decomposing whale), thusfar, other than they are a record of a body from a recent Pacific Ocean beaching. Look for updates, but, for now, I wanted to rush these photos here, for your attention.
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Posted by: John Kirk on May 12th, 2007
Many readers are familiar with the most famous lake cryptid in British Columbia known variously as Ogogpogo or Naitaka. There are actually more sightings reports for Ogopogo than there are for the Loch Ness unknown. However, in recent years sightings have diminished. As I spend a fair amount of my investigative work at Okanagan Lake, […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 11th, 2007
Did you know that the vast files and library of a great cryptozoological and Fortean organization were raped clean in their final days? If you read closely through the long list of cryptozoology books being offered for sale by Robert Girard, you will note that some are marked with “S. I. T. U.” in them. […]
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Posted by: Craig Woolheater on May 9th, 2007
I made the announcement last month here on Cryptomundo about the upcoming Loch Ness Monster feature film The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. The film, which opens Christmas Day here in the US, is from Columbia/Sony. I had also posted some storyboards from the film here on Cryptomundo previously. See: The Water Horse Storyboard […]
Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 8th, 2007
A California Mermaid – The account of the voyage of Hernando Grijalva to the Gulf coast of Lower California, (1823,) describes a mermaid which Grijalva professed to have seen. The object[,] when seen near by, resembled nothing more than a monkey. It leaped out of the water and jumped back again, with its hands moving […]
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Posted by: Loren Coleman on May 7th, 2007
A Monster in the Sound The Portchester Journal assumes the responsibility for this story: “Last Friday [August 10, 1877], while a gentleman and lady were sailing on the Sound, between Byram shore and Captain’s Island light, their attention was attracted by a queer hissing noise, and a roaring sound, and they soon discovered, not an […]
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