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Can you identify this mystery fish found on an old postcard? (Click on this image shared by Phyllis Mancz to see full size version.) I know, I know. The above photo is still a mystery, but how about some easier questions? What’s your Cryptozoology IQ? Okay, a couple questions are about aliens, but, overall, this […]

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Hot on the heels of the announcement of Nick Redfern’s crypto movie deal, comes the following news, again reported by Variety. New Line nabs creature feature ‘Night’ lights fire under Cryptozoologists New Line has purchased David Gilcreast’s comedy spec script Cryptozoologists and set it up with ContraFilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson. Mini-major beat out […]

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Following hot on the heels of the sighting of the so-called Bowness monster by Linden Adams last month, a canoeist who was on the lake has come forward with his story: For full story see this week’s Westmorland Gazette. New sighting of lake ‘monster’ ANOTHER sighting of a strange creature in Windermere has added weight […]

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In the current issue of TAPS Paramagazine on newsstands now and via mail (you can click on the ad to the right), you will find a new “Q and A” session with Dr. Jeff Meldrum about Bigfoot. Yes, I have the cover article on Sea Serpents plus a list-column on New England Lake Monsters, but […]

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(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Fans, friends, and readers of Cryptomundo, I have an idea that it might be good to have a permanent “Cryptomundo’s Frequently Asked Questions” location attached to the Cryptomundo site. Perhaps it would be via a long blog of answers, or series of blogs. Maybe […]

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As important as he became as a scientist, he never stopped being the boy who came home for dinner with a frog in one pocket and a crawfish in the other. His love of all marine life was both infectious and inspiring.Paul G. Haaga Jr, museum board member recalls John E. Heyning John Heyning, deputy […]

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I became aware of this article a week or so ago. As it was posted in Russian, I didn’t know what to make of it. However, one of my very good friends, Daryl Colyer, was a Russian Linguist in the military, so he translated the article for the readers of Cryptomundo. At the link to […]

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When the foot was initially found, it was thought to be human. Then the sheriff announced that the Virginia state medical examiners’ office had determined that the foot was not human but that it belonged to “an apelike species.”Then the speculation began that it could be the Foot of Bigfoot. Then the state medical examiner’s […]

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One of the themes this year at Mardi Gras is “Legends and Lore of the Deep,” and so naturally cryptozoology is represented. Jeb Card has taken some great photos of some of the cz-themed floats, which he shares. (That specific theme is for Proteus, one of the over a dozen krewes, which are individual crews […]

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Mike Smith writes of the legend of a New Mexico River Serpent on his blog My Strange New Mexico. When it comes to tales of enormous and legendary amphibians, Scotland boasts its elusive mascot in the waters of Loch Ness, China shares rumors of a gorge-dwelling creature that chases fishermen, and South Africa reports fearfully […]

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I sometimes neglect the fact that few people know really what I have written, in total. Today, for example, a young man emailed me with this message: “How many books have you done Loren? I have only come across two.” Well, I can forget myself, often, for many reasons. It happens. Ha ha. Memory and […]

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Stranger things have been seen in Florida waters and reported here on Cryptomundo… Cryptid Mammal Reptile or Prehistoric Seal? Have dolphins made a home in Lake Seminole? If so, officials are baffled over how they could have gotten there in the first place. By ANNE LINDBERG, Times Staff Writer Published February 7, 2007 SEMINOLE – […]

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Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot. I’m so tired of blobsquatch videos, aren’t you? Sasquatch, Sasquatch, Sasquatch. Nessie, Nessie, Nessie. Loch Ness Monster, Loch Ness Monster. Ah, finally good footage, right? I’m forced to write a blogsquatch, the sad condition of blogging that appears to be something it really isn’t – seemingly cryptozoological but it only vaguely appears […]

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The easiest pseudocryptozoological exhibition items to have, of course, are often the gaffs and hoaxes. Among those in most cabinets of curiosities are the Feejee mermaids and the furred trouts, both taxidermy fakes. I have my share. I use them to let people know these objects are often shown as “almost real” specimens. Most honest […]

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In response to my “Sea Serpent Snatching?” blog, cryptozoologist Matt Bille, author of 2006’s Shadows of Existence, sent along a comment. He mentioned that there has been only one known case of the possible killing of humans by a Sea Serpent. I asked Matt to expand on this, and submit a guest blog on the […]

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