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Here at Cryptomundo, we get quite a few submissions emailed to us, from questions, to news tips, stories, from mild to wild, and even photos. Remember the Yarwen, the baby Bigfoot that was sold for $17 million? I’m still waiting for that announcement to hit the streets… Back in late November, we received an email […]

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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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Cryptozoology, in various overt and covert ways, is all over the news this last week in November 2006, as people appear to be getting a headstart on their end of the year lists. Here’s a snappy overview of the first wave. First, a calm and quiet honor you may have missed. Stanley Newman is the […]

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It has come to my attention that Stanford University is offering a course concerning cryptozoology. The course is entitled Dinosaurs, Sea Serpents and Abominable Snowmen: Unknown Animals in Modern History The course is within the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. The following is taken from Stanford’s website introducing the course. Why […]

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We received some good news on the young Ogopogo witness who was badly burned in a freak accident aboard a train in India. Josh Casorso is doing well and undergoing skin grafts in Vancouver Hospital.  His body is healing nicely, especially his face.  He is fighting a few infections at the moment, but they are […]

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Looking for some suggestions for your holiday gift-giving to add to the book shelves of cryptozoologists-in-training? Trying to come up with colorful presents for those stockings? Here’s some book ideas that are being put out there for kids who are visiting the activities and the current Missouri home of the traveling exhibition that left Bates […]

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As a Scot living in self-imposed exile in Canada, the memories of Scotland are always in the periphery of my thoughts. I have wonderful memories of the Highlands and the wondrous landscapes I have laid my eyes upon. I am particularly fond of the great Great Glen and its spectacular beauty and am always concerned […]

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While the first media outlet that I came across that was carrying this story was Forbes, it has now been picked up by 166 media outlets worldwide, at last count using google news search. The headlines trumpet: Bigfoot studies render academic an outcastProfessor’s Bigfoot Research CriticizedIdaho professor becomes a campus outcast with his Bigfoot researchProfessor’s […]

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The Highland News out of Inverness is reporting that an English couple twice spotted something in Loch Ness during a visit to the area. Here’s the report in full followed by my comments. By, the way, this is the same publication that brought the August sighting of an unknown object off Dores to the attention […]

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Christopher D. Bader, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Baylor University, was one of the principal investigators of the study that is being discussed here on Cryptomundo. After reading the post on Cryptomundo and the comments from readers, Chris had this to say: There seems to be an assumption in the comments that the survey […]

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While this is not intended to be, nor will it be allowed to turn into, a discussion about religion or politics, I did find the following article interesting. This article from The Christian Post website mentioned the following: Time additionally measured Americans on weird beliefs including their perception of UFOs and Bigfoot. The report showed […]

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David Wilson feeds Oggie, Ogden Water’s own monster so that it won’t attack the public on Hallowe’en Now be a good Oggie… By Cathy Neligan Halifax Courier SOMETHING monstrous is lurking in the deeps at a Halifax beauty spot – and getting ready to surface. Ogden Water’s own version of the Loch Ness monster will […]

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Please click to enlarge this image of Bigfoot as drawn by Paul Smith, and sepia-colorized for the cover of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America The Top 50 Cryptids From Around The World Cryptids are the yet-to-be discovered animals or recovered supposedly extinct zoological species that are being sought by cryptozoologists, zoologists, anthropologists, […]

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Halloween 2006 seems as good a time as any to publish a response to several requests I have received lately for my top ten picks in cryptids, those animals that serve as the focus of cryptozoologists. Of course, thinking outside the lines, as I always do, I had to choose thirteen. Also, I had to […]

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A witness to a famous Ogopogo sighting in 2004 is lying critically ill in hospital in India after a freak accident aboard a local train. Josh Casorso, his father John and other members of his family were aboard a houseboat on Okanagan Lake on August 9, 2004 when at about 7:30 in the morning they […]

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