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From the Battle Creek (MI) Enquirer. 25 years ago today, 1981: Is "Bigfoot" stalking the swamps and woods of the Fort Custer Recreation Area? A hairy, 9-foot-tall creature has been seen again near the Kalamazoo River in the state recreation area. It’s been seen in several spots at different times. Bigfoot observers now include the […]

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Looking for a rare Keel title? A paperback from the 1970s demonstrating that era’s view of Bigfoot? An oldie but a goodie? Trying to pick up a scarce cryptozoology book? Bob Girard has been selling used books for years, and now does it from Port St. Lucie, Florida. If you want to keep the good […]

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The following article excerpt is from the April 2006 issue of Fortean Times magaine. This is the Monster Hunters issue that has been discussed here previously on Cryptomundo. Illustration: Xavier Lemmens Although Italy’s second largest lake, with its palm trees and neo-classical villas, hardly looks like the kind of remote spot one would expect to […]

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Scientists have found a fossil of a monster fish-like reptile in a 150 million-year-old Jurassic graveyard on an Arctic island off Norway. The Norwegian researchers discovered remains of a total of 28 plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs at a site on the island of Spitsbergen, about 1300 kilometres from the North Pole. At the time these were […]

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The other day I mentioned the modern void of Cassie reports here. I also recommended people revisit “All Things Maine” blogger Christopher Dunham good overview of “The Sea Serpents of Mount Desert Island.” Today, Chris posted this: More Sea Serpents of Maine Loren Coleman was kind enough to mention again my post from a year […]

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As if my luck at being at Lake Windermere in England a few days after a sighting was obtained of an unknown creature wasn’t enough, I happened to be visiting Loch Ness when British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) member, Andreas Trottmann, alerted me to a sighting that had taken place at Dores. This was […]

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I look forward to seeing folks at the closing reception at Bates’s exhibition “Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale,” on October 7th. In the meantime, I will be pondering why it has been so many years since anyone has seen Cassie, the Casco Bay Sea Serpent. Cassie, the local name I coined long ago in […]

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It’s not often that one has the opportunity to be in two lake monster venues in a very short period of time, and it is even less often when one is there just shortly after there has been a sighting. This summer I had the incredible fortune of following up on two sightings at lakes […]

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Only 30 exist in Maine and they won’t become visible for sightings until October 7, 2006. Overall, only 200 are known to be around, and some of those already have vanished into private hands. They are almost extinct, although just discovered, and the entire group will disappear soon, mostly into private collections. What in the […]

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Last November, I posted a commercial that Toyota had made for their Chinese markets. While that commercial featured a tentacled creature as the Loch Ness Monster, certainly not a very viable candidate for whatever may reside in the loch, they have a new commercial airing in the US currently. It features a long-necked creature, perhaps […]

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(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) It is a few minutes beyond midnight in the East, and a year ago today – on September 29, 2005 – Cryptomundo was born. Thank you everyone, for a wonderful first year of Cryptomundo! The images here are a quick trip down memory lane. […]

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Coast to Coast AM’s website has posted the following image of an unknown creature swimming on its back, as seen in the Sabine River, near where it empties into the Gulf of Mexico. The Sabine River forms the border between Texas and Louisiana near the reported point of this picture/sighting. Most of the area around […]

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Modern images of the Kraken come via Jules Verne’s book and from remembrances of the 1954 sci-fi movie named after his book, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. That’s about ready to change, in a small way, after the September 23nd broadcast of Kraken on the Sci-Fi Channel. Early reviews are what might be expected, as […]

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Fishermen Have Battle With Sea Serpent Long Beach, California — Five men who went fishing yesterday* on the launch Rita assert they had an encounter with a sea serpent at the Grouper banks, eighteen miles off shore. Guy Griffith and James Harvey were of the party. "The monster was about forty feet long," said Griffith, […]

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30 years ago, artist Tom D’onofrio had a sighting of a strange creature in the waves off the Northern California coast. KGO-TV, the local news affiliate for the Bay Area, ran a story on the 30th anniversary event organized by Mr. D’onorfrio. The station’s website has the story in its entirety, along with the video […]

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