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A couple of reports out of Scotland the last few days… First, the biggest earthquake to hit Scotland in 20 years struck about 11:30 PM last Saturday night. It was only a force-three quake. The article did contain some interesting "facts" however. Earthquakes have even been suggested as a cause for one of Scotland’s most […]

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Drexel University student Aaron Sakulich wrote in The Triangle, the student newspaper, about a couple of reported cases from the World War I era of naval encounters with sea monsters. Supposedly, the British patrol vessel Coreopsis came across a U-boat (UB-85) that had been attacked by a sea serpent. The submarine had come to the […]

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From Live Science comes an article by Cryptomundo commenter and managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer, Benjamin Radford. The Article details the pervasiveness of sea monsters on television and in the news today. Several of the items mentioned in the article have been detailed on Cryptomundo here in the recent past. From NBC’s Surface, to the […]

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Tim the Yowie Man, the National Museum of Australia’s Resident Cryptonaturalist, has landed a regular radio gig. He will be hosting a travel show with Macquarie Regional Radioworks (MRR) on Sunday mornings that will be syndicated and broadcast on their stations in NSW, Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. The show, titled "Get […]

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Is there such a thing as X-CMing? Extreme Cryptomundo.com -ing? You, the Cryptomundo readers, have demonstrated that the Mystery Fish Postcard Photograph is one of the most popular all-time cryptid image enigmas, yet. Due to popular demand, here is a roundup of all four direct links to the "Mystery Fish Photo" entries in the Cryptomundo.com […]

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Due to several requests for a closeup of the head of the mystery cryptid on the postcard, here’s a computer enhancement. What do you see here? (Click image for full-size version) (Click image for full-size version, provided by Todd DiLaMuca) (Click image for full-size version, provided by Todd DiLaMuca)

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Help Pick The Top Cryptozoology Stories of 2005 Assembling and writing my annual lists of top stories in cryptozoology has been an enjoyable yearly event for me. How would all of you like to join in on the fun, research, and recommendations? Send in your links to what stories you feel should be considered for […]

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The San Bernardino Sun reports that on this date, Dec. 4, in 1954, two fisherman reported seeing a sea monster off the coast of La Jolla, CA.   Phil Parker, an aircraft worker, and Grant King, an architect, claimed the sea monster had a head and shoulders like a bull gorilla and no face. The […]

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So many people have taken the time to enhance, redefine, and otherwise point out items they are finding and seeing on the “Name the Mystery Fish” postcard that we have decided to post one of those here, in this one blog, moving it from the comments’ sections. What are you seeing in this? Todd DiLaMuca’s […]

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Next Thursday, December 8, at 6:30 PM, the Great Lakes Aquarium in Duluth, Minnesota is hosting an interesting program, "Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and Lake Superior", presented by Gonzo Science. Gonzo Science, according to Jim and Allen Richardson, is a fusion, combining the rigorous thinking of the skeptics with more progressive and iconoclastic viewpoints. While […]

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Excellent interview with Cryptomundo blogger Loren Coleman on the Phenomena website. Some might dispute it, even Loren Coleman might dispute it, but there is very little argument that Loren is not only the leading cryptozoologist in the world today and has been for some considerable time, but that he will also turn out to be […]

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The Mystery Continues: Strange Fish Remains Unidentified Over 25,000 visits to the "Name the Mystery Fish" Cryptomundo blog produced some interesting leads, a dating for the postcard, and much speculation on what the unknown fish species might be. But the mystery continues… Yesterday’s blog "Name the Mystery Fish" received an enormous amount of interest and […]

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Can you identify this mystery fish found on an old postcard? (Click on image to see full size version) Is there a Cryptomundo reader out there that can help? The men in the picture look like military servicemen. The surroundings look like this photograph was taken on a beach or island. The fish appears to […]

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From the Sante Fe New Mexican come tales of all manner of creatures. The article maintains that the tales of monsters and mythical creatures were brought to the New World by the European settlers. These tales were told many years before they were brought to America, at least in the opinion of the author. These […]

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One of the episodes of the "Is It Real" series on the National Geographic Channel was titled "Monsters of the Deep". It is still airing in rotation with the other episodes, several of which had a cryptozoological subject. The Bigfoot episode was laughable. You could certainly see that NGC had an agenda, to ridicule the […]

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