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In Parkersburg West Virginia, the local Christmas display, Holiday in the Park, features a cryptid or 2. Sunday’s News & Sentinel details the official start of the display from the night before. The seasonal display features a sea serpent and a fire-breathing dragon. Another overwhelming “display” of cryptozoology in today’s society. Evelye Barnet, of Elizabeth, […]

Read: Pop Culture Cryptids Redux or Yes Virginia, There is a Sea Serpent »

In a previous entry I talked about viral marketing being used with a cryptozoological theme. I found another one for a Chinese market Toyota. While some viral ads are actually hoaxes, this one was an approved Toyota ad. In this ad for the Toyota Vios, a creature resembling a giant squid or octopus or some […]

Read: Cryptozoology Viral Ad or Sushi Anyone? »

Dinah Voyles Pulver, the environment writer at the Daytona Beach News Journal has a good overview of the debunking of "sea monster" beachings at Tasmania, Bermuda, Nantucket and Chile. All were cetaceans, of course. She also lumps in the nearby 1896 St. Augustine beaching, as a whale too, but my emails with Roy Mackal tell […]

Read: Skeptical Monster Hunting »

According to TVGuide.com Surface has been picked up for the whole season. That’s good news for all of us Crypto fans out there in TV Land. From the direction of the last few episodes, it looks like the show will be delving into an X-Files-ish Mythology with twists and turns and government conspiracies. Check out […]

Read: NBC’s Surface Stays Afloat »

Jan Sundberg is gonna be pissed… Although it was documented in print in 1635, and has been seen hundreds of times since, the regional authorities agreed to remove the endangered species protection for Storsie, the serpent-like creature reported to live in the depths of Lake Storsjön, in the Swedish province of Jamtland. Storsie was placed […]

Read: Open Season on Swedish Lake Monster »

History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men Godzilla! OK, you got me there. This has nothing to do with Blue Oyster Cult. This is about a newly described prehistoric crocodile that sported flippers. The skull of this croc was discovered in 1996 in the Patagonia region, but was just […]

Read: Oh No! There Goes Tokyo Go Go Godzilla »

It seems that the website Giantology is part of a viral marketing campaign for a new Playstation game, Shadow of the Colossus. Several videos purporting to be of giant creatures, one that was unearthed in the ice of Siberia, another supposedly washed up on the beach by a tsunami are posted on the website, along with […]

Read: A Giant Hoax or Viral Marketing Campaign? »

Some cities and towns begin celebrating Halloween early, today, on a Saturday night. The theory goes that parents and kids won’t be in conflict with the "night before school" bedtimes during the rest of the weekend. That way, they all get one extra hour of sleep to dream of curious creatures and other wonders. I […]

Read: Bates and Halloween »

The Search Continues for Cassie and her friends The coast seems a little bit lonelier these days. Cassie, the name I coined long ago to characterize these cryptids seen near Portland, Maine, was bestowed in the same tradition that all of these watery creature monikers are given – with location, location, and fun in mind. […]

Read: New England Sea Serpents »

Tomorrow evening, the SciFi Channel is having a Surface Marathon. At least that is what NBC was touting it as during tonight’s episode, the 4th episode to air. I don’t know if I would call airing 4 episodes a "marathon", but apparently the brass at NBC does. It’s a pretty decent show, I am enjoying […]

Read: Surface “Re-Surfaces” on SciFi Channel »

via Loren Coleman At the 5th Annual Texas Bigfoot Conference in Jefferson, Texas, October 15-16, 2005, and the Bates College Cryptozoology Symposium in Lewiston, Maine, October 28-29, 2005, I will be unveiling the details of a $1 million bounty to encourage the public to assist in the safe capture of a Bigfoot, Yeti, Lake Monster, […]

Read: $1 million for the safe capture of a Bigfoot »

But there were 2 brief sightings of Bigfoot on the show at the "Southeast Cryptozoology Convention". I saw 2 characters in the background wearing our Texas Bigfoot Conference t-shirts. It was almost like seeing Bigfoot itself…fleeting. One of the guys was wearing our 2003 shirt. He was working the Bigfoot booth in the background in the scene […]

Read: Cryptomundo Does Not Surface… »

Recently published photos of the first living giant squid (Architeuthis) even got a mention in the New York Times today. There was also a very interesting quote in the article: "Monster lovers take heart. Scientists argue that so much of the planet remains unexplored that new surprises are sure to show up; if not legendary beasts […]

Read: Holy Calamari! »