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Regarding the ongoing Mysterious America, which goes out of print Friday, here’s a review of it from Bob Rickard, editor of Fortean Times: MYSTERIOUS AMERICA Loren Coleman Paraview Press, New York; 2001. 334pp, index, illus, appendix. A fortean’s view of forteana. Essential reading. This book was first published in 1983; at that time is was […]

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The Weird Travels Cryptozoology episodes air tonight Sunday, March 26th on the Travel Channel. All times listed below are EST. Lake Monsters airs at 9 PM and again at 12 AM (midnight). Bigfoot featuring the TBRC at 10 PM and again at 1 AM on the 27th. Creepy Creatures airs at 2 AM on the […]

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Considering the recent Johor Bigfoot news was about the destruction of footprints, things have taken a positive turn, by week’s end. Reports of new encounters, a commitment to evidence preservation, and a May 2006 expedition make for an exciting roundup of Malaysian Bigfoot happenings. Be forewarned, however, this is not your grandparents’ “Bigfoot”. As noted […]

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What and where are your favorite cryptozoology and Bigfoot museums throughout the world? Scotland’s cryptozoology collection at the National Museums of Scotland was recently highlighted in the Scotsman. The easiest exhibits to record, unfortunately, are often the hoaxes. Shown here are a Japanese-made mermaid and a Canadian-created furred trout, both taxidermy fakes. Dr. Geoff Swinney […]

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A few days ago, I talked about cryptozoology action figures here on Cryptomundo. Today, I want to talk about cryptozoology model kits. These are different than action figures, they require assembly. My good friend Jeff Johnson, a Dallas-based model-maker and sculptor has a line of really nice cryptozoology model kits. They can be ordered in […]

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Breaking news from Malaysia is hitting the wires today that local authories are bulldozing and destroying physical evidence of the Johor Bigfoot. Cryptozoologists and hominologists are outraged. Our message to Malaysia: Stop the destruction! Reports for March 23 exclaim: Tracks resembling giant footprints in forests around Kampung Lukut and Kampung Temening are being erased, seemingly […]

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My own sasquatch encounter in Skamania County took place in the late 1990’s. I had come down to visit my father for Christmas and brought my son with me. On Christmas Eve morning we made a mad dash for the store in a town several miles away as a winter storm was heading our way […]

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Bigfoot and Mothman and Nessie, oh my! Do you have any? Huh, huh, do ya? What’s in your collection? There have been some pretty cool cryptozoology action figures over the years. The Mezco Cryptozoology series were anticipated for quite some time before being eventually released. Supposedly, they were delayed due to negotiations over the licensing […]

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Skamania county is best known for being the only place in North America that has an ordinance protecting sasquatch. This was in reaction to a spate of sasquatch sightings in the county during the 1970’s. I am familiar with this area and have visited it many times as my father used to live there. My […]

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Here’s an update to John Kirk’s posting. In an exclusive communiqué sent to me this month, Adam Davies and Andrew Sanderson tell of finalizing their next new search. The two UK cryptozoologists, who appeared in the successful new National Geographic documentary about their search for the Orang Pendek, are back, hot on the trail of […]

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Just a handful of years ago I was perusing an article in a Mongolian overseas online magazine. I was absolutely flabbergasted and very much relieved to read that there had been a sighting of the long lost bipedal hairy hominid of that country known as the Almas. For many years news of Almas sightings was […]

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In today’s release of Sub Rosa Magazine, Issue 4, March 2006, there’s a kind biotreatment of your Cryptomundo blogger, in their “Profiler: In Search of Loren Coleman.” The journal is available as a PDF download from the Sub Rosa website. Enuf said.

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Four newly republished, updated Bigfoot-oriented books are hitting the bricks & mortar and online stores this spring. If you want an autographed copy of The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates and/or a copy of The Unidentified & Creatures of the Outer Edge, send along $25 each postpaid to Loren Coleman, PO Box […]

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In addition to Patricio Saldano’s close encounter, two top class biathletes witnessed the hairy creature South American creature known as the Ucumar at close proximity on a trail in Cerro Termal and also filed an excellent report. Humberto Sosa and Susana Romano were out on a training run when they suddenly heard branches being loudly […]

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Nick Redfern sends in a guest Cryptomundo blog for the day. In the newly published issue of FATE magazine (March 2006 issue), there appears an article written by me titled The Werewolves of Britain, which, as you might guess from the title, is an examination of all things lycanthropic in jolly old England. The cases […]

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