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I want to take this opportunity to agree with author Andy Colvin about the fact that the sightings are still taking place today and did not stop with the Silver Bridge collapse in 1967. Images.

Read: Mothman Sightings Continue And Cryptotourism Soars »

Supposedly, on one occasion in the dead of night (when else?), a group of local kids playing in the area and scaring themselves stupid by walking around the old, dark building witnessed two, eight-foot-tall, humanoid creatures climb stealthily out of the building’s cellar.

Not only were the creatures eight-foot-tall; they were also gray of skin, had large, leathery wings, and glowing red eyes. In other words, they weren’t local folk. I think! In fact, they sounded like something straight out of Jeepers Creepers or The Mothman Prophecies.

Read: Winged Weirdies in Texas? »

Special guest speakers will be featured each day, addressing topics including cryptozoology (specifically on the Lake Champlain Monster, Mothman, and Bigfoot/Sasquatch). Images.

Read: Cryptozoology Speakers At October Conference »

Infrequently, big cats are said to have been a post-hurricane problem. In a few rare cases, primates do wander about. Let’s look at the facts. Including the old ones about Mothman. Images.

Read: Hurricanes, Cryptozoology, and Weird Animal News »

“As we watched her—she got about ten feet or so away from us—we started hearing her wings flap,” said the eyewitness. Images.

Read: Asian Flying Humanoids »

What is the origin of this one? Image.

Read: Lost “Thunderbird” Photo »

“The entire bird was covered with small jet-black feathers. It showed no other colors anywhere. Just pure black,” said the eyewitness.

Read: Thunderbird Sighting: Texas 2008 »

What was it doing over Brooklyn?

Read: Early Mothman Account? »

From Sweden, 1850.

Read: Green Winged Weirdie »

Cryptomundo has been asked to participate in io9’s Cryptid Summer by io9 Editor-in-Chief Annalee Newitz.

This summer, io9 is going cryptozoological. We’re offering a $2000 bounty to the person who sends us the best authentic photo or video of a “cryptid,” or mystery animal. And that’s just the beginning of Cryptid Summer.

Read: io9’s Cryptid Summer »

I posted Nick’s article from his Lair of the Beasts column earlier today here on Cryptomundo.

Loren responded with his post Cryptids Are Not Totally Elusive, Actually.

Nick further expounds on his theory here exclusively on Cryptomundo.

Read: Nick Redfern Further Expounds on Monsters and Proof »

Tales abound in every corner of the world telling of creatures that are rumored to feed on human flesh, drag swimmers to their deaths, or swoop down from the sky to take us off in their clutches.

On their face, these stories appear to be the very definition of urban legend — except for the eyewitness accounts, victim testimony, or visual evidence that appear to prove the contrary. Are they myths? Or could these monsters be real?

Read: Man v. Monster: Nat Geo Wild »

For decades – or perhaps even for centuries, some firmly believe – the infamous Men in Black have been elusive, predatory, fear-inducing figures that have hovered with disturbing regularity upon the enigmatic fringes of the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), coldly nurturing, and carefully weaving, their very own unique brand of horror and intimidation of a definitively other-world variety.

But what’s far less well known is the fact that the Men in Black have a deep and lasting link to the subjects of Cryptozoology and strange creatures.

Read: Men in Black and Monsters »

This a guest article originally posted on my PARA-NEWS blog by Richard Freeman, Zoological director at the Centre for Fortean Zoology.

Read: Richard Freeman on ‘Welsh Dragons’ »

A new eyewitness account has been shared.

Read: Big Bird Report: 1978, Florida »