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Time for a change? What do you think? Should we follow the Russians? Ivan T. Sanderson, in the 1960s, tried to convince everyone to use “Oh-Mah.” Grover Krantz wanted people to employ the term “Sasquatch” instead of “Bigfoot.” Is there a movement afoot for change?

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Who are the brothers and sisters in the field? How many brothers, how many sisters, how many siblings have found themselves together within cryptozoology or nearly so, in linked investigations or overlapping strangeness? Images.

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We are being asked “Is that a Yeti with those Nazis?” Indeed. Also, a very personal note about why today is special to me. Images.

Read: Mystery Photo: Nazis & Yeti or Bizarre Bear? »

Great Escape’s newest and tallest thrill ride, Sasquatch, will be located near the front of the park near where the Rainbow ride once stood and park officials said they expect it to become an “iconic symbol” of the park.

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What color is your Yeti? Video.

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“I’m Bill Kurtis, and I’ve just found…” The Yeti? Image.

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The Pink Tentacle (what a great blog name) is reporting on a new six-week long Yeti expedition. The seven-member crew of experienced climbers, led by veteran Yeti hunter and mountaineer Yoshiteru Takahashi, will depart Japan on on Saturday, August 16, 2008. Their destination is in the Dhaulagiri mountains in central Nepal, where they will establish […]

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The Associated Press carries an article today, in essence, saying the belief in the Yeti is on a decline in Bhutan as it becomes modernized. Here are some snippets from “Losing the Yeti in Forgotten Nation of Bhutan,” by Tim Sullivan: In the West, yeti-like creatures long ago were reduced to myth. The Abominable Snowman […]

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All the donations to the museum are not fiscal. Here is a sampling of some recent acquisitions contributed to the International Cryptozoology Museum. Jeff H. Johnson-painted new Thylacine model. The Teslin, Yukon, “Sasquatch” hair samples from Dr. David Coltman, University of Alberta. Coltman published the scientific paper discussing how the sample turned out to be […]

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John Green at his home, July 2004. Photo by Gerry Matthews. Famed Sasquatch author and researcher John Green will be a guest speaker at the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club (BCSCC) barbecue at Green Point day use facility at Sasquatch Provincial Park near Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, Canada, on August 9, 2008, at 11 […]

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Round One: In the otter competitive battle between the forces of good and evil, the following is the clip from CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” for June 1, 2007, on Nessie, which was run in the final moments of her program. It was originally scheduled to be five minutes long. At the time, my author friend […]

Read: Coleman vs Nickell: Round Two for Champ Week »

The Yeti hair sample shows split ends. The first update to the testing of the Yeti hair sample is in, and the results are “inconclusive,” not too surprisingly. Initial results showed it had human and ape-like characteristics. Ian Redmond, a biologist and expert in ape conservation, said the hairs found in the Indian jungle resembled […]

Read: New Yeti Hairs and Hillary »

The History Channel, in conjunction with “MonsterQuest” via MSN, have been issuing videotaped interviews with myself and others. These vignettes are presented from the “files of The History Channel with cryptozoologist, author and lecturer Loren Coleman, anthropologist David Gilmore, biologist Richard Ellis and folklorist Adrienne Mayor” offering commentary on the legends of Bigfoot, the Loch […]

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Technician John Wells looks at the hairs through a microscope as Anna Nakaris, anthropolgist, and Ian Redmond, primatologist, look on. The hunt for the mysterious Yeti – otherwise known as the Abominable Snowman – has frustrated scientists for decades. Yesterday, scientists at Oxford Brookes University joined in the hunt after being given a number of […]

Read: DNA Test For Yeti Hair »

Okay, so the power was turned off in the bfters’ freezer in Georgia, they are telling us. Okay, they are being harassed. All the July fees for the bftrackers “expeditions” are being refunded. What does this all sound like to you? Is an exit scenario being developed? As I mentioned here yesterday, late last night […]

Read: Bigfoot Body on C2C »