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Ever wanted your own personalized cryptid? Well, for twenty bucks you can have your idea envisioned by an artist who quickly draws your desire, via Monster by Mail. (See more ordering info at the bottom of this posting.) Thanks to Rogier van Bakel, I heard about this artist, Len Peralta who is in the midst […]

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Of course, at some level, one could say we don’t even know what we are looking for and what skills or odors or equipment it will ultimately take to find unknown hairy hominoids. After all, we haven’t found any Bigfoot, Yeti, Almas, or Skunk Ape yet, so what we have been doing isn’t working – […]

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Yes, can you believe it, after all the friendship Americans have shown to those from Oz, word now reaches Cryptomundo that a Yowie hunter is tramping the US*? Anomalist Books has made this breaking news announcement in a press release today: Tony Healy, the co-author of The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot, is touring […]

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Remember this 1983 book? Was it the one your Mom bought you for your birthday, almost 25 years ago? You can now get the new 2007 edition (seen directly above), via clicking here: Mysterious America. But do you want a more personalized version? As a pre-postal rate increase (rates go up May 14th) and pre-Mother’s […]

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This Pitt Lake, British Columbia, Sasquatch was seen by two prospectors in June 1965. Should we discount this sighting because the eyewitnesses weren’t biologists? Credit: Harry Trumbore’s drawing from The Field Guide of Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Regarding a couple quick comments there, however, I thought I would separate them out from the terminology […]

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Craig Heinselman has completed his compiled and edited massive opus, Elementum Bestia. The following chapters are in the book: The American Sârâph: An Unnatural History of Winged Snakes in North America by Scott Maruna The Case of the Grey Ghost by Craig Heinselman Littlefoot – The Junjudee by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper The Hobbits […]

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“Scoftic” has to be the most ridiculous word in the current lexicon of Bigfoot research.Nightwing, November 2006 “Scoftic” – a Roger Knights neologism.Matt Crowley, September 2005 Sometime before the fall of 2003, Roger Knights, a frequent comment maker on all matters Bigfoot, decided to coin a word that he felt would be a counter to […]

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After I posted this morning’s blog “Flashback: Thirty Year Ago – South Dakota Bigfoot,”” about a Bigfoot flap taking place in 1977, Scott Maruna at The Anomalist commented: “Come to think of it, there were a lot of flaps going on that year.” Indeed, there were. The anniversary of the Dover Demon sightings (April 21-22, […]

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Back in January, Loren announced here on Cryptomundo about a new Sasquatch comic collection. See 30 Comix Creators: Sasquatch Josh Howard, the creator of the project, posted on his blog today that he had just seen the first copy off of the presses. You can download a free massive 106 page preview at the following […]

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Sometimes I allow my thoughts to drift to trying to understand the “people” part of the Bigfoot quest. In my Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America (NY: Paraview Pocket – Simon and Schuster, 2003), I wrote Chapter 15, “The Bigfooters” to detail my thoughts on the matter of the why and the what […]

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The Travel Channel has a mini-marathon of “Weird Travels” episodes related to cryptozoology on television right now. March 30, 2007. 1:00 PM Pacific/4:00 PM Eastern “Bigfoot” (with Loren Coleman and Craig Woolheater) 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern “Lake Monster” (with Loren Coleman) 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern “Creepy Creatures” (with Loren Coleman) March 31, 2007 […]

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I will soon begin to make appearances on various television and radio programs to discuss my 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, with its official release date of April 24th. Here are some forthcoming radio dates: April 21 – “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary […]

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Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America Here’s a new quiz that goes to the depths of your knowledge on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research. I’m joking, of course, for it is only ten questions long, but it is a good survey of some high points of your awareness of the field. It is more […]

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Can you identify this mystery fish found on an old postcard? (Click on this image shared by Phyllis Mancz to see full size version.) I know, I know. The above photo is still a mystery, but how about some easier questions? What’s your Cryptozoology IQ? Okay, a couple questions are about aliens, but, overall, this […]

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Australian cryptozoologist Paul Cropper, co-author of The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot offers his take on the comments here on Cryptomundo regarding the Springbrook Yowie earlier post. This is Paul Cropper, co-author of the Yowie book. It’s no stunt. Firstly, the article author, journalist Gabrielle Dunlevey of the Gold Coast Bulletin, contacted us about […]

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