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Do the readers of Cryptomundo remember the story about the Yarram Ape? It was posted here on Cryptomundo on September 28, 2006 at: Yarram Ape or Yowie?  Aussie cryptozoologist Mike Williams sent us the original newspaper story along with a scan of the photo. Ape Spotted in Yarram Bush The Yarram Standard News, Wednesday, September […]

Read: Update: Yarram Ape or Yowie? »

Looking for some suggestions for your holiday gift-giving to add to the book shelves of cryptozoologists-in-training? Trying to come up with colorful presents for those stockings? Here’s some book ideas that are being put out there for kids who are visiting the activities and the current Missouri home of the traveling exhibition that left Bates […]

Read: KC’s Kids CZ Book List »

The following news release is shared here, as I consider the fossil candidate Paranthropus more compelling than Giganthropithecus for what is reported in several locations as "Bigfoot". I discussed this debate about these two fossil species here on Christmas Day 2005, please see “Bigfoot: Gigantopithecus or Paranthropus?” Not too many people read that blog, probably, […]

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Click on the cover above to make the Yowie larger. The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot Wow! What a beautiful cover. If a book’s cover is a window to the content, you will not be disappointed. This is an earthshaking book. It’s big, it’s monumental, and it will surprise many people. I am an […]

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Part V Dress to fit the environment, I am a great believer in blending in with the environment as it gives you the advantage of stealth when investigating and on surveillance. Those of you have been out in the woods with me, especially those from Ohio, Texas and British Columbia will know that I always […]

Read: Searching for Sasquatch – Using Ideas from Law Enforcement Part V. »

Please click to enlarge this image of Bigfoot as drawn by Paul Smith, and sepia-colorized for the cover of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America The Top 50 Cryptids From Around The World Cryptids are the yet-to-be discovered animals or recovered supposedly extinct zoological species that are being sought by cryptozoologists, zoologists, anthropologists, […]

Read: Loren’s Top 50 Cryptids »

Halloween 2006 seems as good a time as any to publish a response to several requests I have received lately for my top ten picks in cryptids, those animals that serve as the focus of cryptozoologists. Of course, thinking outside the lines, as I always do, I had to choose thirteen. Also, I had to […]

Read: Loren Coleman’s Top Cryptids »

Part IV How – I would recommend the following procedure from start to finish in investigating a sasquatch occurrence. 1) Secure the scene temporarily by using the caution tape to rope off the site where evidence may lie. 2) All investigators in the zone must wear shoe protection bags and gloves, and optimally filter masks […]

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Part III This is a continuation of our series on how law enforcement methods we have seen on television and read about might help us in the search for cryptids and for sasquatch in particular. 2) What – This section deals with the activity the animal was engaged in when the contact with the witness […]

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Part II This is the second part of our series on how law enforcement techniques can help in cryptid investigations. Preparing Yourself for the Investigation You have received a report of an encounter with a sasquatch by an eyewitness. Optimally, you will have your team assembled, if not and you are just a single individual […]

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Part I My previous lengthy series of postings on Canada’s Cryptid Cops has inspired me to share a few thoughts on ways and means that may prove useful in the search for cryptids. In particular, the sasquatch field is today populated by a large investigator base attempting to locate evidence for the existence of a […]

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(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) It is a few minutes beyond midnight in the East, and a year ago today – on September 29, 2005 – Cryptomundo was born. Thank you everyone, for a wonderful first year of Cryptomundo! The images here are a quick trip down memory lane. […]

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Aussie cryptozoologist Mike Williams shares the following story he ran across in his recent travels through Victoria with the readers of Cryptomundo. Is this a photo of a Yowie, or is it some other type of Australian Mystery Ape? Ape Spotted in Yarram Bush The Yarram Standard News, Wednesday, September 13, 2006, page 5 Forget […]

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Click image for full-size version François Vanasse and an associate (HP) have created the Bigfoot family tree shown above. Here’s Vanasse’s comment on it, followed by his colleague’s: +++++++ “First off, this is assuming that any of these creatures actually exist, and are biological…. To start with we placed all of these into the family […]

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Has a Yarwen been captured in Maine? Read more about that question here. In this column, I wish to explore what kind of monsters (from creatures to humans) might be behind the use of such a word as "Yarwen." First, let’s consider that this term is not being used loosely, but very specifically to describe […]

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