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Does a hulking, hairy, 800-pound, nine-foot-tall, elusive primate roam the woods and forests throughout North America—and the world? What should we make of the grainy videos and photos and the thousands of eyewitness reports? Audio-recordings exist purporting to be the creatures’ eerie chatter and bone-chilling screaming. Whether called Sasquatch, Yeti, Bigfoot, or something else, bipedal primates appear in folklore, legends, and eyewitness accounts in every state of the union and many places around the world. The fascination with the man-beast is stronger than ever in today’s pop culture.

Investigate Further: The Bigfoot Book: The Encyclopedia of Sasquatch, Yeti and Cryptid Primates Coming Soon! »

Join Monster X hosts Gunnar Monson and Shane Corson as they sit down with Bigfoot witnesses who have come forward to share their encounters.

One witness will share his encounter from Arkansas.

Investigate Further: Monster X Radio Archive: Encounters of the Squatchy Kind »

The term ‘reptoid’ is most closely associated with the reptilian category of extraterrestrial aliens, but it also has a much wider yet less familiar usage, having been applied to a number of extraordinary humanoid reptilian entities reported from modern-day North America and elsewhere. (c) Dr Karl Shuker – Dr Karl Shuker with figurine of the […]

Investigate Further: Coming to a Swamp Near You… Lizard Men, Frog Men, and Reptoids – Oh My! »

Bigfoot is, of course, the most well-known and widespread strange creature, and reported sightings of the large apelike beast aren’t unheard of in Alabama. They’re common enough that a man named Jim Smith created the Alabama Bigfoot Society, and the group’s website tracks recent sighting reports. One from January near Lake Guntersville, when a woman and her young son were reportedly trapped in a deer stand by a Bigfoot-like creature.

Investigate Further: From Bigfoot to big cats: What’s rumored to be hiding in Alabama’s woods? »

Mark and Seth wrap up small town monsters month with a spotlight of the little-known, utterly-bizarre Monroe Monster. A possibly atomic energy created creature who prowled the town of Monroe during one particularly memorable summer during the 70’s. Then they give their final thoughts on the first SasWhat themed month and we’re done.

Investigate Further: SasWhat: Small Town Monsters Month Finale: The Monroe Monster »

“Next to Bigfoot and the Abominable Snowman, probably the most talked about cryptid ape is the Orang-pendek, a small, bipedal creature that dwells in the thick forests of Sumatra.”

Investigate Further: Creature of the Month – From Sumatra »

A group of disc golf players decide to mess with Sasquatch, only to find out that Sasquatch plays the game by his own rules. And always wins.

Investigate Further: Messin’ with Sasquatch: Fling It »

The Tennessee Valley Authority could use a monster, or the inkling of a monster, right now in Boone Lake, to bring out boaters, explorers, scientists and recreational types.

We could call him Booney. Oh, Booney? Yes, I saw Booney last weekend in the shallow channel of water that sits near the bottom of what is usually Boone Lake. With the atypical drawdown occurring this year while engineers inspect the lake’s dam for possible damage, there needs to be some kind of buzz to get people out on the lake.

Investigate Further: The benefits of having a lake monster »

Outside a grocery store three guys trick Sasquatch with a classic coin prank. But Sasquatch turns their prank into payback.

Investigate Further: Messin’ with Sasquatch: Heads Up »

To promote his current “Sasquatch Brigade” embroidered patch Kickstarter campaign, artist and cryptid fanatic George Coghill is giving away a set of the hairy ape-man cryptid trilogy of embroidered patches to Cryptomundo readers.

Investigate Further: “Sasquatch Brigade” Giveaway: Bigfoot/Yeti/Sasquatch Embroidered Patches! »

We visit the location of two Bigfoot sightings near the Flaming Gorge area of Utah.

Investigate Further: Flaming Gorge Bigfoot Sighting »

Tonight I speak with Randy Harrington. Randy Harrington had one of the best, close up encounters you’ll ever hear. After setting up a fake camp site to attract Bigfoot, Harrington hid in his truck. When the creatures stepped out of the woods and approached the site, it decided to check out the vehicle, where Harrington was hiding with his video camera and a handgun. He said he heard and saw the creatures rummaging through stuff in the back of the truck.

Investigate Further: Sasquatch Chronicles: Campsite Encounter With Sasquatch »

I wanted to share this article in light of the fact that Dr. David Oren and his search for the mapinguari is featured on tonight’s episode of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot entitled Amazon Squatchin’.

In August of 1999 or so, I ran across the article in Discover magazine. It chronicled an ornithologist named David Oren’s treks into the Amazon in search of the Mapinguari, what is thought to be the still living giant ground sloth. The article detailed the derision that Oren suffered from his fellow scientists.

Investigate Further: Beasts in the Mist – The Mapinguari »

The team travels to the Amazon River basin in search of the mythical Mapinguari. With one eye and a gaping mouth on its stomach, the team does not give into the myth, convinced it’s yet another undiscovered primate, and set out to find it in the vast jungle.

Investigate Further: Finding Bigfoot: Amazon Squatchin’ »

This story comes to us from High in the Sierra Nevada Mountains when a lawyer on some down time got a bit more than he was expecting while camping off grid in the forest.

Investigate Further: Bigfoot Throws a Boulder at a Car in California »