Bigfoot Believers Gather in Felton Santa Cruz Sentinel

A meeting over the weekend, put together by Michael Rugg of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, CA, brought a host of Bigfoot researchers and afficionados, as well as the just plain curious, to the museum and the town community center in Felton. Several supposed Bigfoot artifacts were on display during the event, including a tooth alleged to have come from the huge, hairy North American biped. Meanwhile, in the town of Seligman, "Java" Bob Smallsback of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., has arrived to begin researching claims by a man building a cabin nearby that he had twice sighted the elusive creature. Smallsback says he was able to track the creature, finding a "fingernail" where he believes it stubbed its toe, as noted in Reported Bigfoot Sightings in Northern Arizona.

Bygone Days of Lake Champlain Sea Serpents Cryptomundo

A 1934 newspaper column reviews the sea serpent reports from Lake Champlain dating from an 1870s sighting to sightings closer to the time the column was produced. Included is a report attributed to a United States Marine claiming the sighting of the cadavers of giant eels up to 40-feet-long on the shores of a Caribbean island following a tropical storm and speculating the sea serpent reports from Lake Champlain could be the result of such a creature having become trapped in the freshwater lake. Is "Champ" a remnant population of ocean-going giant eels left trapped in Lake Champlain? Elsewhere, another monster has run afoul of Benjamin Radford, the Bad Science commentator at LiveScience, as reported in Chupacabra? Creationist Museum Displays Mystery Beast.