Historic City Memories: St. Augustine Sea Monster Historic City News
St. Augustine, FL, the oldest city in the United States, has many odd stories, but none odder than the November, 1896, discovery of a monstrous something that washed ashore at what is now St. Augustine Beach. Geoff Dobson pens this review of the circumstances that surrounded the finding, including a photograph. Along the way, Dobson shows that St. Augustine wasn't the only place being visited by large and mysterious marine creatures at the time and gives some detailed accounts of other marine sightings of creatures that still defy explanation. In other cryptid news today, a vintage newspaper clipping reveals an Isle of Wight Mystery Cat from 1940 and Robert Schneck Presents: Mermaids and Mermen Part One. Meanwhile, a mystery presents itself in South America as Hundreds of Dead Penguins Wash Up on Brazil Shores. With photo.
Japanese Monsters: Richard Freeman Interview There's Something in the Woods
One author interviews another in this look at Richard Freeman's new book that reveals the wide range of monstrous creatures that populate the legends of the Land of the Rising Sun. Nick Redfern talks with Freeman, author of The Great Yokai Encyclopedia: The A - Z of Japanese Monsters, which Redfern calls an "appropriately Godzilla-sized book" because it is a massive 416 pages in length. Freeman goes into detail about several of the monstrous forms that inhabit Japanese folklore, easily bringing to the fore a national mindset that could create a monster such as Godzilla and all of that legendary creature's bizarre foes. Elsewhere, Tom Ruffles at the Society for Psychical Research reviews a book the publisher says "is instant CPR for the head." Ruffles reveals the fourteen entries in the new book edited by Ian Simmons in Electricity of the Mind: The Anomalist 14, available from Anomalist Books.
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