Giant Toads and South American Sasquatches? ShukerNature

Dr. Karl Shuker reveals the interest of the discoverer of the giant Colombian toad, Bufo blombergi, in native tales of a man-beast feared by native tribes of Ecuador and dubbed the "sacharuna." The creature is reported to "kidnap humans, thereby calling to mind various comparable claims for North America's sasquatch or bigfoot." Shuker includes tales of sacharuna research by the Swedish explorer, photographer, writer and giant toad discoverer Rolf Blomberg, who died in 1996, and some of Blomberg's associates. Elsewhere, another "man-beast" occupies the report from a Golden State newspaper story from the 19th century unearthed by Richard Muirhead in A California Wildman from the 1880s, and the latest instalment of a popular video feature of the Centre for Fortean Zoology is announced in On the Track (of Unknown Animals).