Friday, October 07, 2011
Bigfoot Experts Gather in Siberia to Hunt for Hominids
Episode 613: Greg Newkirk & Jason Gowin Mysterious Universe
Benjamin Grundy sits down with two of the new batch on the Fortean block, Greg Newkirk and Jason Gowin of Who Forted Blog, to talk about their foray into the world of esoteric subjects. The pair are also touting their new film "The Bigfoot Hunter" and you can watch the entertaining trailer for the film before either downloading the podcast or listening online. And the Who Forted Blog shows up, again, as the group's creators, Greg and Dana Newkirk, chat with fellow Fortean Tony Morill during an Interview With Some Forteans (No Garlic Required). There's also news about the man all Forteans look to for inspiration in their efforts to explain the anomalous and bizarre, as Robbie Graham releases information about an upcoming Hollywood production in Charles Fort: The Movie!
The meeting of researchers from around the world to consider evidence of the existence of manlike creatures in the planet's out-of-the-way places continues in Tashtagol, Siberia, and should run through the weekend. But, while the scientists continue to compare notes, there are those who don't think too highly of the effort, as can be seen in a blast thrown the way of the organizer of the conference and the news organizations which dared mention the Russian meeting, posted by human evolution specialist Darren Curnoe of Australia's University of New South Wales in Media Puts Its Bigfoot in It Yeti Again: It’s Abominable. And Southern Fried Scientist, a graduate student in North Carolina, adds his condemnation of the entire field that seeks unknown animals with I *Heart* Cryptozoology. Fortunately for the field of cryptozoology, Matthew J. Didier sits in at CFZ-Canada to provide a rebuttal to the naysayers, in general, as seen in Can You Satiate The Pseudo Sceptics?
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Siberian Snowmen Storms Media: Update Cryptomundo
The much talked about conference on the existence of elusive hominoids in the world's wilderness areas brought together many notable scientists and researchers in Moscow, Russia, yesterday. The international conference is the brainchild of Professor Igor Burtsaev, one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of these elusive creatures. Professor Burtsaev's comments on the creatures, certain to raise many eyebrows, are included in this report assembled by Loren Coleman. Also included is the schedule of speakers during the first day of the meeting and the subject of each address. Attendees flew out of Moscow yesterday bound for Tashtagol in Siberia where they will visit locations the Siberian version of the creatures is reputed to live. The Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology in England, Jonathan Downes gives some background on the creatures in the broadcast via BBC News with Scientists Set Off to Find the Abominable Snowman. Other news of such creatures can be found today in the archived tales assembled at Weird Australia in The Wild Hairy Man of the Blue Mountains, and Dale Drinnon offers an image of a female Bigfoot in an illustration that pre-dates the famous Patty film of Patterson and Gimlin in The WHOLE Picture This Time. Meanwhile, Loren Coleman has the latest on a frightening encounter with a supposedly out-of-place feline in Illinois Mountain Lion Attack and shows what has Municipality Authority of Westmoreland County in Pennsylvania all adither in Beaver Run Has An Alligator. Elsewhere, bizarre history collector and commentator Dr. Beachcombing offers some thoughts on the Little People of myth and legend in Fairy Gifts.
Book Review-No Return by Pete Travers
Book Review-No Return by Pete Travers
Hello all,
If you were or are planning on attending the 2011 PA UFO/Bigfoot Con October 22 and 23rd, 2011 at the Westmoreland County Community College, you may want to get your tickets soon.
Tickets for the two day event are selling fast and seating is limited and running out fast. Once they are sold out, it will be standing room only. The meet and greet dinner is almost sold out, so if you plan on joining us for the dinner and meeting the speakers at this years event, act now. Only 15 days until the big event and you don't want to miss this one! If you've already purchased your tickets, thank you and see you at the conference!
To get your tickets go to www.paufobigfootcon.com to purchase tickets or contact me or John Ventre at jventre1@comcast.com. Even if you don't plan to attend, please pass this along and help spread the word and help spread the word about this years event.
Eric Altman
Pennylvania Bigfoot Society
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
British Columbia man recollects multiple Bigfoot encounters from 1970 to present, may be the luckiest person alive
British Columbia man recollects multiple Bigfoot encounters from 1970 to present, may be the luckiest person alive
Study shows humans still evolving
Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Dr. John Bindernagel goes Yeti hunting in Russia
Finding Bigfoot Halloween Special
What people think of the Yeti expedition taking place in Russia this week
U.S. And Russian Scientists Target Elusive Siberian Snowman Huffington Post
Lee Speigel has the latest on this week's planned meeting in Russia to bring together many scientific voices that have been speaking out about the suspected existence of an elusive hairy hominoid in the wild places of the world. A photo gallery of evidence is included, as well as words from International Cryptozoology Museum (ICM) owner Loren Coleman, who, with co-author Patrick Huyghe, penned the classic The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Coleman reveals that he was invited to attend the upcoming meeting but was not offered complementary travel arrangements and also has the move of the ICM to larger quarters to supervise. Also, Nick Redfern has the numbers from his just concluded survey about his readers' views of the mysterious manlike creatures in Bigfoot Poll Results and the beginning of a new poll seeking participants' views of the Loch Ness Monster. There's more, too, about colossal cryptids in Loch Ness and another Scotland lake in Previously Unknown Land Sighting of Nessie and Loch Awe Monster. Meanwhile, the thylacine may be extinct, but many residents of Australia don't think so, claiming to have glimpsed the furtive creature, as they all assert in Tasmanian Tiger Witnesses Speak Out... Elsewhere, there's what could be a shock to some, offered in a recent news video shown as Scientists Plan to Reverse Evolution 2011. What next, A Unicorn Rabbit?
Huffington Post: U.S. And Russian Scientists Target Elusive Siberian Snowman
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Nick Redfern knows his way around some of the most mysterious tracts of ground in the world, sites like Cannock Chase, Rendlesham Forest and Loch Ness in the British Isles and Texas' Big Thicket in the United States. The sheer magnitude of strange creatures and weird events attributed to such sites leads Redfern to join others interested in such "hot-spots" in wondering if "certain parts of our planet act as portals or 'doorways' to other realms of existence (extra-dimensions, in other words), through which all of these strange creatures come as the mood takes them." Does Earth harbor zones where strange events and weird encounters are the rule and not the exception? Elsewhere, Jim Miles focuses creature comments onto the ocean off the coast of Georgia and on the waters of the state's Savannah River with Weird Georgia: Sea Serpents 3. Meanwhile, Loren Coleman reports the sad news of the passing of an important figure in the recording of Bigfoot footage, as seen in Connecticut Cougar Maps.
Yeti Institute Director, Igor Burtsev: Around 30 Yetis live in area of Kemerovo
Finding Bigfoot: Ohio Town Hall Meeting, Sharon Lee gives behind-the-scene detail of entire event
NatGeo: Russian Bigfoot
Erickson Project: Dr. Melba Ketchum backed out of Bigfoot DNA talk? (Updated)
Russian and American Yeti hunters join forces to track down '30-strong Siberian tribe'
Movie: Just discovered in the wild, the first poster for new Bigfoot film "The Lost Coast Tapes"
Monday, October 03, 2011
Man behind Memorial Day Bigfoot film has died
Blips and gossips from 2011 Texas Bigfoot Conference
Russian tourists captured photo of Bigfoot (Yeti) on April Fools' Day
What's a Fouke Monster?
Bigfoot Hunters: How to Split Wood with a Knife
Two women tried to lure Bigfoot with candy and learned Mike Greene's trick does not work
The Biggest Controversies in Bigfoot Research
Finding Bigfoot Fan Page
Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World: The Missing Apeman (1980)
Bigfoot Hunters: Discovery Channel getting their own rugged phone called the Discovery Expedition
Finding Bigfoot town hall meeting in Ohio open to the public, Tim Fasano can't hold back his excitement
Finding Bigfoot looking for the Ohio Grassman, Tim Stover will show them where
Famed Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall Live at your local movie theater! Don’t miss it on 9/27!
US Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer encountered Bigfoot 15 years ago in Tillamook County, new video takes another look
Watch SyFy's Paranormal Witness: Deputy Sheriff chased in the wilderness by Bigfoot episode
Cooper the chimp goes scuba diving, he's also the only chimp in the world to go under water
Finding Bigfoot coming to New York Comic Con: October 13 - 16, 2011
Recent Sighting Report: Woman finds Bigfoot teeth marks on apple, gift of mice wrapped in grass and gets hit in the hand by a rock near Napavine
New Footage: Bigfoot roaming the woods of North Carolina? I'll be a monkey's uncle
Different names for Bigfoot (A to Z)
Remote Viewer says PBS sound recordings from Fayette County belongs to "non-human hominid like creature"
Sasquatch flick SAVAGE hits DVD today
Henry Franzoni on the Patterson film
Autumn Forest goes Bigfoot hunting in Sedona, AZ
Movie: The Bigfoot Election, October 23rd Screening
I Still Believe in Bigfoot
Finding Bigfoot: Tim Stover's personal experience working with the show
Finding Bigfoot filming Tim Stover, recreating 1992 sighting in Salt Fork Ohio
Bigfoot Hunters: Amphibious camping trailer morphs from tent into boat
Ohio Bigfoot Hunter Tim Stover finds a footprint, has never been so excited
Russian Bigfoot Photographed? Cryptomundo
New photographs have surfaced claiming to have captured the countenance of a Russian Bigfoot. According to Cryptozoology.ru, the photos were taken by tourists. The report, collected for Cryptomundo by Craig Woolheater, also links to an article calling for a price of a million rubles on the Russian Sasquatch's head for a gunman willing to risk killing one. Meanwhile, there have been continuing reports of a Bigfoot-like creature in Siberia, the North Caucasus mountains and the Altai Range, leading to an upcoming conference which will see a gathering of experts on the subject of huge, hairy hominoids lurking through the wilderness, as described by Nina Dmitriyeva in W(est) Siberia Yeti Country? Elsewhere, a Nevada County, CA, expedition to pan for gold in 1997 has led to an obsession with finding North America's most famous cryptid for William Barnes. Barnes has plans to search for the creature with a stealthy airborne platform, and his ideas are revealed in the report St. George Man Searches for Bigfoot. Also, high tech gear has come to the search for the Yeti, as reported in Scientists Install Webcam On Mt Everest.
Crush on a Yeti
Finding Cody
Scientists from Seven Countries Gather in Russia to Discuss Yeti
Sunday, October 02, 2011
Coming tomorrow: Local man searches for 'Bigfoot'
Bigfoot Researcher Believes US Forest Service Covers-up Bigfoot
Bigfoot Researcher Believes US Forest Service Covers-up Bigfoot
On the Track (Of Unknown Animals) Episode 50 Cryptozoology Online
The latest version of the monthly video from the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) stretches just over 37 minutes long and is filled with reports on the 2011 Sumatra expedition and a wealth of information about odd creatures from the natural world and the latest happenings at CFZ headquarters in England. Meanwhile, Dale Drinnon reveals some more of his correspondence with Richard Freeman of the Centre for Fortean Zoology Sumatra Expedition 2011, this time examining the claims of rhinocersoses in Sumatra, all explained in Sumatran Tidbit From Richard Freeman. And Dr. Beachcombing finds more evidence of cryptid claims from 19th century Britain in Mermaid at Exmouth Eats Boiled Fish. Elsewhere, there's a programming note for tonight, as Eric Altman and Lon Strickler welcome an active participant in the search for unexplained creatures to their online broadcast, as detailed in This Week on 'Beyond the Edge' Radio - Cryptid Researcher/Author Linda Godfrey.
Saturday, October 01, 2011
A Miscellany of Orang Pendek Reports CFZ - Australia
On the heels of the mission mounted by the Centre for Fortean Zoology and dubbed "Sumatra Expedition 2011," which sought evidence of a long-reported apelike creature in the Sumatran jungles, the Australian contingent that participated in the quest has compiled a lengthy collection of archived reports about the creature known as Orang Pendek. With this much historical smoke, can there be no fire? A quest seeking another apelike creature is also in the news today as the efforts of two nurses who trekked into North Carolina's Uwharrie Forest are revealed in Bigfoot Does Exist...Or Does He? While the effort of these two women was not fruitful, the report includes video footage of Mike Green's arguably much more successful ventures into the Uwharrie. Green has night vision images of what he believes is a Bigfoot helping itself to candy he used to bait the creature into range of his cameras. And Loren Coleman has news about his own "landmark" item from the International Cryptozoology Museum in Bigfoot to Move Soon. Elsewhere, for those not familiar with the cryptid strangeness said to swim through the lakes of the world, Matt Hickman has a brief synopsis in Nessie's Gang: 5 Celebrity Lake Monsters.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Little People of Sumatra Frontiers of Zoology
Dale Drinnon reveals he had asked Richard Freeman of the Centre for Fortean Zoology Sumatra Expedition 2011 to inquire among the Sumatrans about the "tiny people of Sumatra" while Freeman and his companions were seeking the apelike Orang Pendek. Freeman responds with a description of the Sumatran little people that shows they are not to be confused with the Orang Pendek. The reason for Drinnon's request becomes apparent as he explores the possibilities of diminutive human relatives in the vicinity of Sumatra, offering scientific papers and illustrations on the subject. Was Homo floresiensis, the so-called "Hobbit" of news articles that followed discoveries on the Indonesian Island of Flores, more widespread than previously thought? Are any such tiny people still living in the island jungles? Consider also the 1958 newspaper clipping gathered by CFZ-Australia that could indicate an Orang Pendek was captured in Sumatra, as seen in Orang Pendek Trail Heats Up. Elsewhere, Craig Woolheater presents a Twitter posting by William Jevning, author of Notes from the Field, Tracking North America's Bigfoot, in which Jevning releases an anecdote that could lead to the question of whether there is a US Forest Service Coverup of Bigfoot?. And Loren Coleman laments a segment of the reportorial art that peppered the newspapers of the century before last, as seen in Flying Snakes, Horned Gazookas and 19th Century Journalism.
Two-Hour Specials and Comicon Appearances for Finding Bigfoot
3 Events This Weekend...
The Texas Bigfoot Conference, Saturday, October 1st, in Tyler, Texas. Details can be found at http://www.texasbigfoot.com
The Honobia Bigfoot Festival, Friday, September 30-Saturday, October 1st, in Honobia, Oklahoma. Details can be found at http://www.bigfootmountain.com
Lake Worth Monster Bash, Saturday, October 1st, Lake Worth, Texas. Details can be found at http://fwnaturecenter.org/
The Honobia Bigfoot Festival, Friday, September 30-Saturday, October 1st, in Honobia, Oklahoma. Details can be found at http://www.bigfootmountain.com
Lake Worth Monster Bash, Saturday, October 1st, Lake Worth, Texas. Details can be found at http://fwnaturecenter.org/
Thursday, September 29, 2011
New Hampshire Wood Devils Phantoms and Monsters
What's seven feet tall, covered in dark hair with a slender bearing that puts Jack Skellington to shame? According to claims by woodsmen, lurking in the forests at the foot of the White Mountains of New Hampshire and through the Appalachians, too, are tall, thin, vaguely humanoid, hairy, very fast creatures know as "Wood Devils" that produce a very piercing scream when encountered. With accounts stretching back into the Colonial Era, the creature is associated by some cryptozoologists with Bigfoot. The Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy is getting set for an annual get together to compare notes and discuss North America's best known cryptid's presence in the Lone Star State, leading Suzanne Loudamy to announce plans for the meeting and review some evidence in Bigfoot: Fact or Folklore? And an upcoming episode of a popular television series seeks answers to the Bigfoot riddle through a two-hour Halloween special titled "Birth of a Legend," to be aired Sunday, October 30, 2011, at 9:00 p.m. ET, as outlined in Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" Returns to the Woods to Investigate Sasquatch's Origin in Halloween Special. Meanwhile, the search for a comparable creature in Sumatra has ended, and Centre for Fortean Zoology - Australia took part in the venture, leading to the report We're Back from the Jungle! Elsewhere, a special cat is celebrated by Dr. Karl Shuker in Sonic the Hedgehog and the Janus Cats, and the record setting kitty is gets some love from the media, too, in Two-faced Cat Earns Guinness Record.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
The videographer claims to have filmed this more than 8-minute-long sequence in his garden in England, and what it shows is very odd, indeed. While there may be some wondering whether the footage is computer generated imaging, a very real possibility, watch it to see a strange activity involving a dragonfly, some unidentifiable wispy looking creature, and what may be a parasite sticking its head from between the dragonfly's huge eyes. Meanwhile, Nick Redfern introduces us to tales of winged weirdness in Fantastic Flying Folk! then updates us on a soon to be held event in Pennsylvania that will feature several nationally known speakers, with Saucers & Sasquatch. Elsewhere, Loren Coleman reveals rumors sparked by a supposed glitch in the DNA of that cougar killed in the Nutmeg State not long ago, and wonders what will finally come from the reports of researchers who may be asking Did Connecticut Cougar Not Really Walk from South Dakota?
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Portland's International Cryptozoology Museum to get a bigger home
Two pretty big stories mark today's news from the field of cryptozoology. Starting off, expert analysis from Darren Naish, Michael Woodley and Cameron McCormick, part of the trio's efforts to introduce their scientific "analyses of cryptozoological data into the technical, peer-reviewed literature," has progressed at least as far as the latest issue of Scientific American. And the trio make a considerable splash in the sea of marine mysteries presented by a famous 1968 encounter detailed by Captain William Hagelund that had been pegged by some as a "baby Cadborosaurus." So what does the trio think Hagelund and his crew really spotted in the briny waves? And just as one cryptid is supposedly marked off the list of mystery beasts, along comes anthropologist and cryptozoology researcher Dale Drinnon with a compendium of his own writings, a huge selection of images and the scintillating claim Chupacabras SOLVED! Could Drinnon be right?
Monday, September 26, 2011
If you must read only a few things today, please select from the following:
From the Archives: Australia Has Its Yowie CFZ Australia
A newspaper article from the 1970s depicts the aboriginal legends of Australia's version of Bigfoot, the Yeti, the Almasty, the Orang Pendek and other hairy, manlike forest denizens. Roland Robinson was the reporter who gathered the 1970s era information concerning the Australian cryptid, and included in his report is the unsubstantiated claim that 40 skeletons found in 1975 in northern Victoria were "almost identical in facial features to Java Man." Were these the skeletons of Yowies? And where are these bones now? Meanwhile, there's a short bit of news from the 2011 Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) Sumatra Expedition, carried at Cryptomundo as Initial Orang Pendek Expedition 2011 Report and another short report that includes a photo of one piece of evidence the team has brought back in the effort to verify the creature's existence, carried at the official CFZ website as The First Photograph of the Cast Taken in Sumatra. As the evidence from the expedition is being sorted, Oll Lewis revisits the most "ground-breaking discovery in human evolutionary history in the lifetimes of most people alive today" that occurred in the same general region as the Sumatran expedition, as noted in There and Back Again. Elsewhere, Loren Coleman congratulates Point Pleasant, WV, following the city's annual celebration, held recently, and points out his own 2002 prediction of the festival's success in Mothman Sightings Continue and Cryptotourism Soars.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
NEWSFLASH: Sumatra Expedition Cast Handprint Cryptozoology Online
There's news from Sumatra as a crew from the Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) has begun the latest expedition in pursuit of evidence for the manlike Orang Pendek. In more news from the crew, CFZ Director Jonathan Downes offers the tidbits in NEWSFLASH - First News from Sumatra. As the CFZ Sumatra Expedition wends its way into the forest primeval, Nick Redfern checks in with a review of one of the latest editions from the CFZ publishing project, as seen in Lair of the Beasts: Northern Monsters. Meanwhile, there are more reports of Sasquatch-type creatures to be found in The Yeti is Alive, or at Least Discussed at Tashtagol and Lindsay Selby's link to a video and separate news story offered in Bogus Bigfoot. Elsewhere, there are big things underway at Loren Coleman's International Cryptozoology Museum, and reporter David Carkhuff talks with Coleman about the venture in Crypto Collection Ready for Big Move.
Study Finds Humans Still Evolving, and Quickly Archaeology News Network
Mainstream media has been abuzz of late with tales of humanity's promiscuity being an asset. From Neanderthals to proto-humans, our ancestors exchanged DNA in a manner that strengthened and alleviated evolutionary pressure, according to the latest study. Another driving force for change in human development comes from moving into new environments. One such human adventure is described in the Archaeology News Network report on Aboriginal Australians: The First Explorers. From the supposed African diaspora to the Asian invasion by modern humans, the lineage of the Aborigines traces back 50,000 years. A lock of Aboriginal hair donated to an anthropologist has been sequenced showing absolutely no genetic contributions from modern Europeans. This revelation has a broader impact upon the history of mankind and its global migration. One aspect of the news is in a DNA Study Suggesting Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration which compares the DNA of ancients from the Asian mainland with humans living in the relative isolation of Australia and New Guinea.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Crypto collection ready for big move
Portland Daily Sun
By David Carkhuff Coleman's quirky International Cryptozoology Museum — a collection of mysterious-creature artifacts including a highly visible stuffed replica of Bigfoot — is moving this fall from the back of the Green Hand bookstore at 661 ...
See all stories on this topic »The Yeti is alive, or at least discussed in Tashtagol
Mongolia Web News
Many local residents in Tashtagol regions believe that there are still many Yetis or Almas or Bigfoot exist and live around the regions of Tashtagol. Once there was a case when the governor of Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev offered cash prize to whoever ...
Portland Daily Sun
By David Carkhuff Coleman's quirky International Cryptozoology Museum — a collection of mysterious-creature artifacts including a highly visible stuffed replica of Bigfoot — is moving this fall from the back of the Green Hand bookstore at 661 ...
See all stories on this topic »The Yeti is alive, or at least discussed in Tashtagol
Mongolia Web News
Many local residents in Tashtagol regions believe that there are still many Yetis or Almas or Bigfoot exist and live around the regions of Tashtagol. Once there was a case when the governor of Kemerovo region Aman Tuleev offered cash prize to whoever ...
DATA-NET: A Clutch of Classics The Biggest Study
The summer of 2011 may have been the biggest season of UFO sightings in recent memory. These don't supercede the observations of old which still puzzle scientists to this day. The Professor blows the dust off these records hailing from the glory days between Roswell and the dawn of the Red Menace. Craft of all shapes and sizes from late-model flying cigars to economical skytubs are presented with some fascinating photos predating Photoshop. Further back in the archives is a profile of William Buckland who approached strange phenomena with deserving scientific rigor on topics which would have been swept under the rug. Elsewhere, Government Book Talk tackles the archival subject of Yetis and Extraterrestrials, drawing a skeptical parallel between Roswell and a concurrent government memo that provided guidelines for hunting yeti. It all begs the question of whether things are best hidden in plain sight?
Friday, September 23, 2011
TV crew looks for Bigfoot, aka 'Big Rhody,' in Rhode Island
The crews from Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" have been in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, over the past several days looking for evidence of the many reports of Bigfoot activity in western parts of the state. No word on what evidence, if any, the crew has uncovered. Meanwhile, photos accompany the tale of an anonymous gift to a Chinese zoo that has even the zookeepers puzzled, as explained in No Wonder He Looks Confused: The Mystery Creature that Nobody Can Identify. There are also images with Micah Hanks exposition of the newest additions to Canadian coinage, as seen in Crypto-Economics: Canadian Coins Boast Colorful Cryptid Creatures. Elsewhere, Loren Coleman covers the relationship of an exotic animal incident to cryptid news in 'Roo Attack in Ohio.
Poking Fun at Finding Bigfoot
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Island Monster Mysterious Universe
Bloodsport lures bloodsuckers in Puerto Rico. Many myths and mysteries surround the chupacabras, like so many bettors at a game, to the point the native "vampire" has inextricably woven itself into Puerto Rico's cultural consciousness. Here Nick Redfern relates an account of birds destined for the cockfighting arena that met a far more gruesome fate. A predator made its way into the chickenhouse, unlocked the cages and drained the blood from the feathered warriors before disappearing into the night. Redfern also recently made his way to northern Oklahoma's Cryptid Fest which turned into a Hunt for Bigfoot with the discovery of tracks and a glimpse of the elusive quarry. If you missed that event, head over to Tyler, Texas, for the 2011 Texas Bigfoot Conference, featuring such luminaries of the field as Dr. Ian Redmond and Dr. Jeff Meldrum, among others. Sasquatch sightings have happened in every state but Hawai'i, but it's still surprising to hear an Ohio woman has announced Bigfoot Lives in my Backyard. In a two part audio interview, the cryptid's hostess divulges the particulars of her encounters over the years. Elsewhere, the prehistory of the landscape and the folklore that surrounds what once ploughed the waters of the glacial Lake Aggasiz - and may still make appearances in the area's remnant lakes - leads Robin of CFZ - Canada to pen Prairie Sea Monsters. Meanwhile, noted cryptozoologist, author, museum proprietor and lecturer Loren Coleman rebuts an unwarranted attack from a blogger who took offense to a recent Coleman posting, as seen in Some "Skeptics" Don't Get It.
Fox News Affiliate Covers Cryptid Fest
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
7 foot tall Russian boxer searches for Sasquatch
Big Cats Still Big Mystery Geelong Advertiser
Long a thorn in the side of mainstream zoologists in Australia and other countries where they are not among the native wildlife, out-of-place or alien big cats persist. Mainstream news sources often treat the reports in a less cavalier fashion than they do other fortean topics, but this latest sighting is actually a feral housecat according to experts quoted in Another Cat in September Action. Elsewhere, Unexplained Mysteries presents the video of a Dave Archer Interview on Orang Pendek he sighted back in 2009 on the Centre for Fortean Zoology expedition, and, at Mania, Nick Redfern reveals a tale of possible Littlefield, TX, local lore in Lair of the Beasts: Texan Monsters. Also, Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo is announcing the Grand Monster Reopening of International Cryptozoology Museum on October 30th, the day before Halloween.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
In search for Yeti
Bigfoot Living In My Backyard Claims Ohio Woman
Bigfoot Living In My Backyard Claims Ohio Woman
The Latest Nessie Sonar Contact Loch Ness Monster
A couple of puzzling photographs and a sighting set the stage for the latest Loch Ness Monster evidence that appeared in the Scottish edition of the Daily Mail for September 15, 2011. It appears an alert pleasure boat captain awaiting passengers on Loch Ness was able to capture an intriguing sonar image of one of the world's best known cryptids. Another example of evidence showing unknown monstrous forms cruise the deeps can be found in Glen Vaudrey's report of the Stronsay Beast from 1808, detailed in Bring Me the Head of... Closer to home, but still focussing on mysterious creatures from beneath the foam, Photo: Pink Dolphin on Big Lake demonstrates how pictures are worth a thousand words, or two thousand when featuring such a cute creature. Elsewhere, in Mid-Century Mania: Why Did Yeti-Slick Document Story Go Viral?, Loren Coleman notes the internet is abuzz over recently leaked documents detailing American efforts to capture a live yeti. Was an eccentric millionaire hunting the elusive man beast or was it a ruse to cover up Cold War intelligence operations on Red China's doorstep? The true story at the interstices of these conflicting tales suggests something far weirder. And Cryptomundo also points out that the Slick Papers Have Been Donated to the University of Texas. Seventy five boxes full of papers relating to Indian gurus, yeti, and animal husbandry which occupied the life of the eccentric visionary now make their home at the San Antonio campus.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Scepticism, Old and New Magonia Review of Books
Peter Rogerson reviews two books that present skeptical examination of effects that could be the product of outside influences on the human brain. The first of these books is by well known skeptic Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies. How We Construct Beliefs as Truths, published this year. The second is the work of German researcher Edmund Parish, first printed in 1897, Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception. The Parish reprint is noted for its inclusion of material from the British Society of Psychical Research, along with studies conducted by William James in the U. S. and Munich's Von Schrenk-Notzing in Germany; and the Shermer book is noted for what it reveals about Shermer, himself. Meanwhile, Andrew May reviews the famous poem of Samuel Taylor Coleridge that defied the popular genres of 1798 when it was written and continues to evoke Lovecraftian images today, as set forth in The Ancient Mariner.
Zombie Caterpillars Rain Death from Treetops LiveScience
From today's maverick science news: Recent tales of "zombie" insects controlled by a variety of different parasites have been expanded to include the woes of the Gypsy Moth caterpillar that succumbs to the hormonal manipulations of a virus that makes the wooly creatures climb to the treetops, anchor themselves, die and liquefy, raining infection down on their previously uninfected brothers and sisters. Elsewhere, Thunderbolts.info sports a new website platform as Stephen Smith points to scarring on an asteroid that should have torn the small object apart, but didn't, giving a more likely origin for the asteroid's physical appearance in Goddess of the Hearth.
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Crows and Yowies The Herald
Seeing is believing, but is it enough for proof? A tale of two enterprising birds taking advantage of a cat where one distracts the cat while the other nabs a bite of meat is easily believed because of its mundane nature and someone observed their shenanigans. But why is it so difficult to accept an eyewitness account of coming face to face with a yowie? Elsewhere in the field of maverick science, Australian Geographic notes that Birds of a Feather Talk Together, relating tales of domesticated birds teaching wild birds to speak English. Wrapping up this roundup is Cryptomundo's rumination upon the Caddy Carcass Comportment and the upcoming display of a full-scale model at the new digs for the International Cryptozoology Museum.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Return to Valley of the Skookum/Conference Updates
Once again Nessie has reared her heads from 'neath the cold waves of her eponymous loch. Jon Rowe of Lewiston was lucky enough to capture her on film while photographing an early morning rainbow. But does the New Nessie Photo, in fact, show two black throated diver birds? North of the border, MetroNews deems Banff-area Bigfoot reports 'credible'. Todd Standing of Sylvanic is quoted as saying, "Some of the sightings are four years old ... to go through them all would be a lifetime’s work."
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Stolen Bigfoot costumes are the reason your local newspaper has a crime blotter
Orihuela's Giant Serpent Inexplicata
Residents along the eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula near Orihuela reported seeing a huge snake in 1970. Reliable witnesses described it as being three and a half meters long with a head the size of a child's. After several fruitless days, the search for the monster snake was called off and the story was heaped upon the slushpile of history. Phantoms and Monters reports that elsewhere in Europe the game is afoot for hunting down the wily Alp in Austria. It's described as a giant bat with elongated limbs, demonically vampiric bearing, and humanoid features that brings nightmares to slumbering folk. Experts propose the Alp is a subspecies of flying fox, which is long-lived and few in number. Has the famous Chinese wild man been caught on film? Cryptomundo links to possible footage, in Cantonese, of the beast. But an astute, Cantonese-speaking reader notes the footage was from the USA. In lighter but equally confusing news, io9 reports that someone stole a Bigfoot costume along with copper tubing from a home in Colorado, in Stolen Bigfoot costumes are the reason your local newspaper has a crime blotter. Why would someone want to steal a Bigfoot costume?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Exploring the Wendigo as a Cryptid CFZ-Canada
Canada's unofficial legendary beast is best known among First Nation storytellers as a cautionary spirit manifesting the vices of greed and gluttony, hunting down those worthy of joining its ranks. Even if it must possesses its victim to perpetuate horrors in the remotest corners of the countryside, there would be no end to tales of gaunt, gray homonids leaving scarlet trails in the midnight snow. Encounters are few and far between, and no wonder considering their malevolent nature. Should we be protecting the wendigo or should we be protecting ourselves from it? Elsewhere, in A Newly-Published Review, the Journal of Scientific Exploration gives high praise to Karl Shuker's recent book, Alien Zoo.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Valuev Leads Search For 'Russian Yeti' Eurosport
In this corner, looming seven feet tall and tipping the scales at 320 pounds, is former World Heavyweight Champion Nikolai Valuev. His opponent, hailing from the Shoriya Mountains and making a name for himself since 2005 in remotest Siberia, is a full head taller and considerably heavier, the Russian Yeti! The big palooka has a decidedly fortean outlook: "I'll draw my own conclusions once I've been there," while the Yeti remarks "Am I afraid of Nikolai Valuev? Of course not, I'd be pleased to speak with him - without witnesses." No word if there will be any confusion telling one from the other during the expedition. Closer to home, Fred Andrews tells Reuters of A Southern-Fried Version of Bigfoot. While producing his film Creature, Andrews found himself unearthing the rich history of the bayou as it relates to things that go bloop in the swamp. He details the Letiche, the Honey Island Swamp Monster, along with zombies and werewolves.In a similar vein the delightful Dr. Beachcombing discusses at length Eighteenth-Century Scandinavian Merfolk, called "sea-apes" in bygone times, sharing accounts that may be our nautical nieces and nephews or wayward manatees. Cryptomundo provides more information regarding the Kandahar Cougar with photographic evidence casting doubt on their identification ascaracals.
Cochrane Eagle Article
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Humanity's supremacy has been argued to be the fruit of years ofinterbreeding with Neanderthals. Recent studies into australopithecines remains evince intriguing hallmarks of modern and primitive homonids suggesting that homo sapiens isn't that particular about its partners. Could we be the distillation of the best and the worst of our cousins and ancestors? Meanwhile in Indonesia, the Orang pendek Quest Begins in Sumatra, an expedition led by Adam Davies, with Richard Freeman here discussing the appearance of this cryptohomonid and its possible place on our twisted evolutionary vine. Continuing coverage of the controversy over the Utah Bigfoot Videotape continues apace at Cryptomundo as the videographer weighs in with his two cents. Rounding out our corral of cryptid chronicles, Phantoms & Monsters asks the question What Was It? Strange Winged Creature in Arizona, where a concerned citizen recounts his sighting of a creature defying classification. Bat? Giant moth? Owl? You be the judge.
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