Thursday, October 13, 2011

Sasquatch and the abominable forecaster



Bigfoot lives in 'Savage'


  1. Bigfoot - Myth or Reality?


    Technorati - Brett Hilarides - 10 hours ago
    Many names have been given to this creature such as bigfoot, yeti and sasquatch. This creature is usually described as a large, hairy human like creature ...
    Scientists in Siberia claim Bigfoot is realThe People Speak Out
    Russian Expedition leaves scientists feeling 95% that Sasquatch existsExaminer.com
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  2. How sure? They say they're 95 percent sure the mythical yeti ...


    Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 1 hour ago
    That could mean big things for Seattle-area Bigfoot believers, who have been scoping out the ... But this news comes with a few Bigfoot-sized caveats. ...
  3. 'BigFoot' Sightings Reported in Salem


    Patch.com - Aubry Bracco - 9 hours ago
    BigFoot is coming out of the woods, and he's looking for a little help from locals and tourists as he acclimates to the Witch City. ...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Scientists '95% Sure' Bigfoot Lives in Russian Tundra
TIME
But numerous sightings of such creatures have been reported in Himalayan countries and in North America, where it is known as Sasquatch, or bigfoot.(See a list of the top 10 heroic animals.) Joe Jackson is a contributor at TIME. ...
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Cryptozoologist tells tales of Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster
The Independent Florida Alligator
He also talked about the Loch Ness Monster and the Skunk Ape, an animal native to the Southeast that is similar to Bigfoot and is extremely aggressive. However, he said a lot of the time encounters with these mythical creatures aren't something people ...



Around town
Marietta Times
The speaker will be Don Keating, a member of the Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Investigation Center. The Emerald Basket Branch of Longaberger sales associates is sponsoring a bus trip to New York City as a fundraiser for breast cancer research. ...



Manitoba Bigfoot Encounter Frontiers of Zoology
Dale Drinnon reprints an article that originally appeared at Paranormal Studies & Investigations Canada, very carefully written by Robin Pyatt Bellamy after a lengthy interview with the protagonist of the story, Archie Motkaluk, a Canadian farmer who sat on his story of an hours-long close encounter with what he thought to be a female Bigfoot in the winter of 1960. Moktaluk came forward with his tale of the encounter after becoming angered by a researcher on television who claimed tales of the creature were all in the imagination of witnesses. Bellamy gives a detailed description of the area in which the sighting was made, details Moktaluk's description of the creature and concludes Archie Moktaluk is telling the truth. Drinnon adds just a few short comments to the narrative, noting he thinks what Moktaluk saw was a female of a species he calls "The American Almas," as opposed to the description of a similar creature from the Caucasus of Russia. Is this the most complete description of a wild manlike creature, perhaps a Sasquatch, you've ever seen? Elsewhere, those following the Russian Snowman Conference that concluded last Saturday will recall a photograph available in a report from a Russian news correspondent accompanying the Siberian cave visit by conference attendees that included a photo of some trees woven into a pattern some researchers think indicates the presence and handiwork of the alleged apelike hominoids believed by many to populate the world's most isolated wildernesses. Nick Redfern has a couple of North American examples of these supposed constructions in Bigfoot Tepees. And Redfern, author of Memoirs of a Monster Hunter and quite a few other titles, has an interesting comparison of two books, the aforementioned title and a new title from "Destination Truth" star Josh Gates, in Monster Memoirs vs Monster Memoirs. Be sure to check out the comments for some humorous remarks. Meanwhile, Neil Arnold addresses the legends of the Cyclops, including some not-so-long-ago reports of encounters with one-eyed monsters in Sleep With One Eye Open.



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Book Review-Dark Woods by Jay Kumar
Review-MNBRT Radio 10-10-11
Scientists Find "95 Percent Proof Of The Existence Of Yeti"



'Proof' of Yeti existence revealed





PHOTOS & VIDEO: Harrison revealed

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Scientists close in on Yeti
The Russian-led conference that addressed the presence of elusive manlike creatures in the world's wildest regions, concluded over the weekend in Kemerovo, Siberia, has come out with an announcement that could be the surprise event organizers had promised leading up to the meeting that brought researchers from around the world together. But not every cryptozoologist is onboard with the announcement out of Kemerovo claiming proof of the existence of the creature variously known as Yeti, Bigfoot, Yowie and a legion of other names, depending on the country in which they're reported. Loren Coleman, co-author with Patrick Huyghe of The Field Guide to Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates, who also owns the world's only cryptozoology museum, the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, ME, explains why the surprise announcement may be counter-productive in Exaggerated Snowmen Claims Not Good for Cryptozoology.



Executive producer of Scare Tactics says the Bigfoot episode would probably frighten him the most




Photos from the 2011 Yeti Expedition in Siberia




New Footage: Kansas Bigfoot




Bigfoot Hunters: Stock up on peanut butter now before prices get ridiculous




95% Certainty and Indisputable Proof?






Monday, October 10, 2011

Yetis and other examples of 'Cryptozoology'



Bigfoot Forum Derided as United Russia Ploy




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http://www.youtube.com/user/KuzYeti




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Yeti Expedition: Body not found, but scientists 95% sure Yetis are real




New Photoshop technology from Adobe will end blurry Bigfoot pics forever

Bigfoot: unfound and unfounded



Richard Freeman, Zoological Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology, was part of the recently concluded Sumatra Expedition 2011. The expedition was in search of signs of a creature long reported to roam the tightly-packed jungles of Sumatra, the undiscovered ape known to the Sumatrans as the Orang Pendek. Freeman explains the mission of the group and what it found in this entry, and his previous reports of the venture can be found in On the Trail of the Orang Pendek, Sumatra's Mystery Ape and Orang Pendek Quest Begins in Sumatra. Elsewhere, one of the arms of England's Centre for Fortean Zoology, CFZ - Canada, is looking for cryptid accounts from a sparsely settled area of the country, listing some of the creatures already reported to creep, crawl, swim and fly through the region in Manitoba Monsters. Meanwhile, Dr. Karl Shuker has all you ever wanted to know about a supposedly legendary beast, with many illustrations, in An Uncommonness of Unicorns as Loren Coleman updates the efforts to relocate his vast "collection of mysterious-creature artifacts" in CZ Museum Move Merits Maine Media and offers multiple images along with another refutation of George Cuvier's "Rash Dictum" with New African Antelope Discovered. Also, another Texas Blue Dog runs afoul of a man with a gun, as reported in Could This be a Chupacabra? Homeowner Thinks Animal He Shot Dead is Mythical Creature, and a 1977 incident in Pennsylvania echoes tales of the legendary Jersey Devil in the remembrance of The Beast of Bowman Hill.



Yeti Evidence Found During Kemerovo Expedition in Siberia




Huge Sunsquatch caught on telescope




Fantastic story by Native American, claims group of men traumatized after killing a Bigfoot






Book Review: Notes from the Field, Tracking North America's Sasquatch

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Yeti expedition an abomination



A conference of international researchers who study the existence of a reported population of scattered wild manlike creatures officially came to a close in Tashtogol, Siberia, yesterday. With few reports from the scene, we turn to Russian reporter Lida Vasilevskaya for her commentary as she accompanied the researchers into the Siberian wilderness to visit a cave the Siberian Yeti had supposedly been recently frequenting. While much of the report is tongue in cheek, Vasilevskaya does pass along the words of Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University and provide some photos from the Siberian site. Another very good report from someone who was not on the scene and treats the conference as though it has yet to occur, nonetheless provides some excellent background on the accounts of wildmen in the region of Tashtogol cave and scientific reactions, as seen in They Leave Behind Large Footprints. Radio Free Europe also put together a report on the conference and its attendees, as well as the Kemerovo area of Siberia the researchers visited, as seen in Siberian Yeti Conference Seeks Out Elusive Hominid. The North American version of the Siberian hominid has driven lots of investigators to search for proof, and among them at least one has become notorious. The reasons for the notoriety and the latest plans of the Bigfoot hunter in question are the subject of Loren Coleman's posting of information in SF Examiner Spotlights Biscardi. Meanwhile, Nick Redfern has polled his readers about the elusive North American creature and came up with results he says are as "intriguing as the Bigfoot puzzle itself" as can be seen in his report Monstrous Statistics!



More government cover-up of Bigfoot: Forest Service Biologist disappears after finding Sasquatch footprints near Cougar Washington




The Crypto Hunters: Creston Flats Bigfoot breakdown



Tom Biscardi says he will put the Bigfoot mystery to rest




Finally! A Journalist Does Real Research on Tom Biscardi

Honobia Bigfoot Festival and Conference - Sights and Sounds (Earphones Reco




Legend Hunters - Bigfoot

Saturday, October 08, 2011

Scientists Converge For Sasquatch Hunt In Russia

Recent Sighting Report: A Bigfoot caught staring at a lady with her puppies in Hocking Hills




Loren Coleman says it's unlikely they'll find the Yeti due to limited time




New Footage: Creston Flats Bigfoot

Scott Nelson gives his prese



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Siberian Yeti Conference Seeks Out Elusive Hominid
Those familiar with the Holy Bible revered by Christians the world over have probably read the references to giant humans in the Old Testament. During the Exodus, the Hebrews reported spying on "the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight." Chris Parker examines the evidence that there once lived humans far larger than even the giant Goliath who was slain by the shepherd boy David later in the Old Testament. Parker presents a series of archived newspaper reports and some images that purport to show human footprints up to 10 feet long. Meanwhile, Brent Swancer turns attention to mysterious sightings that followed the undersea earthquake and resultant tragic tidal wave in Japan, as well as similar sightings that accompanied other disastrous earth movements. Did these disasters stir up previously unknown large creatures that dwell in the upper atmosphere, often mistakenly taken for spaceships of alien beings, as Swancer speculates, with many images, in Tsunamis and Sky Beasts? Elsewhere, Dale Drinnon uses a magazine from six decades ago to point out some of the cryptid information making the rounds at the time in Another 1950s Cover Story. Also, Australia's ABC Radio has a report describing the sighting of the supposedly extinct Tasmanian Tiger, and the link to the report is included in the CFZ-Australia revelation of A Queensland Tiger Spotted Near Ipswich.




Friday, October 07, 2011

World's cryptozoologists converge in Russia to hunt for Bigfoot | DVICE
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Brian Hatton

Watch Finding Bigfoot: Birth of a Legend Preview




Is this the most amazing time lapse video of Utah and Arizona yet?




Cliff Barackman's Vietnam Bigfoot story as relayed through his father



DT Fan Radio: Josh Gates, Monster Hunter, Tonight!

Bigfoot Experts Gather in Siberia to Hunt for Hominids



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

Unsolved Mysteries: Yeti




Do you heart cryptozoology?




'Samurai Chatter', the spoken language of Bigfoot

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
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

Yeti Search: BREAKING BIGFOOT NEWS – Sasquatch Hunt is On!
July 24, 2011 The best Bigfoot documentary ever produced [VIDEO]

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

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

Search is on for Yeti, Russian Researchers Say



New One-Sheet for The Lost Coast Tapes Gets to the Point on Bigfoot



'Footprints' gives new noir life to urban legends

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

W Siberia Yeti country?

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



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



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

Russian Bigfoot Photographed?

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.

Coming October 4th: Snow Beast




Bigfoot To Move Soon




Mid-Century Mania: Why Did Yeti-Slick Document Story Go Viral?

Friday, September 30, 2011

The evolution of Bigfoot
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/

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

FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS
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:


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

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.

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

Canadian Sasquatch is on the Money

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 ...
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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 ...



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?
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In the Footsteps of the Russian Snowman

Friday, September 23, 2011

Russia to hold International Conference on Yeti
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






The Legend of Sloggy Creek: 'Savage'

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



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.

Finding Bigfoot Needs Your Help in Rhode Island

Monday, September 19, 2011

2011 Texas Bigfoot Conference coming up in Tyler
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.

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.