Mac Tonnies encountered this Nessie stencil graffiti in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday, April 27, 2008. Tonnes asks: “Any examples of this in your hometown?” Mysterious origins.
Loren Coleman
Addax to Zebras: Mungall’s Exotic Animal Field Guide
Life works in strange ways. So does death. Good things can come from appreciating the moments that issue from both. Cryptozoologist Scott Norman’s and then my crypto-supportive mother’s separate sudden deaths within a forty-day span gave me pause recently to slow down a bit. Between the two events, I kept writing at a busy pace and conducted my “Pinkie” expedition to Florida. I also traveled to various locations to give cryptozoology talks, but I additionally wanted to take some quiet time for myself to visit animal parks and zoos. I’ve always found such gems in the midst of human habitats [...]
Hobbit Hoax Claim: “Complete Lunacy”
You may have heard that recently the Hobbit fossils, technically Homo floresiensis, were in the news due to the remarkable claim that they were hoaxes because the teeth showed dental work. What was incredible, as I read this, was that this new debunking was done on the basis of the skeptic’s visual examination of only the photographs of the teeth and other such non-first hand evidence. It sort of reminded me of claims about the Patterson-Gimlin footage being bogus based on bad published image prints that were enlarged on a photocopy machine, something that once did happen. I was waiting [...]
The Monsters of Templeton
Cryptofiction comes in all forms. Today’s selection is a unique book reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. What monsters are hidden there? Like many an excellent chronicler of village life, Lauren Groff gives us early in “The Monsters of Templeton” (Voice/Hyperion: 364 pp., $24.95) an ensemble view of the citizens of Templeton, a place very closely modeled on Cooperstown, N.Y., birthplace of baseball — and Groff. You know what an ensemble view is: an event prompting villagers to come out in force, an opportunity for the narrator’s camera to move from face to face. In Cheever’s “The Wapshot Scandal,” for [...]
It’s Alive! Yellow-Bellied Sea Snake in New Zealand
The Yellowbelly Sea Snake or Pelagic Sea Snake (Pelamis platurus) is a species of sea snake found in tropical oceanic waters around the world. It occurs on both sides of the Pacific and is the only sea snake to have reached the Hawaiian Islands. It is so widespread that even one dead specimen has been found in Russia, on the coast of the Sea of Japan, near Vladivostok city. One of the world’s most poisonous snakes has now caused a stir in New Zealand, making its way to the snake-free country. When the 90-centimetre yellow-bellied sea snake washed up at [...]
Black Squirrel Expedition
This occurred at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Monster In Dem Woods
Now comes the music video…. And don’t miss the last ten seconds of the trailer….
Lake Placid’s Black Panther
Large eastern North American cryptid felids are generally referred to as “Black Panthers,” no matter what the description. The practice is commonplace. It has little bearing on what the animal’s classification alignments may be. This breaking news out of the Lake Placid area of New York tries to jumble around the science and speculation to include black leopards and melanistic jaguars – and remarkably exclude the realities of folk use of the term “Black Panther.” The rather illogical statement in this media account that “black panthers,” in fact, “do not exist” is incorrect. After all, “black panther” is merely a [...]
Rocky Kills
Rocky performs. In a not-too-surprising revelation, in the wake of an escaped tiger killing a man at the San Francisco Zoo, perhaps a few cold glasses of water in modern human’s faces are that, yes, wild animals are strong and do kill. For a moment, ponder this: If people can’t consider the realities of the animals in their midst, how are they to understand those cryptids that are just beyond their knowing? Now the news: Rocky, a five-year-old bear that has starred in big-name Hollywood films, bit trainer Stephan Miller on the neck during filming at an animal training center [...]
Brookline Gator Sighted
The following account signals that spring is finally here in North America. In Mysterious America, I noted that out-of-place alligators should to be tracked to keep such reports separate from Lake Monster reports. Over thirty years ago, reports of crocs could often indicate an extension of the reptile’s range or an escaped or released pet. But some few sightings hinted at breeding populations of alligators, such as near Decatur, Illinois, or Oakland, Michigan. (Yes, department of wildlife officials, they do “winter over.”) Very rarely, some “alligator” observations are indications of a cryptid in the area. Heightened awareness makes recording such [...]
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