Almost exactly one year ago, Jon-Erik Beckjord reported he had cancer. He’s broadcasting an update. Jon-Erik Beckjord has posted the following on his forum: My enemies will rejoice. It comes to us all. To some earlier; to some later. Like Rene Dahinden, I have advanced prostate cancer and it has advanced to the bones. I was warned on the Lummi Indian Reservation that if you see Bigfoot/Sasquatch too often, it is a sign they are taking you to them, to join them…Roger Patterson got the best Bigfoot movie of all time, 58 sec, and within four years passed on with [...]
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Water Horse Invades Japan
I have a feeling that the promotion of Water Horse in Japan is being handled much differently than it was in the USA, where the creature was treated as if it could be your bathtub pet. Here is video of the amazing hologram that was recently created off Tokyo to acknowledge the release of the film in Japan. Sources: Odaiba; Endgadget; The Anomalist.
Idaho Bigfoot
What do you think of this Idaho Bigfoot sighting?
Opens Today: Strange Wilderness
Strange Wilderness opens on February 1, 2008. How it will play in comic cryptofiction cinematic history remains to be seen. Do you think there is any reason that this often-delayed movies was slotted for Football Super Bowl weekend for release? Is there not much hope this will be the comedy blockbuster it was once forecast to be? Did you like it? Does it work as humor? How does the search for Bigfoot come off in the film? Inquiring minds want to know. The plot is about animal enthusiasts who try to help the ratings of their TV reality animal show [...]
Fiji Lordomyrma Discovered
Lordomyrma vanua Lucky & Sarnat 2008: Fiji image by A. Lucky & E. Sarnat The discovery of new insects are a dime a dozen, so to speak. I tend to agree with Bernard Heuvelmans that an animal has to be large enough to have an impact on humans, visibly, to be a cryptid. The cryptids we deal with daily are usually domestic cat-sized and bigger. However, I was struck by the attractive nature of the above new ant discovery and felt it was worth sharing its photograph here. As the Myrmecos blog (link below) mentions, Zootaxa contained a short paper [...]
Take A Boggy Creek Break
Turn your television and lights off, go to full screen, sit back and act like you are back in 1972…and remember, don’t go near that window:
New Giant: First Elephant-Shrew In 126 Years
Grey-faced sengi, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis. Photo credit: Francesco Rovero. “This is one of the most exciting discoveries of my career,” said Galen Rathbun of the California Academy of Sciences. Rathbun’s and Museum of Natural Sciences in Trento, Italy, Francesco Rovero’s discovery is published in the February issue of the British-based Journal of Zoology. Although there is unquestionably much left to be discovered about life on Earth, charismatic animals like mammals are usually well documented, and it is rare to find a new species today—especially from a group as intriguing as the elephant-shrews, monogamous mammals found only in Africa with a colorful [...]
Thundergoose
Do extraordinarily large geese exist? Is there a Thundergoose out there? Sure, you are going to find a history of photographic hoaxes, such as the old postcard pictured above, with real people pictured on top of big geese, but I’m talking about an actual case of an oversized goose. This article was discovered by Robert Schneck (the author of The President’s Vampire: Strange-but-True Tales of the United States of America) and exclusively shared with Cryptomundo. Appreciation to Schneck for his contribution. Schneck humorously dubbed this critter “Thundergoose” in our email exchange, and that seems to be a fitting name. The [...]
Aetosaurs Wars
Wow, if you thought there were fights in Nessie studies and feuds among Bigfooters, you should pull the curtain aside in the serious world of paleontology sometime. Actually, you don’t have to, as Nature did it for you. Paleontology research assistant and fossil preprator ReBecca Hunt, pictured above, notes in her blog that “name-calling” is happening, quite openly, within the field of Aetosaurs studies, as evidenced by an article published today in Nature. “Doctoral students in the United States and Poland are accusing scientists at the Albuquerque-based New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (NMMNHS) of publishing articles that [...]
Paper Bird Sings “Cryptozoology”
The artist Paper Bird releases her new song “Cryptozoology” today. You can listen to a sample of “Cryptozoology” by clicking on the Juno site. Who is Paper Bird, apparently cryptically captured above? Paper Bird is the one-woman home-recorded musical project of Anna Kohlweis, who lives in Vienna, Austria. She’s been making music under that alter ego since she moved to Vienna in 2003; prior to this, she claims to have been raised in a woodland cave by fierce hobgoblins! She’s released a few download-only EPs via the Paper Bird website, followed by the release of other songs on the Austrian [...]
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