Sterling Edmund Lanier, 79, who just died in Sarasota, Florida, harkens back to an era of early cryptozoologists and adventurers. Lanier worked as an editor at Chilton Books in the 1960s, alongside Ivan T. Sanderson, also an editor at Chilton. Chilton Books in 1961 published Sanderson’s famous book, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life. Sanderson and Lanier moved in similar natural history and publishing circles for a few years. Lanier wrote the foreword for one of Sanderson’s friends, Roger A. Caras’ 1964 Chilton-published book, Dangerous to Man; Wild Animals A Definitive Study of Their Reputed Dangers to Man. Born in [...]
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Bigfooter Buckley Gets More Media
After the Bay Area Bigfoot Group member died, more media did stories about him.
Lake Springfield’s Suspicious Serpent
Springfield, Illinois, is in central Illinois, in the Midwest USA, west of Decatur. It is the state capital and the county seat of Sangamon County. The Sangamon River, which flows near Decatur and Springfield was impounded to make Lake Decatur. But the manmade Lake Springfield is a reservoir built by impounding water upstream of Spaulding Dam on Sugar Creek. The water for the lake comes from rain falling directly on Lake Springfield, however, the predominant supply is runoff from the 265-square-mile watershed that lies primarily southwest of the lake, most notably from Lick and Sugar Creeks and their tributaries, that [...]
Skeptic Barry Beyerstein, 60, Dies Suddenly
Barry Lane Beyerstein, a skeptic extraordinairé, was born on May 19, 1947, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In recent years, he called Moody Lake, British Columbia, his home. On Monday, June 25, 2007, one day after the 60th birthday of the beginning of the era of flying saucers just across the border in Washington State, Barry L. Beyerstein, 60, was found dead at his college office desk from a heart attack. Beyerstein, a psychology professor at Simon Frasier University, British Columbia, had become a famous media commentator on several topics from drug and alcohol addiction to social beliefs linked to parapsychology, [...]
New Update on Maine Mystery Cat Photos!
For more background on the above photograph, please see “New Maine Mystery Cat Photo Details”. Now, here is an update…on the photographs (not just a photograph)! The Kennebec Journal is a newspaper located in Augusta, Maine, the biggest city near the little town of Sidney. In the Friday edition, there was an article about the new photograph of a Mystery Cat. In the comments section, the following email was sent in and can be found below the article: Our lab at Elm City Photo processed this image straight off from his digital camera chip with no enhancements other than to [...]
Cryptozoology Animal of Discovery: Pygmy Hippopotamus
(Photo by Jacques Brinon) Posting a baby picture is always a good idea on a Sunday on the first day of the month. Here, Anais, the mother hippo, keeps an eye on her son Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis liberiensis), at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Aldo looks, eats and takes it easy like a hippopotamus. But he is only about as big as a human baby, at 21 inches. This pygmy hippopotamus, born on June 5, is one of only a few dozen in Europe, bred in a special program to boost the [...]
Bigfoot & Moneymaker on Fox Video
Fox News has a thing about Bigfoot. The sensationalizing news organization’s producers are drawn to the subject and repulsed by it. It is as if after they have made a programming decision to embrace the topic, they find themselves in a nightmare and turn on the concept they have created. Fox News staff are enchanted by Bigfoot, but then send out waves of ridicule onto the subject, as often as possible. If I seem a little bitter at Fox, perhaps I am a bit. Every emotional feeling has a history. Here’s mine. In 2005, if you will recall, I was [...]
Going Dodo Over Tassie Tiger Doodoo and Dodo Bones
While it is a long shot, there are still people today who report sightings of Dodo birds. Needless to say, even when new fossil remains are found of these avian wonders, the media tends to go a little dodo itself. Reporter Ed Harris of Reuters learned from Julian Hume, a paleontologist at Britain’s Natural History Museum, of the new discovery of a nearly complete skeleton from a dodo dig on Mauritius, and the news is centering the globe. The new find, Hume shared, is bound to tell more about the elusive bird than perhaps ever known before. The discovery was [...]
Snowmen Seeker? Pamir Expedition Leader Dies
Little is known of what the Soviet Russians did on their Pamir Mountains’ “Snowmen” expeditions of the 1960s, especially if they contained non-Russian members. What were their goals? What did they find? Was Tom Slick or one of his friends secretly involved in funding one such expedition? Malcolm Slesser. The death on Tuesday, June 26, 2007, announced today, of Malcolm Slesser, 82, is bringing to mind such questions anew. Slesser died doing what he loved best, climbing a mountain. According to the Scotsman on Saturday, June 30, 2007, the “veteran mountaineering expert from Edinburgh fell to his death from a [...]
40th Nears: Reexamine Frame 352
As the 40th anniversary of the Patterson-Gimlin footage nears, it is time to re-read a contribution of Darren Naish, Ph. D., formerly of the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth, UK. Naish wrote a thoughtful blog on “Frame 352, and all that.” In his lengthy essay, in one portion Naish specifically addresses anthropologist John Napier’s criticism of the Patterson-Gimlin footage: What evidence has been marshaled by those who assert that the film is faked? To date, none. No analysis has been performed which shows that the creature can be explained as a man in a suit. Published [...]
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