Chad Arment (1972 – ) is the creator and moderator of the first specifically cryptozoology email list, founder of a publishing company, and author/editor/publisher of cryptozoology books. His interest in cryptozoology began in the fourth grade when he read Marian Place’s On the Track of Bigfoot (Dodd Mead, 1974). He casually studied the subject until high school, then began actively to investigate reports of unusual animals wherever he was living. Specific cryptids he has tracked include a mystery cougar, giant snakes, and an unknown hairy biped, all in Maryland, and a mystery cat in Ohio. Chad Arment self-published a pamphlet [...]
Loren Coleman
Mothman Tour Cancelled; Take Photo Quiz
The company, Haunted Heartland Tours, has cancelled their Mothman Prophecy Tour, scheduled for June 9-10, 2007. No reason is given for the cancellation. Perhaps there were not enough registrations? Or, hopefully, there’s not a sinister event behind the cancellation. Of course, since it was a “prophecy” event, they must have known this was going to happen. A new date will be set for 2008 late this year. Here is what was promised for the tour: See the site of the tragic Silver Bridge collapse Venture into the remote wilderness area where Mothman was 1st seen. We will venture here at [...]
Maine’s Mysterious Black Panthers
The Wireless News Flash has sent out a breaking news dispatch on the Maine sheep killings to their 800 worldwide media outlets: Portland, Maine (Wireless Flash) — Earlier this week a mysterious beast killed 29 sheep in Lincoln County, Maine, but oddly enough the animal didn’t eat any lamb chops. Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, author of “Mysterious America” (Paraview Pocket Books), says the answer to the attack might be found in black panthers, who aren’t indigenous to North America, but could be making a comeback and preying on unexpecting livestock. Coleman says there have been recent sightings of the dangerous cougars [...]
Salt & Pepper Aussie Panthers
From the reality of a new report of a white, perhaps even an albino, mystery panther in Australia, to a novel video comedy on the search for black or melanistic Aussie felines, let’s stay with panthers a bit longer today. “I WASN’T drinking and definitely no funny smokes. I think it was this mystery ancient animal people talk about that was here.” Rossville resident Jim Stone is not laughing off the mysterious creature he saw running through his property near the Bloomfield Valley on a Sunday afternoon last month. And his son’s partner, JaJa Elliot, also was stunned when she [...]
Something’s Savaging Lee Straw’s Sheep
Something’s killing Lee Straw’s sheep. Most of his flock is kept safe on remote islands, just off the rugged New England coast. But many of the rest, over the past week, have been slaughtered by a mysterious and vicious killer. If this were most parts of rural North America, dead livestock would just be part of the cycle of life. But in Maine — where Stephen King-approved dark imagery covers every unexplained and bloody happening — the twin mass killings of Straw’s flock is quickly becoming the stuff of legend and speculation. Last Sunday [June 3, 2007], the frustrated herder [...]
1981 Champ Conference
Were you there? Did you attend the August 1981 conference in Vermont, the first scientific seminar devoted to a study of the cryptids that have been reported lurking in the waters of Lake Champlain for the past 300 years? It sort of was the Woodstock of Champ. I was there. I wrote about the conference in Mysterious America. Here’s a sample what I saw and heard: In the morning session, Joseph Zarzynski ran down the historical background of the Champ sightings and introduced the audience of 200 people to the Sandra Mansi photograph. Projected on a wall-size screen in an [...]
New Johor Bigfoot Book
Sin Chew Daily journalist Lee Hoy Chin has written a new book Johor Bigfoot: The Beginning of the True Story after covering eyewitness accounts on the creature. The book is reported to be a compilation of newspaper reports on Bigfoot and other details not published in newspapers. Many people are searching for the truth about Bigfoot and I hope this book can help them learn about the subject better. Many may argue that Bigfoot is just a superstition but I hope this book will pave the way for more research on the topic. – Lee Hoy Chin The drawings from [...]
Bernard Heuvelmans: A Rebel of Science
A new biography of one of the godfathers of cryptozoology has been written.
New Enhanced Nessie Video
The first two moving gifs are enhancements of the Gordon Holmes Nessie video done by Bill Appleton. The following photo frame and drawing from that frame are newly posted by Gordon Holmes.
Otter Nonsense
Otters, of course, are responsible for a few misidentifications of Lake Monsters in bodies of water worldwide. In my The Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep (co-authored by Patrick Huyghe), the fact that people do make mistakes when viewing mundane mammals on lakes and lochs is acknowledged. Otters, nevertheless, have never been seen as the root of all Lake Monsters accounts, as seemed to be expressed on CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now” last week by the guest skeptic. Otters are hardly in vogue any longer. Even Bernard Heuvelmans’ theory of the “super-otters,” as [...]
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