The Formosan wild boar’s distinctive nostril stripe is clearly seen in this photograph. The China Post is reporting on January 12, 2007, that Formosan wild boar nests have been sighted in northern Taiwan, during the past two months. The Taiwan Forestry Research Institute (TFRI) reported yesterday that these incidents marked the “first sightings” in 15 years. (The news release is unclear if they are talking about just nest sightings or the actual animals also being seen. The sightings near the Fu-Shan Research Station in Yilan County, northeastern Taiwan, marked the first time for such events by TFRI officials since the [...]
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“Destination Truth” Gets Green Light
The Hollywood Reporter is spreading the news that “Destination Truth” on the Sci Fi Channel is a go for April 2007. After the Destination: Truth expedition of February 20, 2006, found footprints at Kampung Lukut, a new wave of ecotourism was stimulated and foreign tour groups began arriving. The cast discussed around the world: Joshua Gates shows the media the footprint cast the “Destination Truth” team discovered in February 2006. Reporter Kimberly Nordyke writes: The six-episode weekly reality show features Josh Gates, described as a world adventurer and “eager truth-seeker,” visiting a different destination every week with his small crew [...]
New Jellyfish Discovered
Above is a box jellyfish, but not the new one. A new jellyfish, which is unique because it can survive the dry season, has been discovered off Australia. The bart jellyfish is found only at the Gove Peninsular "in the Top End." (The Top End is the second northernmost point on the continent of Australia, behind the Cape York Peninsula. It covers a rather vaguely-defined area of perhaps 400,000 square kilometres bounded by sea on three sides, the Indian Ocean on the west, the Arafura Sea to the north, and the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east, and by the [...]
23 Skidoo: Goodbye Robert Anton Wilson
My old friend Robert Anton Wilson has died. I learned of the news from my friends Patrick Huyghe and David Pescovitz. I’m sure someplace, Bucky Fuller, Timothy Leary, Charles Fort, and Robert Anton Wilson are deciding whether it’s time to play supercheckers or Texas hold ‘em. I corresponded with Robert Anton Wilson (RAW as he sometimes was called) from the 1970s through the early 1990s, until his health and his in-and-out self-exiles moved him near-and-far from many people. In the waning years, like many, I kept in touch via friends of friends, as it were. Wilson had a universe of [...]
Relict Skull Results: Khwit and Relative?
There’s news out of German cryptozoology site about new DNA results on the skull of Khwit (shown above) and another new find. In August, 2006, the Russian newspaper Komsomol’skaja Pravda (1) reported on the examination of a skull assumed to be from a “relic hominoid” from Abkazia. Most have talked about their relationship to the Almasty mystery. Igor Bourtsev, who found the skull, was invited to visit the USA for its analysis. (2) Click on the Khwit news item for a full-sizer view of the skull. Bourtsev wrote in the Mugamir Russian website that he was in New York from [...]
Mystery Tusk: Definitely Mastodon Not Mammoth – Perhaps
This mastodon (Mammut americanum) is the life-sized bronze representation at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, the home of the “Mastodons.” As you will recall, on the 8th, you first read here about the “Mystery Tusk.” Now comes a “confirmed” answer. Or is it? Therein lies the tale behind the splash on the television screen. The video is running on the local news this morning and WCSH-6 has run a backup item on their website by Peter Weyl. The mystery tusk was discovered by Tim Winchenbach of Cushing. He found it in a scallop net brought up from the Georges [...]
Harry Horse, The Ogopogo Author & Atlantis Rising Cartoonist Dies
The author of The Opopogo – My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster, Harry Horse, 46 (real name: Richard Horne), his dog Roo, other pets, and his ill wife Mandy, 39, have all died in an apparent mass suicide. The Scotsman is reporting on January 11, 2007, that Horne, his wife (multiple sclerosis saw her confined to a wheelchair at 39), and their pets were found Papil, on Burra, Scotland, on January 9, victims of an apparent assisted suicide and suicide pact. Richard Horne, better known as Harry Horse, a famed children’s book illustrator, author, and cartoonist of the bizarre [...]
Scorpions On Planes
Two incidents in one week. Two scorpions on two separate planes. The news is coming in so rapidly this week, I shared this one directly with Chad Arment’s Strange Ark, a good site for you to know about anyway. Read more fully about the scorpions on the planes, here.
Cryptozoology Wednesday
A new site to check out: Anomaly TV: Cryptozoology Wednesday. What do you think about it? One place to find all the Bigfoot videos you have been looking for? Word on replays of Mothman documentaries? Updates on when A & E, National Geographic, Travel Channel, History Channel and other repeats or new programs are going to air. A place to see you favorite online uploads of Blobsquatches? YouTube selections, too?
Afghan Artillery and Baffling Barmanu
Jodi Magraner discusses the Barmanu and shows the drawings he had made of them from eyewitness accounts. In my modest effort to send some field guides and other books to the troops who are in harms’ way, a few shipments have gone out. Today, via a received email, I heard back from a soldier in an area known for some unknown hominoid activity and much more. Mark Langenkamp is stationed someplace in eastern Afghanistan. He writes: I got your book in the mail today! Thank you again for sending it. When I am done reading it, I will leave it [...]
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