Photograph by Douglas Van Reeth, Sun Journal. The story about the body linked to the central “Maine Mutant” broke over the second weekend in August and was discussed here when I was consulted on the case. The events continued, building steam as soon as both the Cryptomundo blog and Lewiston Sun Journal reporter Mark LaFlamme’s article hit the newsstands. As it turned out, worried about parts of the body being picked over, I rushed to Turner, Maine, on Wednesday afternoon, August 16, 2006, with LaFlamme and the paper’s photographer Douglas Van Reeth. There we met up with Michelle O’Donnell and [...]
Loren Coleman
Manbeast’s Nicholas Webster Dies
Award-winning TV documentary writer-producer-director Nicholas Webster, died August 12, 2006, in Santa Monica after an extended illness. He was 94. His 1961 documentary “Walk in My Shoes” for the ABC Close Up about blacks in America was Emmy-nominated as the Show of the Year. He also directed documentaries for NBC (“David Brinkley’s Journal”) and CBS (“The Twentieth Century,” with Walter Cronkite.) In terms of cryptozoology, Webster is best remembered for his documentary Manbeast: Myth or Monster. It is a 1978 documentary that explores the existence of Bigfoot, the Yeti and other legendary humanoid-type creatures. Produced by Alan Landsburg, Manbeast filmed [...]
Mystery Animal Photos
Please click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. Click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. Click on image for full-size version Photograph by Michelle O’Donnell. Used by permission. When the reporter from the Sun-Journal hinted via a comment on my blog at Cryptomundo, then called me, saying he had pictures of a “mystery animal” he wished for me to examine, of course, I thought he was talking about another coyote with mange, running through a field somewhere. I was surprised when he sent along photographs of the body [...]
Snakes on Plains – Part Deux
Various readers from part one of this blog, Snakes on Plains, wanted to see some of the following images, spanning one hundred years of giant snakes. In 1906, twenty years before explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett vanished without a trace in the Amazon, he was sent by the Royal Geographic Society to make a thorough survey of the Rio Abuna and Acre Rivers. Thirty-nine at the time, Major Fawcett, as Ivan T. Sanderson once observed, was known for two sometimes contradictory character traits: he was a dreamer whose dreams led him to envision lost jungle cities of fantastic wealth and [...]
Giant Spiders
How big do spiders get? To get an idea of scale, here is spider owner Ged Casserley with some of his former pets, a Goliath birdeater and other real-life giant spiders. Photo: Ged Casserley.
Media Notes Pine Ridge Bigfoot Audio Report
The California-based Wireless Flash News Service distributes their stories to 800 alternative newspapers, radio stations, and other news outlets worldwide. Here’s their story, unedited: BIGFOOT UPDATE: POLICE SCANNER TAPE REVEALS CREATURE’S WHEREABOUTS August 15, 2006 PINE RIDGE, South Dakota (Wireless Flash) — There’s been a rash of Bigfoot sightings at the Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and a police scanner recording is the most compelling evidence yet. That’s the word from cryptozoologist Loren Coleman, who says the 90-second audio clip — which was taped this past Friday (Aug. 11) — features a female police officer investigating a [...]
Snakes on Plains
The ultimate snake on a plain, The Great Serpent Mound in Ohio may represent a giant snake swallowing an egg. Accounts of giant snakes have circulated throughout the United States, across the plains, into the forests of Middle America, and from coast to coast. Reports from the area around Bridgewater, Massachusetts, tell of CCC workers in the 1930s encountering huge coiled serpents along the pathways through the Hockomock Swamp. From Hastings, Michigan, comes tales of the twenty-foot-long Carter’s Snake, so named because it was always seen near Carter’s Lake. Near another lake, Reynold’s Lake in Kentucky, local people began to [...]
Lake Elsinore Monster Bobs Up Again
Lake Elsinore Monster Yarn Bobs Up Again Elsinore – C. B. Greenstreet, rancher, today came to the aid of Southern California publicists, who have been chagrined during recent months for lack of a lake, sea or river monster. Greenstreet revived the Lake Elsinore monster, reported to have been seen from time to time since Indians roamed the country. He said: I know you think I’m crazy; but I saw it. We all saw it — my wife and two children, and my little girl was terrified and afraid to return to our home at the head of the lake. It [...]
Przewalski Horses and Almas
Cilka (above) was a beauty. The world’s oldest known Przewalski horse died on August 12, 2006. The mare named Cilka was 34, and she died peacefully at the Prague zoo. Her ancestors lived in the grasslands of central Asia. Indeed, this animal’s legacy was as a member of a group that survived from the Ice Ages, and her hairy appearance showed her links to the Pleistocene. As wire service news of her death mentioned: Only about two dozen of the world’s estimated 2,000 Przewalski horses are over age 30….The Przewalski horse, or Takh, a national symbol in Mongolia, is the [...]
Henriksen Handles Bigfoot (Again)
Over at Dread Central, the Foywonder mentions a new movie to be screened in September: That Lance Henriksen must really dig Bigfoot. Every time you turn around ol’ Lance is turning up in a Sasquatch movie. He already survived Sasquatch, wasn’t so lucky in Abominable, and now he’s bracing for a rubber match with Bigfoot in Devil on the Mountain. The action happens in the Arizona mountains. Will Lance Henriksen make it out alive? One thing is for certain, Lance Henriksen deserves enshrinement in the Sasquatch Cryptofiction Cinema Hall of Fame some day! By the way, the movie’s original title [...]
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