Grover Krantz is remembered for many things, perhaps mostly by Cryptomundo readers for his research captured in the pages of Bigfoot Sasquatch: Evidence. To me, of all the guys I’ve met, he may have been one of the sweetest, most down-to-earth men searching for Bigfoot, despite an overblown counter-reputation for being sharp and fierce. To know Grover, as a person, was to truly like him. Grover Krantz, during the 1970s. Through face-to-face encounters, phone calls, and emails, Grover and I kept in contact for many years. I tried to capture his life in various places, such as the brief biographical [...]
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Luche Libre: Chupacabras
Just a brief note that with the success of Jack Black in the movie Nacho Libre (2006), many North Americans are awakening to the popularity of luche libre ("free-style fighting"). The masked version of Mexican professional wrestling has been around since the 1930s. As a reflection of popular culture, it is not surprising that cryptids pop up as characters, now and then, in luche libre. One luchador ("wrestler") has even dressed himself as a Chupacabras. Do you know others?
Pick Johor Pix Panel
Patience is a virtue. Patience and passion are two important components of cryptozoology research, as I have often mentioned, as per Bernard Heuvelmans. Speculations on the Johor Hominid have reached new lows and highs, from muddled discussions of “reverse evolution” to the creation of a new Peter Loh sketch (above) based on all the information available to a new website. But the time has come for a challenge to those saying they have more evidence. Based on a recent turn of events in the Johor Hominid or Malaysian Bigfoot situation, there are new reasons for people to feel frustrated and [...]
Drudge Report’s Big Birds
During the first weekend in July 2006, various published photographs from the Florida site of NASA’s probable Space Shuttle launch showed rather large birds near the location. One of these pictures (see below) was so dramatic that Matt Drudge commented about it on his Sunday night radio program. He remarked that he was being emailed so many questions about it he removed the pix from his Drudge Report website for a time. (Drudge definitely is aware of cryptozoology and infrequently posts news items about sightings of cryptids.) However, from further photographs published by Drudge (below) and elsewhere, it is obvious [...]
New Name Nominee: Johor Hominid
Environmentalist Vincent Chow and palaeoanthropologist Sean Ang, who are both involved in researching the question of unknown hairy hominoids in Malaysia, have created a website to focus their pursuit. The researchers have also, through the mere need to purchase a domain name, coined a phrase for their local Malaysian Bigfoot, capturing the notion they are elusive giant bipeds from a certain area, by terming them, specifically, "Johor Hominid." According to the New Straits Times, the website promotes the fact that the Johor Hominid phenomenon is "probably the most significant and mind-shattering discovery in anthropology." Vincent Chow, above, from an earlier [...]
Marmoset Found in California
A tuft-eared marmoset was found on Tate Street, Palo Alto, San Mateo County, California, on June 27th, running along a backyard fence, according to media reports. It is of unknown origin, and is rare in the pet trade, being a native of Central and South America. The easily captured primate will probably be flown to Primarily Primates, a sanctuary outside of San Antonio, Texas, according to press accounts. As Craig noted here at Cryptomundo, however, there are management problems at Primarily Primates, a fact that does not appear to be known by the authorities at the humane society in California. [...]
Roundup of Amazing Finds
Some remarkable (yes, I do use that word) discoveries have flooded ye ole email in-boxes at Cryptomundo lately. The incoming announcements have been arriving so fast and furiously, I thought I would do a holiday weekend overview of several, to play catch up. First, let’s begin with the smallest. Bernard Heuvelmans once defined cryptozoology as dealing with any animal that was big enough to be have an impact on humans. Most people have correctly viewed this as meaning the cryptid must be "ethnoknown," and has to be, generally, in the range of the size of a domestic cat or larger. [...]
Johor Bigfoot: Reverse Evolved Homo erectus?
Here’s the latest news from Malaysia: Reverse evolution theory about the Johor Bigfoot 30 Jun 2006 JOHOR BARU: The Johor Bigfoot could be a Homo erectus that had undergone “reverse evolution”. Homo erectus (“upright man”) is a hominid species that is believed to be an ancestor of modern humans. It is a large-brained species which lived from approximately two million to around 400,000 years ago. Sean Ang, a scientist from Kuala Lumpur who had analysed the prehistoric Perak Man excavated by Universiti Sains Malaysia in 1994, said based on evidence compiled about the creature by biodiversity researcher Vincent Chow, he [...]
Name the Mystery Fish Revisited
The Mystery Fish postcard, first noted here on November 29, 2005, has never been identified, as to exact location or species. Several thousand new readers have found their way to Cryptomundo since November, so here’s a quick revisit to that photographic mystery. (Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Due to research on the type of postcard it is, there was a determination thanks to Cryptomundo readers, that this item would have been produced between 1904-18. The location seems to be in the Pacific, but perhaps it was taken in the Philippines, or maybe even Florida? [...]
Bili Ape Update
An earlier Bili or Bondo Ape foot cast from an information-gathering trek of cryptozoologist Karl Ammann. There’s breaking news from a recent exploration to collect data on the Bili Ape: Mystery apes of central Africa are chubby chimps (AFP) 28 June 2006 PARIS – A tribe of apes living in remote forests in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo are unusually large chimpanzees, not a new species of giant ape or a chimp-gorilla hybrid, New Scientist says. Zoologists became excited after people living around Bili, a town about 200 kilometres (120 miles) east of the Ebola River, recounted tales of [...]
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