A group of scientists from the UK based Centre for Fortean Zoology are set to travel to the Caucasus Mountains of the Southwest Russian republic of Karbadino Balkaria in search of what they are saying may be “mankind’s closest living relative ~ a hominid known as the almasty.” The three-week expedition is being filmed by October Films for UK Channel 4 television, and by the team themselves for a feature length documentary to be broadcast, for free, on their CFZtv multimedia website. Ukrainian biologist Grigory Panchenko, who has been on the track of the ape-like man for over 14 years, [...]
Blogsquatching: Interface and Malfunction
Carl Diehl’s Metaphortean Space nicely adds a shiny chrome, intellectually-friendly frame around his insights into “blogsquatching”: An interface is typically designed to make the new domain easier for a “user” to comprehend. When this remediation works, the user is fairly oblivious to the crossing-over that is going on. On the contrary, malfunction typically calls attention to the collision of worlds, maintaining itself as burden on presumed purposes. This sort of dissonance might seem to complicate the credibility of such a thing as “the interface of malfunction.” If there is hesitation…so be it. An experiential and interpretative encounter with this mechanism [...]
Editorial: Bushnell, Wake Up!
Will anyone be killed in the woods? Someone has got to ask the hard question about the $1,000,000 Sasquatch challenge. The Bushnell’s $1,000,000 Sasquatch Photo Challenge may be creative, a great piece of publicity for trail cameras, and gain some potentially intriguing photos. But at what cost? Obviously, the company took the hoaxsters into consideration with this “Bonus Category” add-on in their contest: For all you jokers out there – we’re giving away an additional Bushnell Trail Scout Pro camera for your best attempt to cheat Bushnell out of their $1,000,000 prize. So go grab your gorilla suit and head [...]
Monster Quest II
It is Tuesday, May 27, 2008, and the History Channel, on behalf of “Monster Quest II,” is here in Portland, Maine, with a film producer and crew today to digitally film interviews with me about cryptozoology, in the context of a five hour tour of the International Cryptozoology Museum. Their snippets of the interviews, b-roll, and various background commentary on artifacts at the ICM will be used as web-linked support for Season Two of “Monster Quest,” which premieres tomorrow, Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Here are two trailers about the new season. Enjoy: MonsterQuest : Mutant Canines Airs on Wednesday May [...]
New Evidence of Yeren
At Don Keating’s Ohio Bigfoot Conference last weekend, the M. K. Davis presentations on the Patterson-Gimlin footage and the furor caused in the wake of the “Patty was shot” theory were not all that happened there. One presenter’s recent activities were overshadowed by the Davis “massacre theory.” That specifically was the news shared by Jeff Meldrum, Ph. D., who is a tenured Associate Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology and Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Jeff Meldrum is shown second from the left, last weekend in Ohio, along with other speakers at the Bigfoot [...]
Three Upcoming Bigfoot Conferences
What’s in store for human group discussions involving the big hairy bipeds during 2008? Here are some announced gatherings: 20th Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO Don Keating’s 20th Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO will occur on Saturday, May 17, 2008, from 4 p.m. to about 10 p.m. The location is the Salt Fork State Park Lodge, just off of US Route 22, in Guernsey County, Ohio. The speakers are Igor Bourtsev, Jeff Meldrum, Eric Altman and MK Davis. East Coast Bigfoot Conference for 2008 Eric Altman’s Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society will hold its conference on September 27, 2008 from noon to [...]
Mande Burung Breast Feeds Captive
Please click on the above cartoon for a larger image. Remember June 2007 when artist Peter Loh, making contact from Singapore, sent in the above illustration to go with the breaking news (here, here, here) coming hot out of the rainforests of South Asia of a strange new creature, the Mande Burung (= Wild Jungle People)? The hominoid is back in the news. “Meghalaya” literally means “The Abode of Clouds” and is the name of a small state in northeast India. Chad Arment makes reference to a news item about the Achik Tourism Society (ATS) studying the Mande Burung of [...]
Cryptozoo Book With A Warning
Extreme Expedition: Travel Adventures Stalking the World’s Mystery Animals by Adam Davies (Anomalist Books) has been published. It contains a rare “warning label” not often seen on cryptozoological works. Davies, who is departing on a new Yeren expedition on April 28, 2008, is sharing with the world his most recent adventures. Does a dinosaur exist in the Congo? Does a Yeti-like creature live in the jungles of Sumatra? Does a fearsome Death Worm inhabit the deserts of Mongolia? Explorer Adam Davies has traveled some of the most dangerous places in the world in search of these and other supposedly mythical [...]
Hominology: The Russian View
A new work has been published by Crypto-Logos in Russia, entitled Bigfoot Research: The Russian Vision. It appears it will soon be offered by Hancock House. (I have not seen a review copy yet.) The book’s author is Dmitri Bayanov; it was compiled by Christopher L. Murphy, and edited by Roger Knights.
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