They were astonished to find a huge footprint measuring 17.5 inches in length.
Cryptozoology Is Not About Faith
Click image for full-size version My friend and Cryptomundo colleague, British Columbian John Kirk writes on this blog today, “Bracing For Disappointment” that was itself a disappointment to read. I think it speaks to the erosion of natural history adventure and the rise of cynicism that has begun to infect our field. Speaking specifically about the potential and possibilities of the Vincent Chow revelations in the as-yet-to-be-released Malaysian photos of Mawas, Kirk writes that “given the flops as far as earthshaking cryptid footage and photos of the past are concerned, I do not have much faith that they will be [...]
Peter Brown on Hobbits, Ebu Gogo, and Bigfoot
Peter Brown has spoken before of the interrelationship between the media-named "Hobbits," Flores’ ebu gogo, and Bigfoot. In an interview for Scientific American in 2004, the discoverer of Homo floresiensis was asked, Certainly by the time of LB1, people had well-developed language and oral traditions. Might encounters with humans like LB1 and other, unknown, island forms be the source of mythologies that are so widespread in the world today involving very tiny people and very large people? Brown’s reply: You pick a country and there’s either large Bigfoot and Yetis, or small leprechauns and Yowies, depending on which part of [...]
Rising Sun: Gateway Event
Thirty-seven years ago today, a small town in Indiana served as the temporal and spatial gateway to the Midwestern hairy hominoid reports that would sweep across the hinderland of America in the 1970s. Momo (pictured below) was two or three years away (depending on what report you consider “first”), and the high strangeness of the ’77′s sightings was still around the time-span warp. Some events seem to have just the right names. It was almost sundown in the town with the opposite moniker. May 19, 1969 – 7:30 p.m. CDT, near Rising Sun, Indiana, at a location outside the home [...]
Is Bigfoot a Homin?
Is it true that all hominids are hominoids but not all hominoids are hominids? Where do the pongids and anthropoids fall, as hominoids but not hominids? And what the heck is a homin? Who is on first, anyway? What are the various definitions of humanoid, hominoid, hominid, hominology, homin, anthropoid, and pongid? These jumble of words are loosely used when discussing Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Mawas, Almas, Yeti, Yowie, Orang Pendek, and a wide variety of hairy, upright or semi-bipedal humanlike cryptids. (See definition of cryptid here.) Can we sort out some basic definitions and understand some meanings for all of these [...]
Monkey Talks In Sentences
Dolphins give each other names, and now we learn that monkeys talk in sentences. What do these new findings have to say about all those thoughts of humans being the only animals that have a “language”? And thus, by extension, that Sasquatch/Bigfoot with language “must” mean they are more human, as per John Kirk’s posting about the talking Sasquatch of Harrison Hot Springs? This new primate research is very specific: Monkeys are able to string together a simple “sentence”, according to research that offers the first evidence that animals might be capable of a key feature of language. British scientists [...]
Too Old For CZ TV?
I have a short personal story to share today. It is a tale of pondering whether cryptozoology television is merely for the young. And even if the answer is yes, are corporations missing out on something in reinforcing that trend? First, I’m a little biased. That’s why it’s personal, of course. I’m 58, and yet feel like I’m 23 and sometimes even 12 years old, when I’m talking about or investigating cryptozoology. I have been in this field for 46 years. I know it keeps me young. Perhaps corporate folks don’t know this about cryptozoology? As many of you know, [...]
Johor Bigfoot Found, Then What?
Up ahead, the quest is nearing its end. The leeches are sucking the energy from the media crew who forgot to wear their leech socks. Bees are buzzing around. Bird songs fill the air. But what’s that sound? A heavy breathing is heard. Sweat falls from the brows onto the heaving chests as the chase picks up speed. Footprints have been found, the live capture gear is at hand. The moment is here. Shooting to kill has been rejected. The searchers round a corner, and are met with an image of an unknown hominoid not unlike Peter Loh’s latest best [...]
Johor Mawas Photo Analysis
With reference to yesterday’s blog, “Rival Group Claims ‘Johor Bigfoot’ Are Escaped Orangutans,”, here today for critique are the photographs and sketches that the API, SPI, Vincent Chow, and others feel are supportive of their theories. An even dozen different images are given for your insights. First, you can see for the API analysis of this issue, they have used Cryptomundo’s Peter Loh drawing of the head of a Johor Mawas and positioned it next to a photograph of the head of an orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). Their contention is that the Loh blue-tinted Mawas resembles the Indonesian mawas, the orangutan. [...]
Rival Group Claims “Johor Bigfoot” Are Escaped Orangutans
On February 18, 2006, I wrote a Cryptomundo blog entitled, “Are Malaysian Bigfoot Colonies Really Orangutans?”. Today, May 14, 2006, somewhat symbolically perhaps, a rival group to Dr. Vincent Chow’s research team is announcing they feel they have the ultimate theory that the Malaysian Bigfoot are nothing more than known orangutans. Please click and see here for images supporting the text below. Has the discussion of the photographs taken of the “Bigfoot” in Johor revealed anything about these “Mawas” sightings? In February, I wondered aloud then if the Johor Wildlife Protection Society was merely talking about orangutans when discussing these [...]
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