George Noory, during the “Coast to Coast AM” program last night, August 10, 2007, took various calls from individuals who reported many kinds of cryptids. The C2C link is here. The link serves as a way to hear a replay of the entire program, to conduct a mp3 download, or to read a summary. Some talk was of the overlap between the Mothman banshee mythos and the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge (pictured below). (You can read about the “I-35W Blues” elsewhere at Cryptomundo.) But most of the callers specifically shared their firsthand stories. Folks telephoned in and told [...]
Not Texas
I’ve been asked again about meeting up with some people at the Texas Bigfoot conference this year. I’ve mentioned it before, but let me say it again: That gathering is run by a new committee and I wasn’t part of their plans for this year. I won’t be there. I will be in Newcastle, England, over Labor Day, at the Mass Monster Mash conference in October, and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City on December 1, 2007. See you all at those places, and more upcoming, but not in Texas in 2007. Thank you for [...]
BBC Bumps Mothman Broadcast
Click image for a fuller size version. “The Curse Continues” © Charles Berlin 2007 The above original Cryptomundo exclusive cartoon* was created by Charles Berlin. It is made in the style of the “four-fold vision.” But you ought to know that What is Grand is necessarily obscure to Weak men. That which can be made Explicit to the Idiot is not worth my care.- William Blake, Letter to Dr. Trusler. Update: I will be on Coast to Coast AM, briefly after 10 PM PDT, 1 AM EDT, tonight (August 10-11) talking a bit about this topic. On Tuesday, August 7, [...]
Skinwalkers
One of Linda Godfrey’s illustrations of you-know-what. The movie Skinwalkers opens today, so it might be time to learn more about Skinwalkers: What Are They?, from The Daily Grail. “The Best Fortean Cryptozoology Book of 2005″ picked here at Cryptomundo was Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah by Colm A. Kelleher and George Knapp. Kelleher and Knapp are the authors of the Skinwalkers item at TDG. I first wrote about Skinwalkers in 1975, in Creatures of the Other Edge, on pages 109-111. “They go very fast,” the Diné man told anthropologist William [...]
Coming Soon: Mass Monster Mash
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Bahia Horned Bipedal Beast Photo
Click on image for full size version. Photographs are shared with me weekly. Some are compelling (as in “interesting,” but not necessarily “evidence” quality) enough to make it to Cryptomundo. Here’s one, above, of an alleged horned biped creature on a South American riverbank just in that I find intriguing, if not curiously prosaic. Needless to say, in these days of photoshopping, frame captures from sci-fi films, and animation that nearly looks real, anything is possible as an origin of any new photo. But what is this? Does it look familiar to anyone? Here’s what I know, to date, on [...]
Avdeev Snowman Photograph
[The above photograph, first published in 1990 but making the rounds of European hominology sites this week of August 2007, may actually be one of the worst "Snowman" photographs I have ever seen. Either that or none of us know exactly what Snowpeople look like. - LC] The Russian newspaper Volkhov reported in March 2006 about Nikolaj Avdeev’s field work in the southern Urals.1 According to the author Avdeev began his research in the Caucasus and in mid-Asia. Later he worked in the polar Urals. At the beginning of the 1980’s it was also claimed that the “Snowman” had been [...]
Mississippi ‘Roos On the Run
Mississippi is in the midst of a rash of kangaroo sightings. Here is a summary of what the wire services are reporting about the specifics. Bay St. Louis, Miss. (AP) – A kangaroo may be on the loose in Mississippi. Animal-control officers in Bay Saint Louis say there have been several reports in the past few days of a kangaroo hopping along U.S. 90. The mayor says he’s heard reports of people seeing a kangaroo four or five different times, and at first he wondered if someone was just joking around. Some officials suspect the animal was someone’s pet that [...]
New Congolese Species
———————————————————————— Field teams discovered four mammal species new to science, including a new species of bat of the Rhinolophus genus. Other mammal species included a species of rodent and two shrews. ———————————————————————— An expedition led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to a remote corner of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has uncovered unique forests which, so far, have been found to contain six animal species new to science: a bat, a rodent, two shrews, and two frogs. The forested region—including the Misotshi-Kabogo Forest (formerly Mt. Kabobo)—and nearby Marunga Massif is located just west of Lake Tanganyika and has [...]
New Suriname Species
Conservation International led expeditions to the South American country of Suriname in 2005 and 2006, finding two dozen potential new species in the process. Among the biological curiosities documented during the expeditions was this ant species, Daceton armigerum, which is a highly visual predator of the rainforest canopy. Piotr Naskrecki / Conservation International The Amazonian snail-eater snake, Dipsas indica, was documented by researchers on the Lely Plateau in Suriname. This snake feeds on snails, which extracts from the shell. After the snake seizes the exposed body of a snail, the slender lower jaws of the snake are drawn into the [...]
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