What if this story is about a large flying cryptid? This youngster did a better job than many adults do when they see something large and unknown, flying off into the sunset. Monday, Nov 06, 2006 Small fry captures rare glimpse of straying big bird By Bob Pool Los Angeles Times Gabriel Gottfried, 5, shows the digital photo he took of a condor launching from a pine tree near his Los Angeles home. LOS ANGELES – Like any good bird-lover, Gabriel Gottfried knew what to do when he spied the huge creature perched on a tree branch outside his Topanga [...]
Cohomo Monster: 1972
Yes, here comes another piece of news from a series of Bigfoot reports from the 1970s. I wrote about this Illinois series in Creatures of the Other Edge and Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America. Now the media seems to be rediscovering these old reports. Here’s my summary of these cases, followed by the new article. In May 1972, there were new reports coming in from the Pekin and Peoria, Illinois, areas. In late May, a young man named Randy Emmert, and some friends, reported a large, hairy creature near Cole Hollow Road. This monster was 8-10 feet [...]
Dolphin Photo
Here’s the photo of the dolphin that goes with the story previously noted here of the dolphin with "extra legs," actually fins, apparently. AP This photo, released by the Taiji Whale Museum, highlights the extra set of fins. The tail is being held by a diver whose hand is visible at upper right.
Hoodwinked in Arizona
Who is hoodwinking whom? The Associated Press is carrying a summary article out of Arizona, telling of Tom Biscardi (above) going on an expedition there. The piece leaves out any examination of Biscardi’s past and is a chopped up version of a longer article, which is found below. But what is the background story on this original Arizona news item? Can we pull back the drapes surrounding this media Oz, and figure out how this article was constructed? Here’s some details. On Thursday, November 2, 2006, a reporter from the Arizona Republic named Dennis Wagner emailed me. He said he [...]
Abductions by Modern Neandertals?
Neandertals left their tracks, above, behind. Have they interacted with modern humans in contemporary times, and left behind much more? Is there a record of human beings being abducted by hairy unknown hominids, perhaps even Neandertals in Europe? The reported sleeping position of the Ksy-gyik. Did it sleep with humans? Here is a list of a few possible kidnapping incidents, none of them before published in English, shared by Norwegian cryptozoologist Erik Knatterud: Spain, Sienra. Probably about 800 years ago. Baby abduction. An infant boy was stolen from his nanny, but a swift rescue party managed to find the boy [...]
The Black Thing
This black (melanistic) color phase of the white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, was taken during hunting season in Michigan, apparently this October 2006. They are said to be rarer than appearances of the albino phase. Thanks to John Lutz and Judith Rogers for sharing this.
Dolphin With “Remains of Back Legs”
Not cryptozoological, but considering what’s been discussed today, it seemed worth sharing: Japanese researchers said Sunday [November 4, 2006] a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, providing further evidence ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land. Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan on Oct. 28 and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, said museum director Katsuki Hayashi. Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos [...]
Meldrum and the Media: A Manufactured Mini-Mess
How could a nice guy like Jeff Meldrum (above) get caught in a mini-mess in the press? It happens. An Editorial I wasn’t going to say anything about the article on the work of Dr. Jeff Meldrum. Hey, you all know about it, as mentioned here at Cryptomundo and elsewhere. I was hoping that the tempest in the teapot would go away. But I decided to put to rest some thoughts I have had during the day on the mini-mess in my attempt to move on and get back to the real news. It is the Saturday before a major [...]
Giant Caribbean Snake Sighted
Alsophis antiguae (pictured above) is a harmless grey-brown four-foot long snake, found only on Antigua, a small Caribbean island, thus it carries the common name the Antigua Racer Snake. It is considered the rarest snake in the world, with approximately 200 existing on a small island off the coast of Antigua. But is there a bigger unknown snake on a nearby island? Breaking news seems to indicate as much: The Department of Environment [on the Caribbean's Cayman Islands] said it was called to investigate a report of a large snake in the vicinity of Newlands recently after a resident [...]
Get The Vote Out – For Bigfoot!
On Saturday, November 4, 2006, the CNN Poll was conducting a survey (probably due to the Meldrum publicity) that read: “Do you believe that Bigfoot exists?” Update: The poll has been taken down. See end of this blog for more final thoughts. You can respond “Yes” or “No.” If you would like to “vote,” go to the CNN page (link here) and scroll down to the poll. It’s on the lower right side of the page. At 9:30 am Eastern, it’s still up and probably will be for several more hours. As of when I am posting this, of 21,909 [...]
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