“I have no fear of losing my life. If I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.” – Steve Irwin Steve Irwin who once devoted time in the hunt for the Thylacine has been killed. Crikey! Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday, September 4, 2006, by a stingray while filming off the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44. Irwin was at Batt Reef, off the remote coast of northeastern Queensland state, shooting a segment for a series [...]
Yarwen: Captured in Maine
I get all kinds of emails. Some are threatening. Some are intriguing. Some are confusing. Because an “offer” in a new email has been withdrawn due to the fact I wanted more details, plus, humm, a photograph, as well as to know the real identity of the person writing me, I will share the following correspondence. This melodrama may be someone’s fiction or next week’s media event, so read it in that context. The person who wrote got upset with my caution, my checking for credibility, and my probing questions. The individual then said he was going to put “it” [...]
Messages From The Rez
People from South Dakota continue to write me about the July-August reports of something, some things, and more being seen by the Oglala Sioux. What are people saying about the Pine Ridge Bigfoot who live there? Here’s a sampling. I don’t have any directly-related Pine Ridge sketches to go with any of this material because no one has sent any to me. Yet. PynkSpyder writes: Okay, some things are not being said. I’m from this reservation, and, really, you couldn’t go 5 minutes without the topic coming up during that week. I heard from an OST officer, who is a [...]
CryptoChannel ‘06
The Sci-Fi Channel’s start date for the new Rob Mariano vehicle will be Wednesday, October 11, 2006. The program “Sci Fi Investigates” will air at 10:00 pm Eastern/9:00 pm Central. The new reality show will be a six-week series hosted by the “Survivor” and “Amazing Race” alum “Boston Rob” and produced by NBC News Productions. Among the subjects covered will be “Bigfoot,” “Mothman,” “Paranormal Hotspots,” “Roswell Revisited,” “The Afterlife” and “Voodoo.” Cryptomundo earlier cautiously mentioned this program on July 14, 2006. As I critiqued it then, the program appears to be taking a skeptical or hostile approach to these subjects, [...]
Why A Bigfoot Trap?
During the hunt for the Yeti, then Bigfoot, the Texas oil and beef millionaire commissioned the building of elaborate feet-oriented traps to capture those unknown hairy hominoids. All we have left are the drawings, apparently. But out west, a different and more elaborate Bigfoot trap still exists. Craig Woolheater discussed the trap here at Cryptomundo on August 25, 2006. In the Sunday, September 3, 2006, edition of the Medford, Oregon, Mail Tribune, Ron Olson explains why he built that Bigfoot trap. ‘I’ve always believed there is a Bigfoot’ By PAUL FATTIG Mail Tribune Despite popular belief, the legendary Bigfoot trap [...]
Sunday Cryptocomics
The above photograph was contributed by the author of The Pink Room. Plus An Encore Appearance Goofy as the Maine Mutant by Peter Loh.
Update: Baffin Mystery Skull Identified
Update Regarding the “Bizarre Baffin Skull” entry posted on May 30, 2006, the enigma has been solved. The mystery skull is discussed in an article in the Nunatsiaq News of Iqaluit, Nunavut, and it is a skull of a caribou calf. The scientist who confirmed this is Richard Harrington, an archeologist with the Museum of Nature in Ottawa. At first Harrington was hopeful it was a skull of an animal he is researching. The newspaper observed that Harrington has ….spent over a decade excavating an ancient beaver pond on Ellesmere Island, where he found the remains of several extinct species, [...]
The Silver Bridge: How Many Died?
Mothman mysteriously appeared and for 13 months was seen in a Banshee-like wave of sightings. Then the Silver Bridge fell. Maybe there’s a connection, maybe there isn’t. With all due respect, do you know how many died in that tragedy? Why have my buddies at the Fortean Times forgotten to fact-check this significant detail before publishing a Letter to the Editor about it? Bill Rebsamen’s image of the Mothman created for the cover of my book on the subject. In the new issue of the Fortean Times, # 214, for October 2006, on page 71, in a letter entitled “Silver [...]
Gone Where The Goblins Go
Ding-dong the dog is dead Which old dog? The wicked dog Ding-dong the wicked dog is dead Wake up you sleepyhead Rub your eyes, get out of bed Wake up the wicked dog is dead He’s gone where the goblins go. The story of the Maine Mutant or Mystery Beast of Turner, Maine, has just begun. Scholars, scoundrels, and skeptics will write about the case for years, attempting to prove that it says something sinister about the gullibility of humans. But the story is one deeper than that, of media, madness, and mayhem, of jealousy, joining, and journeys. But we’ve [...]
Beast of Bladenboro
The following is a guest article by Jefferson Weaver, former reporter at the Bladen Journal of Bladen, North Carolina. Coverage of "beast" became real monster for Bladenboro By Jefferson Weaver Staff Writer Whether or not a hungry monster really stalked Bladenboro in December of 1953 and January of 1954, there was a Beast in Bladenboro bigger than anything on four feet. Press coverage. "Bladenboro has received a lot of front page publicity in the state press," one newspaper writer reported when the "crisis" was over. Writing in the Bladen Journal, publisher Norman McCullough joked that if the beast were ever [...]
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