Cryptozoology

Malaysian Bigfoot Search Continues

In the wake of the dramatic developments that the “johor hominid” photos are a hoax, many have forgotten that the foundation of the Malaysian Bigfoot reports remain intact. Here’s a report from Raymond Goh of the API, a sometimes rival, sometimes cooperative entity of the SPI and Vincent Chow. For the sake of balance, I thought it important to publish these thoughts, with Raymond’s permission, to get some insights into the API’s point of view. – Loren ———————————————————————— The sudden turn of events of the Johor hominid case has angered and disappointed many. Touted by a reputed Malaysia Nature Society [...]

Cryptozoologist Of The Day: Toh Seong Fai

The Cryptomundo cryptozoologist to be highlighted is one of the background figures in the ongoing Malaysian Bigfoot investigations. Mr. Toh Seong Fai, 33, is the Vice-President of Singapore Paranormal Investigators (SPI). SPI has been involved in the fieldwork of the Johor examinations, and Toh Seong Fai has been in the thick of it. On Monday, August 14, 2006, the Malaysia Star profiled Toh Seong Fai, as follows: Toh Seong Fai, 33 Vice-President of Singapore Paranormal Investigators by night; business trainer by day.  How he got hooked: As a child, he was always fascinated by cryptozoology, the science of researching animals [...]

French Police Hunt Mystery Black Felid

August 14, 2006 Boulogne-sur-mer, France • Scores of policemen, some armed with shotguns, are hunting a mysterious big black feline spotted in northern France, officers said. The operation was launched Wednesday near the town of Boulogne-sur-Mer after several panicked people first raised the alarm on seeing what they described as a “panther” about 1.2 metres long on a popular beach. Some 80 officers and a helicopter were immediately deployed on a search, and the beach was closed for a day, but they failed to find their quarry. Belgian tourists and residents then reported seeing the black beast on Friday, and [...]

Gator Roundup – Summer 2006

You’d think the Loch Ness Monster had shown up wearing a feather boa made out of ivory-billed woodpeckers and started beating hippie kayakers with the petrified corpse of a Bigfoot. – Mark Hinson, Tallahassee Democrat, August 13, 2006. The US government’s official map of incidents of out-of-place alligators. For more detailed information on locations and citations, click here. Please click on the map for fuller-sized version. You may recall on May 14th, 2006 (“Why Cryptozoology Is Interested In Alligator Sightings”, I predicted a summer of higher than normal reports of alligators being sighted and found. The war news from Iraq [...]

Armadillo Sunrise

The nine-banded armadillo (above) is making inroads into the northern USA. Dasypus novemcinctus is most common in the central southern states, such as Texas, and abdundant in some parts of Florida. If you run into armadillos in Missouri or southern Illinois, they are not cryptids or out-of-place animals. They are animals that are extending their range northward. As has been noted here briefly before (regarding birds and alligators), cryptozoologists need to keep track of this topic, so as to make certain we don’t confuse these natural range changes for “new animals” or folks’ sightings of bizarre and seemingly new animals [...]

Prehistoric Women’s Abarbanel Dies

Cryptofiction about surviving Neandertals has been around for a long time. One of the writers and producers that made them come alive in 1950 has died in a freak accident caused by the modern world, sadly. Sam X. Abarbanel, who wrote the screenplay and produced the 1950s’ classic Prehistoric Women, has died in a strange incident. Please click the above movie poster for fuller version. Word of the mishap first came from Variety: "Veteran film exec Sam Abarbanel is at Cedars-Sinai following a freak accident in a parking lot where he was pinned against a car. He suffered multiple fractures [...]

August 10th: Lake Champlain Sea Serpent Seen

This is the Champ painting that began showing up on the sides of U-Haul vans in 1999. August 10th… Vermont Get Into Line Its Sea Serpent Story, Though a Little Late, Is All Right. The Lake Champlain sea serpent has been seen. And by an entirely credible and trustworthy witness, whose name, were we permitted to give it, would carry conviction to the most incredulous of doubting Thomases. The monster was seen, slowly swimming southward, about midway of the channel between the Vermont shore and Split Rock. The lake at this place is only about a mile wide. Here, too, [...]