Photograph by Joseph Citro. The abbreviation for the State of Maine is “ME.” As fate would have it, Lewiston Sun Journal reporter Kathryn Skelton has a feature article about Maine and Bigfoot today, entitled creatively, “Bigfoot & ME.” It happens to have a large photo of me at the top of one section of the story. Here’s an excerpt of some of what Skelton writes about in this Saturday’s news article. It contains various things that have only a little to do with the critical examination of Bigfoot sightings in Maine. Some words are not even worth repeating, so here’s [...]
New Mexico’s Bighoot
Ornimegalonyx oteroi Bighoot, the Flying Head by Mike Smith In the piney mountains and desert mesas of southcentral New Mexico, citizens of the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation still tell legends of an enormous and evil bird: Big Owl. The Jicarilla Apaches, along the state’s northern edge, also talk of Big Owl-near slickrock canyons and beneath the gray bluffs of their reservation-but in their stories Big Owl will often paralyze humans just by staring at them, and after doing so swallows them whole, just as smaller owls swallow mice. Mark A. Hall, noted cryptozoologist and author of Thunderbirds: America’s Living Legends [...]
Another Update: Tennessee Bigfoot With Cane?
Bill Appleton, Chief Technology Officer at California’s DreamFactory Software, Inc., shares with me these specific video captures from the Tennessee Bigfoot helicopter footage (earlier posted on Cryptomundo by Craig Woolheater here and here). These two individual photographic captures from the video appear to show the bipedal walker carrying something in its right hand. Appleton asks if this is might merely be an elderly woman moving rapidly away from the aircraft, with the help of a cane? Others have suggested, could it be a hunter in a ghillie (camouflage netting) suit? Could it be someone with a heavy coat? Well, at [...]
Norway’s Korel Giant
In a little lake called Korel, about five miles long, in Norway, a Great Sea Serpent has made his appearance. It has been seen by many credible persons, and is known by the name of the Korel Giant. On the 26th of November [1852], three women saw the animal lying stretched out on the surface of the lake. It lay quietly for several hours. A part of its body, which was elevated above water, seemed to be about 25 feet in length, and from 10 to 12 feet broad; and at the same distance were noticed three smaller but similar [...]
The Name Game: The Trinities
Tom Slick searched for Giant Salamanders in the Trinity Alps of California. I see that John Kirk has posted the article about the recent rumblings concerning a “giant black reptile” (gator? lizard? salamander?) being seen in British Columbia. The location of the recent sightings is familiar to Cryptomundo readers, mostly because Pitt Lake was where a huge example of Sasquatch (below) was seen years ago. But also the new “reptilian” thing from BC was spied coincidentally in a ravine at Trinity Western University in Langley, B.C., and reminds me of the stories of the Trinity Alps Giant Salamanders (amphibians, but [...]
NJ Black Panther Photos
Here are the photos of the “black panther” seen in and around Vineland, New Jersey, from Saturday, April 28, 2007. Many local residents have seen it and after a news report appeared on local television on April 30, Monday night, police headquarters was deluged with calls. More than 30 people dialed in saying they had seen the animal during April 2007. This animal was big, really big. It could be the size of a German shepherd. More than 80 pounds for sure. They’re saying they found a 20- to 30-pound cat in the field. But something that size would be [...]
New Pterosaur Video?
Are the following new video images those of a prehistoric flying reptile seen over the waters near New Guinea? Well, frankly, I am not going to play any investigative games with you, my readers today about these YouTube uploads. Unfortunately, the democracy of the internet is going wild with such speculations about living pterosaurs. All these people would have to do is look in any good bird identification guide. These images are most certainly footage of frigatebirds, which are related to the pelicans; please compare to the photographs below. There are five species in the family Fregatidae, the frigatebirds, and [...]
Best Witnesses: Biologists or Truck Drivers?
This Pitt Lake, British Columbia, Sasquatch was seen by two prospectors in June 1965. Should we discount this sighting because the eyewitnesses weren’t biologists? Credit: Harry Trumbore’s drawing from The Field Guide of Bigfoot and Other Mystery Primates. Regarding a couple quick comments there, however, I thought I would separate them out from the terminology debate. Some people have noted that it seems certain states and provinces may not appear to be able to support a population of Bigfoot living there. But, remember, reports do not necessarily reflect that Bigfoot live where they are sighted, but only they have been [...]
Elementum Bestia
Craig Heinselman has completed his compiled and edited massive opus, Elementum Bestia. The following chapters are in the book: The American Sârâph: An Unnatural History of Winged Snakes in North America by Scott Maruna The Case of the Grey Ghost by Craig Heinselman Littlefoot – The Junjudee by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper The Hobbits of Flores: A New Genus of Hominid – Parahomo by Dr Dwight Smith and Gary Mangiacopra Maned Mystery Cats and Panthera atrox by Loren Coleman Antediluvian Forms in South America? by Phillip O’Donnell In Search of Rare Carnivorous Marsupials: An Examination of the Evidence for [...]
Is “Scoftic” A Useful Term?
“Scoftic” has to be the most ridiculous word in the current lexicon of Bigfoot research.Nightwing, November 2006 “Scoftic” – a Roger Knights neologism.Matt Crowley, September 2005 Sometime before the fall of 2003, Roger Knights, a frequent comment maker on all matters Bigfoot, decided to coin a word that he felt would be a counter to words like “pseudoscience.” According to his own accounting, Knights first used “scoftic” on the Bigfoot Forums on September 13, 2003. No, it was not a Friday, but the date in the old Roman festival calendar is epulum Iovis (“banquet of Jupiter”), on the Ides, during [...]
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