What is an eight-foot long crocodile (Crocodylus sp.) – a Mexican example is seen above – doing in the Cayman Islands? They have been extinct there for an undetermined number of years. It obviously is not someone’s escaped pet. “Mystery crocodile described as ‘very fast and aggressive’” Cayman News Thursday, January 4, 2007 The origin of an eight-foot long crocodile captured near Old Man Bay in Grand Cayman last Saturday remains a mystery. Sightings of the reptile in the north of the Island prompted 911 calls from members of the public. Police officers and officials from the Department of the [...]
Bernard Heuvelmans Books
During 2007, two books, one about and one by Bernard Heuvelmans, will be published in French, appearing by late February from the publisher Les Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx, Paris. The biography by Jean-Jacques Barloy is entitled Bernard Heuvelmans: Un Rebelle de la Science (Bernard Heuvelmans: A Science Rebel). Barloy is also involved as the annotator of Heuvelmans’ forthcoming books. Jean-Luc Rivera is the director of the publishing of the Heuvelmans collection of books, Bibliothèque Heuvelmansienne (Heuvelmansian Library). The collection’s first volume – which has never been published before – is Les Félins Encore Inconnus d’Afrique (The Felines Still Unknown [...]
Footprints
This year is starting off with a bang regarding the Skunk Ape. First, I wondered aloud if it was time to ponder the Myakka case anew (please note, not "Port Myakka" as given below), and now this (first published overnight with a different headline, since updated here, as it appears in today’s paper): January 02, 2007 Miami Herald "Kids armed with cameras chase after the Skunk Ape" by Curtis Morgan The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness. Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge through palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to have [...]
First Cryptid Sighting in 2007?
Every year I watch to see what is the first cryptid sighting that is mentioned in the media and what is the actual first cryptid encounter. Take for instance 2000. On January 2nd, news services reported that in the rural Malaysian village of Kampung Chennah, durian farmer Liong Chong Shen, 50, smelling a strong odor and hearing a grunt, turned to see two mystery ape-like animals covered in long, shiny, black and brown hair. The mawas (as they are locally called) stared at the startled farmer, and walked back into the nearby rainforest. As fate would have it, this 2000 [...]
Maine Mutant #6 in 2006
An automobile travels the sparsely used Route 4 through the Turner, Maine, area, little knowing what it will meet around the next corner. It wasn’t a Stephen King novel, but a real-life incident that captured the media, first in Maine, then more globally last summer, into early fall. Lewiston, Maine’s Sun Journal published their 2006 year-in-review on the first day of the new year. Route 4′s “Mystery Animal” (a/k/a “Maine Mutant”) was on their list. Monday, January 1, 2007 Top stories of 2006 Tragedies dominated the tri-county news in 2006, with young people dying in car accidents, plane crashes, the [...]
Cold Case Investigation For 2007: The Myakka Photos
All Photographs and Enhancements of the Myakka Photographs on this page are © David Barkasy and Loren Coleman 2001. It all began with a December 22, 2000, letter signed “God Bless. I prefer to remain anonymous,” mailed to the Sarasota (Florida) Sheriff’s Department. Two photographs were enclosed. I’ve written about this extensively, so for some quick details, merely click here. For this blog, it is more about just re-viewing the images, not reading the words. Let’s look. I’d like to see more progress on this one, either pro or con, in 2007. Here’s a selection of the photographs, with details [...]
Televised Marathons: New Year’s Eve & 1-10-07 Alerts
The National Geographic Channel is running a marathon of “Is It Real?” on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2006. Here are the times for the cryptozoologically-related programs. (I note that “Russian Bigfoot” program is not being shown. Check your local listings, but here are the ones that Bufo Calvin has passed along… Noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern “Bigfoot” 1:00 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern “Monsters of the Deep” 3:00 PM Pacific/6:00 PM Eastern “Chupacabra” 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern “Ape-Man” (Orang Pendek) 11:00 PM Pacific/2:00 AM Eastern “Ape-Man” (Orang Pendek) =========================== January 10th, 2007. The Travel Channel has a mini-marathon of “Weird [...]
More African Dino Art Deco
Friday, the one-two punch of Boing Boing and The Anomalist featuring my blog on “African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style,” got the story/link repeated and viewed far and wide. Some of the locations were very diverse: Professor Hex, Lesley at The Debris Field , Africa Art History, Spooky Paradigm, Planet Kwekje, Weird History, Zapptor, Kung Fu Action Theatre, Frederick County Report, and many others. Yes, I did listen to you regarding a desire to read the newsprint. It is difficult to do, from the jpegs of Art Deco African dinosaur hunting articles shared earlier, so here below you will find [...]
African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style
Fresno Bee, February 19, 1928 People have been seeing what they think are sauropods (or in the popular mind, dinosaurs) for a long time in Africa. More recent eyewitness accounts, of course, are still being recorded. Take cryptozoologist Adam Davies, who authored a Fortean Times article (April 2001) on his expedition. He says it all in his title, “I thought I saw a Sauropod, ” and his report is easily found online, here. Zanesville Signal, November 29, 1925 Some future summaries are in store for next year. Chad Arment mentioned in a recent blog that 2007 could be a good [...]
2006: A Big Year For Bigfoot
Click on image for full-size version I am always interested in what the various news services do with Cryptomundo’s stories and how those get “re-mixed,” so to speak, for different audiences. Here’s an example, thanks to the alternative press feeder system, the Wireless Flash News (WFN). It is about a dispatch that was sent this morning to 800 rock and news radio stations, alternative papers, and media other outlets worldwide. Here is the recipe: Take one part The Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 you saw here first, add in a dash of year-end timing, have it kneaded by the [...]
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