While most students of cryptozoology recognize “Giganto” as a favorite Bigfoot/Yeti candidate, many may be unaware that German anatomist-anthropologist Franz Weidenreich (1873-1948) renamed the creature Giganthropus, treating it as a primitive ancestor of Homo sapiens.
Were 1930s’ Sasquatch Stories Sexier?
At the beginning of the last century, the view of First Nations’ peoples was that many years ago a whole tribe of the wild men lived in Pacific Northwest. They were called “Sasquatch” (after 1929) or “hairy mountain men” (earlier). They lived in caves and hunted with clubs and stones. Is the debate about “human-like” Sasquatch about ready to heat up again? Images.
Redfern on Giants
What if something else, something even more fantastic in its implications than the idea that Bigfoot is Gigantopithecus, is actually afoot?
Groundhogs and Pterodactyls
Can you believe this winter?
I never was sure what Groundhog’s Day had to do with these reports, but curiously, there is word of a Bigfoot from the 1940s here too. Image.
The Wonders of Rutter
Squeezed between his one-eyed pig, his feejee mermaid, his skull collection is, of course, – the must-have for every cryptozoologist Scot – a miniature Loch Ness Monster. Images.
Putting Mattoon’s Mad Gasser In Context
The editorial stated: “There are two principal reasons why he was not caught. One is that our police failed to take the case seriously enough at first. The other is that, when the police finally decided there was “something to it,” mass hysteria and outside interference combined to make their efforts unsuccessful.”
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Well, Ferrets Are Weasels!
Contents are graphic, but then these animals are merely repressing their wild natures. Images.
Superstitions Take Three
People who explore the area for Bigfoot or gold are often not doing research on the conditions that might await them. Images.
Anthology Articles
In response to a reader, here is a list of contributions. Cover images.
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