Juan Antonio Cebrián, on the left. I heard the news today, oh boy.– The Beatles One of Spain’s most famous radio commentators and program hosts in the realm of the unexplained has passed away suddenly. Juan Antonio Cebrián, only 41 years of age, has died of a sudden heart attack on the evening of October 20, 2007. The report was issued by the radio station where he was working, Onda Cero, at 1:00 a.m., Sunday, 21 October 2007. News of this shocking, sudden loss reverberates throughout Spain’s forteana/cryptozoo/paranormal/ufology community, according to Scott Corrales, director of Inexplicata. Cebrián, who may be [...]
Good Night Patty
The 40th anniversary party has been a long time coming. The media took note, some interviews were given, gatherings & meetings occurred, and even Boing Boing TV taped for future broadcast, regarding the milestone. Many people have done their best to carry on celebrations from California to Maine, Malaysia to France, and London to Nepal. It was a coast to coast event. Photographs will be published in coming days. In the background, the original film footage lives on. I’ll end today’s posting with this re-visit of Patty and me, by cartoonist Charles Berlin, and the meaning behind it, well, is [...]
Bigfoot Film: Happy 40th Anniversary
Once upon a time there were Sasquatch sightings and no film of a Bigfoot in the bush. Those were the early days, before October 20, 1967, when only a few hunters, seekers, searchers, researchers and writers across North America compared notes via a thing called the postal service. Ideas about Bigfoot and Sasquatch were based on artist drawings and sighting descriptions, folklore and native art, and footprints and fecal droppings. In the Dark Time, before computers, email, the internet and stabilization software, the involved researchers, field workers, and authors, all one dozen or so of us, would send thermofax copies [...]
Bigfoot & The Dover Demon in Red Sox Nation
The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.- Meryl Streep. Above: Tim Binnall and Don Keating. Don has his Ohio State shirt on for the first night of the conference, and then proudly wore his Cleveland Indians outfit for the night of his presentation, while in the midst of Red Sox Nation. Bigfoot was the least of his worries over the weekend. Tim Binnall of binnall of america (yes, it’s lower case) has published his review of this last weekend’s Mass Monster Mash. Binnall, ever the good writer and journalist, is an excellent interviewer. [...]
Kiwi’s Taniwha
On Tuesday, October 16, I agreed to be on one of the many radio shows I do around Halloween every year. For whatever reason, mainstream and alternative radio both enjoy cryptozoology more around October 31. I suppose the annual holiday allows them the freedom to talk about monsters, creatures, and cryptids without looking over their shoulders at their programmers and sponsors. Anyway, frequently I don’t know much about a show I agree to go onto, there are so many these days. With the internet shows, well, it can get overwhelming. But certainly, if Australia calls up and asks if I’ll [...]
Binnall, Keating, and Me
Tim Binnall, a radio journalist of some note, attended the Mass Monster Mash and gathered several interviews. Watch his site, Binnall of America for his forthcoming commentary and interviews. John Horrigan, an excellent host and conference organizer, honored Tim with two well-deserved recognition plaques on both nights of the events. Tim also took photographs. He is the first to publish images from the conference on the web. Here’s two: Tim with me and Tim with Don Keating. Don gave a good Fortean talk on his “White Sasquatch” video, and I gave the first lecture of my life exclusively on the [...]
Should Cryptozoology Throw Out “Hangers-Ons”?
Sometimes challenges need to be confronted head-on. I want to address a call from a blogger who says that cryptozoology is a credible discipline needing to “rid itself of the hangers-on” especially visible at other rival cryptozoology sites. A woman on top of her own self-named “Llewtrah’s Soapbox”, in a blog entitled “Fox With Mange,” has this to say about our favorite subject (cryptozoology, please note, not mange) today, Monday, October 15: Cryptozoology is the study of “hidden” or “unproven” animals – ones not yet scientifically recognised. The plus side is that new species being discovered, or rather animals long [...]
Healthwatch: Cryptozoologists
Some cryptozoologists and hominologists around the world are in various stages of recovery and concern has been expressed in the community about their health problems. Here’s a brief roundup: Most recently, on 14th September 2007, Nessie researcher Tony Harmsworth of Scotland suffered a stroke. He is feeling better this month. It will be recalled that in the last two years, Loch Ness Monster hunter Roy Mackal, formerly of the University of Chicago, suffered a couple heart attacks, but the latest is that his recovery has been steady. Washington State Bigfooter Ray Crowe’s diabetes continues to take its toll. The formerly [...]
New Dwarf Manatee
A new small manatee has been discovered in South America. Please click on the poster above to increase its size for easier reading. For more information on the efforts underway to defend the manatee’s discoverer Marc Roosmalen against the allegedly fictional charges he is facing in Brazil, visit http://www.marcvanroosmalen.org/howtohelp.htm. Thanks to Darren Naish for alerting me to this new species and Marc’s new legal defense site.
At Mass Monster Mash
I’m on the road again. This time I am at the “Mass Monster Mash,” in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Saturday, October 13, 2007, giving an illustrated (almost 50 images) on the Dover Demon. I also will be talking to folks, and selling/signing books. Since others there are speaking on Bigfoot, the Bridgewater Triangle, and Phantom Clowns, I’ll have some things to say about those topics too, outside my keynote hourlong illustrated lecture. I will have a few new copies of the 2007 edition of Mysterious America with me. I also will bring along some copies of The Copycat Effect, Tom Slick: [...]
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