I shall be accused of having assembled lies, yarns, hoaxes, and superstitions. To some degree I think so, myself. To some degree I do not. I offer the data.Charles Fort Credit: Gary Varvel I cannot ignore the tragedy that happened yesterday. This week opened on April 16, with Patriots’ Day in New England and Holocaust Remembrance Day throughout the world. Now, forever, also this date will be recalled for the horror and evil that visited Virginia Tech. I will not spend too much time here, as I have posted my initial thoughts on my Copycat Effect blog about this awful [...]
New Rash of Mothman-Linked Deaths
I am sorry to report that details are just beginning to trickle in of a new wave of deaths and near-misses tied to the Mothman researchers, museum staff and festival people in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. (Click here for a historical overview of other similar deaths. For more on the logic behind making an openminded focus of this kind of data, see my extended comment below in response to some early critics of this specific blog.) Many of these people impacted have become friends in the last five years, so these incidents are becoming more difficult to note. However, it [...]
Weird Travels Marathon
The Travel Channel has a mini-marathon of “Weird Travels” episodes related to cryptozoology on television right now. March 30, 2007. 1:00 PM Pacific/4:00 PM Eastern “Bigfoot” (with Loren Coleman and Craig Woolheater) 2:00 PM Pacific/5:00 PM Eastern “Lake Monster” (with Loren Coleman) 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern “Creepy Creatures” (with Loren Coleman) March 31, 2007 11:00 PM Pacific/2:00 AM Eastern “Creepy Creatures” (with Loren Coleman) Thanks to Bufo Calvin for alerting me to the marathon.
Mysterious America Roadshow Begins
I will soon begin to make appearances on various television and radio programs to discuss my 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures, with its official release date of April 24th. Here are some forthcoming radio dates: April 21 – “Dover Demon” 30th Anniversary Special (“Dover Demon” is a chapter in Mysterious America.) 10 pm to Midnight. Eastern Spooky Southeast on WBSM-AM, 1420 AM, New Bedford, MA; http://www.SpookySouthcoast.com, iTune podcast. April 23 – Mysterious America, Monday overnight, 10 pm to 2 am Pacific, 1 am to 4 am Eastern, [...]
What’s Your CZ IQ?
Can you identify this mystery fish found on an old postcard? (Click on this image shared by Phyllis Mancz to see full size version.) I know, I know. The above photo is still a mystery, but how about some easier questions? What’s your Cryptozoology IQ? Okay, a couple questions are about aliens, but, overall, this is a good quick automated quiz to see how you rate. Take the short quiz on the FunTrivia.com site here. How did you do? (BTW, I will delete your comment if you give away any answers. That is just no fun for anyone else coming [...]
Flatwoods-Mothman Toys As Art
Click on the above photograph for a larger image. For a good review of David Horvath’s stylized Flatwoods and Mothman figurines, please see here.
The Outer Edge
Just to answer a question about my first two books, The Unidentified and Creatures of the Outer Edge, with Jerome Clark, yes, they have been republished. And yes, they reflect our youthful theories, long thrown overboard. But the reports, sightings, and some connections still ring true, decades later. First appearing in 1975 and 1978, these two paperbacks were published in 2006, as a special double edition with a new introduction. The Unidentified and Creatures of the Outer Edge: The Early Works of Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman is a combined quality paperbound book from Anomalist Books. The Unidentified has intriguing, [...]
Mothman, Garuda and Indonesian Air Crash
When discussing the strange episodes of interactions between humans and that winged weirdie seen in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in 1966-1967, John A. Keel didn’t carry around in his head the psychological icon of Mothman, which, of course, didn’t exist yet. No, his concept of what was the source of the foreboding and tragedy was much more ancient. A detail often forgotten is that John A. Keel’s The Mothman Prophecies was initially to be entitled The Year of the Garuda. The title Keel wanted was his way to connect the ancient Indian legends of the Garuda, an unknown flying cryptid, [...]
Cryptomundo’s Ultimate CZ FAQs
(Click on image to see full size version, enhanced by shockbeton) Fans, friends, and readers of Cryptomundo, I have an idea that it might be good to have a permanent “Cryptomundo’s Frequently Asked Questions” location attached to the Cryptomundo site. Perhaps it would be via a long blog of answers, or series of blogs. Maybe it would be a hyperlinked sidebar dedicated location. I see this as a gift in return to all those who have done so much to keep my blogging alive here. Let me see if this will work. The details will be ironed out. But the [...]
Mothman’s “Cyrus Bills” Dies
Get me Cyrus Bills at the Post. The Mothman Prophecies, 2002 “Cyrus Bills” was a character, a Washington Post reporter, in the movie The Mothman Prophecies, played by Bob Tracey of Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Tracey died on January 26, 2007, exactly five years to the same weekend that The Mothman Prophecies opened in theaters across the United States. Bob Tracey, a former disc jockey, passed away from complications of pneumonia, said his wife, Marjorie Michel. Tracey was born Robert Charles Michel in Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1923. Still involved in local broadcasting and theater, Tracey had appeared in several films, including [...]
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