Obituaries

Liger Attack Victim Dies

There is sad news to report out of Oklahoma.

Bigfoot Hunter Dies In Fall

Tod Emerson, 44, formerly of California, living in Wales, had started work on a renewable energy degree at Glyndwr University. Portrait.

Ivan T. Sanderson: Great, Only Human

Ivan T. Sanderson (1911-1973) by Mark A. Hall, Wonders, December 1992, pp. 65-67. Twenty years ago an old friend died. He was a British subject who chose to live in the U.S.A. During his life Ivan T. Sanderson was first a nature writer and then an avid fortean author, devoting his later books and articles to mysterious natural phenomena of all kinds. His life and work are difficult to summarize adequately here. More information can be found in an excellent biographical entry that appears in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 57 (Clifton, NJ: J.T. White, 1977), 192-194. The [...]

Mermaid Queen Has Died

Famed model Diane Webber, whose image influenced a pre-Disney generation of Merbeing admirers, has died. Images.

Flashback 2007: Bridge Collapse in Mothman Country

The Mothman Festival 2008 is just around the corner. We are reminded that on Tuesday, September 4th, 2007, U.S. 35, the same highway carried by the Silver Bridge that collapsed in 1967, began to show signs of collapsing.