Obituaries

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.

Oldest Gorilla, 55, In Captivity Dies

Jenny, a Western lowland gorilla, was born in the wild and was acquired by the zoo in 1957.

Beckjord’s Bigfoot Sex Book

Erik Beckjord never wrote a book that was published, even privately. Why is there serious talk now of a phantom opus of his?

The Dark Knight Curse

A Batman beheading? Have people so quickly forgotten a recent tragedy? Heightened awareness of decapitations has occurred in the last few days due to the incidents in Brazil, Dubai, Greece, and, of course, the bus event in Canada (during the showing of The Legend of Zorro). Also, please note earlier The Mask of Zorro features Zorro’s/Diego’s brother’s beheading. In that Zorro movie, the decapitation is done by a sadistic, psychotic Texian Army Captain named Harrison Love. There remains no explanation of why the name “Badger” became the code word given to suspect Vincent Li of Edmonton, Alberta, by the law [...]