Crews called off the search for an African lion in a rural part of El Paso County, Colorado, late Monday afternoon (July 14, 2008), believing that the animal in question may just have been a big dog. But they don’t know. Three individuals reported an African lion, complete with mane and brush on the long tail. One official was quoted as saying the tracks were not cougar, not dog, but large felid tracks. A red mane was seen. And then there is the cellphone image capture. Here are various renderings of the photograph of the Mystery Animal: Will this be [...]
Sea Monster Week
Darren Naish, over at Tetrapod Zoology, just rolled through five days, last week, of sea monster photographs and remarks about the mostly fake, false, or misleading images. Let’s take a look. First up was the March 1965 photograph (below) from Robert Le Serrec of a huge, tadpole-like creature encountered in Stonehaven Bay, Hook Island, Queensland, Australia. The case has been rather universally labeled a hoax. I mentioned in my field guide that Interpol was even after the guy. Naish does gather together all the “other photos” linked with this episode, and that’s a rather interesting angle ignored by most. Naish [...]
Major Sasquatch Art
Kalama residents Jacob Posey, 9, bottom, and his sister Emily, 11, work on artist Brian Major’s paint-by-number mural of Sasquatch at the Longview Saturday Market. Miranda Schneider, 10, of Hillsboro, Oregon, at the top right, colors the sun. Credit: Greg Ebersole / The Daily News Read more about artist Brian Major‘s sidewalk Sasquatch art here. Major has kindly shared more photos from this event with us: Click on image for larger version Click on image for larger version Click on image for larger version Click on image for larger version Click on image for larger version Click on image for [...]
Mt. Hood Bigfoot Reference Photos
In a previous posting, here, the possibility of a new Bigfoot photo for 2008 was noted. This is an update. The photograph was taken on Friday, June 27, 2008, at 2:05 p.m. Pacific time. It was shared openly by Dianna Martin for the critical assessment of Cryptomundo readers. I am glad to say that over 80 of you had your say. Here it is again: Click on image to view larger sized original photo (1.26 MB download). The request was made to go back and take some reference photos to establish if anything different could be seen compared to the [...]
Mystery Fish Photograph Revisited
People seemed to have so much fun yesterday with the alleged Bigfoot image from near Mt. Hood, it feels like your magnifying glasses may be polished off for another look at the “Mystery Fish Photo.” If you are new here, then you have to see this one too, and have your say. As oldtimers may recall, despite speculations, theories, thoughts, rumors, ideas, hypotheses, and claims, this longest standing mystery at Cryptomundo has never been fully solved. The postcard photo, originally sent to me by Phyllis Mancz of Ohio, has become such an enigmatic icon that it became part of the [...]
New 2008 Bigfoot Photo?
The same two individuals who have contributed trailcam photographs from near Mt. Hood to Cryptomundo have forwarded a new image from the same area. Here are the circumstances surrounding this photo: This picture was taken while we were driving down the road with our camea from home. I wanted to see what I could capture that was moving into the woods that couldn’t be seen. I took this from the car as we drove the road. I was so excited when we put this on the computer and this figure of a Bigfoot was walking back into the woods. This [...]
South China Tiger Photos Fake
Late on Sunday, June 29, 2008, the Chinese news service Xinhua is confirming that the controversial photographs of a rare South China tiger (Panthera tigris amoyensis) in the wild are fake. Cryptomundo first discussed this news on October 14, 2007, and our readers knew what was what, right away. At Cryptomundo, the photos were declared a fakes on November 22, 2008. The photos were fabricated by farmer Zhou Zhenglong, Shaanxi Provincial government officials said on Sunday. Zhou, 54, from Zhenping county, claimed to have photographed the tiger with a digital camera on the afternoon of Oct. 3 last year, but [...]
Skeptic Questions Patterson Bigfoot Tracks
Talking of the photographs above, the so-called “Bigfoot Skeptic” this month writes: These are the tracks that Patterson claimed the Bigfoot made from his famous 1967 film. Notice the toes. How smooth and perfectly shaped they are. Also notice that despite the deep impression of the foot, the only part of the toe that shows in the plaster is the round tips of the toe. No other part of the toe is seen in the deep plaster cast. This suggests that it was not made by an actual fleshly foot stepping down and putting weight down. Shouldn’t the toes smoosh [...]
Black Panther Roundup
Panthers, the mysterious felid kind, have been in the news of late. Here’s a roundup. In Mississippi, the encounters are becoming so frequent the media is comparing them to Sasquatch sightings. Fancy that. Jamie Daughdrill of Brooklyn, Mississippi, is one of those area residents who claims to have proof that a black panther roams the southern part of Forrest County. He has a photo (above) of a black feline walking across his food plot that he took with his game camera. But he couldn’t find any tracks near the game camera. “All I’m saying is that it’s big and black [...]
LEGO Bigfoot and Yeti
Joel Johnson (the Boing Boing correspondent who toured and filmed my museum) has alerted me to the mention and actual work of Mike Stimpson, involving LEGO photography and various classic photographs that Stimpson has recreated. One of the greatest new images that Stimpson uploaded this week is an amazing Lego recreation of that famed frame from the Patterson-Gimlin footage. You know which one I’m talking about. It is “Frame 352″ from the film, showing the apparent female Bigfoot, today nicknamed “Patty.” Stimpson’s intriguing recreation… …was based on this: Of course, who could have ever known? Discovering Stimpson’s Lego recreation of [...]
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