Even a hard-working cryptozoologist needs to take a break for his birthday party, once a decade, right? Aren’t we all kids inside, sometimes? Snapshots from the July 12th celebration at the Portland Sea Dogs game: During the event, an unknown cryptid mascot showed up to pose with the specially made Bigfoot birthday cake and some guy in a red shirt. Actually, this creature is the Yarmouth Clam Festival mascot clam. Strange but very cheerful. In the two above photos, you can see how different camera angles and light bouncing off Bigfoot created the illusion that the brown primate may sometimes [...]
Mapinguary Madness
On July 9th, from NBC’s Today Show to worldwide news service rewrites of the Sunday New York Times article, this all is keeping this new Mapinguary mania alive. And we all thought the interest in this creature was dead a decade ago. Sadly, the articles being spread from the UPI are often headlined with this one, “Numerous Tribes See Brazillian ‘Bigfoot’,” but then open with comments on the locals “have spoken throughout the years of seeing a giant, fearsome, slothlike creature that roams the rainforest.” The articles are going with the Bigfoot/primate headlines, but talking only about the giant ground [...]
Iraq’s Garta & Badgers and Africa’s Nandi Bear
The digital recordings of Iraq’s supposedly cryptid Garta (“The Muncher”) look like “badgers,” of course. But what is a badger? Why would American and British troops in Basrah think these were unusual badgers? Some clarification needs to be shared on what is a badger? Most Americans visualize the badger differently than how most Europeans do. In Africa, when you say “badger,” Africans think of another animal, as well. The Honey Badger or Ratel. Badger is the common name for any animal of three subfamilies, which belong to the family Mustelidae: the same mammal family as the ferrets, the weasels, the [...]
Elusive as Bigfoot: White Squirrels
Remember my blogs at the end of last year, about black (melanistic) and white (albino and near albino) squirrels? Those stories became some of the most popular (non-mystery photo) postings that have appeared here. See 2006′s Top Black and White Squirrel Locations, Yahoo’s Makes Us #1 With Salt & Pepper Squirrels, and Black and White Squirrels Visit any of those sites for more photographs of white and black squirrels. All of a sudden, now that it is summer, white squirrels are in the news again. One city in the South is promoting its new discovery of a white squirrel (above) [...]
Fur Associated With Mystery Cat Found
The news being discussed in papers in Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts yesterday and today is of another recent event involving a possible “mountain lion” in central Maine. On the 4th of July, the Blethen Maine News Service (named after the owners of the Seattle Times who purchased the Portland Press Herald and other related Maine newspapers a few years ago) put out a story about the turning over on July 3rd of possible “big cat” DNA samples from Oakland, Maine. The site of the finds, Oakland, Maine, is 12 miles from Sidney, Maine, where the Mystery Cat photograph (above) was [...]
Flashback: Johor Hominid – July 4th, 2006 + A New Sighting
Do you remember what we all were talking about on this date a year ago, on July 4th, 2006? Teasers about groundbreaking photographs of a “Johor Hominid” were being promoted with comments about having patience. One website researcher commented to me on this day in 2006 that asking to see the Johor Bigfoot photographs is “like asking for Angelina Jolie’s unpublished baby photos,” and that I now have to “be patient like the rest.” Yes, I said: Patience is a virtue. Patience and passion are two important components of cryptozoology research, as I have often mentioned, as per Bernard Heuvelmans. [...]
Twisted Tales of Mystery Cat Photo
Here, below, is the one photograph that has been released, thusfar, of the Maine Mystery Cat, taken from a homeowner’s backyard in Sidney, Maine. The photo is from a digital camera, and the pixels give this felid a less than sharp configuration. But as you can see from reading the past blogs on this matter, the downloading of the camera, from the testimony of the photo lab owner, speaks well for this image to have not been Photoshopped. But that has not stopped others from using various techniques to manipulate this image. While no one seems to have seen a [...]
Lake Springfield’s Suspicious Serpent
Springfield, Illinois, is in central Illinois, in the Midwest USA, west of Decatur. It is the state capital and the county seat of Sangamon County. The Sangamon River, which flows near Decatur and Springfield was impounded to make Lake Decatur. But the manmade Lake Springfield is a reservoir built by impounding water upstream of Spaulding Dam on Sugar Creek. The water for the lake comes from rain falling directly on Lake Springfield, however, the predominant supply is runoff from the 265-square-mile watershed that lies primarily southwest of the lake, most notably from Lick and Sugar Creeks and their tributaries, that [...]
New Update on Maine Mystery Cat Photos!
For more background on the above photograph, please see “New Maine Mystery Cat Photo Details”. Now, here is an update…on the photographs (not just a photograph)! The Kennebec Journal is a newspaper located in Augusta, Maine, the biggest city near the little town of Sidney. In the Friday edition, there was an article about the new photograph of a Mystery Cat. In the comments section, the following email was sent in and can be found below the article: Our lab at Elm City Photo processed this image straight off from his digital camera chip with no enhancements other than to [...]
Cryptozoology Animal of Discovery: Pygmy Hippopotamus
(Photo by Jacques Brinon) Posting a baby picture is always a good idea on a Sunday on the first day of the month. Here, Anais, the mother hippo, keeps an eye on her son Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, (Choeropsis liberiensis), at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, on Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Aldo looks, eats and takes it easy like a hippopotamus. But he is only about as big as a human baby, at 21 inches. This pygmy hippopotamus, born on June 5, is one of only a few dozen in Europe, bred in a special program to boost the [...]
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