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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?

Newsweek Nukes “Bigfoot Believers”

The national magazine begins with this: “These are hard times for Bigfoot believers, a human subspecies that includes a fairly hairy collection of fantasists, charlatans, grifters and fools.” The treatment certainly doesn’t look in the mirror.

Qaqrat Monster Washes Ashore in Alaska

Qaqrat is a word in the Inuit dialect of Cup’ig, Nunivak Island’s native language. It is phonetically pronounced “koo-gat” and translates as “beast-walrus.” One could say that the carcass of a qaqrat has graced itself upon Alaska. Will the fabled “beast-walrus” be the next media darling? After all the news attention to the recent carcass, the Montauk Monster, that washed ashore at a beach in New York, you might expect to hear about more such incidents this summer. A little paper in Seward, Alaska, seems to be the first one to tell of an actual similar unknown. Unfortunately, they have [...]