The Maine Student Book Award Celebration (MSBAC) takes on a decidedly cryptozoological flavor this year. As you read this, I’m in northern Maine, in a secret location filled with librarians and children, getting ready or presently talking about cryptozoology, cryptids, and leading workshops with the kids on casting footprints during a full-day gathering. Actually, other than kidding about the “secret location,” all the rest is true. The MSBAC is occurring on Monday, May 5, 2008, in Penobscot, and I’m there right now, as this is being remotely posted. I’m on site with their out-of-state guest of honor, Kelly Milner Halls, [...]
Bindernagel on Bigfoot
“North America’s Great Ape: the Sasquatch” Presented by Dr. John Bindernagel A wildlife biologist looks at the continent’s most misunderstood large mammal. Book Signing and Public Presentation WHEN: Saturday, May 3, 2008 TIME: 10 AM to 12 Noon Book Signing; 1 PM Public Presentation WHERE: State Capital Museum 211 21st Avenue SW Olympia, Washington 98501 (360) 753 2580 COST: $5 per person for all ages (Olympia, WA–) The State Capital Museum invites you to a special presentation by author and field researcher Dr. John Bindernagel of British Columbia. He will speak about his more than 30 years of studying Bigfoot. [...]
What Do You Think of John Keel?
John A. Keel was a significant author of works in Forteana, cryptozoology, and ufology in the 1960s and 1970s. His Strange Creatures from Time and Space and The Mothman Prophecies, as well as his numerous articles in magazines, influenced other writers, researchers, and the general public. After the Mothman book-inspired movie appeared in 2002, interest in Keel resurfaced, briefly. His declining health, few public lectures, and then heart attack, created less attention to Keel than might have been expected. I was wondering how Cryptomundians consider his impact, legacy, and import today? What place do you think Keel with have in [...]
Cryptomundo Mermaids Do Exist
Recently someone emailed in a complaint: “I can’t help noticing the dearth or paucity of Mermaid information on an otherwise very complete site. Even I, a rank amateur, keep stumbling across references to live sightings. Even if some do turn out to be Dugongs, it seems as if some are less easy to explain — witness the case in Newfoundland, which is hardly Dugong territory.” I thought I would share a couple helpful hints about using Cryptomundo. Please click on the image for the full-size editorial image. First, of course, mermaids and all kinds of other fantastic creatures, curious cryptids, [...]
April 12th’s Boston Bigfoot Event
The North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research Saturday, April 12, 2008 On April 12, 2008, the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute (GBBRI) will celebrate its grand opening with the North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research (NASSR), which will feature two unique events. Free Family Event From 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., GBBRI will be open to the public, featuring family writing activities, product demonstrations, music and author readings, and a ribbon-cutting by Mayor Tom Menino at 1:30 p.m. GOOD Magazine Party From 6:00 – 10:00 p.m., GOOD Magazine is co-sponsoring a gala event, the proceeds of which will support 826 Boston’s [...]
“Die, Researchers, Die!”
Perhaps it is a coincidence but on March 22, 2008, a renegade alignment of “thinkers” calling themselves the RRRgroup (although known by some critics as the “KKKgroup”) wrote a blog (together?) entitled “Death(s) will clean the UFO palate.” They begin by stating, “When ufology’s old-guard passes on – Dick Hall, Stan Friedman, Kevin Randall, John Schuessler, and even the 60ish Jerry Clark to name a few – taking hangers-on and sycophants with them (and you know who they are), the UFO palate will be cleansed.” The RRRGroup then mention others who “include Paul Kimball, Nick Redfern, Greg Bishop, and Mac [...]
Yowie Photo
Sometimes everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon. Sometimes people are just in the right place at the right time. What is this episode all about? Tony Healy’s and Paul Cropper’s The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot has made these hairy hominoids quite popular in their own country and much more well-known around the world. More people are trying to get new pieces of evidence. Now comes word that one person says he has proof. Proof…Paul Compton with one of the photos that he believes backs up his personal claims of a giant Yowie-like animal living in the Glen [...]
Blaming Bigfoot: AP Video
Gene R. Morrill The Associated Press has posted on YouTube their video report on Gene R. Morrill, 57, of New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Morrill had previously pleaded guilty to 20 charges stemming from his efforts to solicit 13-year-old boys over the Internet and blamed it all on a molestation he alleged he had suffered by a Bigfoot. From open giggling to an undercover officer interviewed with his face hidden, this is a unique news document.
Denver’s Cryptozoology Lecture
As mentioned previously, “Birders, Bigfoot and Bond, James Bond,” a cryptozoology lecture by museum staffers Aaron Spriggs and Paula Cushing, will be delivered today at 7 p.m., in Ricketson Auditorium, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Blvd.; $12 (members) and $15 (non-members). Reservations at 303-322-7009. For more on “James Bond and Cryptozoology,” please see my 2006 blog on the topic.
North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research
Coming soon… The North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research Saturday, April 12, 2008 On April 12, 2008, the Greater Boston Bigfoot Institute (GBBRI) will celebrate its grand opening with the North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research (NASSR), which will feature two unique events. Free Family Event From 12:00 – 4:00 p.m., GBBRI will be open to the public, featuring family writing activities, product demonstrations, music and author readings, and a ribbon-cutting by Mayor Tom Menino at 1:30 p.m. GOOD Magazine Party From 6:00 – 10:00 p.m., GOOD Magazine is co-sponsoring a gala event, the proceeds of which will support 826 [...]
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