Public Forum

Yowie Hunter Tramps USA

Yes, can you believe it, after all the friendship Americans have shown to those from Oz, word now reaches Cryptomundo that a Yowie hunter is tramping the US*? Anomalist Books has made this breaking news announcement in a press release today: Tony Healy, the co-author of The Yowie: In Search of Australia’s Bigfoot, is touring the U.S. through the first of November 2007, and is available for interviews and lecture appearances. He will be speaking at the 19th Annual Bigfoot Conference Bigfoot Expo at the Salt Fork State Park Lodge in Guernsey County, Ohio on May 19th, 2007. Be sure [...]

Mythic Beasts

Mythic Creatures opens at The American Museum of Natural History on Saturday, May 26, 2007. I have been invited to deliver a presentation, “Introduction to Cryptozoology,” in conjuntion with this exhibition, late next fall at the AMNH. Fun for the whole family, the new exhibition Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns, and Mermaids explores the anthropological origins and cultural significance of some of the world’s most enchanting mythological characters, such as dragons, griffins, mermaids, sea serpents, and unicorns. The exhibition features art and cultural objects, fossils, and eye-popping models from a 17-foot-long dragon to the legendary sea monster, the kraken, with massive [...]

New “Paddler” Photo Surfaces

A new photograph, above, has surfaced of Idaho’s Lake Monster, Paddler (specifically look at the right hand corner). And I do mean surfaced. This image was taken on March 29, 2007, from Grouse Mountain, Idaho, by The River Journal’s staff photographer Jay Mock and sent to Cryptomundo by “Surrealist Research Bureau” columnist Jody Forest. Obviously, then, Paddler is the real deal. Paddler, the Lake Pend Oreille Monster, does appear to exist. But is it merely a cover story for the use of Navy submarines or are submarine sightings being confused with actual lake monster accounts? In the early 1940s, near [...]