On display at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology: The verified casts (one shown above, the other below) of credible eastern cougar tracks found in Massachusetts in 1990. Naturalist Helen McGinnis’ of the Eastern Cougar Foundation, during January 2007, has raised some questions about the above during their “Project Hoax.” A Mystery Melanistic Felid captured on film in Florida turned out to be a black bobcat. Helen McGinnis, in the late 1970s, gathered evidence and privately published her findings in papers widely distributed to cryptozoologically-minded associates saying she thought upwards of 40% of the mystery cats in that state were melanistic. [...]
We’ve Been Webby Nominated!
Someone is watching us! Actually, lots of people. For several months, Cryptomundo has ranked #1 as the most popular cryptozoology site in the world, beating out, in overall rank by three times, the next most visited site, and by six times, the third ranked cryptozoology site. This week your universal praise and readership reached a level for which I could hardly have hoped. Cryptomundo was “invited” (a form of “nomination”) for a Webby. The Webby Awards is the preeminent International award for the Internet, honoring the world’s best Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video, and Mobile Websites – the [...]
Bigfooters: Media Targets
You’re a hard-working Bigfoot investigator and get a call from a "newspaper" in Florida, something with a forgettable and simple name. They want to do a story about you and a possible discovery you were looking into, regarding a unique piece of evidence. You are open, trusting, and sharing. But today, you receive a copy of the issue of the publication, and are surprised, nay shocked, to find out the article is in…the Sun, one of the sister tabloids of the National Enquirer of America Media, Inc. That’s what happened to Bart Nunnelly, who first shared with Cryptomundo his story [...]
Mystery Beast Thrice on Top Ten
The Lewiston Sun Journal has posted, in the midst of their current home page, a new listing (with links) of their most viewed news articles for 2006. Their earlier listing of the general story of Turner, Maine’s mysterious monster as number six was based on unknown criteria. This new online-based ranking of individual articles reinforces the common knowledge of those working at the paper – the Mystery Beast stories last summer sold the most newspapers for the L/A media organization over the most days in the reporters’ recent memory. As you can see below, story numbers 1, 5, and 9, [...]
The New Crop of Bigfooters: What’s Up?
We all were young once. What kind of member of the next generation of Bigfooters are you? What’s up with the present crop of Sasquatch seekers? Let me shout out a challenge to the Bigfoot hunters and researchers here who are 40 years old and under. I usually don’t say things so strongly about this subject, but in this case, allow me to make some observations through the gray hairs flickering in front of my eyes on this windy and cold day. Is there a Bigfooters Age War developing? As some of you know, I run a few group lists [...]
Look for Palecek Looking for Bigfoot
The Sioux City Journal mentions a talk on January 11, 2007, by a Bigfoot cryptofiction and cryptopolitical writer. Author Mike Palecek of Sheldon, Iowa, will provide a reading from his most recent book, Looking for Bigfoot: A Novel for America, at 7 p.m. Thursday in Meis Recital Hall on the Briar Cliff University campus. Palecek, a peace activist and one-time candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, also will share selections from some of his other novels, including KGB, The Truth and Terror Nation. The author will sign copies of his books following the reading which is sponsored by the [...]
Footprints
This year is starting off with a bang regarding the Skunk Ape. First, I wondered aloud if it was time to ponder the Myakka case anew (please note, not "Port Myakka" as given below), and now this (first published overnight with a different headline, since updated here, as it appears in today’s paper): January 02, 2007 Miami Herald "Kids armed with cameras chase after the Skunk Ape" by Curtis Morgan The scene: the Everglades, mysterious in the darkness. Four college kids, armed only with a night-vision camera, trudge through palmetto thicket, guided by a snake-booted man who claims to have [...]
More African Dino Art Deco
Friday, the one-two punch of Boing Boing and The Anomalist featuring my blog on “African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style,” got the story/link repeated and viewed far and wide. Some of the locations were very diverse: Professor Hex, Lesley at The Debris Field , Africa Art History, Spooky Paradigm, Planet Kwekje, Weird History, Zapptor, Kung Fu Action Theatre, Frederick County Report, and many others. Yes, I did listen to you regarding a desire to read the newsprint. It is difficult to do, from the jpegs of Art Deco African dinosaur hunting articles shared earlier, so here below you will find [...]
2006: A Big Year For Bigfoot
Click on image for full-size version I am always interested in what the various news services do with Cryptomundo’s stories and how those get “re-mixed,” so to speak, for different audiences. Here’s an example, thanks to the alternative press feeder system, the Wireless Flash News (WFN). It is about a dispatch that was sent this morning to 800 rock and news radio stations, alternative papers, and media other outlets worldwide. Here is the recipe: Take one part The Top Ten Bigfoot Stories of 2006 you saw here first, add in a dash of year-end timing, have it kneaded by the [...]
Loren on C2C – Top 10 CZ List
On Saturday, December 23, 2006, I was the “first hour guest” on Coast to Coast AM. Their historical page has a recap with the uplink to the program. As noted, during the “First Hour: Loren Coleman counts down the Top 10 cryptozoology stories of 2006.” See: The Top Ten Cryptozoology Stories of 2006 The host was Ian Punnett for the program.
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