As Cryptomundo readers might recall, I named Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger, one of the "Top Cryptozoology Books" of last year, specifically bestowing it as "The Best Cryptozoological Expedition Book of 2005." The book is by Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson (with illustrations by Alexis Rockman). The well-written record of three people tramping about on their quest is certainly an important volume for any cryptozoologist to read. For those especially interested in the Thylacine (a/k/a Tasmanian Tiger), of course, it is a must for your collection. You might be able to win a free copy. Now [...]
Baseball, Sports, and Cryptids
I am a lifelong baseball fan. No denying it. I’ve been a card-carrying member of SABR for decades (if you don’t need to ask what SABR stands for, well, you understand). My two sons inherited the passion and they have become successful players. One is a winning leftie relief pitcher, now a junior in high school; my other son is the starting third baseman, a sophomore, on a college team, after being the MVP at that same high school, as their starting shortstop and relief pitcher. Gladly, I see a lot of all kinds of games, and read a good [...]
Another Ohio Bigfoot Outing
There always seems to be a lot of Bigfoot gatherings in Ohio in the spring. Here’s word of another set to happen on Saturday, April 29, 2006. According to a brief notice in the Sunday Cleveland Plain Dealer, there is to be a Bigfoot conference in Cambridge, Ohio: If you’ve ever wondered whether Sasquatch was real, you might be enlightened at this gathering at the Salt Fort State Park Resort & Conference Center (on U.S. 22). It will feature speakers, including some who will give eyewitness accounts, plus supposed photos of the beast. The conference is 4-10 p.m. and is [...]
Minnesota Iceman at Sideshow World
In an effort to share some cryptozoological information with a new group of readers, and to obtain new information on the “mysterious millionaire,” I worked with John Robinson at Sideshow World to add an overview on that specialty site about the Minnesota Iceman. Check it out at their specific page now devoted to the Minnesota Iceman there. Robinson has also posted an interesting photograph of the van that the late Frank Hansen drove around with the exhibit. Look closely at the photograph on the top of the vehicle. The Minnesota Iceman. Copyright Loren Coleman 1969.
First Sasquatch Expedition – 72 Years Ago Today!
Fresno [California] Bee April 9, 1934 Californians Out To Bag Legendary ‘Sasquatch’ VANCOUVER (B.C.), April 9. — (AP) — America’s first Sasquatch-catching expedition headed into the mountains of British Columbia today on a hunt for the horrible, hairy, naked bogey-man of Indian legend. J. F. Blakeney and C. K. Blakeney, brothers, of Sacramento, medical students at the University of California, read reports of frightened tribesmen that the giant body-snatcher of old had been seen recently in the mountains north of Harrison Lake and determined to attempt to photograph or lasso a "Sasquatch." The fabled Sasquatch, as described in Indian lore [...]
Abominable Attacks Idol Hottie
April 10, 2006, marks the world premiere of Abominable, in New York City. The almost-straight-to-DVD horror flick is directed and produced, respectively, by the husband-wife team of Ryan and Theresa Schifrin. The Abominable debut (no pun intended, I think) will take place as part of Fangoria’s Monster Mondays screening series at New York City’s Two Boots Pioneer Theater (155 East 3rd Street and Avenue A) at 7 p.m. Click at the Fangoria site for more about advance tickets. Before the DVD comes to a store near you, Abominable first will also appear in limited theatrical release in Los Angeles and [...]
Tom Slick, Snowmen, and Spying
In conjunction with the University of Texas’ display, "Bigfoot in Texas?" this weekend, one of the speakers will be Catherine Nixon Cooke, a niece of Tom Slick. Ms. Cooke in 2005 published her book, Tom Slick, Mystery Hunter from Paraview, Inc. A question I would ask her if I was there: Was the late Texas oil and beef millionaire Tom Slick partially using his Snowmen expeditions to hide, in plain sight, his spying activity? Tom Slick’s life-long cryptozoological pursuits have been worthy of my attention for 46 years. My awareness about his probable spying has occurred in the last two [...]
Sasquatch 1934
Canandaigua [New York] Daily Messenger March 3, 1934 Terrible Sasquatch Is Reported Again HARRISON MILLS, B.C. (AP) — Indian children cling to their mothers’ apron strings today for the terrible sasquatch — a giant hairy and horrid — is on the prowl again. For hundreds of years the sasquatch has been a fearsome "bogey-man" to the northwest Indians. It may be male or female, but it always is hairy and malicious. None had been reported for 30 years, but horror swept the lodges of the primitive Chehalis tribe today, as word was whispered that the hairy wild one has returned. [...]
Monstrous and Marvelous
From April 3rd through April 8th, an exhibition of some interest to cryptozoology will be showing at Worth Ryder Gallery in Kroeber Hall on the UC Berkeley campus, California. Various art students at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California College of the Arts have collaborated in the one-week exhibition entitled "American Mythology: The Monstrous and Marvelous," containing Bigfoot and some imagined monsters of the United States. Information on the exhibition quotes those who designed it as saying: "I would like it to seem sort of alien and yet familiar," said Josephine Zarkovich, the UC Berkeley art student who [...]
The Evolution of Cryptozoology Drawings
How do eyewitness drawings evolve into what we often see in the media? Take a look at the development of the sketches and illustrations of Momo (the Missouri Monster, a 1972 Bigfoot-like cryptid) from the time of the initial eyewitnesses’ attempts to capture what they saw, through the artwork created by later illustrators, some with their own agendas. I have discussed this issue in talks at the Texas Bigfoot Research Group’s 2005 conference and at the Bates College’s cryptozoology symposium, last October. In essence, the pure experience of the eyewitness – one that is often diffuse and elementary, filled with [...]
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