Last year, I reported here of the Bigfoot-type reports called “Cohomo.” Does a child’s old 1960s’ notebooks have clues that relate to those sightings of the 1970s? Or was there just a cultural sense in the air that imaginations and reality merged in the Midwest of a few decades ago? Michael Isenberg, a musician living in Hollywood, California, has made claims in emails to Cryptomundo that he created, in 1965, a story that may have influenced the reports of “Cohomo,” also called the “Cole Hollow Monster,” reported in 1972, in Pekin, Illinois. Here’s what Isenberg writes: It began in the [...]
The Dark Final Days of SITU
Did you know that the vast files and library of a great cryptozoological and Fortean organization were raped clean in their final days? If you read closely through the long list of cryptozoology books being offered for sale by Robert Girard, you will note that some are marked with “S. I. T. U.” in them. A few have “ex S.I.T.U. library, their stamp on title page,” reports Girard. Of course, these books he lists, no doubt, came legally into the hands of some collectors who have emptied their stock with Girard, but it merely reminded me of the sad ending [...]
Missouri River Monster Captured
A report from May for your consideration… A Terrible Fish Story A strange monster was captured recently [during May] in the [Missouri] river opposite Canton, by some fishermen, in their seine, while dragging for fish. We know not what to call it, or what it looks like, or how to describe it, for it is unlike any creature of earth, air or water, that we have ever seen. It is not a fish, nor is it an alligator, or crocodile, or a turtle, but resembles the pictures we have often seen in books of the mythical dragon. It is a [...]
Mokele Mbembe Mission
Need an overall enjoyable, high production value, six-minute cryptofiction break? Try this movie, Mokele Mbembe. Keep repeating to yourself, it’s only a movie, it’s only a movie, often. However, ruby red slippers are not needed to view it. Now to your mission, if you accept it: Please pick out the major points of factual cryptozoological mistakes in this short film. There are more there than meets the eye.
Mysterious Mother’s Day & Mailing Rates
Remember this 1983 book? Was it the one your Mom bought you for your birthday, almost 25 years ago? You can now get the new 2007 edition (seen directly above), via clicking here: Mysterious America. But do you want a more personalized version? As a pre-postal rate increase (rates go up May 14th) and pre-Mother’s Day special (remember, it’s May 13th) – won’t you like to give an autographed copy for your Mom – or buy a personally inscribed book now for your Dad, for Father’s Day – or get a signed one for yourself, before the rates to mail [...]
The Heart of Darkness: Vanishings, Pygmy Elephants, and Mokele-Mbembe
Mokele-mbembe being killed by Pygmies; drawn by Bill Rebsamen and used with permission. As I write these words, there is news that an airliner from Kenya has crashed in the jungles of Cameroon. They can’t find the plane. They can’t find any survivors because they can’t find the plane. It has disappeared, perhaps near some small village some distance from Douala, which is a coastal hopping off spot into the jungle. Mokele-mbembe courtesy of Bill Rebsamen. Click on image for a larger view. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which was carrying 114 people from more than 20 countries, went missing on [...]
Destination Truth Premieres June 6th
Destination Truth (New Series – Premieres June 6, 2007 @ 10 PM EDT) Destination Truth (6 one-hour episodes) is a weekly adventure series that invites viewers along on one man’s search for the truth while investigating stories of the unexplained across the globe. Josh Gates, a world adventurer and eager truth-seeker, and his small crew of production buddies visits a different destination around the world that is home to notorious, supernatural and mysterious stories, such as the Malaysian Bigfoot and the Chilean Chupacabra as well as some lesser-known phenomena like the dinosaur-like creatures reported in the skies over Papua, New [...]
Kappas
And you thought those Mutant Ninja Turtles came out of the blue? Or only some fictional sewers? Special Features of Kappa * Favorite things to eat — cucumber, fish * Least favorite things — ironware, deer antlers, saliva Key to the above drawing: 1) Shell 2) Webbed hands and feet 3) Elastic arms 4) Plate (When there is water in this plate, the Kappa has amazing strength.) 5) A tapering mouth Kappas have been reported in Japan for centuries, being an important part of the folklore and, apparently, the real world, for the locals who see them in and near [...]
Elementum Bestia
Craig Heinselman has completed his compiled and edited massive opus, Elementum Bestia. The following chapters are in the book: The American Sârâph: An Unnatural History of Winged Snakes in North America by Scott Maruna The Case of the Grey Ghost by Craig Heinselman Littlefoot – The Junjudee by Tony Healy and Paul Cropper The Hobbits of Flores: A New Genus of Hominid – Parahomo by Dr Dwight Smith and Gary Mangiacopra Maned Mystery Cats and Panthera atrox by Loren Coleman Antediluvian Forms in South America? by Phillip O’Donnell In Search of Rare Carnivorous Marsupials: An Examination of the Evidence for [...]
MA7 – The Date Is Here!
The date of April 24th is upon us. Celebrate with me the release of my book today! I’m over at Lake Champlain, hunting Champ animals with a Nippon TV crew, but I’ve left this message to be posted here. I’ll mention again how much help you can be to my book and, yes, so many other authors trying to convince publishers this is a cool subject, by buying the 2007 edition of Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide to the Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures on April 24th! Why should we let only, for example, the diet books, [...]
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