In the wake of the mystery “black panther” being killed in Missouri comes a news item out of Indiana of the killing of a pack of mystery canids this week. The story broke late last night, May 22, 2008. The event occurred at Gatchel, which is a little unincorporated town in Perry County, Indiana, sitting along the Ohio River, about 55 miles due east of Evansville, Indiana. Gatchel is on the western border of the Hoosier National Forest, a 200,000 acre park in the rolling hills of south central Indiana. Ray Patton had just let his dogs out when one [...]
Neosho Black Panther Video
There exists video of the live “black panther” leaping at the door of the home in Neosho, Missouri, shortly before it was killed. Cryptomundo correspondent, reporter, and videographer David Shetley was able to obtain copies of news programming containing the eyewitness video. He posted them to YouTube for us, for easy access. Here they are: The species of felid has yet to be identified.
Colby Cryptid Mildly Cryptic
The mysterious animal being sighted has not been caught, and thus, technically, it remains a cryptid, it’s identification merely informed speculation. Colby’s fugitive, however, is believed to be a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig, like the above examples. The pot-bellied pig is a breed of domesticated pig (Sus scrofa) originating in Vietnam, with records indicating four are truly indigenous sub-species from Vietnam. In 2005, the Swedish Agricultural Ministry identified the four original sub-species and their individual traits in a 48 page paper. They revealed that the indigenous Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig only resides in mountainous Vietnam and Thailand. The Central Plains in Vietnam [...]
Save The Porcula
Porcula salvania (“Pigmy Hog of the Saul Forests”), as shown in a hand-drawn lithograph by Joseph Smit for the Proceedings of the Zoological Society. Good-looking, sexy animals get all the media attention, and the unique may be ignored due to human favoritism generally going to the attractive animals. Who cries for the plight of the poor pigs? The pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) formerly was spread across India, Nepal, and Bhutan and now only is found in the wild in Assam. Today, the world population, not in captivity, totals a mere 150 or fewer. The species is more than a mere [...]
Gecko Found Inside Chicken Egg
If you are eating eggs for breakfast, put down that fork. The Australian Egg Corporation has expressed surprise at the discovery of a gecko inside a chicken egg. Darwin, Australia, doctor Peter Beaumont was cooking dinner when he cracked open the egg and found the dead gecko inside the shell. Health authorities say the discovery is nothing to be alarmed about and it is being examined at a laboratory. The research and development program manager with the Egg Corporation, David Witcombe, says he has never heard of such a case before. “Certainly the gecko wouldn’t have been ingested by the [...]
Unknown Animal Attacks NM Boy
A 5-year-old boy hiking with his family near Sandia Peak, New Mexico, has survived an attack from an unidentified species of large animal, a spokesman for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish said Sunday, May 18, 2008. Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White said the family was hiking near the popular Balsam Glade area on the Sandia Mountains, when the boy ran ahead of his parents. It happened on the east side of the Sandia Mountains around 7 p.m. Saturday. A sheriff’s department report identified the boy as Jose Salazar Jr. of Albuqureque, New Mexico. The boy’s parents saw [...]
Save The Zeren
What’s a “zeren”? Of course, if you are a frequent visitor to Cryptomundo, you know what the Yeren is, to wit, the population of so-called “Wild People” or unidentified hairy hominoids of China. But what is the zeren? The zeren, discovered first in 1777, is the strange megafauna known also as the Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa). They live on the grassy steppe and subdeserts of Mongolia, northern China, and southern Russia. Just as the pronghorn in the Americas seems an out-of-place antelope, so too does this species in Mongolia-China-Russia, and few in the West know of it. Zerens are very [...]
Mystery Bones
When these four St. Dominic Regional High School seniors were tearing down an old shed at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Lewiston during a class project, they came across some strange bones. From left to right are: Andrew Gwarjanski, Codie Keene, Jeff Lewandowski and Cameron Laney. (All photographs by Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal.) The Lewiston Sun-Journal’s Christopher Williams gave me a call yesterday, to help him with some mystery bones. Here’s his Tuesday, May 13, 2008, article about the riddle. Four high school seniors working in a cemetery Monday unearthed two intact animal skeletons. Speculation about the bones’ origin ranged from skunk [...]
1948 “Birdmen” Cases Revisited
You have probably read about the case before. Soon after the sightings and interest in other strange things in the sky, perhaps even thunderbirds and flying men in Washington State, the Zaikowskis were quoted as saying they had seen a “flying humanoid.” The cases have been background to other discussions, as for example, when they were discussed in “The Black Flash of Cape Cod” by Theo Paijmans, about the phantomlike creature that plagued Provincetown in the 1930s, published in Intermediate States Anomalist 13. In 1948, reports of “flying humans” were coming out of two towns, Longview and Chehalis, Washington. On [...]
Celebrity Naming of Cryptids
His name is Bond, Jason Bond. Names are important, and Eastern Carolina University professor of biology Jason Bond has decided to name a new spider he discovered after his favorite musician. You may have already heard the story. It made me wonder after whom various Cryptomundians would name cryptids found to be new species? Heuvelmans? Sanderson? Meldrum? And tied to what cryptids? Bond’s newly discovered trapdoor spider has officially been name Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi. Above is a male specimen of Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi living in Santa Rosa Co., Florida. (Credit: American Museum of Natural History) “There are rather strict rules about how [...]
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