There is an excellent Bangor Daily News article, published on January 8, 2007, about Toronto-based cartoonist Ted Bastien and his comic strip, “Bugsport.” The strip is based loosely on Bucksport, Maine, and the town’s reportedly alien population. (Note to non-Mainers, when we say you are “from away” up here, we really mean it.) The article avoids mentioning Bugsport’s Bigfoot entirely, thus allowing it to remain an elusive cryptid. Indeed, the nice profile of Bastien does not mention his forays into cryptozoology at all. But we all know he draws comic cryptids in addition to his Studebaker-cloned spaceships and grays. (You [...]
Sunday Comics: The Effects of Global Warming?
Cryptomundo Exclusive: Sunday Insight Please click on this Peter Loh cartoon, based on a Loren Coleman suggestion, for a fuller-sized version. For more of Peter Loh’s work, see here and here.
M. K. Davis Apologizes and “Clouds” Bigfoot With Almasty
Melissa Hovey has given her permission to reproduce her recent blog on this matter completely. All comment are hers. – Loren +++++++++++++ Sunday, December 31, 2006 The MK Interview on Bigfoot Live. Dear Readers, Well, M.K. Davis has finally spoken up about his use of Rick Noll’s work, and he also discusses his new “discovery” regarding the Patterson/Gimlin film (which does not now seem like such a new discovery). Who does M.K. Davis talk to, to get his side of all this out to the public? None other than Tom Biscardi. Yep, that’s right folks. Did anyone else find the [...]
Two More 2006 Deaths
The deaths of two other friends to cryptozoology have been brought to my attention. George W. Maugans, Jr., 94, who had been involved in various archaeological and anthropological investigations, including Bigfoot studies, died during 2006. The Baltimore Sun published his death notice last year: George William Maugans Jr. On November 17, 2006, George William Maugans, Jr., born September 17, 1912, in Maugansville, MD, [died]. A life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, he was on the Chief Engineers Staff in the construction of the Safe Harbor hydroelectric dam on the Susquehanna River. He was later employed by the [...]
Bernard Heuvelmans Books
During 2007, two books, one about and one by Bernard Heuvelmans, will be published in French, appearing by late February from the publisher Les Editions de l’Oeil du Sphinx, Paris. The biography by Jean-Jacques Barloy is entitled Bernard Heuvelmans: Un Rebelle de la Science (Bernard Heuvelmans: A Science Rebel). Barloy is also involved as the annotator of Heuvelmans’ forthcoming books. Jean-Luc Rivera is the director of the publishing of the Heuvelmans collection of books, Bibliothèque Heuvelmansienne (Heuvelmansian Library). The collection’s first volume – which has never been published before – is Les Félins Encore Inconnus d’Afrique (The Felines Still Unknown [...]
First Cryptid Sighting in 2007?
Every year I watch to see what is the first cryptid sighting that is mentioned in the media and what is the actual first cryptid encounter. Take for instance 2000. On January 2nd, news services reported that in the rural Malaysian village of Kampung Chennah, durian farmer Liong Chong Shen, 50, smelling a strong odor and hearing a grunt, turned to see two mystery ape-like animals covered in long, shiny, black and brown hair. The mawas (as they are locally called) stared at the startled farmer, and walked back into the nearby rainforest. As fate would have it, this 2000 [...]
Televised Marathons: New Year’s Eve & 1-10-07 Alerts
The National Geographic Channel is running a marathon of “Is It Real?” on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2006. Here are the times for the cryptozoologically-related programs. (I note that “Russian Bigfoot” program is not being shown. Check your local listings, but here are the ones that Bufo Calvin has passed along… Noon Pacific/3 PM Eastern “Bigfoot” 1:00 PM Pacific/4 PM Eastern “Monsters of the Deep” 3:00 PM Pacific/6:00 PM Eastern “Chupacabra” 4:00 PM Pacific/7:00 PM Eastern “Ape-Man” (Orang Pendek) 11:00 PM Pacific/2:00 AM Eastern “Ape-Man” (Orang Pendek) =========================== January 10th, 2007. The Travel Channel has a mini-marathon of “Weird [...]
Drinking On Your Next Cryptid Expedition?
In November 2006, National Geographic Channel began screening one of their hour-long documentaries in the “Is It Real?” Series. It was on the Almas of Mongolia and the Almasty allegedly populating the Caucasus. They called their program, “Russian Bigfoot.” Craig Woolheater’s post here stimulated some intriguing comments, on both sides of the fence. There was, of course, much to condemn in the program, from the mixing of two different stories – one on DNA sampling of the western variety of unknown hominids based on second generation finds to the fact that the film crew used a one-day investigation in the [...]
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 [...]
August 1974: Gerald Ford and Bigfoot
August 1974 was a busy month for politics; Richard Nixon resigned, Gerald Ford became the President of the United States of America. People are thinking and writing a good deal about Ford this week because he died the day after Christmas, repeating the pattern of his hero, former President Harry Truman, who also died on December 26th years earlier. So how does Bigfoot fit into the mix? I guess it depends on how you recall August of 1974. In a column in The Signal, discussing the time that Gerald Ford didn’t show up in Santa Clarita Valley, California, John Boston [...]
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