Many people vacationing in Maine may enjoy the Yarmouth Clam Festival (mascot is pictured above) this coming weekend. Others will be having fun elsewhere in Vacationland. After all, read this forecast for the next few days for coastal Maine: Saturday: Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. West winds around 10 mph. Sunday: Partly sunny. Highs in the mid 70s. Sunday Night And Monday: Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 50s. Highs in the upper 70s. Tuesday: Partly sunny. Highs in the upper 70s. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy in the evening … then becoming partly cloudy. Lows around 60. Wednesday: [...]
How Big is the Cryptozoology Community?
My late friend, colleague, and mentor, Ivan T. Sanderson, shown above with a lemur in his private zoo, was one of the first in America to try to organize those interested in cryptozoology into a formal “society.” What does his legacy look like today? Matt Bille asked me a simple question: “How big is the cryptozoological community?” Specifically, Matt wanted to know if anyone has tried to estimate the size of the cryptozoological community – that is, the number of people in North America particularly, who actively follow cryptozoological news and publications? How many people, Matt wondered, actually spend time [...]
Pygmies Belittled: “Exhibited” At Zoo
History has repeated itself. Hominids have diminished others hominids, once again. Ota Benga and a chimpanzee, Bronx Zoo, 1906. “A hundred years ago, on September 8th, 1906, the Bronx Zoo in New York unveiled a new exhibit that would attract thousands of visitors to come and marvel. Inside a cage, in the monkey house, was a man. His name was Ota Benga. He was 22 years old, a member of the Batwa people, pygmies who lived in what was then, the Belgian Congo,” noted National Public Radio (NPR) last year. Protests occurred, and the Bronx Zoo closed the exhibit. A [...]
A CryptoZoo Birthday
Even a hard-working cryptozoologist needs to take a break for his birthday party, once a decade, right? Aren’t we all kids inside, sometimes? Snapshots from the July 12th celebration at the Portland Sea Dogs game: During the event, an unknown cryptid mascot showed up to pose with the specially made Bigfoot birthday cake and some guy in a red shirt. Actually, this creature is the Yarmouth Clam Festival mascot clam. Strange but very cheerful. In the two above photos, you can see how different camera angles and light bouncing off Bigfoot created the illusion that the brown primate may sometimes [...]
M. K. Transfers Bigfoot Analysis Files to Patterson Widow
M. K. Davis has informed me that he has passed the “rights” to all his files to the film footage taken at Bluff Creek, California, on October 20, 1967, to Mrs. Roger Patterson. He appears to be talking especially about enhancement footage (see below) made from Rick Noll’s enlarged frame by frame photos, which are all over YouTube and in various documentaries produced in the recent past. How are such rights transfered after the permissions have been given? Needless to say, Rick Noll and others have raised questions about permissions being granted by Mrs. Patterson for analyses, which were assumed [...]
New Easterville Cree Bigfoot Video
Here’s a new YouTube Bigfoot video. A YouTube viewer says the men are speaking Cree, and the translation of what they are saying is: “There’s someone standing here boy”…(another speaking) “it looks big”….”can you see it boy?”…”it’s kinda far away.” Easterville is a First Nations community in Manitoba. The following is the only info on the site. See below the video for more historical insights. My nephew & his buds seen & captured this bigfoot on their camera phone…it didn’t even notice them approaching cause of the wind…very interesting….cooldude311 The damning (I know, they created a “dam” but you get [...]
Sasquatch Maximus
Many may tire of viewing this footage during this, its 40th year. But it remains my favorite Bigfoot film, for every time I look at it, I ponder the wonder of a hominoid that may be there, right before our eyes. What are your top three reasons for considering this the best piece of evidence for Bigfoot existence? And if a skeptic, what are your top three reasons for feeling the opposite? So, what was someone saying about the gluteus maximus looking stranger than the mammary glands? Will new attention to this film reveal new insights in 2007?
Speaking at Ft. Knox Faire, July 21-22
Loren Coleman to Keynote Fort Knox Faire On July 21 and 22, Saturday and Sunday, at the Psychic and Paranormal Faire, meet with people who share an interest in or a belief in things unusual. This unique event features renowned cryptozoologist and author Loren Coleman, as well as performers, psychics, ghost hunters and dowsers. Informational tables, unique food, crafts, and books by many artists and authors will be at the venue, which is one of the most popular ones held in New England. In the past, over 1000 people have attended during the two day event, due to the diversity [...]
Mapinguary Madness
On July 9th, from NBC’s Today Show to worldwide news service rewrites of the Sunday New York Times article, this all is keeping this new Mapinguary mania alive. And we all thought the interest in this creature was dead a decade ago. Sadly, the articles being spread from the UPI are often headlined with this one, “Numerous Tribes See Brazillian ‘Bigfoot’,” but then open with comments on the locals “have spoken throughout the years of seeing a giant, fearsome, slothlike creature that roams the rainforest.” The articles are going with the Bigfoot/primate headlines, but talking only about the giant ground [...]
BFRO: “Come Along With Us” For $300*
Cryptomundo reader Chris Noel, who enjoys pointing out typos posted on the blog that need corrections, has put together a travel commercial for the BFRO expeditions. The short video, with no title or words on screen, is simply explained as “Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization–Public Expeditions. www.bfro.net” at the YouTube site. You can view it below. But why just passively watch it? Why not dissect it? I was wondering, how might a seasoned old professor of documentary film introduce this footage to his students, before showing it to them for a critical deconstruction? Perhaps it would go something like this: Now [...]
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